Israel Diaries

Independent investigative journalism

Will the Real Palestinian Please Stand Up!

Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: ‘Yids, go back to Palestine,’ so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge [sic] shouts at us: ‘Yids, get out of Palestine.’ Thus wrote Amos Oz (a renowned left-leaning author) in his book, A Tale of Love and Darkness (2004). So […]

Hamas Now Begging For What Gaza Was Freely Offered in 2005

Until 2005, Israeli soldiers roamed the Gaza Strip trying to keep order among people who hated them. Naturally. I would also hate a foreign military keeping me from travelling freely from place to place within an area I considered my own. True, there were places of work for many of the Gazan people in the […]