By SUZANNE BAROUD, http://www.counterpunch.com/baroud03292008.html In a place just a few miles from sandy beaches and soaring sky-scrapers, white stone villas and sky-blue swimming pools, it seems the epitome of irony and injustice that over 1.5 million people would be subjected to drinking sewage-contaminated water. When there is such a fine line bordering wealth and poverty, privilege and need, how unsettling to realize that just a stones throw away, ...

The European Campaign to end the Siege on Gaza In support of the suffering Palestinians in Gaza and in protest against the Israeli aggression, The European Campaign to end the Siege on Gaza invites all European activists and Politicians to take part in a solidarity demonstration against the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip. Place: the Rafah Border Crossing Time: Last week of March 2008 People wishing to participate must e-mail the Campaign f ...

BY STEVE NIVA The Counterpunch March 8-9, 2008 http://www.counterpunch.org/niva03082008.html Steve Niva is a Member of the Faculty, Middle East Studies, The Evergreen State College. 1. There seems to be a massive upsurge in violence in Gaza these past few days; what is happening? It is important to recognize that the violence is mostly one-sided. On the one side, Israel is conducting a major military operation into the Northern Gaza Strip that ...