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"For the Times, 50 days means the war started on 8 July, when Hamas’ military wing fired rockets into southern Israel, not on 7 July, when Israel, as even some Israeli media acknowledge, broke its ceasefire agreement with Hamas by killing seven of its members in an air strike." That chronology is a bit oversimplified (in the review, not the book which I haven't read yet, but am sure is great). Here's what I recall from the Palestinian side: "On Sunday evening [July 7] and Monday morning [July 8], three Israeli strikes had killed nine Palestinians in al-Bureij refugee camp and Rafah. Hamas’ al-Qassam Brigades said seven of the men killed in Rafah - Ibrahim 'Abdeen by shelling and Ibrahim al-Bal'aawy, Abdul-Rahman az-Zamely, Mustafa Abu Morr, his twin brother Khaled Abu Morr, Yousef Sharaf Ghannam, and Jom'a Abu Shallouf in a later air strike on a tunnel - had been its fighters ... "Mazen al-Jadya and Marwan Salim, killed by an earlier air strike on al-Bureij, had been fighters for the Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini Brigades [of Fatah]." http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-braces-israel-declares-operation-protective-edge-and-resumes-house-bombings-1554935452 But by July 7, any ceasefire was pretty well smashed already as a result of Israel's relentless attacks on both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip: http://smpalestine.com/2014/07/07/infographic-effects-of-israeli-military-activity-since-june-12-2014 On Fri, Jun 19, 2015 at 3:05 AM, Dennis Brasky via Marxism <[email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > https://electronicintifada.net/content/max-blumenthals-unflinching-book-gaza-war-must-not-be-ignored/14615?utm_source=EI+readers&utm_campaign=ff50053b70-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e802a7602d-ff50053b70-290662377 > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/jncatron%40gmail.com -- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað." _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: http://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
