Links for June 2-5 2010

There will be no more blogging today, and I am traveling tomorrow... but in the meantime here are the links.

• Hamas must reshape itself | David Hearst

  Need strong Pal leadership - Fatah no longer credible, Hamas must engage.

• IDF Releases Apparently Doctored Flotilla Audio; Press Reports As Fact

  More poorly made Israeli agitprop.

• Israel as a Strategic Liability?

  Anthony Cordesman, why the question mark?

• Hirsi Ali, Berman, and Ramadan on Islam : The New Yorker

  Review of silly books.

• LRB · Jacqueline Rose · ‘J’accuse’: Dreyfus in Our Times

  Israel can learn from the Dreyfus Affair about rendering justice to Palestinians.

• Sudan after the elections: Back to the bad old ways | The Economist

  ""the election’s chief upshot is that Mr Bashir has tightened his grip in the north and the SPLM has done the same in the south."

• Israel and Gaza: How Israel plays into Hamas's hands | The Economist

  On Gaza's blockade, possibilities for Pal reconciliation.

• Copts and marriage: You can't just marry anyone | The Economist

  On a recent ruling against the church.

• Egypt: Director goes off the government's script - latimes.com

  Censorship and filming in Egypt.

• What exactly is the blockade of Gaza? by Yousef Munayyer | The Middle East Channel

  The facts.

• Israel’s commando complex

  "Recently an intelligence official actually called the absence of Palestinian terror a 'propaganda problem.'"

• Qantara.de - A Jewish Writer from the Arab Perspective

  Kafka as seen by the Arabs.

• State Terrorism « LRB blog

  Rachid Khalidi.

• Fatah and Hamas are both taking on water; Robert Blecher; International Crisis Group | The Middle East Channel

  How true: "the official Palestinian leadership has grown increasingly marginal in its own national struggle."

• Gaza Protest in London « LRB blog

  Tariq Ali calls for BDS in London protest. Very eloquent.

• Nonviolence from the bottom up by Sami Awad | The Middle East Channel

  Great, but how about Israel being non-violent and ending the occupation?

• Amira Hass / Lexicon of most misleading terms in Israeli-Palestinian conflict

  Very good points, esp. on "non-violence."

• Egypt lets generators into Gaza, first time since war

  Because generators were so dangerous.