Bakir Oweida

Bakir Oweida

Realism and the Surreal in Gaza’s Tragedy  

Everything our eyes have seen and continue to see, and everything our ears have heard and still hear, since the day after what was dubbed the “Al-Aqsa Flood,” attests to the suffering of the Gaza Strip’s cities and villages. This tragedy has only exacerbated as time went by, growing like a snowball…

Gaza… An Israeli Hiroshima?

The Israeli army, given its war machine's extraordinary destructive capacities, can crush the Gaza Strip in its entirety. If the Likud leader Benjamin Netanyahu wants, he could fulfill the hope once publicly voiced by his late rival, Israeli Labor Party leader Yitzhak Rabin, to wake up one day and…