PRAGOTI

An interview with Gilbert Achcar who is now a Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London.He lived in Lebanon for many years. He is the author of many books analysing politics and society in the Middle East from a Left perspective, including The Clash of Barbarisms, Eastern Cauldron, The 33-Day War and Perilous Power (a collection of dialogues between Achcar and Noam Chomsky). He spoke to Daniel Finn for Irish Left Review about the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip and its likely consequences.

Pragoti doesn't endorse the political program of Hamas and the attacks against civilians.But we think it is proper that the view of Hamas on the Gaza massacre be heard,as the elected representative of the besieged Palestinian people with whom we stand in solidarity against Israel's barbarity and colonial plunder.

Reproduced here is an article by Khalid Mish'al, the head of the Hamas political bureau,on the Gaza Massacre.