12 January 2009
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Features
Gaza under fire
Every war Israel has waged since 1948 has had the same objective: expulsion of the native people and theft of more land. But why are we in the west silent on this truth?
Afraid to sleep, afraid to wake
As the invasion intensified, Mohammed Omer, a Gazan journalist injured by Israeli police last year and now in hospital in Amsterdam, spoke by telephone to former contacts and friends Israel's politicians, and people, are seeking total victory in Gaza. They won't get it. By Haim Baram
A revenge strategy
Israel’s politicians, and people, are seeking total victory in Gaza. They won’t get it
Voices from an unwinnable war
Until now, young Israelis have been able to ignore the plight of Palestinians in Gaza. The invasion has changed all that
Pilgrimage to nowhere
A year on from Benazir Bhutto's assassination, Fatima Bhutto visits the family mausoleum and reflects on the poisonous legacy of her late aunt, a woman "without principles"
Ten people who could change the world
We profile Chuka Umunna, Bobby Jindal, Xian Zhang, Joshua Foer, Athene Donald, Muhammad Bager Qalibaf, Laura Robson, Mosiuoa Lekota, Regina Papa, James Thornton
A Barack Obama for Britain
Chuka Umunna, Lawyer and prospective parliamentary candidate for Streatham
The people's hope for a new democracy
Mosiuoa Lekota, President, Congress of the People, South Africa
‘‘You want to free the world from oppression? "
Ariel Dorfman on the life and work of Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
Regulars
New Statesman Leader
Israel must acknowledge Hamas as the democratic choice of a majority of Palestinians
The Politics Column
It's a New New Deal
Gordon Brown invokes the spirit of FDR to promote his job creation programme. But is this the real thing, or classic political opportunism?
Keep up with the times No 4057
There is an urban legend about a British judge asking: “Who are the Beatles?” And Clive Anderson has written of Sir Jeremiah Harman, who claimed not to have heard of Gazza and wondered aloud: “Is there not an opera called Gazza Ladra?” We asked for answers to some out-of-touch-judge-type questions from an even more ignorant barrister
Culture
From Baltimore to Baghdad
The writing team behind The Wire has taken on the war in Iraq. The result is a new miniseries that challenges preconceptions on all sides
The road to riches
Since independence, Indian artists have been engaged in obsessively constructing an identity for their fractured, ever-changing nation
Performance
The beat goes on
This parade of novelty instruments is driven by a keen sense of rhythm Lost and Found Orchestra Royal Festival Hall, London SE1
Film
Diminishing returns
A poignant story of life in Mumbai gets undermined by corporate money Slumdog Millionaire (15) dir: Danny Boyle
Television
Unsentimental education
Two programmes show the right and the wrong ways to revive an old idea Oz and James Drink to Britain BBC2 The Diary of Anne Frank BBC1
Radio
Things can only get better
Pop stars with their glory days behind them don't die - they go to Devon
Books
The serial killer of Kittur
Exclusive publication of a short story by the Booker Prize-winning author of The White Tiger
