Daniel Pipes offers some advice to the US about the Israel/Palestine conflict: “I will present to you the case for the Palestinians giving up. That is in fact American policy as it should be. How do we get the Palestinians to give up?” A solution to the quagmire has been found! Of course, the Palestinian…
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What a nice, little war
On the third anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the Australian’s resident imperialist-in-waiting, Greg Sheridan, praises the “noble cause“: The Iraq war was the right war against the right enemy at the right time, and waged for broadly the right reasons. There is no need to apologise about it. Notwithstanding many mistakes in execution in the…
The kids are alright
The revolution will no longer be televised: We may be known as a nation of couch potatoes, but it seems that Britons are grasping the 21st century with both hands: we now spend more time watching the web than watching television, according to internet giant Google. A survey conducted on behalf of the search engine…
The real cost
How much do Israeli settlements cost? The latest figures, courtesy of the Foundation of Middle East Peace, confirm a country addicted to expansion. The true social cost, however, is becoming more apparent by the year.
A helping hand
The Indonesian government would rather the world didn’t know what was happening in West Papua: Indonesia’s defence minister wants to blacklist Australian Greens Senator Kerry Nettle from travelling to Papua, saying her presence could stir more violence in the restive province. The New South Wales senator had hoped to go to Papua next month to…
Rallying the faithful
George Bush no longer uses his “Axis of Evil” line. It is very January 2002. This hasn’t stopped Israel’s Defence Minister Shaul Mofaz plagiarising the worn phrase: “The axis of evil, including Iran, Syria, and Hizbullah, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood, is consolidating.” Maybe he’ll start calling Iran’s President an “evil-doer.”
Getting orders from the top
The US press love quoting “US officials“. One would think that since these “US officials” lie as part of their job, a little scepticism is in order. For some, however, the addiction is simply too tough to beat: U.S. intelligence officials, already focused on Iran’s potential for building nuclear weapons, are struggling to solve a…
Duking it out
Days after a comprehensive report on the US Zionist lobby was released, The New York Sun reports the event: A paper recently co-authored by the academic dean of Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government about the allegedly far-reaching influence of an “Israel lobby” is winning praise from white supremacist David Duke. The Palestine Liberation Organization mission…
Using the proper word
Murdoch’s Australian flagship newspaper is tightening the noose around the Howard government: John Howard and five of his senior ministers were told three years ago that every contract signed under the UN oil-for-food program included a kickback to Saddam Hussein’s regime. A top-secret diplomatic cable tendered to the Cole inquiry yesterday removes any doubt that…
Money talks
Pro-abortion activists think they have found something amiss with Amazon and changes are afoot: Amazon.com Inc. said Monday it had modified the way its search engine handles queries for the term “abortion” after receiving an e-mail complaint that the results appeared biased. Until the recent change, a user who visited the Seattle Internet retailer and…