Leading dissident Israeli journalist Shraga Elam opines on the real agenda behind Israel’s madness: Reading Jeff Halper’s analysis I don’t know if I should cry or laugh. He writes: “Let’s be crystal clear. Israel’s massive attacks on Gaza today have one overarching goal: conflict management.” I presume that the Israeli government is not consulting Halper…
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What Zionists never understand
Tom Segev, Haaretz, December 29: Israel is striking at the Palestinians to “teach them a lesson.” That is a basic assumption that has accompanied the Zionist enterprise since its inception: We are the representatives of progress and enlightenment, sophisticated rationality and morality, while the Arabs are a primitive, violent rabble, ignorant children who must be…
Pointlessness has a new name
Israel’s offensive against the Palestinians continues. The latest news and analysis is here, here, here, here, here and here. We are witnessing the attempted killing of a society that voted for the “wrong” party.
We have been here before
A weakened Hamas is the goal of both Israel and the US. The Arab states, typically powerless, agree on this point: Arab [government] solidarity with the Palestinians is crumbling under Hamas’ leadership. Some ideas of what should happen next.
Jews with no memory
Israel, the brutal neighbour bully, strikes again. Lessons are never remembered. History is forgotten. The “enemy” cannot be defeated. The Palestinians will struggle on and inevitably achieve independence. Death is becoming a speciality of the Israeli state.
Like little Baghdad
One of Israel’s leading journalists, Amira Hass, reports on the devastation in Gaza.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
This document, still as relevant today as ever, is routinely ignored by most governments around the world, including Israel:
There are real people under Israeli bombs
Two eyewitness accounts of the current Israeli-led carnage in Gaza: The first is from a reliable source in Gaza: I’ve never seen anything like this.… It all happened so fast but the amount of death and destruction is inconceivable, even to me and I’m in the middle of it and a few hours have already…
We are killers (and enjoy it)
“I will play music and celebrate what the Israeli air force is doing.” Those were the words, spoken on Al Jazeera today by Ofer Shmerling, an Israeli civil defense official in the Sderot area adjacent to Gaza, as images of Israel’s latest massacres were broadcast around the world.
The Holocaust victims learn nothing
Israel’s slaughter in Gaza goes on. Latest news here, here, here, here, here and here. The real aim, largely ignored by the hopeless Western media? My friend and US colleague Souad Dajani writes: I’d add that Israel’s declaration (yesterday) that it would open crossing points into Gaza for humanitarian aid was meant to tell the…