How one of the key Greens in the New Zealand parliament yesterday challenged the country’s foreign minister Murray McCully over the ongoing Gaza siege: KEITH LOCKE (Green) KEITH to the Minister of Foreign Affairs: Will the Government call for the immediate lifting of Israel’s economic blockade of Gaza; if not, why not? Hon MURRAY McCULLY…
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What should NATO be doing (apart from not existing)?
Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, has become very outspoken about the Western “war on terror” in the last years. This is very interesting: What I was being told last night was very interesting indeed. NATO HQ in Brussels is today a very unhappy place. There is a strong understanding among the various national…
Australian journalists, take some tips from the British how to speak to Israel
The Australian media treats Israeli spokespeople with almost fawning respect, oddly enough, without actually asking them serious questions about the Jewish state’s actions. Israel kills people and then their hacks are allowed to explain why “terrorists” were on the high seas. Here’s how it should be done, via Jon Snow in Britain:
More bombing and killing, please
Here’s some solid advice from an American neo-con who worries that America just isn’t aggressive enough anymore in the Middle East: We need to return to an old paradigm for understanding the region: Reward our friends, and punish our enemies.
Little room in Israel for anybody who doesn’t love the government
Here’s the Israeli Knesset, a rabble of bigots and haters. Charming: Rightist lawmaker Moshe Mutz Matalon (Yisrael Beitenu) told Palestinian MK Haneen Zoabi, “Nice work. In one day you’ve managed to accomplish what the treacherous people around you have been trying to do for years. Unfortunately, the (commando) fighters (who raided the aid flotilla) acted…
Obama administration and Israel sitting in a tree…
Sigh: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday defended Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip and its decision to intercept the pro-Palestinian flotilla bringing humanitarian aid to the coastal territory, though he did not go so far as to defend the Israel Navy raid that killed nine people two days earlier. In an interview with…
And now for something a little different
In dark times, we need some relief. Here’s Jon Stewart on BP, oil leaks and Barack Obama: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c
A few simple steps for Israel to win back friends (measured in decades)
Note yesterday’s editorial in Murdoch’s Australian broadsheet. Defensive, seemingly pained that the beloved Israel had acted so brazenly and less defiant as usual. Next step, backing a targeted boycott campaign (ok, I can dream): The Jewish state must reassure the world it wants peace In boarding vessels intent on breaking the Gaza blockade the Israeli…
“We would never tolerate this from our enemies”
The letters in today’s Sydney Morning Herald. Hear the rising anger about the pass Australia and the West in general have given Israel for decades. Public opinion is shifting. Feel it: I am sick of the PR spin. I am sick of the tired justifications, I am sick of the diplomatic niceties and double standards.…
And now the blame game begins
An Israeli journalist reports that many in the local press there didn’t report (self-censorship? government censorship?) that many in the military establishment supposedly opposed the military action before it was launched near Gaza.