Showing all posts in June 2019

West Bank Story Ari Sandel (USA/ 2005/ 22 min) “A musical comedy set in the fast-paced, fast-food world of competing falafel stands in the West Bank. David, an Israeli soldier, falls in love with the beautiful Palestinian cashier, Fatima, despite the animosity between their families’ duelling restaurants. Can the couple’s love withstand a 2000 year…

Reuters reports an important development in Israel’s understanding of the conflict: “Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni said on Monday acceptance within the international community of Israel’s right to exist as a Jewish state would erode with time as conflict with the Palestinians dragged on. “Unless progress was made towards establishing a Palestinian state as mandated…

– Iceland engages in a furious debate over freedom of the press. – Devastating personal stories about the disintegration of Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe. – A Time magazine reporter in Iraq reflects on the difficulties of doing her job in the war-ravaged country. – Recently deceased media mogul and tax-dodger Kerry Packer will soon be…

US Zionists are worried: “In the wake of the Jack Abramoff scandal, Jewish groups are closely watching plans to restrict lawmakers’ lobbyist-sponsored travel, which could have a devastating impact on Israel trips that build support for the Jewish state in Congress. “Rules proposed in Congress this month could place stringent restrictions on how lawmakers travel…

Zvi Bar’el, Haaretz, January 22: “Alas, ”˜the elections in the Palestinian Authority were supposed to be part of the democratic process, but they are not. There is no democracy in the world that would allow a terrorist organization to participate in elections,’ cried the new foreign minister, Tzipi Livni. There is no basis, of course,…

My latest piece for Online Opinion – one of Australia’s most popular e-journals of social and political debate – evaluates the long-term costs of the Iraq war and the embedded journalism that allows the slaughter to continue: “Australia is inadequately served by its elected representatives. As [former] minister of defence, Robert Hill told us that…

Rupert Murdoch indicates he may turn away from Tony Blair’s Labour: “Rupert Murdoch, the head of News International, urged David Cameron last night to commit the Conservative Party to a Thatcherite tax-cutting agenda to win the next election. “The proprietor of The Sun and The Times, whose influence is credited with helping Tony Blair and…

George W. Bush has denied any friendship or relationship with Jack Abramoff, the Republican lobbyist – and supporter of Zionist extremists – currently embroiled in a corruption scandal. It now appears that the president is lying. Time reports: “Time has seen five photographs of Abramoff and the President that suggest a level of contact between…

I recently commented that Jews are sometimes their own worst enemies when attempting to blindly support Israel, spewing vitriol in an attempt to defend the indefensible. We now have another specimen for examination. Andrew Klavan is a crime novelist. His recent piece in the LA Times is a classic piece of kicking an own-goal style…