Rob Eshman, Jewish Journal, February 16: Twenty years ago at a park in Beverly Hills, actor Richard Dreyfuss, feminist Betty Friedan and Yael Dayan, the daughter of the late Israeli leader Moshe Dayan, stood before a crowd of some 300 people and called for a two-state solution to the Palestinian Israeli conflict. Many in the…
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Insiders are us
The Bush administration and the White House press corps. Just one big happy, incestuous, cosy, clueless family.
Bigotry endorsed
Parochialism is common in virtually all ethnic communities (and Jews are not immune.) The desire to feel included and comparable to similar cultures may partly explain a recent debate at Columbia University law school on the growing ties between Israel and India. The Columbia Spectator reports: After attending the talk, I realized that much of…
Apocalypse not
Richard Dreyfuss, The Washington Monthly, March 2007: The only power that could qualitatively worsen Iraq’s sectarian civil war is the United States. Washington continues to arm and train the Shiites, although so far it has resisted Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki’s pleas to provide Iraq’s Shiite-led army and police with heavy weapons, armor, and an air…
Thanks for the poison
The Australian political elite continues fighting over Iraq as the Howard government may be starting to recognise how toxic the Bush administration has become. Meanwhile, life in Iraq is deteriorating. Dahr Jamail and Ali al-Fadhily report: The lack of security in Iraq is leading now to a collapse in food supplies. “Look at us begging…
The Bush fantasy
Words fail: Speaking of George Bush, with whom [Ariel] Sharon developed a very close relationship, [Sharon biographer] Uri Dan recalls that Sharon’s delicacy made him reluctant to repeat what the president had told him when they discussed Osama bin Laden. Finally he relented. And here is what the leader of the Western world, valiant warrior…
Dialogue with Islamists
Alastair Crooke, The Cordoba Foundation, October-December, 2006: “”¦What Muslims hate is the West’s monopoly on the socio-economic implementation of values such as justice, freedom, good governance, which all Muslims share. Muslims don’t believe simply that the West is the only model of the implementation of these values, and the only way you can have good…
Independent Australian Jewish Voices
The following has been sent to many Australians over the last days. The response has been very encouraging. Stay tuned. Dear Friend, As you may be aware, a group of British Jews, including prominent figures, recently expressed their concern publicly that independent views on the Middle East were not adequately represented by official Jewish bodies.…
The golden drop
Are we supposed to believe that the Iraq war had nothing to do with oil? The Financial Times reports: All the world’s extra oil supply is likely to come from expensive and environmentally damaging unconventional sources within 15 years, according to a detailed study. This will mean increasing reliance on hard-to-develop sources of energy such…