Gideon Levy, Haaretz, February 18: Who said the Israeli left has disappeared? Thirty intellectuals from the left have published a petition calling for putting an end to the “neglect of the evacuees from Gush Katif and northern Samaria.” Amos Oz, A.B. Yehoshua, David Grossman, Uzi Dayan, Shulamit Aloni and Yossi Sarid, the cream of the…
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Darker days
The Bush administration is bad for Israel. The Israeli government is a faltering, corrupt, incompetent and militaristic entity. Israelis have rarely been so unsure about their country’s future. Discuss (and wonder how few Diaspora Jews seem to understand these issues.)
Caring for “terrorists”
Robert Richter, The Age, February 18: [Australian Attorney-General] Philip Ruddock is a hypocrite when parading his Amnesty International membership. He pretends to give a toss for the organisation and the principles for which it stands: the rule of law, freedom from arbitrary arrest and punishment, freedom from torture, opposition to the perversion of accepted civilised…
The price of Carter
Some Zionists believe in free speech (as long as it doesn’t challenge Israel): Major donors to Brandeis University have informed the school they will no longer give it money in retaliation for its decision last month to host former President Jimmy Carter, a strong critic of Israel. The donors have notified the school in writing…
The Iranian “distraction”
While Iranians are reflecting on the 28th anniversary of the Islamic revolution, Washington is moving forward with its own deluded plans: Any US general planning to attack Iran can now assume that at least 10,000 targets can be hit in a single raid, with warplanes flying from the US or Diego Garcia. In the past…
The other narrative
Afif Safieh, Forward, February 16: I know of no way to measure suffering, no mechanism to quantify pain. All I know is that we Palestinians are not children of a lesser God. Had I been a Jew or a Gypsy, I would consider the Holocaust to be the most atrocious event in history. Had I…
Jews giving Jews a bad name
Here’s yet another sign of the dangers of Zionist extremism in a post 9/11 age. The Australian Jewish News reports: A visiting Israeli expert on Islam has urged Australia to cap its intake of Muslim immigrants, warning “life will become untenable” unless the Muslim population is kept in check. Raphael Israeli, a professor in Islamic…
Show your face
What’s the chance of this happening in Australia? (Hint: zero, as most journalists would have nothing to write): After the latest widely-publicized stories in national newspapers about weapons from Iran allegedly killing Americans in Iraq – based completely on unnamed sources – at least one smaller news outlet has had enough of it. The news…