Who in the world wrote this caption below a picture of released Paris Hilton on Murdoch’s leading Australian news site? Hollywood observers are drawing comparisons between 22-day inmate Paris Hilton and former South African president Nelson Mandela, who spent 27 years in jail under the apartheid regime. A joke. Surely?
Showing all posts in June 2019
Their suffering is our opportunity
A senior journalist at the Australian Jewish News relishes the suffering of the Palestinians (in typical cheerleading, Zionist style): It has been conventional wisdom for these past six decades that if the Arab states had accepted the UNSCOP plan, Gaza would have become part of a Palestinian state. After this week, the tables seemed to…
Staying in Iraq
Will the US ever leave Iraq? A new documentary, All Bases are Loaded, examines the “mega-bases” with luxury amenities being constructed in the occupied nation:
Getting tough with the Saudis
The US House of Representatives have delivered to Saudi Arabia what must be the weakest example imaginable of a slap on the wrist. While oil-rich Saudi Arabia has never been a large recipient of US aid, the Bush administration channeled a total of more than 2.5 million dollars to the kingdom in fiscal 2005 and…
Who asked you anyway?
America’s descent into obscurity continues apace under the leadership of the Bush administration. While it continues to outspend the rest of the world militarily, the US continues to take umbrage at countries not in its Rolodex, arming themselves. President Hugo Chavez of Venezuela is arriving in Russia at the end of June on an official…
They’ll love us someday
The milestones of failure and carnage continue to pile up in Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan. In Afghanistan, occupation forces have surpassed the Taliban in terms of the death toll inflicted on the population. Occupiers have killed more civilians this year than the ‘Taliban’. That doesn’t include the civilians they killed in Pakistan. But it does…
Is Israel preparing to pick a fight?
What good are all those state of the art weapons if you can’t use them? Israel is preparing for an imminent war with Iran, Syria and/or their non-state clients. Israeli military intelligence has projected that a major attack could come from any of five adversaries in the Middle East. Officials said such a strike could…
Objectively pro al-Qaeda
Tristero: Liberals! They’re always such literalists. Consider the liberal blogosphere’s cynical objection to the modern usage of the term “Al Qaeda,” as if it should still be restricted merely to “followers of bin Laden” when clearly times, and al Qaeda, have changed. Only liberals are stuck in the past. Look people, war is a complicated…
Jewish silence
You won’t find any major Zionist leaders acknowledging the disastrous Bush legacy for Israel – after all, they see their role as little more than rubber-stamping Israeli brutality against the Palestinians – but leading Haaretz commentator Akiva Eldar speaks the truth: Heavy clouds will float over today’s summit in sunny Sharm el-Sheikh. The Muslim Brotherhood…
Lebanon’s shaky future
Robert Fisk, The Independent, June 25: At last it happened. Every one predicted – not least the United Nations officers on the team – that the international UN peacekeeping army in southern Lebanon would be attacked by a Sunni Muslim group attached to al-Qa’ida, and yesterday afternoon three Spanish and three Colombian soldiers paid with…