Tony Karon, Rootless Cosmopolitan, January 23: The hole blown by Hamas in the Gaza-Egypt border fence has finally punctured the bubble of delusion surrounding the U.S.-Israeli Middle East policy. In a moment reminiscent of the collapse of the Berlin Wall, through the breach surged some 350,000 Palestinians — fully one fifth of Gaza’s total population,…
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Failure is Israel’s middle name
Gazans are desperately streaming into Egypt to source goods during Israel’s criminal siege. Hamas has been strengthened. Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama proves that running for the highest office in the land means you must defend Israel and vilify the Palestinian population. And yet Israel never learns from history and its current moves against Gaza…
What’s a few lies between allies?
The Bush administration made at least 935 false statements in the two years after 9/11 to exaggerate the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
We matter, they don’t
Human rights preservation, Washington-style: Out of the dozens upon dozens of reports of abuses by private contractors as part of the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, only one prosecution of a contractor has taken place. This, says a new report from Human Rights First, epitomises the woefully insufficient response by the U.S. government to…
The actions of a proud “democracy”
The outrage in Gaza in the words of Israeli and Palestinian activists and civilians. Shamefully, the UN Security Council won’t condemn Israeli actions due to American pressure. Washington is truly Israel’s worst friend in the world.
Protecting the Americans
Iraq is rarely on the front pages anymore. It should be. Two recent pieces of writing, from opposite sides of the globe, highlight the profound disconnect between much of the Western media and reality on the ground. First, an extract from The Guardian’s Jonathan Steele’s new book, Defeat: Why We Lost Iraq: That phrase –…
Lesson unlearnt
The following letter appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Nearly 70 years ago, in a small eastern European city, an oppressed and occupied people were under siege, living under atrocious and brutal conditions, lacking food, medicine, electricity, water, and slowly being strangled in the hope they would just disappear. Warsaw Ghetto 1941 – Gaza 2008.…
Final days are approaching
The general silence of the Zionist establishment towards the illegal West Bank settlements is one of the great moral failings of our time (in fact, an interesting old, PR document has emerged that reveals the tortured ways in which Israel wants to be portrayed to the world, ideally ignoring the less favourable aspects of its…
Why the silence?
Daniel Ellsberg, Brad Blog, January 20: For the second time in two weeks, the entire U.S. press has let itself be scooped by Rupert Murdoch’s London Sunday Times on a dynamite story of criminal activities by corrupt U.S. officials promoting nuclear proliferation. But there is a worse journalistic sin than being scooped, and that is…
Propping up Hamas
Youssef Khatib, clerk from Khan Younis, Ynetnews: The power outage in Gaza will not hurt Hamas, on the contrary – it will strengthen the Islamic organizations, so that even secular Palestinians, who used to support Fatah, will sympathize with Hamas. Israel’s collective punishment policy would not lead to results. I am not a Hamas man,…