Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman has given his first interview to an Israeli newspaper. After telling a Russian paper earlier this week that, “Believe me, America accepts all our decisions“, his latest thoughts are equally likely to get the vast majority of the world off-side: The international community has to “stop speaking in slogans” if…
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We can say what we want
Here’s yet another case of the Zionist lobby in the US causing trouble for an academic who dared criticise Israel: Toward the end of February 2009, University of California-Santa Barbara Sociology and Global Studies Professor William Robinson received notice from the Academic Senate’s Charges Committee that two of his students had filed charges against him.… …
The world already knows this little secret
Seumas Milne, The Guardian, April 23: What do the US, Canada, …Australia, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Italy and Israel have in common? They are all either European or European-settler states. And they all decided to boycott this week’s UN …conference against racism in Geneva – even before Monday’s incendiary speech by the Iranian…
Bringing in the Islamists from the cold
Is the Obama administration showing any willingness to finesse its ban on dealing with Hamas? Maybe.
You can’t change those spots
I’ll leave Jewish American blogger Richard Silverstein to explain why the Israeli political elite live in a world where Rome burns and they blame anti-Semitism and mistaken PR: I kid you not. This is a real story from Haaretz. Hard to believe that [former Australian] Mark Regev is such an obtuse idiot along with the…
Imagine if “they” did it to “us”
According to conservative fanatic Michelle Malkin, it’s “left-wing extremism” to “wail about torture and indulge in Cheney Derangement Syndrome.” Yes, calling for accountability against torture is “extremism”:
We’re all bloggers now
A few choice words by Murdoch biographer Michael Wolff on the future, or lack thereof, of the MSM: The NYT [New York Times] will not be owned by the same company 18 months from now. I stand by that.
Expect resistance unless results
Following the invitation of Hamas leader Khalid Meshal to address some British MPs, his words are worth considering: Hamas’ politburo Chief Khaled Mashaal made statements in an address to British lawmakers via satellite on Wednesday. “Resistance is means to an end and not the objective itself,” said Mashaal, “and if we find another way to…
Why exposing the Zionist lobby is so important
The Jane Harman case – involving phone-taps, the Zionist lobby, AIPAC and national security – has caused a storm in the US. The Jewish Forward newspaper has an interesting observation about how Zionist fanatics are viewed: “We know that we are closely watched, that people might be listening to our phone calls. This is our…
When two bigots get in the room
The weekly Haaretz published statement by Israeli peace group Gush Shalom: The President of Iran, Who has built a career On incitement and appeal To the basest instincts, Made a speech at the Conference against racism. And who cried “Scandalous! Anti-Semitism!”? Our Foreign Minister, Who himself had built a career On Incitement and appeal To…