The following advertisement appears in Haaretz on 12 June and was placed by peace group Gush Shalom: OBAMA SAYS: All building activity in the settlements must cease forthwith! OBAMA IS RIGHT! There are no legal settlements! All the settlements sit on stolen land! There is no difference between “private” Arab land and the land reserves…
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Australians know who to blame
Zionists, better spend more on fruitless PR, me thinks: Many more Australians think that Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip in January this year was not justified, a new poll conducted by Roy Morgan Research finds. And more Australians generally have sympathy for the Palestinians than the Israelis in the Middle Eastern conflict.
Yes, we still occupy them
Thank God some Israelis are still protesting the West Bank occupation: Thousands of left-wing activists marched in Tel Aviv Saturday marking “42 years of occupation”. Protestors were chanting: “End the occupation – start living”. I guess it’s far easier to hate Arabs than actually wonder why Palestinians aren’t that fond of you.
Murdoch fans the flames
Yesterday’s shooting at Washington’s Holocaust Museum was partly due to the rise of anti-Zionism in the US. So says Fox News: Or, in another Fox News special, perhaps Hitler was actually a leftist…with a direct line to yesterday’s shooting?
Australian Jews have a chance
The Australian Jewish Democratic Society has just released the following petition (which I have signed): The Australian Jewish Democratic Society together with other Jewish Australians who care greatly for both the future of Israel and the legitimate national aspirations of Palestinians we strongly endorse the views recently expressed by the US President in Cairo. His…
The Jews who really need an Iranian bad-man
MJ Rosenberg gets it in one: Foreign Policy’s Laura Rozen has a great piece on what might be happening in Iran. The madman could lose. It seems like almost too much to hope for. But, as I noted earlier, there is some evidence that the neocons are worried. They want Ahmadinejad in there because without…
It’s more than just swiping your plastic
Israeli peace group Gush Shalom alerts the world to the direct complicity of Mastercard in the West Bank colonial project: The holders of an Isracard and/or Mastercard credit cards in Israel have received in the past weeks an offer for a “City of David tour” with “attractions for the entire family” – an innocuous sounding…
Mahmoud may be nearly over?
Australian journalist Austin G Mackell writes from Iran a few days before the election: Tehran’s prayer grounds are so big, they have a metro station at each end. Although today’s event was ostensibly secular, there was a distinctly religious fervour among the crowds massing for Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s major rally as the country prepares…
Full marks for chutzpah
Dream on, Israel, you’re tied to the US, and if you want to survive there ain’t a damn thing you can do about it: In a sign of growing concern in Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government over US President Barack Obama’s Middle East policies, Minister-without-Portfolio Yossi Peled proposed Israeli sanctions on the US in a…
This is the answer?
Ron Kampeas of JTA has an idea how to better sell Zionism to the world: Israel could — with some degree of success — portray the occupation as relatively benign. Look, the Palestinians have a free press (sometimes). They go to universities (sometimes). They elect their own mayors (once). Yes, those Arabs really don’t mind…