A helpful word from Ralph Nader: On July 10, 1996, at a Joint Session of the United States Congress, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received a standing ovation for these words: “With America’s help, Israel has grown to be a powerful, modern state. ”¦But I believe there can be no greater tribute to America’s long-standing…
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What Passover means to Jews who loathe Arabs
Today is the beginning of the Jewish holiday Passover, so here’s fundamentalist West Bank Jews Women in Green making a statement to the world: Dear Friends, As we prepare for Pessach, the People of Israel put to rest Eliraz Peretz and Ilan Saviatovsky, two soldiers who fell in battle with Arab terrorists. As the mother…
Wikileaks allows sunlight in a dark age
I’ve written for years about the invaluable website Wikileaks. It currently faces an unprecedented attack by Western governments and dictatorships across the world to shut down and not release supposedly important “secrets”. Glenn Greenwald explains the importance of the site and why it matters to fight.
Naomi Klein is a danger to the world (insert laugh here)
An intriguing and rather pathetic attempt to slam Naomi Klein, by the Zionist think-tank Reut Institute, claiming she is really working (implicitly, of course) with Hamas and Hizbollah to destroy Israel. Yes, it’s that sophisticated and utterly ignores any human rights abuses in Palestine: “Kleinists” seem to have concluded that one-sided criticism of Israel is…
Protect and hug the favoured Middle East son
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald on radical Zionists asking Americans to feel sorry for poor Israel up against “anti-Semitic” Barack Obama: Given the endless largesse that country continues to receive, the fact that American devotees of Israel nonetheless try to depict Israel as some sort of grave victim of the Obama administration — and now even try…
When Israel locks up a journalist and throws away the key, feel like causing a storm?
A story that should shock us all and yet has received virtually no coverage across the world. If this kind of thing happens in Iran, it’s the sign of a brutal dictatorship. But in Israel? Israel has held a journalist under secret house arrest since last December based on allegations that during her military service…
Israel is a benefit to America, repeat after me
That the American political and military elites may think Israeli behaviour is causing troubles for the Empire in the Middle East is clearly a mad idea, considered by anti-Semites or mad people: Commander of the U.S. Military’s Central Command Gen. David Petraeus phoned his Israeli counterpart, Gabi Ashkenazi, this week to deny reports that he…
Don’t be a child in Palestine
From the Only Democracy in the Middle East: In the West Bank, there is a two-tiered system of justice, including for minors.… For settler children, justice is administered according to Israeli domestic law, with all the due process protections that affords.… They… cannot be … charged as adults until they reach 18, in accordance with the…
Here we go again: growing tension between Israel and Hamas
Rumblings in Gaza and a major Israeli loss: Two Israeli soldiers have been killed during clashes with Hamas fighters on the Gaza Strip’s southern border, the Israeli army has said. Two other soldiers were wounded during the fighting which broke out east of the town of Khan Younis. Two Palestinian militants were also killed in…