A Zionist chauvinist worries that his beloved Jewish state is starting to show signs of ignoring democracy. Over to you, Jeffrey Goldberg: Is it actually possible that one day Israelis — Jewish Israelis — would choose to give up democracy in order to maintain Israel’s Jewish voting majority? … Let’s just say, as a hypothetical,…
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Wikileaks resonates in Mugabe’s gulag
The almost impossible role of an opposition leader in a brutal dictatorship: Zimbabwe is to investigate bringing treason charges against the prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, and other individuals over confidential talks with US diplomats revealed by WikiLeaks. Johannes Tomana, the attorney general, said he would appoint a commission of five lawyers to examine whether recent…
But is there a real Left in Israel?
An important Haaretz editorial that demands decent Jews, Arabs and others inside the Zionist state either stand up now or like most Jews in the Diaspora remain silent as the country becomes more fascist by the day: The demand by a group of academics and intellectuals that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspend the state-funded rabbis…
Operation Cast Lead two years on
Today is the 2nd anniversary of Israel’s brutal assault on Gaza. Tragically, tensions are building once more: Ilan Pappe agrees. Palestinian civil society releases a statement today that stresses what the international community must do; hold the Zionist state to account: We the Palestinians of the Besieged Gaza Strip, on this day, two years on…
US had no issue with Israeli murder of Hamas leader
It’s only terrorism when “they” do it? On February 25, 2010, State Department spokesperson Philip Crowley lied when he told a press conference that he wasn’t aware of any request from Dubai for assistance in tracking the Mossad killers of Mahmoud al-Mabouh. … To those who say that Wikileaks hasn’t told us anything we didn’t already…
US on Russian justice: “lipstick on a political pig”
A brutal state assessed as such by the US, a nation not adverse to backing countries that display an authoritarian impulse in support of Washington: The trial of Russian oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky shows the Kremlin preserves a “cynical system where political enemies are eliminated with impunity”, US diplomats say in classified cables released by WikiLeaks…
Australia engaged in ugly business in Afghanistan
How much faith do we have in intelligence gathering in Afghanistan? Scores to be settled by locals? Frankly, somebody designated as an “enemy” by Western forces may not be anything of the sort, simply a legitimate resistance to foreign occupation. Besides, the West is in bed with a Kabul government backed and run by drug…
Wikileaks Swedish problem
Julian Assange: Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism. I fell into a hornets’ nest of revolutionary feminism.
New Yorker editor looks at Israel and dislikes what he sees
The love affair is turning sour. When the sympathetic “liberal” US media start asking serious questions about the Zionist state, Tel Aviv (and its blind Diaspora supporters) have a problem. Perhaps they should call David Remnick a self-hating Jew. That’ll work. This is what he told Yediot a few days ago: Do you see a…