Benny Morris, celebrated Israeli historian, has no hesitation, in this latest interview with Haaretz, supporting and defending the Israeli ethnic cleansing in 1948 against Palestinians: You said that people were mistaken when they labeled you a post-Zionist, and you described Palestinian society as being like a “serial killer” whose people should be locked up “in…
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When Israel lies to America and Washington turns the other cheek
A revealing piece in the New York Times by Seth Anziska that outlines the ways that an arrogant Israel sees no issue with lying to its benefactor, America, while Washington appears far too willing to accept the word of a notoriously venal Israeli establishment: On the night of Sept. 16, 1982, the Israeli military allowed…
Finally, some resistance to disaster capitalism masters G4S
Via the Guardian: The private security firm… G4S… should be the first name on a government blacklist of “high-risk” companies that have failed to deliver public services, a cross-party investigation into the… Olympic security shambles… has concluded. The Commons home affairs committee says G4S should forgo its …£57m management fee for the contract that it still insists on claiming…
“After Zionism” debate at New York’s Brecht Forum
The following discussion was held on 18 September at the Brecht Forum with the founder of Mondoweiss Phil Weiss and yours truly:
Remembering Sabra and Chatila
Robert Fisk on a massacre that proves Western outrage over war crimes are highly selective: The memories remain, of course. The man who lost his family in an earlier massacre, only to watch the young men of Chatila lined up after the new killings and marched off to death. But – like the muck piled…
Everything you think about the goodness of the West is wrong
Read on. David Cromwell from Medialens provides the antidote to the false narrative which we’re taught from a young age.
Ilan Pappe on “The Forgotten Palestinians”
Dissident Israeli historian Ilan Pappe is currently on an Australian tour and this talk was given on 16 September at the University of Sydney:
Mitt Romney’s position on Israel/Palestine is little different to Obama in reality
The latest controversy over Mitt Romney’s comments towards Israel/Palestine at a fund-raiser are instructive: I’m torn by two perspectives in this regard. One is the one which I’ve had for some time, which is that the Palestinians have no interest whatsoever in establishing peace, and that the pathway to peace is almost unthinkable to accomplish.…
“After Zionism” reviewed in The Jordan Times
The following book review… by Sally Bland of After Zionism appears in The Jordan Times: Writing in the face of Israel’s ravenous colonisation that has negated the option of a two-state solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, 14 esteemed writers, academicians and activists explore alternative solutions in this very timely and readable book. The authors are Palestinians,…