I was interviewed a few days by the Australian national current affairs program, The Wire: Israel’s latest strike on Gaza and assassination of Hamas military leader Amas Jabaari should be seen as traditional aggressive pre-election behaviour says commentator Antony Loewenstein. He says Egypt’s new regime and its connection to the Muslim Brotherhood is also making…
Repeat after me, media: not only Palestinians are “escalating” violence in Gaza
The always essential MediaLens offers necessary context for the mostly woeful media coverage of the current Israeli onslaught against Gaza: The role of BBC News as handmaiden to power is exemplified by its reporting on the latest series of brutal Israeli assaults on Gaza. On the first day of Operation Pillar of Cloud, thirteen people,…
“We brought a Nakba upon you”
During protests against Israel’s current aggression in Gaza held in Tel Aviv on the 15th November, there was a counter protest which shows vile racism against Muslims and hatred towards Palestinians. This short film is yet more fine work by Israeli journalist David Sheen and reflects a majority perspective in the Zionist state:
How Obama loves funding autocratic states to benefit corporations and Washington
Nick Turse in TomDispatch: The Pentagon awarded $667.2 million in contracts in 2012, and more than $1 billion during Barack Obama’s first term in office for construction projects in largely autocratic Middle Eastern nations, according to figures provided to TomDispatch by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Middle East District (USACE-MED).…
Insight into Israeli propaganda to sell its “civilised” onslaught
What does it say about a military policy that requires so many lies and distortions to try and convince a very skeptical if not hostile world? Here’s Anshel Pfeffer in Haaretz: The photograph of the wounded baby daughter of Mira Sharf, one of the three civilians killed this morning (Thursday) in a missile strike on…
ABCTV News24”²s The World talking Israel and Gaza
Israeli cries of war against Gaza are building. I spoke last night on ABCTV News24’s The World… discussing the growing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and the mostly Palestinian civilians caught in the middle:
Israeli goal in Gaza is “spring cleaning”
Typically astute thoughts and insights from The Magnes Zionist: I don’t know whether Nate Silver gives odds on wars, but the odds of Israel escalating its aggression against Gaza were higher than the odds Silver gave for Obama winning the last election — I mean the odds on election day. It has been clear for…