It just gets worse and worse. But really, what can be expected when one side of a conflict is funded, armed and backed by the occupier? One: British intelligence helped draw up a secret plan for a wide-ranging crackdown on the Islamist movement Hamas which became a security blueprint for the Palestinian Authority, leaked documents…
Israel’s special style of liberation on show
Amira Hass documents in Haaretz yet another atrocity committed by the IDF in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead.
Blackwater helping us save the world
Look at what our world has created; mercenaries with government backing: Erik Prince, the founder of the international security giant Blackwater Worldwide, is backing an effort by a controversial South African mercenary firm to insert itself into Somalia’s bloody civil war by protecting government leaders, training Somali troops, and battling pirates and Islamic militants there,…
London missed Palestine Papers explosion
Hello delusion, my name is Britain: Foreign Secretary William Hague welcomed Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman at the start of his three-day visit to the UK. They met for an hour at the Foreign Office. Afterwards the Foreign Secretary gave Foreign Minister Lieberman a tour of the Cabinet War Rooms. The Foreign Secretary stressed the…
Colombo’s love of killing
When was the last time Sri Lanka was serious about peace with its Tamil minority? Activists have accused the Sri Lankan military of manufacturing components for landmines while the government was involved in an internationally-sponsored ceasefire with Tamil rebels and receiving millions of pounds in aid for de-mining projects. The Tamil activists claim to have…
Israel’s contempt for law, any law
Tzipi Livni, Israel’s opposition leader: I was the Minister of Justice. I am a lawyer”¦But I am against law — international law in particular. … Law in general.
Goodbye jolly partition in Palestine
Strong Guardian editorial that peels back the two-state delusion constantly pushed by the political elites in the West: Gerald Kaufman once described Labour’s 1983 manifesto as the longest suicide note in history. If ever a set of documents merits this epithet, it is surely the one we publish today. Written by Palestinian officials, obtained by…
What Palestine Papers say about “our” Arab mates
Interesting and necessary: Some Fatah leaders are likely to accuse al-Jazeera of having an anti-PA agenda by publishing the leaked documents, which they believe will benefit their Hamas rivals, backed by Iran — as shown in critical comments about the TV station in the documents themselves. Relations between al-Jazeera, the most widely watched TV channel…
“Israel would accept nothing but complete capitulation from the Palestinians”
Rashid Khalidi on Democracy Now! talking the Palestine Papers: