Veteran White House reporter Helen Thomas asks a question to Press Secretary Robert Gibbs that too few journalists do: Why does the US support Israel when it continues to violate international law?
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Obama has no issue with settlements (if he did, he’d pull money)
Just in case it wasn’t clear that America essentially approves Israeli building in East Jerusalem, read here. The sound and fury coming from Washington is purely for show. And it means nothing on the ground. Meanwhile, the US Zionist lobby is getting angry with the Obama administration. How dare you say anything critical of Israel,…
How “illegal” immigrants are held by the civilised West
The voices of refugees around the world deserve to be heard. Instead, demonisation seems order of the day. Britain: Torture survivors seeking sanctuary in Britain are being wrongly held in government detention centres, despite independent medical evidence supporting claims of brutal violence against them in their home countries. According to Home Office guidelines, in cases…
Friedman asks America to do to Israel what it has never done
Everybody’s favourite American supporter of bombing civilians to freedom, Thomas Friedman, writes in yesterday’s New York Times that the rift between America and Israel is serious. I’ll believe this when Israel’s colonisation program actually decreases. Until then, it’s cheap rhetoric, at best: I am a big Joe Biden fan. The vice president is an indefatigable…
How many American Jews are upset with Israel?
The Jewish Forward newspaper is unhappy (sure, it’s pitifully weak, but unlike the Australian Jewish News, Israel can occasionally step out of line): There were the expected handshakes and bear hugs, the slaps on the back and supportive words amiably expressed before the media. Just what ought to happen when Israel welcomes the vice president…
Obama is managing America’s empire very nicely, thank you
Worried that Barack Obama is not protecting and expanding the American empire? Rest easy, writes Alexander Cockburn: Obama is just what the Empire needed. Plagued though it may be by deep structural problems, he has improved its malign potential for harm – the first duty of all U.S. presidents of whatever imagined political stripe.
The marriage made in hell: Christion Zionists and Jews get down and dirty
The recent Christians United for Israel conference in Israel was a unique opportunity to see up close the growing Christian Zionist movement (and their desperate Jewish mates) defend every Israeli action. They’re a threat and should not be ignored. They’re loving Israel to death. Max Blumenthal provides some other details about CUFI’s John Hagee: Hagee’s…
Slowly realising why the Middle East is on fire
Gee, things are tough in the Middle East when Murdoch’s Australian sounds depressed. Maybe, just maybe, more corporate journalists based in Israel will start to write about the reasons for the bleakness; fundamentalist Jews: The Middle East peace process was in tatters last night and Israel’s coalition government faced crisis after it announced a huge…
Just one more sign that Washington loves Israel like its only child
The predictable Israeli slap to America’s modest demands should surprise nobody. Besides, the real test of America’s love affair with Israel and contempt for Palestinians is clear: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be the keynote speaker at this month’s annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, The Cable has confirmed. Clinton will…
New York Times prefers to view the Middle East as a balanced tiff between two old mates
The New York Times editorialises about the Middle East with its usual “he said/she said” mentality. Both the Israelis and Palestinians must work towards peace but why the hell should anybody in the Middle East see America and Barack Obama as anything other than a nearly unquestioning friend of Israel? Vice President Joseph Biden Jr.…