This piece in the Wall Street Journal highlights a serious problem faced by Israel and its Diaspora supporters: Israel’s bungled attempt to stop the aid flotilla from reaching Gaza also highlights how an increasingly forceful strategy by Palestinians and their supporters to turn to boycotts, international isolation, and relatively nonviolent protests is confronting Israel with…
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Blair suddenly shows some care for Gaza
Tony Blair, the man behind the Iraq war, Lebanon war and Gaza war, now calls for the lifting of the siege on Gaza. But these comments are simply delusional. Hope left Gaza many years ago: What is important is that we don’t end up with people [in Gaza] losing hope for the future, alienating young…
“There was live ammunition flying around”
Democrats, Republicans, Zionist groups and Christian Zionists are falling over themselves to express their deep love for Israel. Touching. Perhaps they should listen to people other than the government in Tel Aviv: The first British survivor of the assault on the Mavi Marmara Gaza aid ship to return to London has told of her terror…
Major Australian newspaper calls for stronger Jewish criticism of Israel
A pretty remarkable editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald, clear, correct and being proven right in the Middle East by events. Blind support for Israel is causing its death. Discuss: In seeking to reassert forcefully its blockade of Gaza, Israel has succeeded only in calling its action even more into question. And each new ramification…
This is the level of “debate” on US TV over Gaza
Former mayor of New York Ed Koch and writer Jeremy Scahill discuss Gaza and the flotilla. It’s a parallel universe on American TV with blind Zionist supporters using the same language over and over again (terrorism, Jew-hatred, terrorism, Hamas killers, terrorism):
Is the world ready for pro-Hamas Zionist propaganda?
Latma is a right-wing Israeli website showing how rabid Zionism equals hatred of Arabs. It therefore makes sense that their latest effort on the Gaza flotilla is typically tasteless and ignorant. Welcome to pro-settler “humour”:
The Aussie Zionist lobby remembers its job
Israel is facing global criticism, so of course the Australian Jewish News focuses on poor, little Jewish students on campus who may be forced to see photos of dead Palestinians in Gaza. Tough times for the Zionist community: An escalation in tension around Australian university campuses is expected after the Gaza flotilla raid this week.…
With heads in the sand and nowhere to go but down
After the Gaza flotilla massacre, at least some of the American mainstream are actually reporting on the reality in Gaza itself. People may not be starving there but they’re living without dignity and humanity. A breeding ground for terrorism. There is certainly some Zionist self-criticism (here and here) that clearly outlines the utterly futile Gaza…
ABC Triple J Hack on Israel and the Gaza flotilla
I was interviewed yesterday on ABC Triple J Hack – the daily current affairs program – on the siege of Gaza, life in the Strip and the need to allow Palestinians there to live normal lives: