An Israeli journalist reports that many in the local press there didn’t report (self-censorship? government censorship?) that many in the military establishment supposedly opposed the military action before it was launched near Gaza.
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The Washington way is to embrace its Jewish friend and hold tight
Washington’s aim in life seems to be to protect its little mate, Israel. Sweet. Here’s a quote from a few days ago that can’t be forgotten: “The situation is that they’re so isolated right now that it’s not only that we’re the only ones who will stick up for them,” said an American official. “We’re…
Straight from the mouth of the IDF
IDF Global PR: Sneak preview of our impartial investigation: “Israel’s response was proportionate and justified”
When we learn that occupation isn’t really occupation
This is going around today, by Lebanese-Australian writer and academic Ghassan Hage: I don’t write poems but, in any case, poems are not poems Long ago, I was made to understand that Palestine was not Palestine; I was also informed that Palestinians were not Palestinians; They also explained to me that ethnic cleansing was not…
Post flotilla news, including boycotts, violence and gutlessness
Another hectic day. Some news, views, thoughts, ideas and outrage follows (though Australian Jew and sometime Independent Australian Jewish Voices writer Michael Brull has a good round-up). We’re starting to hear the voices of activists who have been (finally) released by Israel. It ain’t pretty. Here’s some testimonies that detail the brutality of the Jewish…
Protecting Israel by the usual US suspects
Just in case anybody thinks the American, corporate media is doing a decent and fair job reporting the Gaza flotilla massacre. They’re not. And watch this interview with Salon’s Glenn Greenwald, where even the suggestion that Israel may be in the wrong isn’t accepted by host Eliot Spitzer: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news,…
2SER Radio interview on Israeli attack off Gaza coast
I was interviewed yesterday on Sydney’s 2SER Radio program The Wire about Israel’s massacre on the high seas and the ramifications for the Jewish state:
Israel is becoming the new South Africa, says major Israeli writer
Israeli writer Amos Oz speaking to the country’s Army Radio: We are placing ourselves under an international siege, which is more dangerous for us than the siege on Gaza in dangerous to Gaza. Israel is turning into South Africa in the Apartheid days – a country which the world’s nation wouldn’t want to buy its…
Oh Jerusalem, why do you make it so hard to like you?
The New Zealand Herald’s editorial today reflects a global pattern (I’ll get to more of that later today) that almost feels pain in acknowledging that supporters of Israel are finding it increasingly difficult to support the Jewish state: Israel can hardly claim to be surprised by the universal international condemnation of its commando raid on…