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…
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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…
This is what a large section of Israel thinks today
This was forwarded by a reliable contact in the US (both the video above and the story below): I got this from a friend, Ran, who studies at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva (south of Israel). It’s a demo organized by students SUPPORTING the flotilla slaughter. In local terms, these are not even really…
Israel the peace-maker (in their nightmares)
And Israel wonders why some responded to such blatant provocations in international law? Yes, far better if they had simply stood still and enjoyed the experience: Israeli troops used tear gas and electroshock weapons during their brutal attack against civilians onboard an international aid convoy, a Greek activist says. “They fired rubber coated bullets, tear…
West complicit in Israeli terror and oppression
My following article appears in today’s New Zealand Herald: The day after the Australian Government announced it was expelling an Israeli diplomat over the forging of its passports in the assassination of a Hamas official in Dubai, the Murdoch press was incensed. The Australian’s foreign editor, Greg Sheridan, last week condemned Kevin Rudd’s “over-reaction” to…
Sydney streets were tinged with anger and passion
Alongside a huge turn-out in Sydney last night, the group wasn’t just from a Muslim background. I saw some Jews (well, a handful but hey, better than nothing) and many others, including Tamils: Thousands of protesters from Sydney’s Middle Eastern communities have rallied in Sydney’s CBD over humanitarian aid deaths near Gaza. The noisy protesters…