Sometimes its hard to keep up with the disturbing news coming out of Israel and Palestine. So here’s a good summary of some recent reading: – Evicted Jewish settlers from Gaza recently found any crimes from the 2005 withdrawal wiped clean from the slate due to a bill in the Knesset. – Newsflash: some American…
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America reminds the world who really controls Israel
Washington certainly has a strange way of showing its opposition to Israel’s Gaza policy: The United States has suggested to Israel that easing the Gaza blockade would help counter the fallout from the Goldstone report on alleged war crimes during Operation Cast Lead a year ago. … The Americans said they do not believe in…
South Africa may be Israel’s future
Everywhere one turns these days, the apartheid/South African analogy is growing in strength: A senior Israeli military official during last year’s war in Gaza has said that an independent commission of inquiry should investigate allegations that Israeli troops committed war crimes. Colonel Pnina Sharvit-Baruch, who was in charge of the Israel Defence Forces’ international law…
Israel now wants to only mildly slam Goldstone
Jewish news agency JTA headlines a story in a way that is surely guaranteed to elicit a laugh: Amid heated rhetoric, Israel’s reply to Goldstone suggests more civil approach
Investigate Gaza and get over the victimhood
And Israel wonders why the world demands more from a supposed democracy? A high-ranking officer has acknowledged for the first time that the Israeli army went beyond its previous rules of engagement on the protection of civilian lives in order to minimise military casualties during last year’s Gaza war, The Independent can reveal. The officer,…
Israel expands the occupation and wonders why apartheid is alive
The “A” word by the Israeli elite: Israel’s defense minister warned Tuesday that if Israel does not achieve a peace deal with the Palestinians, it will be either a binational state or an undemocratic apartheid state. Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s comments came in an address to a security conference north of Tel Aviv. Israeli leaders…
Until Israel openly investigates Gaza, offiicials will be chased around the world
The Zionist elite sees itself at this week’s Herzliya conference in Israel, according to Robert Fisk, as “under siege. That was the dreary, familiar, hopelessly misunderstood theme at the 10th annual Herzliya conference of diplomats, Israeli civil servants, military gold braid and government yesterday.” It is under siege because it’s insufficiently mature to investigate its…
Why should Australia gain in the UN by ignoring Israeli criminality?
This “exclusive” in today’s Murdoch Australian (also featured in the Melbourne Age) is a wake-up call to the Australian government. Blindly supporting Israel and mouthing platitudes about a two-state solution, while remaining silent on the siege of Gaza and the growing occupation, comes with a price: Kevin Rudd’s bid for a UN Security Council seat…
Norman Finkelstein’s new book on Gaza
American writer Norman Finkelstein is soon to release his new book, “This Time We Went Too Far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion“, a concise examination of Israel’s bombardment of Gaza in late 2008 and early 2009. (It’s also worth noting that Finkelstein has chosen a relatively new publisher, OR Books, to release his…