Here’s the message from Israel. Other nations kill civilians, why can’t we? This is what Israel has become: Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz on Sunday accused the United Nations Human Rights Council of anti-Semitism, after the UN body endorsed a damning report on Israel’s winter Gaza offensive. “This is an anti-Semitic attempt to decide that what…
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Choking Gaza to make a perverted political point
A fascinating insight into the realities in Gaza in the London Review of Books. Deprivation, corruption, desperation, an Israeli siege and Egyptian bad behaviour: According to World Bank officials, 80 per cent of Gaza’s imports currently come through the tunnels. Once black-market smuggling had turned into Gaza’s formal trade, Hamas inspectors began to impose controls…
The war on terror isn’t a reason to kill Palestinians
The UN Human Rights Council last week endorsed the Goldstone report over Gaza. Israel may soon have its own Pinochet moment. Leading Jewish American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg is worried, however, and his reasoning is revealing: Tactics deployed to hurt Israel inevitably cause collateral damage. It’s a good thing that the United States, and a handful…
The IDF, moral crusaders in Gaza
The former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Col. Richard Kemp: The IDF did more to safeguard the rights of civilians [during the Gaza war] in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.
How not to report the truth about Gaza
Judith Miller is the infamous journalist who pushed bogus claims against Saddam Hussein before the Iraq war. She’s filed a report from Gaza, littered with falsehoods, not least that the Western-backed Palestinian Authority is friendly to the West, unlike Hamas. It’s called buying friends, Judith, you should know about all that.
Gaza war is not forgotten in Turkey
Slowly but surely, Israel is starting to realise where it matters (in the back pocket) that its criminality will come at a steep price. Who truly wants to normalise relations with a state that brutalises another people (over and over again)? Tense relations between Israel and Turkey are weighing on local companies as exports between…
How many Arabs need to be killed before action is taken?
The fall-out from the UN’s Goldstone report over Gaza is that Israel is once again seen as existing above the law: “That President Obama is receiving the Noble Peace prize after his failure to speak out during the Gaza war, and after his administration’s protection of a state that has committed war crimes, is an…
Zionist morality runs into some troubles with the truth
Israel is shocked, just shocked, that a Turkish TV program would depict Israeli troops as killers (“but we’re the most moral army in the world”). If you behave like thugs, you’ll be treated as such. Gazan farmers are still paying the price for this brutality: Thousands of Gazan farmers may be unable to replant their…
Denying the reality of Hamas is simply denying reality
A large, public debate held this week at Melbourne Monash’s University: That the West should engage with Hamas: a solution to the Israel/Palestine conflict?
Locking up Arabs and throwing away the key
B’Tselem and Hamoked – Center for the Defence of the Individual release a report this week that shows the real burden of the Israeli occupation: Under international law, a state may detain a resident of occupied territory without trial to prevent danger only in extremely exceptional cases. Israel, however, holds hundreds of Palestinians for months…