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Old media still battles with new media
The following piece by Shakira Hussein in Crikey discusses a recent media conference in Canberra, Australia: Last week’s conference on “War 2.0: Political Violence and New Media” amounted to a loya jirga of different tribes – old media, new media, academics, and the odd military representative. The conference generated some interesting discussions on the implications…
Perhaps Jews can kill Arabs for the sake of peace
The New York Times on some Israeli responses to the devastating UN Gaza report: Not surprisingly, Israelis in southern Israel have little patience for the international condemnation, and there is not much soul-searching under way. “People scoffed” at the Goldstone report, said Sasson Sara, the owner of a newspaper store in Sderot, the border town…
A zebra in Gaza
Life in besieged Gaza: Two white donkeys dyed with black stripes delighted Palestinian kids at a small Gaza zoo on Thursday who had never seen a zebra in the flesh. With their long ears, drooping heads and sleepy eyes, the impostors probably would not have fooled the zoo’s only lioness. But the effect achieved by…
What we are doing to the people of Gaza
Mohammed Omer writes in the New Statesman: As the 456,000 schoolchildren in the Gaza Strip start their academic year, they face chronic shortages of everything from paper, textbooks and ink cartridges to school uniforms, school bags and computers, the result of the Israeli blockade. At the same time, severely overcrowded classrooms are having to accommodate…
West’s best Palestinian friend is exactly where they like him – irrelevant
Ali Abunimah on the challenges facing Palestinian nationalism: Hamas’ long-term strategy of trying to join the slowly crumbling edifice of the Palestinian Authority now makes no sense. It now seems more likely that the deal will not go ahead, although Hamas is maneuvering to avoid blame, and to maintain its lifeline to Egypt, which backs…
The contradictory faces of Haaretz
Ari Shavit: To prevent the region’s deterioration into complete chaos, Israel must exercize force once every few years. These limited demonstrations of power do not achieve a decisive military victory or a breakthrough in the peace process. Their entire purpose is to stabilize the violent relationship between Israelis and Arabs. Thus they create a temporary,…
The UN are really Nazis, says prominent Jew
Michael B. Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, issues an absurd argument that simply shows the desperation of Zionists only able to smear any fair critic: The Goldstone Report [on Gaza] goes further than Ahmadinejad and the Holocaust deniers by stripping the Jews not only of the ability and the need but of the…
Neither Sri Lanka nor Israel should have impunity in their ‘wars on terror’
My following article appears in today’s Lebanon Daily Star newspaper: Israel’s war against the Gazan people in December and January devastated the tiny Strip, killing over 1,400 people, a majority of whom were civilians. The Western powers, including America, England and Australia, backed Israel’s battle against Hamas and shared its belief that destruction of the…
Israel is like any other state, only claims to be democratic
Ynet: United Nations investigator Richard Goldstone said Sunday that he was saddened by the fact that Jews felt he should not be investigating Israel because he is Jewish. As a Jew, he told CNN, I have an even bigger duty to investigate war crimes. I probed war crimes in other countries, he said, so why…