Bitterlemons asks an obvious question: Can Hamas be part of the political process? It can and must be.
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Breaking the Gaza siege, again
Back in March, George Galloway led a convoy of aid into Gaza. He’s going back: In another attempt to break the crippling Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip, a group of ‘Viva Palestina’ activists has arrived in Egypt on a humanitarian mission. About 100 US activists with tons of medical supplies arrived in Egypt on…
When the political system fails
Solidarity boat trips to Gaza have had a fairly high rate of success in the past. Now it’s time to try again: Activists campaigning for an end to Gaza’s blockade by Israel will sail to the enclave from Cyprus in defiance of the Israeli navy, they said Thursday. Two boats, including one carrying cement and…
Keep building settlements and guarantee long-term apartheid
Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman in New York on Friday: The settlements are not an obstacle to advancing peace. In the 19 years before 1967, there were no settlements but there was terror. During the disengagement, Israel evacuated 24 settlements and in response got Hamas rule in Gaza and rockets on Sderot. It’s very clear…
Don’t wait for the web to bring democracy
As Iran teeters and the Supreme Leader warns protestors, Zionists, foreigners and the media to back off – he would be comical if this wasn’t so serious – many in the West should be cautious about heralding the Twitter Revolution. As I write in my book The Blogging Revolution, new technology doesn’t on its own…
Grapes are clearly a terrorist fruit
So who is really in charge here? The United States has stepped up pressure on Israel regarding the Gaza Strip: Three weeks ago it sent Jerusalem a diplomatic note officially protesting Gaza policy and demanding a more liberal opening of the border crossings to facilitate reconstruction. The Gaza borders could be opened today if the…
Australian government out of step with public opinion on Israel/Palestine
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: Antony Loewenstein writes from New York: During this year’s Gaza war, Australia’s Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard was incapable of condemning Israeli brutality against the Palestinians. Her upcoming visit to Israel (and a few spare minutes with the Palestinian Authority) has caused loud protests across the…
Why aren’t Jews outraged by Israeli occupation?
My following article appears in leading Israeli daily Haaretz: During this year’s AIPAC conference in Washington, Executive Director Howard Kohr warned the 7,000-plus crowd that the global movement to “delegitimize Israel” was gathering steam. “These voices are laying the predicate for an abandonment,” he said. His sentiments were almost apocalyptic: “The stakes in that battle…
This is the kind of leadership that’s missing
Former US president Jimmy Carter on Tuesday met Hamas leader Ismail Haniya in the Gaza Strip, where he called for a lifting of Israel’s blockade, saying Palestinians are being treated “like animals.”
They blog what they see in front of their eyes
Harvard University’s Berkman Centre (where I gave a presentation last year on my book, The Blogging Revolution) have released a new report mapping the Arabic blogosphere. Some key findings that suggest Barack Obama will need to match his pretty words with far more than rhetoric: The one political issue that clearly concerns bloggers across the…