The true face of Israel’s bombardment in Gaza is revealed by the testimony of the soldiers themselves. Killing innocent civilians, wanton destruction, a hatred of Arabs. These are the actions of a truly democratic state? Aviv: “I am squad commander of a company that is still in training, from the Givati Brigade. We went into…
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All the PR money can buy won’t help
The New York Times can’t quite bring itself to explain why the Jewish state has become so hatred around the world; actions speak louder than words. Talking about peace is easy; occupying and killing Palestinians shows the globe the country’s true face: Israel, whose founding idea was branded as racism by the United Nations General…
Rogue state revealed (again)
The “most moral army in the world” exposed: During Operation Cast Lead, Israeli forces killed Palestinian civilians under permissive rules of engagement and intentionally destroyed their property, say soldiers who fought in the offensive. The soldiers are graduates of the Yitzhak Rabin pre-military preparatory course at Oranim Academic College in Tivon. Some of their statements…
Hamas is part of the picture
Of course: Four members of the British parliament met Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal on Saturday and urged their government to end its boycott of the Palestinian group “to achieve just peace.” “We need to talk to Hamas to make progress (towards peace) because they represent a big proportion of the Palestinians,” Clare Short, an MP…
I’m just doing my job as a Zionist apologist
The following lead letter appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Your editorial “With friends like these” (March 13) refers to the decision of the Australian Jewish News to refuse an advertisement promoting the speaking tour of an Israeli academic, Jeff Halper. It says I pulled the ad because I didn’t like the promoters. This suggests…
Isolation may just teach them a lesson
John Greyson, a prominent Canadian filmmaker, has recently turned down an offer to premiere his film Fig Trees at the Tel Aviv International LGBT Film Festival, in support of BDS (boycott, divestment and sanctions). Greyson is… a member of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid. His recent letter to the festival director is below: Dear Yair, After much…
You can’t hide the reality, people
Why does Israel and her Zionist supporters always believe that the Jewish state’s international image is so dire because of bad PR? Jeez, it may have something to do with the fact that Israel is an apartheid state. Such uncomfortable facts can’t be hidden with a bigger advertising budget: Israeli Ynet News reported Wednesday that…
What her death still represents
This week marks the sixth anniversary of the death of American peace activist Rachel Corrie by an Israeli bulldozer. Her mother spoke recently on the Rafah/Gaza border about her daughter’s legacy: You asked about Rachel and how people respond to her here, and I—most everybody, at least if they—you know, they know her name when…
Hamas still rules, aka Israeli failure
American investigative reporter Seymour Hersh speaking at an al-Jazeera conference in Doha, Qatar about the recent war in Gaza: Suppose Israel did less bombing, They would have done better. I saw no reporting on the six month period leading up to the conflict in which Israel attacked Gaza. The Israelis didn’t know that much about…