Life in the repressive lane for a reliable US dictatorship: Egyptian authorities should immediately charge or free Diaa Eddin Gad, a blogger held since February 6, 2009, Human Rights Watch said today. Gad is among a number of bloggers and activists arrested in relation to protest in Egypt since the beginning of the Gaza offensive…
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Protest the criminals
MJ Rosenberg of the Israel Policy Forum: This is interesting. Ha’aretz reports that students at Tel Aviv University are protesting the appointment to a lecturer position of an IDF colonel involved in approving strikes against civilians in Gaza. I had wondered what happened to Israel’s usually vigorous anti-war movement which has come out in force…
Is there a choice?
The Al-Jazeera series Dining with Terrorists on Hamas and its claims of resistance:
The opposite of peace now
A Likud “strategic thinker” opines. The message? The Palestinians aren’t “up to” statehood. Stall. Kill for time. Wait. Expand. The Israeli mainstream in 2009.
Hold the champagne for a few decades
Friend John R sends a link to this bleak blog post by Jim Lobe from IPS with a comment: Jim Lobe writes that Secretary Clinton sees a settlement through a Fatah lens and will ignore Arab public opinion on Hamas. He sees the dead hand of Dennis Ross on rallying Sunnis against Iran. This is…
Behind the evil
My following review of Paul McGeough’s book, Kill Khalid: Mossad’s failed hit…and the rise of Hamas, appears in the March edition of the Australian Literary Review: At a pro-Israel rally in London in January, one Jewish participant compared fighting Hamas terrorism with treating cancer: “When you treat cancer you kill some of the innocent blood…
Blocked in every direction
An animator of the celebrated Israeli war film “Waltz with Bashir” has illustrated a new film depicting the life of a fictional boy in the Gaza Strip during the Israeli blockade of the coastal territory. Yoni Goodman’s short film “Closed Zone” runs only a minute and a half and was created for the NGO Gisha,…
Does anybody actually want to solve this?
At least the Guardian editorial writers understand the situation, if most of the Western media still refuse to accept reality: Pledging aid for is the easy bit. Getting it delivered to Gazans living in tents after Israel‘s three-week bombardment is another matter. The $3bn that donors promised in Sharm el-Sheikh yesterday will have to penetrate…
Killing them a lesson
All hail the noble Jewish state: Ah, Israel, the holy land, light unto the nations! Barely a month after valiantly killing 1300 Gazans, maiming and wounding thousands more, and leaving the rest for dead in an open-air prison, Israel has stood up for its right to stand up to other people’s rights by forming its…