Just how pro-Israel is the vast majority of the Australian media?
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The Jewish state likes being alone
Saudi Arabia is a brutal dictatorship run by crooks. Despite this, however, it remains a close friend of the US and “ally” of Israel. The recent war against Gaza may have changed all that, writes Prince Turki, chairman of King Faisal Centre for Research and Islamic Studies in Riyadh. He has also been director of…
We are moving towards one-state
Sari Nusseibeh, President of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem, said last year that, “we are running out of time for a two-state solution.” During the recent war between Israel and Hamas, he became even more pessimistic, arguing that the “moderates” in the Palestinian camp have been made “irrelevant” by Zionist actions. Extremism wins the day.
Zionism made us do it
How did we turn from a “villa in the jungle,” as Ehud Barak once characterized Israel, to just another animal in the jungle? How did it come to be that we informed the world that “we’ve gone mad,” and then were surprised to be treated as madmen? How did Israel shift from being the spiritual…
Mired in failure
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, January 22: On the morrow of the return of the last Israeli soldier from Gaza, we can determine with certainty that they had all gone out there in vain. This war ended in utter failure for Israel. This goes beyond the profound moral failure, which is a grave matter in itself, but…
May the darkness continue
“As far as the international arena is concerned, Israel is entering what is probably its darkest era,” a Jerusalem source told Yedioth Ahronoth. “The Palestinian and their friends will try to make Israel look like a leper, like China looked after the Tiananmen Square massacre (of 1989), or like Serbia did under (former President Slobodan)…
Only a blind man would disagree
Dr. Marie-Pierre Allié, President of the French section of Médecins Sans Frontières, January 16: Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been present during armed conflicts for nearly four decades. It is difficult to recall a comparable slaughter of civilians in so little time. Whether Mogadishu, Somalia, or Kivu, in the eastern Congo, Sri Lanka or even…
Villages wiped off the map
Jonathan Miller, from Britain’s Channel 4 news, reports on the mass destruction in Gaza. The Jewish state clearly deliberately targeted civilians and infrastructure. Violent resistance and revenge should be expected: Of course, such actions are merely “self-defense“, according to a peace-loving Zionist in Israel.
Extremism rises from the ashes
Alastair Crooke, The Guardian, January 19: …The 22-day war has changed the parameters in the region: it has produced an unparalleled, overt challenge to Saudi Arabia and Egypt in the formal structures of Arab political power. The Doha informal meeting of heads of state on Friday gave legitimacy to the Palestinian resistance movements, called for…