Australian writer: Israel is a child that won’t grow!

My following interview, published in the Tehran Times, is now available online. Aside from an excessively flowery introduction, my comments are exactly as I sent them: Amidst the harrowing blitz of Zionist arsenals on the defenseless civilians of Gaza and under the heart-rending silence of international community, UN officials, Western powers and Arab leaders who…

Zionism looks shadier by the minute

The following are a choice selection of Gaza-related writings: – Noami Klein: “It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South Africa.” – Peace groups lose first major Gaza…

The sad price of violence

Israel had better get used to these attacks: An Israeli basketball team fled to the locker room Tuesday as hundreds of fist-pumping, chanting Turkish fans protested the violence in Gaza. The European Cup game between Bnei Hasharon and Turk Telekom was postponed because the Israeli team did not return to the court. There was no…

A real man soon lands in the region

What the Middle East conflict needs is a real American to talk some sense into the major players. Who, you ask? Joe the Plumber: Being a Christian, I’m pretty well protected by God I believe. That’s not saying he’s going to stop a mortar for me, but you gotta take the chance. Hamas must be…

What is there to hide?

A Free Gaza Group boat, the SS Dignity, was rammed by Israel in international waters in late 2007 on its way to provide the Gazan people with humanitarian supplies. It was just the latest example of the Jewish state trying to silence voices who oppose its occupation policies. I was asked by Reporters Without Borders…

Kiss me authority figure

Niv Horesh, lecturer in Chinese studies at the University of NSW, writes in today’s Australian newspaper about Jews who signed the Gaza statement by Independent Australian Jewish Voices: Take China specialist Linda Jaivin, for example, who is no stranger to the ANU. I am sure she would have loved Doron’s article, having just blasted Israel…

The price paid should be steep

Bravo to Norway: Norway’s finance minister has ordered a review of investments by the country’s $300 billion wealth fund in companies active in the Palestinian territories after Israel’s crackdown in the Gaza Strip, officials said. The Government Pension Fund — Global, known familiarly as the “oil fund,” invests Norway’s oil wealth in foreign stocks and…

Prepare to be surprised?

The Zionist lobby will have kittens, if this is true: The incoming Obama administration is prepared to abandon George Bush’s …­doctrine of isolating Hamas by establishing a channel to the Islamist organisation, sources close to the transition team say.

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