The following article, by Michael Rogers, appears in today’s Sydney Wentworth Courier newspaper: A senior Israeli diplomat has called on Australian Jews protesting against Israel’s military action in the Gaza Strip to visit the conflict zone and see the Israeli people’s suffering for themselves. More than 120 prominent Jewish Australians, including anti-Zionist author Antony Loewenstein…
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An important role for independent Jewish voices
The following letters appear in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: Hats off to the Independent Australian Jewish Voices for a sane and reasonable statement (“Australian Jews protest against Israel’s action“, January 6). If Israeli settlers and citizens honestly believe that their Government’s current policies will ensure the safety and prosperity of their grandchildren in 2059, then…
As if you would help Barak
Israel wants collabarators in the Gaza Strip. There is only one way to deal with this call; contempt.
Bombs bring freedom
The Daily Show on Israel’s “liberation” of Gaza: The Daily Show With Jon StewartM – Th 11p / 10c Strip Maul Barack Obama InterviewJohn McCain Interview Sarah Palin VideoFunny Election Video
Australian Jews slam Gaza invasion as ”˜abominable’
The following article, in the leading global Jewish news service JTA, appeared yesterday: An Australian Jewish group slammed Israel’s invasion of Gaza as “inhuman,” “superfluous,” and “abominable.” Independent Australian Jewish Voices, an off-shoot of the British group founded in February 2007, said in a statement this week that while Israel has the right to self-defense,…
Australian Jews condemn Israel’s attack on Gaza
The following article, from Agence France-Presse, is published in today’s Australian: More than 100 Australian Jews have condemned Israel’s invasion of Gaza, describing the action as “inhuman” and “abominable.” They include two authors and a former federal minister. “We are Australian Jews who join thousands in Israel and around the world condemning ongoing Israeli military…
What’s a few numbers between friends?
All the numbers, whether of killed or wounded, of ordnance rained down, or of access to the media, favour Israel. How to create the semblance of symmetry, apart from hyping those Palestinian rockets? How to create the illusion of an ‘existential threat’ to Israelis? Why, when the number of Israeli casualties are minimalnumbers potentially affected…
We’d kill journalists, if we could
Doesn’t this Israeli spokesman‘s words remind you of something an official would say in a charming place, like, say, Zimbabwe? Plans to allow journalists into Gaza were aborted yesterday after Israel’s military said it was too dangerous to keep staff at the Erez passenger terminal to allow people to cross into the besieged territory. Israel…