Is Israel’s long-term plan for Gazans to ethnically cleanse them to the northern Sinai?
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‘Hungry, freezing, and terrifying’
A diary of a Palestinian journalist in Gaza that details the fear experienced by average citizens.
Joining the dots is key
At least one mainstream media journalist, from CNN, questions the morality and legality of Israel using US-provided “defensive” weapons when killing Palestinian civilians. And while most Jewish groups remain silent or complicit in the current futility, I praise this brave Jew from Vermont who correctly compares… the situation in Gaza to the Warsaw Ghetto. Jews…
Freedom bombs are falling
Israel invades Gaza and the EU calls the attack a “defensive not offensive” action. Words have lost meaning.
A Jewish voice of reason
Jewish English comedian Alexei Sayle, at a protest in London on Saturday: As a Jew, it’s very moving to see so many people who are so outraged at Israel’s actions. Israel is a democratic country that is behaving like a terrorist organization.
Two Jews, far apart
Despite It’s military might, Israel is a weak and dying state. So writes Oren Ben-Dor. I don’t quite share his position, though do believe that global public opinion has rarely been so opposed to the Jewish state and its apartheid policies. Then, reading a piece in Haaretz such as this, when Israel is encouaged to…
The average person speaks
A recently released documentary, before Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, on life in Sderot and Gaza:
What a noble enterprise
Supporters of Israeli aggression – including supposedly reform-minded Jewish leaders in the US – must be so proud of their country’s handiwork. “Moderate” Arab leaders are discredited for trying to destroy Hamas, the Islamist group is morally strengthened and a popular uprising against corrupt, pro-US Arab regimes has started. Mission accomplished. The futility of it…
Money, Jews and power
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald: Is there any other significant issue in American political life, besides Israel, where (a) citizens split almost evenly in their views, yet (b) the leaders of both parties adopt identical lockstep positions which leave half of the citizenry with no real voice?… … More notably still, is there any other position, besides Israel, where…