While most Zionists remain complicit in Israel’s crimes: Hungry Gazans resort to animal feed as U.N. blasts Israel
Showing all posts tagged Gaza
What the West has allowed
Amira Hass, Haaretz, November 27: If it’s not the power getting cut, leaving entire neighborhoods in darkness, then it’s the water not reaching the top floors or the cooking gas running out. If you have an electric generator, some small part of it is bound to be broken and unfixable, because even before the hermetic…
The need to respect the other
The Saudi Arabian based Arab News – not always known for its nuanced understanding of the Middle East – gets it right in a recent editorial: The five Palestinians convicted Monday of channeling $12 million to Hamas via the Texas-based Holy Land Foundation are indeed guilty under US law. The reason is that since 1995…
Shifting sands of Israel/Palestine
My following talk was presented today to a full room at Harvard University: Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government/Centre for Middle Eastern Studies ME Forum, 24 November 2008 The Shifting Sands of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: An Australian Perspective Antony Loewenstein Australian Labor Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, speaking in March this year at a United Israel…
How a militant group thinks
The logic of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and beyond: Escalating the conflict in Gaza, and even committing a suicide bombing within the Green Line, can affect Israel’s electoral process. Hamas may believe that a rise in terrorism will lead to the election of Likud, which will improve the group’s own image in the international…
Bringing Hamas in from the cold
Here’s hoping that this is true: Dr. Ahmad Yousef, a political adviser to the prime minister of the Hamas-led government, Ismail Haniyah, revealed Tuesday… that prior to the US… presidential elections, a secret meeting was held between senior officials from the… Palestinian movement… and President-elect Barack Obama’s advisers in the Gaza Strip. Hamas must be involved in any peace…
So now what?
My latest New Matilda column is about a necessary reality check on President-elect Barack Obama: Talking about morality in international affairs is easy. What about action? Antony Loewenstein examines the tough foreign policy challenges facing the President-elect An unprecedented amount of hyperbole from the international media heralded last week’s election of Barack Obama to the…
The “terrorists” speak
The Hamas leader in Gaza, Ismail Haniyeh, said on Saturday his government was willing to accept a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders.
The end of Israel as a Jewish state?
My following article appears in today’s ABC Unleashed: The vast majority of Israeli citizens oppose the settler movement. Despite this, the colonialists recently launched a campaign to lure Israelis to visit the West Bank, the Jewish Forward newspaper reported. “Some 1,000 billboards have gone up across the country, showing photographs of cherubic settler children dressed…