Life is anything but normal in the Gaza Strip: Air strikes by Israeli warplanes at dawn on Thursday caused serious damage to the Gaza Strip’s only power plant, plunging the territory — which already suffers from frequent outages — into darkness. Media reports said the air strikes hit two sites belonging to Hamas near the…
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NSW Greens move forward with BDS embrace
The following statement was released by the NSW Greens yesterday: Israel: Greens NSW back international Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions Greens NSW State Council has agreed to back a series of military, trade and services boycotts of Israel and to support the growing international BDS (Boycott, Divestment & Sanctions) movement. Greens NSW Senator-elect Lee Rhiannon said,…
Israel supporters using Wikileaks to promote attack on Iran are ignoring Arab public opinion
My following article appears on US website Mondoweiss: Sever Plocker, a columnist for… Yediot Aharonot,… recently wrote with pride and some sadness that, “At least on the Iranian issue — and apparently on more than a few other matters — the leaders of the world, including the Arab world, think as we do [the Israelis], but are…
Is Qatar unduly affecting al-Jazeera’s clarity?
Al-Jazeera is a truly unique news service that covers the world in a way that no other global network does. However, there is always a risk when the major sourcing of funding is a Middle East dictatorship: Qatar is using the Arabic news channel al-Jazeera as a bargaining chip in foreign policy negotiations by adapting…
Ending the occupation by telling Israel there will be a price
About bloody time and this needs to be enforced. If Britain and the EU are serious about Zionist occupation (and that’s doubtful) they need to do something about it. No more excuses: Britain’s new shadow foreign minister has called for her government to pressure the European Union to introduce labelling on West Bank products to…
New South Wales Greens embrace BDS
At its State Delegates Council meeting held on the weekend in Sydney, the NSW Greens unanimously endorsed the following proposal: That the Greens NSW call upon all Australians and the Australian government to boycott Israeli goods, trading and military arrangements, and sporting, cultural and academic events as a contribution to the struggle to end Israel’s…
There ain’t no Islamic state in Gaza
Dr. Ahmed Yousef is Deputy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Gaza and the Former Senior Political Adviser to Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh in Gaza. I interviewed him last year in Gaza City and he was a pretty Westernised man. His latest piece challenges the impression that “Talibanisation” has arrived in Gaza under…
Who’s the IDF mole who wants to expose Gaza abuses?
An Israeli insider who dislikes what his colleagues are doing: The IDF magazine, Bamachaneh confirmed today that the list of IDF officers who served in Cast Lead and allegedly committed war crimes, was leaked through an army source. … This contradicts attempts by Israel apologists to rebut the charges and information contained in the list by…
So much for a Jewish majority state
Zionism, we have a credibility and morality problem: Jews no longer constitute a majority in the land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, according to an expert on Jewish demographics. Prof. Sergio DellaPergola of the Hebrew University told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday that Jews – as defined by the government – now…
Read this for possible Middle East near future (and it ain’t pretty)
This email was forwarded by Harvard Middle East expert Sara Roy. No real comment required: I pass this along without making any claims to verify its accuracy.… From a NYC-based Israeli source, who just returned from Tel Aviv, where he met with senior IDF and Likud figures, including Netanyahu.… He is one of the Likud…