That’s a headline in today’s Murdoch Australian that indicates a growing fear within the Zionist community. The piece by Abraham Rabinovich is remarkably measured (mostly, anyway) and includes this: The explosion of anger [after the flotilla massacre] is unlikely to have been touched off by a transient episode such as the interdiction of the flotilla.…
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Don’t show them anything their government does
Most Israelis have no idea about life in the West Bank; the casual brutality and the grinding occupation. The point is that most don’t want to know. Do they care about this? On Monday, June 21, I am to appear before the Knesset Education Committee and the Minister of Education, Mr. Gideon Saar, following my…
Abusing friends and making new enemies (Israel delivers again)
German Development Aid Minister Dirk Niebel on being refused entry to Gaza to inspect a German-sponsored sewage plant: Sometimes the Israeli government does not make it easy for its friends to explain why it behaves the way it does.
We should rule the airwaves
Israel’s culture of victimhood – the whole world hates us and we’ll do everything to convince them that we’re arrogant – continues with this revealing encounter at the UN recently. Israel’s PR strategy is so shambolic and useless, one wonders if it’s been designed by a bar-mitzvah student on crack: The Israeli government butted heads…
Rupert shows his loving side for Palestine
This is grand. Check the headline in this story in yesterday’s Murdoch Australian: Weekend Australian helps sick Gaza baby Yes, the Murdoch empire has spent years caring deeply about the Palestinian people and not backing every single Israeli onslaught against the West Bank and Gaza.
With Irwin gone, Australian parliament is totally pro-Israel
One of the Australian parliamentarians brave enough to actually understand Palestinian rights is departing Labor MP Julie Irwin. In a completely ignored farewell speech this week, Irwin discussed “Israeli propaganda” after the Gaza flotilla massacre. She demanded the Jewish state accept international law or face isolation. Note the Labor minister Craig Emerson’s shameful disassociation on…
Betraying the Jewish people is not speaking out
What Judaism can and should be about: An organization of German Jews that wants to send an aid ship to break the Israeli blockade of Gaza says that its intentions are no betrayal of the Jewish people. In an interview with the German Press Agency dpa in Berlin, Kate Katzenstein-Leiterer, a leader of the German…
There is no real opposition in Israel
The Washington Post, when reporting on Israel’s non-lifting of the Gaza siege, calls the major opposition Kadima party “centrist”. Lawmaker Yoel Hasson offers a view that shows how extreme the country has become: The easing of the closure is a victory for terror. Netanyahu’s campaign slogan of ‘strong against Hamas’ today became empty words. The…
Memo to Australian TV: Tony Blair is loathed everywhere
The Independent editorialises with appropriate contempt for a man Australian television still regards with respect: Tony Blair… whose period as Quartet envoy has been notable for its failure to achieve anything of real substance, especially regarding Gaza.
Here are your Tel Aviv friendly talking points on Gaza
How the Zionist lobby (in this case The Israel Project) tells its little minions to sell Israel (via Richard Silverstein): Subject: In the “messages that fail” department, please see this”¦ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:36:40 -0400 From: Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi To: Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi As to research on saying that there isn’t a “humanitarian…