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.
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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…
Gaza siege continues
Such generosity to get the world off Israel’s back. It may work but it shouldn’t. Note what is now being allowed into Gaza. Take towels, that massive security threat. Collective punishment with Western support: Israel’s security cabinet voted Thursday to ease its land blockade of the Gaza Strip, following its deadly raid on a humanitarian…
The World Cup behind barbed wire
ABC PM shows how people inside Palestine are trying to make life as normal as possible while under occupation: MARK COLVIN: The Palestinian Soccer Union can’t send a team to South Africa so they’re holding their own World Cup instead. The local under-15s are representing each of the 32 sides in Durban and playing to…
Jews on boats
A transatlantic Jewish coalition is set to break the siege of Gaza in the coming months.
Power cuts in Gaza are all in a day’s life
The latest edition of Gaza Gateway: For the past several months, Gaza Gateway has reported on the declining amounts of industrial diesel, necessary for electricity generation, entering Gaza. These amounts fall far below the needs of Gaza residents and are even lower than the “minimal amount” set by Israel before the High Court, as part…