US Jewish blogger Phil Weiss hears leading Palestinian speaker Rami Khouri talk about the (welcome) shifts in the Middle East since 9/11: I wondered how long it would take him to get to the Arab-Israeli issue. It was about 30 minutes. From then on it was all that anyone could talk about. He did not…
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How to starve the Arabs
The following letter appears in the July 26 edition of the Green Left Weekly: Three weeks after the Australian’s Richard Kerbaj whipped up a storm over humanitarian aid by a Sydney-based charity to the suffering people of Gaza, we find our own federal police jumping at this organisation in what seems to be a co-ordinated…
Telling it like it isn’t (on Israel/Palestine)
My latest New Matilda column is about the Western media’s delusions over the Middle East: Distortions, delusions, misrepresentations. No wonder Western leaders and media don’t understand the popularity of groups like Hezbollah and Hamas in the Arab world It shouldn’t come as any surprise that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is consistently voted the most popular…
Teaching the West a few lessons
Hamas are routinely described as terrorists, murderers and other tasty put-downs. Hardline Zionists must be so disappointed that the Islamist group appears to be holding the ceasefire in Gaza.
Israel’s Orwellian love of peace
Since it went into effect last week, at least eight violations of the new ceasefire agreement with Hamas and the Palestinian factions have been recorded, a UN source told Ynet on Thursday. According to the source, seven violations were committed by the IDF, while the Palestinians are responsible for just one.
Believing in the ceasefire
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, June 20: After the unremitting hell that Israel has inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza, one can only feel relief and even joy at the ceasefire agreed between Hamas and the Jewish state that took effect this week. Its significance extends well beyond Gaza and opens new possibilities as the disastrous Bush…
The online fight-back
With a truce between Hamas and Israel coming into force today, the sad likelihood of it lasting is virtually nil, but at least death and destruction will be on hold. For now (until Israel decides to properly re-invade Gaza.) Meanwhile, Palestinian militants are taking their battle into cyberspace: The Palestinian Islamist movement, Islamic Jihad, has…
The decider’s gut feeling
Guess who? “I know people are saying we should have left things the way they were, but I changed after 9/11. I had to act. I don’t care if it created more enemies. I had to act.” “I think the election of Hamas was a good thing. It proved to [Mahmoud] Abbas he was failing.…
Time to find new friends
How Bush and his mates are increasingly irrelevant in the Middle East. (Though this doesn’t stop many Western NGOs still supporting the worst aspects of Israeli occupation policies.)