Dr Mustafa Barghouthi, The Nation, February 6: Israel has dedicated an enormous amount of resources to perverting our identity and the character of our struggle. It has gained a significant degree of influence over the media, especially in the West, and has used this strength to transform and manipulate reality to its own ends. Thus…
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You will pay a price for occupation
With evidence that the Western powers, including Obama’s America, are unlikely to change their decades-old racist attitude towards the Middle East – embracing “moderates” such as Egypt, ignoring Hamas etc – peaceful revolt against Israel is growing: They are the iPod generation of students: politically apathetic, absorbed by selfish consumerism, dedicated to a few years…
Simply more futile silencing
Just another shocking act by a friendly US ally (and dictatorship): A German-Egyptian activist has been detained north of Cairo during a rally in support of Palestinians in Gaza. Philip Rizk has been an outspoken activist on Palestinian issues and lived in Gaza for two years. He previously worked on aid projects with Canon Andrew…
But why does the world hate us so?
Most weeks the Australian Jewish News is filled with letters written by paranoid, ignorant Jews who seem to love the idea of living in a ghetto, a world where Israel is the eternal victim fighting for its life against irrational, hate-filled Muslims. It’s amusing to watch. In this week’s edition: Well, here we go again:…
NGOs challenge Gaza blame
The Australian Financial Review has over the last weeks given its pages to discussing Israel’s war crimes in Gaza (the background here). Today the paper publishes my following letter: Robert Goot (“Israel faces kangaroo court“, Legal Affairs, February 6) writes that Israeli actions are always legal and defensible and believes there is nothing to investigate…
Finding war crimes everywhere
What happens when a delegation of American lawyers from the National Lawyers Guild conducts a fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip?
Do they want to know?
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem calls for a full investigation into the state’s abuses in Gaza: The extent of the harm to the Gaza civilian population from the recent operation is unprecedented. Whole families were wiped out. Children were killed before their parents’ eyes. Some people watched as their loved ones bled to death. The…
Such selective outrage
Victoria is currently experiencing shocking bushfires that have claimed countless lives. One fire-fighter told Melbourne’s Herald Sun newspaper that the scenes were like a “Holocaust”. A leading Muslim leader recently said that the Holocaust was being used by Israel to justify Israeli violence against Palestinians, which is “just as ugly as the Holocaust”. Jewish leaders…
How to breed hatred in children
10-year-old Mona Samouni describes how she became one of the very few survivors of the Samouni extended family after an attack on the densely populated area of Zeitoun in Gaza:
Guess they’ll just have to kill more Arabs
The two-state solution is dead. “Left-wing” Israeli leader Haim Oron, chairman of the Meretz party, says: The two-state solution is on its last legs. That is why this election is so important. If we do not quickly implement the partition into two states, that solution will evaporate and Zionism will be stuck its worst crisis…