Speakers include: * John Pilger, renowned author and documentary film maker * Antony Loewenstein, author of My Israel Question * Greens MP Sylvia Hale * Dr Ghassan Achi * Hamdi Alqudsi, Palestinian activist * Rihab Charida, Palestinian activist
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Israeli spin and its failings
Below are some of the more interesting Gaza-related pieces online over the last days: – Ezra Klein, associate editor at The American Prospect, explains that being ‘pro-Israel’ means more than simply mouthing Israeli press releases. Yet another prominent young Jewish American speaks out against Israeli brutality. – The Economist: “Despite devoting unparalleled attention to the…
Jews as terrorists
Sir Gerald Kaufman, the veteran Labour MP, compared this week the actions of Israeli troops in Gaza to the Nazis who forced his family to flee Poland:
Peace will only come thanks to us
Natan Sharansky, a former Israeli Deputy Prime Minister and inspiration for George W. Bush’s “freedom agenda”, writes: Peace can be found only when Palestinians are given the freedom to build real civic institutions, and a leadership can emerge unafraid of telling its own citizens that violence, fanaticism and martyrdom aren’t the Palestinian way. But this…
Easily broken, not so easily destroyed
Gaza’s ruling party is by no means united. Until its factions can resolve their differences, peace with Israel is a distant prospect.
It’s not always about Tehran
Trita Parsi, one of the finest writers on Iran’s relationship with America, counters Zionist propaganda that blames Iran for being the secret hand behind the behaviour of Hamas: In talking about the assault on Gaza, neo-conservative pundits and Israeli hardliners have relied on a familiar frame. The fighting in Gaza, they say, is a struggle…
Let’s just kill our enemies in cold blood
The following letter was just sent: Mr Stephen Smith Minister for Foreign Affairs Australian Parliament House Dear Mr Smith, I wish to draw your attention to a hate website: http://stoptheism.com, run by a certain Lee Kaplan, which offers a US$25,000 reward for information leading to the murder of any ISM (International Solidarity Movement) human rights…
We can’t even talk to ourselves
Avraham Burg, Haaretz, January 15: The day is approaching when we will long for these Hamasniks. One day we will wonder why we didn’t talk to these Hamas leaders. At the same time, we will be faced with much larger threats. It is clear to me that this is a bitter lesson of history. Sari…
Making peace through war
The following testimony from a Palestinian was given to Gisha, the legal centre for freedom of movement: Last night was awful. Awful. There were so many explosions coming from the air, from tanks and from everywhere. They were using everything they had against us. I’m surprised that my house has not collapsed. And everything was…