A recently released documentary, before Israel’s bombardment of Gaza, on life in Sderot and Gaza:
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What a noble enterprise
Supporters of Israeli aggression – including supposedly reform-minded Jewish leaders in the US – must be so proud of their country’s handiwork. “Moderate” Arab leaders are discredited for trying to destroy Hamas, the Islamist group is morally strengthened and a popular uprising against corrupt, pro-US Arab regimes has started. Mission accomplished. The futility of it…
Money, Jews and power
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald: Is there any other significant issue in American political life, besides Israel, where (a) citizens split almost evenly in their views, yet (b) the leaders of both parties adopt identical lockstep positions which leave half of the citizenry with no real voice?… … More notably still, is there any other position, besides Israel, where…
Precision targeting, indeed
Sixteen out of the 30 killed in Israeli airstrikes since New Year’s Eve were children; nine were from the same family and nine of the adults killed were women. Fifty-seven percent of Palestinians killed so far in 2009 have been children.
A violent nation and proud of it
The free state of Israel? Hardly, writes Gideon Levy in Haaretz: That’s how it is here: Opposition to peace is always legitimate and patriotic; opposition to war is always traitorous, anti-Israel and should be hushed while broadcasting his television show “London & Kirschenbaum” this week, Yaron London acknowledged they had run into problems: “We had…
A young Jew speaks
If I were a young Palestinian, I’d fight the Jews fiercely, even by means of terror. Anyone who says anything different is telling you lies.
Israeli war crimes go way back
From the current chaos in Gaza to recent history, Israel’s futile attack on Lebanon in 2006: “What happened in the Dahiya quarter of Beirut in 2006 will happen in every village from which Israel is fired on ”¦ “We will apply disproportionate force on it [the village] and cause great damage and destruction there. From…
The establishment talks it out
A revealing discussion about the current Israel/Hamas clash between Heather Hurlburt from Democracy Arsenal/National Security Network and Eli Lake from The Washington Times and The New Republic: