Jennifer Loewenstein (no relation) rightly states that, even with Hamas out of the picture, Israel has never had any intention of granting Palestinians a state of their own. When will the international community accepts this reality?
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Gaza media statement
The following email was just sent to the over 500-strong Independent Australian Jewish Voices (IAJV) mailing list: Dear friends, We have drafted the following letter and are planning to post it on our IAJV website and also send it to the major newspapers including the Australian Jewish News. We invite your signature. If you wish…
Gaza distorted by the media lens
The following article, co-written with Peter Slezak, was published today on Online Opinion: Palestinians are paying the price for what we in the West are doing, or rather, failing to do. Israel and its “supporters” rely on rewriting history even as it happens, with the complicity of our media and politicians. The average television viewer…
Bypassing the old timers
Israeli human rights group have launched a blog to document the abuses during the current violence in Gaza.
From rockets to texting
Dozens of Israelis received text messages form Hamas Thursday morning, stammeringly warning them that the offensive in Gaza will only bring about massive rocket fire on Israel. The message read: “Rockets on all cities, shelters not protect, Qassam rocket, Hamas.” A source in Hamas military wing confirmed the new tactic, adding that Hamas wants to…
New Jewish Australian Committee for Dismantling of Zionism
The following statement was just released by two leading Jewish Australian academics, John Docker and Ned Curthoys: The December 2008 Gaza Massacre We are part of an increasing number of people around the world of Jewish descent who are sickened by the coldly calculated massacre of the Palestinians of Gaza and who utterly repudiate Israel’s…
So much for free speech
The Iranian press watchdog shut down leading reformist newspaper Kargozaran on Wednesday over publication of a piece criticising Palestinian militants, the official IRNA news agency reported.
Zionist hyperbole contestants
The keffiyeh is…the new swastika. Condemning Israeli war crimes is clearly akin to supporting Hitler. Surely the “distinguished” Israel apologist Alan Dershowitz would agree?
Oh to be a good little client state
Robert Fisk writes that “The rotten state of Egypt is too powerless and corrupt to act” during the current Gaza onslaught. Why? Because it’s a brutal US ally that knows where its bread is buttered.