Tell me Daddy, how can I be a proud Zionist propagandist, spreading lies about Iran and telling the world that she wants to kill all Jews in a one direct hit? How’s how.
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A day in the life of a conversation with an active Zionist
Earlier today I posted a comment about Israel/Palestine from Dan Diker, the foreign policy analyst at the Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs. He stressed that any kind of Middle East peace deal was impossible as long as Iran, Hamas, Hizbollah, terrorism and polluted water (!) was in the way (he may not have mentioned the…
This is not about an existential threat, and repeat after me
Haaretz journalist Reuven Pedatzur cuts through the spin: The continual harping on the Iranian threat stems from domestic Israeli politics and a desire to increase investment in the security realm…
Please let us bomb Iran for the world’s sake
Dan Diker, the foreign policy analyst at the neo-conservative Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, outlines his perspective on the upcoming meeting between Barack Obama and Benyamin Netanyahu: One of the difficult differences between Netanyahu and Obama concerns their fundamentally different views over the linkage of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process to the containment of Iran’s nuclear…
Welcome, now please come and see our Holocaust memorial
Bernard Avishai on the troubled Israeli soul: …In the early 1960s, Israeli elites saw the Jewish state so much as a pioneering adventure–the culture of Hebrew labor, the dignity of self-defense–that they tended to bury talk of the Holocaust, which seemed to them a symbol of Diaspora Jewry’s woeful path. Ben-Gurion staged the Eichmann trial…
But we may bomb with your tacit approval
It’s hard to know which is worse. A bumbling and criminal CIA or hyper-aggressive Israel: CIA chief Leon Panetta has held secret talks in Israel… with top officials who assured him the Jewish state would not launch a surprise strike on Iran, a report said.
So this is not 1938, after all
So much for the Armagedden theory: Iran is currently capable of carrying out a conventional missile attack on Israel – a substantial but not existential threat, say two Israeli analysts who will present their research on Tehran’s missile capacity tomorrow.
What we do is right because we say so
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald celebrates the release in Iran of journalist Roxana Saberi but highlights the American media’s blindness in the face of Washington’s even more extreme treatment of reporters: Many people scoff at the notion that the American media propagandizes the American citizenry, but here one sees the vivid essence of that process. … Our…
Fear in the lobby
My latest column for New Matilda is about the Zionist lobby and its hopefully stunted plans for the Middle East: Public and private noises from the Obama administration have the Israel lobby spooked. Now they’re getting ready for the fight of their lives, writes Antony Loewenstein Last week in Washington 7000 delegates from America’s most…
Power of the people
Dawn is Pakistan’s leading English language paper. Today it publishes a review by Mustafa Qadri of my book, The Blogging Revolution: Hot on the heels of his last book, My Israel Question (a history of the Israeli occupation of Palestine from the perspective of an anti-Zionist Jewish Australian), freelance journalist Antony Loewenstein delves into the…