Murdoch’s Australian editorialises today on the Durban II conference and predictably focuses on the rantings of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (rather than even acknowledging the issue of Palestinian suffering): Australia was right to have no part of Durban II Before its second conference on racism opened in Geneva, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon acknowledged the UN’s reputation was…
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Iran, apartheid, Zionism and other such matters
A fascinating collection of letters in today’s Melbourne Age newspaper, proving once again that debate about Israel/Palestine is far more robust in the public than the mainstream media usually allows: The most frustrating thing about Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s address to the UN anti-racism conference (The Age, 21/4) — aside from his flagrant anti-Semitism — is the…
Leave the Nazis dead and buried
I generally agree with the comments by Muzzlewatch about Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech in Geneva. Much of the talk was actually historically accurate and presented uncomfortable truths for the West and Israel in particular, but his Holocaust denial, aggression and defending of human rights was all a sick joke when one knows the reality…
Engagement is important
An interesting editorial in today’s Sydney Morning Herald on the Durban II conference (refreshingly challenging the Zionist lobby to stop whinging so much and chasing shadows): When the nearly 200 nations of the world get down to try to hammer out a common position on human rights, you can expect a fair amount of hypocrisy…
Durban II, the how, why and who
The farce currently taking place in Geneva, known as Durban II, has already thrown up a veritable collection of freaks, distractions, nutty celebrities (what the hell is Angelina Jolie’s dad, Jon Voight, doing there?) and agendas. What follows is a small selection of the issues raised (and yet more evidence that the Western world, led…
We will no longer accept your normal behaviour
Something is stirring at the New York Times. Columnist Roger Cohen has spent the last months writing piece after piece about Iran, Israeli extremism and war. Yesterday he was back with another round, titled, ‘Israel, Iran and Fear‘: A core contradiction inhabits Israeli policy. While talking about a two-state solution — at least until Netanyahu…
Power plays of a serious kind
What’s one colonial state (Israel) doing with another colonial wannabe (Iran)? Security sources say Israel and Iran are conducting rival intelligence operations in Eritrea, the poor African state on the Red Sea. The Israelis fear Eritrea could be a flashpoint if Iranian Revolutionary Guards continue to ship arms to militants in Gaza via the Eritrean…
We shouldn’t be grieving for the death of newspapers
My following article appears today in Online Opinion: As a journalist who spends the vast majority of my life online, the seemingly never-ending debates about the future of the media and newspapers can be exhausting and predictable. The same mantras are heard over and over again. Where will the news come from when newsprint dies?…
Still pushing the two-state “dream”
Sol Salbe, of the Middle East News Service, translates a startling paragraph from Israeli paper Yediot Aharonot: Yediot Acharonot is reporting this morning that the US Administration is talking in terms of Bushehr for Yitzhar – in other words the US will assist in dismantling the Iranian nuclear threat in return for the evacuation of…
Behave yourself, mullahs
A fascinating feature in the New Yorker about Iran and its uncoming election. But the headline grates: “Can Iran change?” It’s hard to imagine the magazine ever asking the same question about the US or any other Western nation, for that matter. Clearly only “rogue” countries need reform.