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…
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Rupert’s proud baby
Another day, another Fox News bigot complaining about “ungrateful” Muslims and “irrational thinking” in the Arab world:
Give the UN some balance
The Muslim world speaks: A poll of seven majority Muslim nations finds people conflicted about the United Nations. On one hand there is widespread support for a more active UN with much broader powers than it has today. On the other hand, there is a perception that the UN is dominated by the US and…
The victim recalls a war crime
My following book review appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald on November 29: My Story: The Tale Of A Terrorist Who Wasn’t By Mamdouh Habib; with Julia Collingwood; Scribe, 272 pp, $32.95 Before tortured Australian Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib was released in 2005, then prime minister John Howard said his government didn’t “have any…
A picture of the region
Minute 22, a project by the bi-monthly magazine Sowar, is “about taking a single photo at the exact same time in the Arab world”: Egypt – 2:22pm Iraq – 2:22pm Jordan – 2:22pm Lebanon – 2:22pm Saudi Arabia – 2:22pm Syria – 2:22pm Yemen – 2:22pm Libya – 1:22pm Sudan – 2:22pm Morocco – 12:22pm…
So now what?
My latest New Matilda column is about a necessary reality check on President-elect Barack Obama: Talking about morality in international affairs is easy. What about action? Antony Loewenstein examines the tough foreign policy challenges facing the President-elect An unprecedented amount of hyperbole from the international media heralded last week’s election of Barack Obama to the…
