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ABCTV News24’s The Drum on Israel/US/Iran and Syria
Last night I appeared on ABCTV’s The Drum (video here) discussing both domestic and international affairs. The key part of the show began when this week’s meeting between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu was discussed. The New York Times tells the world that, “Israel should not doubt this president’s mettle. Neither should Iran.” Netanyahu, speaking…
Watch liberal Zionists realise the Israeli experiment has become a nightmare
Naturally enough it takes two astute American academics, Steve Walt and John Mearsheimer, authors of The Israel Lobby, to explain in the Financial Times that Iran isn’t the real issue for Israel: On Iran, Mr Netanyahu is convinced it wants nuclear weapons, and that this goal threatens Israel’s existence. He does not think diplomacy can…
Finally, in the NYT, acknowledgement that media leading us to war against Iran
Slow down there, eager journalists, hacks, politicians, Zionist lobby and think-tankers. An attack on Iran is clearly the war you’ve been dying for (since Iraq and Afghanistan worked out so well for you). This piece in the New York Times, a paper with a long history of backing America’s imperial wars, offers necessary caution: The…
BDS is evil/Nazism/terrible/awful/anti-Semitic (but Israel scared of global equal rights campaign)
How’s this for hysteria? Such hyperbole masks a deep insecurity. Israeli occupation of Palestine continues. Daily threats against Iran continues. Apartheid grows in the West Bank. But the real threat, people, is this damned BDS! This story, in Murdoch’s Australian today, shows one thing; bullying is the only way the Zionist lobby and its political…
Ideal Jewish future: guns, religion and US tax dollars
In early March Harvard University will be hosting the One State Conference, organised by my co-editor Ahmed Moor on our forthcoming book After Zionism, that aims to bring true justice to the Israel/Palestine conflict. Equal rights for all citizens. Unsurprisingly, Zionist fanatics aren’t too fond of such ideas, rather enjoying living in an American-protected bubble.…
News flash Zionists; Australians increasingly support Palestine
Thoughtful piece in today’s Sydney Morning Herald by Peter Manning. At a time when Israel is increasingly accused of apartheid, and many Western hacks continue visiting the country with the Zionist lobby, the average citizen is smarter than we think: …Polls now show that while Hawke might have reflected Australian attitudes in the 1980s, in…
Memo to Israel; hating Palestinians ain’t playing too well anymore
One of America’s richest men, Sheldon Adelson, loves to support right-wing Zionist causes and loathes Palestinians. Hacking group Anonymous are now threatening Israel for “crimes against humanity” against the Palestinians: Through the use of media deception and political bribery, you have amassed the sympathies of many. You claim to be democratic, yet in reality this…
BDS is going mainstream because it speaks about universal human rights
After America’s first national BDS conference, the Jewish Forward newspaper explains the “threat” from the Zionist community’s perspective; who can seriously deny equal rights for everybody inside Israel and Palestine (oh, apart from liberal Zionists who cling to the two state solution delusion and rejectionists and the Zionist lobby who just love occupying Palestinians)?: The…