The supposedly anticipated meeting between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu was a nice piece of theatre. Everybody said nice things about the other and the prospect of peace was on the cards. As if. What we’re left with in the liberal Zionist community in the US are campaigns like this:
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Does the Zionist lobby have blood on its hands in Australia?
The Australian blog Middle East Reality Check – previous coverage here – dissects yesterday’s column by the Australian’s Greg Sheridan on Israel and the fall of Kevin Rudd. Over to you: The foreign editor of The Australian, Greg (Jerusalem Prize) Sheridan, seems to be suggesting that Australia’s Israel lobby, referred to euphemistically as “some friends…
Denialism is killing Jews (and peace)
As “liberal” Zionist lobby J Street boasts how much money it’s raised for supposedly open-minded US politicians, founder Jeremy Ben-Ami co-writes an article that asks the Zionist community to end its “denial” over Israel: No matter who leads the Palestinians, Israel needs permanent, secure and recognized borders. Israel has to make clear both in word…
Palestinian “leader” begs Zionists to be nice
The delusion of the colonised. Please sir – the ones who have spent their entire lives demonising, killing and occupying us – treat my people well. God help the Palestinians under Mahmoud Abbas: The Palestinians have long feared the Jewish lobby in Washington. Now, they are embracing it. During a swing through the U.S. capital…
Zionist lobby in Australia denies there is Zionist lobby
Zionist lobby? What lobby? Jewish groups have questioned claims by a former Australian ambassador to Israel that Julia Gillard was silent on the “excesses” of Israel. And the former editor of The Age, Michael Gawenda, yesterday labelled as “bizarre” a report in the Fairfax newspaper and its sister paper, The Sydney Morning Herald, that linked…
Caring about Shalit is so touching (but shame about those imprisoned Arabs)
The cynicism here is almost comical. The Australian Jewish community and their American Jewish friends are deeply concerned about the plight of Gilad Shalit currently in Gaza. They are ably assisted by pieces such as this in the Washington Post, comparing Hamas to the Nazis. Leaders of the Zionist lobby in the US write articles…
There is a Zionist lobby in Australia and let’s look inside some more
Following the story in yesterday’s Fairfax media about Prime Minister Julia Gillard and her love for Israel and its cuddly lobby here in Australia, the following letters appear in the Age today: Peace throughout the Middle East cannot be achieved until Western nations such Australia show we are as concerned about justice for Palestinians as…
The people of Gaza are too fat and healthy
Zionist lobbyists, get a grip: A pro-Israeli advocacy organization is throwing a cocktail party in New York Monday night to discuss a… phenomenon… it says is a crisis in Gaza: Palestinians are too fat. “[T]he only humanitarian crisis in Gaza is OBESITY,” the group… Fuel For Truth said in an email inviting young Jewish professionals to a promotional…
Gillard reassures the Jews that she loves Israel to death
This week’s Australian Jewish News: Within the Jewish community, discussions about Julia Gillard often include the whispered question: “She might support Israel now, but have you heard what she was like in her university days?” So, when we spoke to her last August, while she was still Deputy Prime Minister, The AJN decided to explore…
Gillard and the Zionist lobby are completely separate (or not)
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard is asked on ABC Melbourne radio about a news story today regarding her blind support for Israel and her partner’s job with the Zionist lobby. Even Murdoch columnist Andrew Bolt sees an issue: Gillard said on ABC 774 this morning that as Deputy Prime Minister she excused herself on decisions…