Today’s UK Observer editorial urges Britain not to sell weapons to autocrats. Good advice but no mention of course of the seemingly never-ending sale of deadly munitions to Israel in its daily war against the Palestinians: When it comes to approving the sale of arms to unpleasant regimes, as the cases of Bahrain and Libya…
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Opportunities America should grab in the Middle East (but probably won’t)
Only on Al-Jazeera. The wonderful show Empire – a news service that actually acknowledges what Washington is – discusses the changing role of the US in the Arab world in light of the various uprisings. Honest about Israeli actions and America’s real intentions in the Middle East – loving Israel to death and oil –…
CNN can’t even acknowledge that Israel occupies Palestinian land
Here’s Helen Thomas being asked to explain comments that dared tell Israelis to get off colonised Palestinian land. Note the CNN host, demanding that Jewish suffering is worse than anybody else’s:
IDF and Hizbollah, sitting in a tree…
Israeli writer Etgar Keret has a way with words: Perhaps this is the time to mention that the title of “most moral army in the world” is, to my ears, akin to being lauded as “man with least facial hair in the Hezbollah leadership.” Because, after all, an army’s purpose is not to feed the…
Why Marrickville and the Greens (and a few Labor types) must be supported over BDS backing
How do we know the boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against apartheid Israel is working? A member of the Knesset this week said that the state was losing millions of dollars. Meanwhile, Tel Aviv simply believes that by expanding the occupation in the West Bank, the world will love it more. Washington is keen to…
Melting the rational brain, Zionist style
What’s more unedifying than Zionist historians seriously disputing whether 1948 ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians really constituted genocide?
Israel refuses to embrace the Arab world
What more evidence do you need that it simply isn’t happening? The Egyptian revolution has kicked open the door to a vast Arab population that, for the first time, is poised to influence the course of its country’s policies directly. For Israel’s supporters, this could mean a new frontier for public diplomacy and a chance…
Memo to Washington; Israel will bring your downfall
Marwan Bishara, senior political analyst at Al Jazeera English and host and editor of the television program Empire, talks to Democracy Now! about the desperate need for America to see the world in a way other than through a Zionist frame: Everyone was caught in the headlights—What is going on? Who are these people?—not realizing…
Zionist kids embrace Hebron and the world still talks about Israeli “democracy”?
Gideon Levy writes in Haaretz: “How school trips to Hebron resemble visits to Auschwitz“, scaring children and making them far more nationalistic. Arabs must be feared and settlers celebrated. This Haaretz editorial reveals the fascist bent of the Zionist state: Education Minister Gideon Sa’ar’s announcement that starting in the upcoming school year, his ministry will…
Mubarak should soon be forgotten
Nice: A hospital in Gaza named after Egypt’s deposed president has been renamed, officials said Wednesday. The Hosni Mubarak Children’s Hospital in Khan Younis will now be known as Tahrir Hospital, the health minister in Gaza said. Yousef Al-Mudalal said that “the change was delivered to all relevant departments. Through their revolution, Hosni Mubarak was…