Oh my: The lifting of the blockade on the Gaza Strip and permission for Palestinians to leave the Gaza Strip freely through Israeli border crossings. These are the unequivocal demands that President Barack Obama is expected to make during his meeting with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu in the White House in two weeks. If anyone…
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A hug and cuddle with Tzipi Livni
This is how the New York Times interviews Israel’s “opposition” leader Tzipi Livni. Soft-ball questions, nothing about the occupation or the real human rights crisis in Gaza or fundamentalist Jewish settlers. Of course not, she’s one of us, remember? The Israeli security cabinet just voted to ease the three-year blockade on Gaza, in the wake…
Midnight on the Mavi Marmara
Norman Finkelstein’s last book, This Time We Went Too Far, is published by new figure on the scene. OR Books. Now, in late July, comes a new title, Midnight on the Mavi Marmara:
Just in case we were worried about Tel Aviv and Washington sharing straws
This headline in Foreign Policy’s The Cable says it all: U.S.-Israel mend fences amid threat of looming U.N. action
Julia Gillard will serve our agendas fine, say Washington and Tel Aviv interests
The elevation of Julia Gillard to position of Australia’s new Prime Minister has been welcomed, indeed blessed, by both the Zionist and American lobbies. Gillard can certainly be relied upon to follow her predecessor’s attitude towards the Jewish state and Washington, namely that independent thought is frowned upon and obedience is the necessary Australian way.…
British unions at the forefront of moves to isolate Israel
The recent news that Britain’s largest union, Unite, agreed to boycott Israeli companies was clearly the beginning of something far bigger: One of Britain’s largest trade unions passed a motion at its annual conference in Bournemouth last week accusing Israel of lying over the Gaza flotilla incident and has called for a complete boycott of…
Little faith in Gaza of business as usual
Israel’s supposed partial lifting of the Gaza siege is treated inside Gaza as the farce it is: Manal Hassan plucks a date biscuit from an industrial tray, breaks it in half to inspect the filling, and discards it with a shrug of despair. “You see, they allow in dates, but not date paste,” she says,…
Obama is an anti-Semitic, Jew-hating, Israel loathing man
This is something to savour. An open letter from actor and Republican Jon Voight (father of Angelina Jolie) in the Washington Times: June 22, 2010 President Obama: You will be the first American president that lied to the Jewish people, and the American people as well, when you said that you would defend Israel, the…
Jewish colonies are for sale but please get in line
Israel’s treatment of Palestinians is worsening by the day because many of them dare to challenge the Jewish state’s right to be a Jewish state, excluding Arabs and others in full, public life. Of course, if you’re a true Zionist, however, you’ll be wanting to move to a lovely new living complex in occupied territory:
Getting down in the sub-continent after the Middle East
The numbers of Israelis living in Goa, India has risen over the last years, a far more stable place to be than the Jewish state: “You have to understand that because of Jewish history, the endless persecution, exiles and struggles for freedom, we were brought up in an extremely patriotic environment—dying for your country was…