Israel’s culture of victimhood – the whole world hates us and we’ll do everything to convince them that we’re arrogant – continues with this revealing encounter at the UN recently. Israel’s PR strategy is so shambolic and useless, one wonders if it’s been designed by a bar-mitzvah student on crack: The Israeli government butted heads…
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Obama’s zero results in the Muslim world
Commenting on a new Pew study that outlines growing Arab anger towards Barack Obama, Andrew Sullivan signals a win for the Zionist lobby and Israel’s right-wing; singing all the way over the cliff: The Arab world, for reasons both ugly and realistic, was waiting to see if Obama could actually wrest free of the pro-Israel…
Newsflash: Israeli vision for permanent occupation
Danny Ayalon, deputy foreign minister to Israel’s Avigdor Lieberman and resident clown, has a vision for the Middle East. Gather around, children, it’s compelling and breathlessly reported by the Murdoch press: In an interview with The Weekend Australian, Ayalon accused Saudi Arabia of funding a campaign to delegitimise Israel and drew on the former Soviet…
Racial profiling is normal
Daily discrimination against Arabs in Israel is so normal it’s barely noticed by anybody and rarely criticised. The price of maintaining a Jewish majority state, of course: Here is a story known to only some of the citizens of Israel. A few weeks ago a 43-year-old lecturer in sociology at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem,…
Rupert shows his loving side for Palestine
This is grand. Check the headline in this story in yesterday’s Murdoch Australian: Weekend Australian helps sick Gaza baby Yes, the Murdoch empire has spent years caring deeply about the Palestinian people and not backing every single Israeli onslaught against the West Bank and Gaza.
What’s the connection between Jewish settlements and Angola?
Israeli businessmen and West Bank settlement builder billionaire Lev Leviev has long been targeted by activists for assisting in colonisation. His businesses have been boycotted and rightly so. And his glorious work continues, according to the front page of yesterday’s Wall Street Journal on blood diamonds in Angola: The war’s end led to a surge…
How many Diaspora Jews are fighting in the IDF?
Non-Israeli Jews signing up for the Israeli army brings a multitude of potential problems, not least the rules of engagement by foreigners fighting in a rabble army and managing an illegal occupation on Palestinian land. How many Australians have signed up? An investigation that must come soon: It used to be the kibbutz and its…
With Irwin gone, Australian parliament is totally pro-Israel
One of the Australian parliamentarians brave enough to actually understand Palestinian rights is departing Labor MP Julie Irwin. In a completely ignored farewell speech this week, Irwin discussed “Israeli propaganda” after the Gaza flotilla massacre. She demanded the Jewish state accept international law or face isolation. Note the Labor minister Craig Emerson’s shameful disassociation on…
Many Jews simply can’t accept what Israel has become
This is what liberal Zionism has come to. Asking, almost begging, for understanding about Israel but nothing like demands for one person, one vote. Palestinians should be given equal rights in Israel? Perish the thought. Here’s American Jewish writer JJ Goldberg in New York a few days ago: I’m beginning to feel like Amos Kenan”¦[who…
Zionist segregation (and the lobby feels fine)
A country with which we “share values”: “Hey, lady!” yelled the bus driver. He was loud but friendly. “You forgot your Psalms booklet.” It was a typical weekday afternoon in Tel Aviv, Israel’s secular metropolis, and the Route 322 bus is picking up its first passengers as it gets going to Ashdod. On this particular…