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Hillary shot by Israel but nothing to report here
A revealing story told to American journalist Alexander Cockburn: A friend of mine gave a good parody of the servile posture of the U.S. government and press: “I think,” he wrote to me, “that matters are close to the point where if Hillary Clinton and a group of senior American officials were meeting the Israeli…
What the Pixies think may be catching
A piece in today’s Murdoch Australian highlights the almost unstoppable movement towards isolating Israel until it recognises the error of its occupying ways. Not much evidence that many Israelis do believe that, but give them time: The piece is by Michael Shaik: “MICHAEL, she’s dead.” It was March 16, 2003. The huge anti-war protests of…
Do we have to have Arab members of parliament at all?
Zionist nationalism is out of control. Firs we read, in a rather comical way, that some right-wing Jewish groups want to rename Turkish coffee to, well, something else because Ankara is a terrorist state etc. But this is far more serious: The Knesset’s House Committee on Monday recommended revoking the privileges of Israeli Arab MK…
Please don’t ask Tel Aviv about life in Gaza
Too many in the mainstream media simply report Israeli talking points on the humanitarian situation in Gaza. People may not be starving in the streets but every human rights group in the world claims the people there are in desperate need of assistance. So what do many in the American press do?
Horror on the high seas
Gripping testimony from Al-Jazeera’s Jamal Elshayyal: Firstly I must apologise for taking so long to update my blog. The events of the past few days have been hectic to say the least, and I am still trying to come to grips with many of the things that have happened. It was this time last week…
Slamming Muslims won’t solve Israel’s issues
I sent the following (now unpublished) letter to the Sydney Morning Herald: Israel’s raid on the Gaza flotilla has been almost universally condemned but Paul Sheehan (Beware the words of a wolf dressed in sheikh’s clothing, 7 June) asserts that Muslim fundamentalists, the Left and Greens have formed an unholy alliance to destroy the Jewish…
Questioning the Promised Land is a Jewish need
I’m pleased to see my friend and co-founder of Indpendent Australian Jewish Voices (IAJV), Peter Slezak, with a piece in today’s Sydney Morning Herald on the importance of Jewish dissent. These are the kinds of debates the Jewish community are so afraid to have. By defending all Israeli actions, they are blind to the reality…
Waiting for President Palin
The increasingly vocal liberal Zionist Peter Beinart on the fear, loathing and anticipation gripping the Israeli government and its American backers: Netanyahu’s response to the Gaza blockade crisis shows just how out of touch he is with America. Peter Beinart on why Israeli leaders—and their U.S. defenders—need to join the age of Obama. This week,…
No, anti-Semitism isn’t (mostly) behind the current campaign
Radio Farda is the Iranian branch of Radio Free Europe and receives millions of hits monthly by discussing issues the Islamic Republic would rather keep hidden. I was interviewed last week about the Gaza flotilla (though I should note, for the record, that I think real anti-Semitism is a tiny reason behind the current campaign…