This is the kind of story that should be read by anybody who actually believes that the US-backed Palestinian Authority will bring freedom to its people in 2011. Or ever. The article in The Nation shows how the PA is actively killing its own chances of statehood and entrenching the Zionist occupation. Perhaps the long…
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Isolating Iran is part of the “great energy game”
Here’s my interview with Foreign Policy Journal by Kourosh Ziabari: The Middle East is witness to continuous developments these days, such as Iran’s active diplomacy to attract the indispensable 118-member bloc of non-aligned countries to support its nuclear program, the growing isolation of Israel in European countries and within academic circles in the U.S., Arabs’…
Iran is the enemy and must be stopped/destroyed/killed
A handy guide to neo-conservative thinking on Iran and Israel (bomb/suffocate the former and love to death the other):
The Israeli blockade is killing Gaza a little more every day
The people of Gaza are forgotten: Local partners with Oxfam in Gaza organized a May Day event in Gaza to highlight the state of labor in the coastal enclave under the ongoing Israeli blockade. The Democracy and Worker’s Rights Center, a Palestinian NGO focusing on worker’s rights across the occupied Palestinian territories, and Sawt Al…
Thousands of Euro Jews are running out of patience with Israel
Although this is pretty weak and the signatories can’t bring themselves to utter the necessary criticisms – a state can’t be both Jewish and democratic – perhaps we shouldn’t be too harsh, it’s a welcome development: More than 3,000 European Jews, including prominent intellectuals, have signed a petition speaking out against Israeli settlement policies and…
Guess what, students aren’t that keen on celebrating apartheid
A revealing editorial in the New York Forward that indicates some, and the accent on “some” within the Zionist Diaspora, are starting to realise that growing numbers of young Americans are turning against Israel for reasons other than anti-Semitism: Grumbling about a commencement speaker is almost a rite of passage on many a college campus,…
Some Jews see the Zionist credentials of Palin and praise the Lord
Benyamin Korn, founder of the website Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin, on when he first discovered her insights: I was captivated — not by her looks, for goodness sake — but by her charisma, her brilliance, her grasp not just of the issues, but of the moment. Which is a very different thing in politics,…
Arizona channels the friendly country known as…
What country does this remind us of (hint: it’s in the Middle East, funded and armed by the US and calls itself a “democracy”)? Arizona’s purging of brown-skinned residents continues apace with two new moves: It has decided to remove any teachers whose spoken English is heavily accented or ungrammatical – almost half the teachers…
Palestinian killed in Gaza and Israel blinks
Maybe one day, when thousands more Palestinians have been murdered by Israel, the Zionist Diaspora will realise what they’ve backed for decades. And people will not forget: The Israeli human rights group B’Tselem has released video footage showing an unarmed Palestinian protester in Gaza being shot by an Israeli soldier on Wednesday. Ahmad Sliman Salem…