Illegal East Jerusalem expansion on the cards and Washington approves

A revealing article by one of Israel’s leading establishment reporters, Ben Caspit, that indicates the kind of dance that Washington and Israel have always done. And we wonder why Palestine continues to be colonised? Israel and the US have reached secret agreements about construction in Jerusalem. Both sides agreed to leave the agreements between themselves…

Neturei Karta on supporting a Palestinian state

Let nobody say that the Jews don’t have a wider variety of practitioners: Members of the anti-Zionist, ultra-Orthodox sect Neturei Karta never miss an opportunity to express their antagonism to the State and its symbols. Just last week they burned Israeli flags and disrupted the minute’s silence to honor Israel’s fallen, and now, on Sunday,…

Obama is like Hitler for some West Bank settlers

Crazy rightist Jews burn effigies of Barack Obama in the West Bank. The interview between a reporter and a settler is instructive: Rino Tzror: Hello to Guy Varon, our correspondent in the territories. So they started to distribute effigies and pictures of Obama? Guy Varon: After we have seen right-wing activists burning pictures of Saddam,…

The grinding familiarity of Israeli attitudes towards Gaza

Just a day in the occupied Gaza Strip. Jewish blogger Max Ajl is currently living and working in Gaza and writing about a world most people never see (like this). Here’s a recent post about Israel’s ever-increasing destruction of Palestinian farm-land: What are you seeing here? After an hour’s time to correctly set up this…

What Goldstone is experiencing is typical Zionist thuggery

Doron Isaacs, a Jewish South African, tells Al-Jazeera English in response to Richard Goldstone being barred from attending his grandson’s Bar-Mitzvah: There is a belief amongst right-wing Zionist organisations that defaming and humiliating Jewish critics of Israeli policy will set an example that would intimidate others into silence.

The free speech to offend Muslims, Jews and others

The Daily Show has a few things to say to a Muslim group that threatened the creators of South Park with death if they displayed the prophet Mohammed: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c South Park Death Threats www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Tea Party

When settlers will control the trigger

Israel, what have you created? One source told the International Crisis Group that ”˜in a few years, religious soldiers will make up the majority of brigade commanders in all areas — from F-16 fighter jets to submarines.’

What the world wants is rampaging Zionist forces fighting evil

Must we continue to suffer this kind of Zionist chauvinism year in year out? Over the past 20 years, we’ve evolved from films like Schindler’s List to movies like Defiance and Inglourious Basterds. Jewish characterizations have morphed from victims to strong, rugged combatants in the face of threats from Nazis – now they face evil…

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