Thomas Hegghammer in Foreign Policy reminds us that ignoring Palestine, or suggesting that leaving the conflict unresolved doesn’t bring hatred towards the West, is deluding themselves: In recent weeks, U.S. Gen. David Petraeus and others have made headlines by suggesting that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict increases anti-Americanism in the Muslim world. The Wall Street Journal’s Bret…
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Yes, a US official sits and talks with Hamas (that’s news, apparently)
Al-Jazeera reports on a story that shows the rather pathetic fear that accompanies even meeting an Islamist organisation. Better watch out, you may catch the resistance bug: I could not believe my eyes this morning at the Al Jazeera Centre for Strategic Studies conference on Political Islam.… Perusing the programme I noticed a panel that…
The Israeli story that the Israeli press can’t/won’t report
A story that’s been percolating on the blogosphere for a while – initially revealed by US, Jewish blogger Richard Silverstein (look here and here) – now finally reaches The Daily Beast, courtesy of one Judith Miller. What a teaser: A 23-year-old journalist is under arrest for exposing a secret Israeli assassination plot, and another has…
What interest does America have by blindly backing Israel?
Foreign Policy’s Marc Perry argues: In early February of 2006, I submitted a book proposal about the wartime relationship between Generals George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower to a group of New York publishers. I had worked on the proposal for nine months and believed it would garner significant interest. Two weeks after the submission, I…
Listening to Jewish calls for Arab genocide
If true, why the hell is a US ambassador sitting through this? Arutz Sheva (‘Channel Seven’), an Israeli media network that runs Israel National News (INN), reported that on Dec. 30, 2009, a rabbinical “congress for peace” proposed to U.S. Ambassador to Israel James Cunningham genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as “the Biblical approach to…
A Palestinian state “around 2011”
Here’s the Palestinian “vision”, courtesy of Western funding and largess. Impossible to achieve? No. A provisional Palestinian “state” could be called today. The question is what it will look like, what happens to the Jewish settlers and how will Israel react. Right now, the thought of a viable Palestinian state seems close to impossible: Next…
Vignettes from Gaza show us a hidden world
Back in January my American friend Nitin Sawhney – writer, activist and human rights worker – entered Gaza and wrote about his impressions. Now comes the promo for the upcoming film: A brief 2-minute trailer showing a vignette of scenes from the upcoming documentary film called “Strawberries, Roosters and the Chocolate Seas” by Nitin Sawhney…
The Catholic Church finds a link between the poor Pope and Jew hatred
Anti-Semitism is a hatred that tars all Jews for the actions of a few, a virulent strain of irrational ideology. There is utterly no comparison between anti-Semitism and reasonably demanding that the Catholic Church, an organisation that has spent decades hiding child rapists and torturers, finally takes responsibility for its actions. The Pope is complicit:…
If only Israel had more people like Gideon Levy
The totally unique Israeli journalist Gideon Levy is interviewed by the Electronic Intifada and doesn’t hold back: The Israeli media, which is a free media, free of censorship, free of governmental pressure, has been dehumanizing the Palestinians, demonizing them. Without the cooperation of the Israeli media, the occupation would not have lasted so long. It…
Jimmy Carter, stick to your guns
Why do political leaders (past or present) need the approval of the Zionist lobby? To be classed as sufficiently “Zionist”, “pro-Israel” and “friendly to Jews”? Or to attract the big bucks when running in elections? A prominent Jewish leader criticized former President Jimmy Carter on Monday, blasting Carter for saying in a speech this month…