While Israel bombs Gaza and injures a number of Palestinian children, The Cable reports on the latest theatre performance between Israel and Washington: The Obama administration’s list of “actions” it wants to see from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is open to negotiation, not a hard list of demands as many believe, according to one…
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The one-state solution gathers steam
The impeccably establishment publication Foreign Policy continues the mainstream discussion of a one-state solution for the Middle East conflict. Zionism is being challenged in profoundly serious way: The one-state solution has long had advocates among the Palestinian diaspora, from Edward Said to Ghada Karmi and Ali Abunimah. However, there has recently been an exponential rise…
South Africa and Israel were closer than you think
A blast from the past, proving that America’s leading Zionist lobby sometimes criticises the Jewish state (hardly for human rights reasons but the fear of Israel being seen working with despots). How times have changed (and note the irony, considering Israel today behaves in ways reminiscent of South Africa during its darkest days): In the…
Who writes the rules about “mature” discussion over Israel/Palestine in Australia?
One-time Independent Australian Jewish Voices blogger Michael Brull examines in Overland magazine the role of Zionism in Australia, the boundaries of so-called acceptable debate and the gate-keepers who want to tell us what to think about the Middle East.
How not to remove illegal colonies in many, difficult steps
This is what uncontrolled Zionism has created: Twenty-one percent of settlers believe that all means must be employed in to resist the evacuation of most West Bank settlements, including the use of arms, according to a recent Hebrew University study. Five years ago, however, just 15 percent gave the same response. Sixty-three percent believe the…
Remembering Palestinians under their own occupation
When writing and thinking about Palestine under both Hamas and Fatah, never forget the gross human rights abuses under their rule (and yes, Fatah is backed, armed, trained, funded and inspired by the US): Last November, Muhammad Al Saba, 36, from Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip was sentenced to death by hanging by a…
AIPAC moves into gear and asks Israel lovers to deepen the relationship
For anybody worrying about Israel’s decline into deeper repression and occupation (such as the former editor of Haaretz, David Landau), America’s leading Zionist lobby would like you and Congress to shut up, now and forever: America’s main pro-Israel lobby group is mobilising members of Congress to pressure the White House over its bitter public confrontation…
The Jewish Diaspora is turning on Israel
My following article, written with John Docker and Ned Curthoys, appears in New Matilda: It’s not just major western allies who are talking tough with Israel – evidence suggests ordinary Jews are also withdrawing their support from the rogue state Earlier this month the Sydney Morning Herald’s chief correspondent Paul McGeough quizzically asked if there…
Jewish “leader” asks Australia to ignore Israeli crimes
So this is how the Zionist establishment wants to be known: defending extra-judicial murder. Well done, lads, you make us fellow Jews proud: The nation’s peak Jewish organisation has warned it would be an “extreme” reaction for the government to expel an Israeli diplomat as retaliation for the fake passport scandal. In its first public…
Please don’t drop our bombs on poor Palestinians
Perhaps, step by step, Western nations are realising Israel illegally uses their weapons against civilians: A group of British lawmakers are expected to call Tuesday for the reevaluation of arms deals with Israel after a recently published report claimed that British weapons were “almost certainly” used in Operation Cast Lead in December 2008, The Guardian…