While non-violent resistance is growing in the West Bank – a threat to Israel and its backers because the vast majority of its adherents are simply demanding equal rights with Jews – it’s hard not to read this and despair. On the other hand, Israel’s true face is being revealed more every day. And we…
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Slowly realising why the Middle East is on fire
Gee, things are tough in the Middle East when Murdoch’s Australian sounds depressed. Maybe, just maybe, more corporate journalists based in Israel will start to write about the reasons for the bleakness; fundamentalist Jews: The Middle East peace process was in tatters last night and Israel’s coalition government faced crisis after it announced a huge…
Passport scandal? What passport scandal?
(Via Michael Brull): Australian Jewish News, p 3, Friday March 12 2009 This week (Tuesday night) [Australian] Treasurer Wayne Swan spoke at UIA (United Israel Appeal) and explained that Australia and Israel would “always be great friends”. He went on that “Australia and Israel will always be great friends – even if questions do arise…
Just one more sign that Washington loves Israel like its only child
The predictable Israeli slap to America’s modest demands should surprise nobody. Besides, the real test of America’s love affair with Israel and contempt for Palestinians is clear: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will be the keynote speaker at this month’s annual meeting of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, The Cable has confirmed. Clinton will…
New York Times prefers to view the Middle East as a balanced tiff between two old mates
The New York Times editorialises about the Middle East with its usual “he said/she said” mentality. Both the Israelis and Palestinians must work towards peace but why the hell should anybody in the Middle East see America and Barack Obama as anything other than a nearly unquestioning friend of Israel? Vice President Joseph Biden Jr.…
A speaker at the upcoming Auckland Writer’s Festival
The following article by Linda Herrick appears today in the New Zealand Herald: A Sydney writer who describes himself as “an atheist Jewish-Australian political activist” is coming to Auckland in May as part of the international lineup for the Writers and Readers Festival. Antony Loewenstein is the author of My Israel Question, a highly critical…
Radio Adelaide: Discussing Israel’s right of return and its inherent racism
I was interviewed yesterday on Radio Adelaide’s BackStory program: Jewish people throughout the world have an automatic right to Israeli citizenship under Israel’s “Law of Return”. In light of more than seven million Palestinian refugees being denied any right of return to Israel the law is being questioned by prominent Australian Jews.
How to translate a big idea to the masses
The following article appears in today’s Sydney Morning Herald: One of the founders of Naked Communications will set out to prove next week that the advertising industry’s guiding principle of creating an emotional connection with consumers is a dying premise. Jon Wilkins is one of 15 speakers to share his big idea for the title…
Israel and Sri Lanka make love in the only way they know how – violently
Two nations with a blatant disregard for minorities and human rights find each other. So beautiful you want to prosecute them in the Hague: Israel supported Sri Lanka throughout in its war against terrorism and now that the war is over the Israeli Government is determined to go for a robust economic co-operation agreement with…
This is how the US deals with its wild child, Israel
Take news from the Middle East in the last 24 hours. Despairing, infuriating and tragic. This: The Palestinians pulled out of a new round of indirect peace talks last night, even before they had begun, as a protest at Israel‘s decision to announce approval for hundreds of new homes in a Jewish settlement in East…