A classic example of American news-speak: The United States said on Monday that Israel’s approval of building 112 new Jewish homes in the West Bank did not violate a limited Israeli settlement freeze but was the kind of act both sides should be cautious about as they embark on indirect peace talks. “On the one…
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How many Australian passports may have been used in Dubai?
If Australia was an independent nation, it would be outraged. Don’t hold your breath: A fourth Australian has been named as a suspect in the assassination of a Palestinian militant in a Dubai hotel room in January. Dubai police last week revealed a 27th suspect in the team of assassins it believed was responsible for…
What NGOs know about Palestine and simply don’t say
A revealing section from It’s Easier to Reach Heaven Than the End of the Street: A Jerusalem Memoir: As [English physician] Emma Williams is preparing to leave Jerusalem for Dakar, Senegal, where her husband has been posted by the UN, she reports the following, spoken by an NGO aid worker at a dinner party in…
Iran is not threatening Israel, says Israel
Remember this: Defense Minister Ehud Barak said in the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee: “Iran is not currently an existential threat to Israel. However, Iran has to potential to develop an existential threat to Israel, and we are taking action to prevent this.”
Sane voices still exist in Israel, see below
Two pieces from the weekend Haaretz newspaper that are worth sharing. Gideon Levy: The Israeli peace camp didn’t die. It was never born in the first place. While it’s true that since the summer of 1967, several radical and brave political groups have been working against the occupation – all worthy of recognition – a…
Being pro-Israeli means backing murder anywhere, anytime
Paul Howes is national secretary of the Australian Workers’ Union. He loves Israel like it’s a woman he’s dying to take to bed. In other words, any flaws are utterly ignored. His latest piece, in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph, totally backs Israel’s murder of a Hamas operative in Dubai: Let’s be clear: the death of al-Mabhouh…
What are we doing to babies in Gaza?
An email from an employee of the Tuesday’s Child NGO: According to the Bethlehem maternity hospital, premature neonatal mortality over 26 weeks, 37 percent in Gaza in comparison to 1.4 percent in Bethlehem. Shocking, a genocide in itself.
Dubai is no longer a play-thing of Israel
Maher Mughrabi writes in the Age that the Jewish state seriously mis-calcuated over its Dubai hit: If it was Israel that assassinated the Hamas man, then perhaps it counted on Dubai’s long-standing desire to avoid controversy. So what has changed in the past year? The answer may be that Brand Dubai itself is under intense…
Dershowitz backs extra-judicial murder (and torture)
Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has a love affair with Israel that has no bounds. It’s therefore unsurprising that he supports Israel’s recent assassination in Dubai: The complaints leveled against Israel by European countries and Australia, regarding the alleged misuse of passports by the Mossad in the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, ring hollow and smack…
Building a home in Gaza is no easy task
The latest edition of Gaza Gateway: Building the “perfect home” is a dream shared by many people, especially if you are one of the tenants of the 3,500 homes that were destroyed or of the 56,000 homes that were damaged in last year’s military operation in the Gaza Strip. This week, we’ve pulled together some…