Leading Israeli human rights group B’Tselem – once again proving that some of the greatest critics of the Jewish state’s apartheid policies are Jews themselves – release a report that is damning on the country’s policies: In the past year Israel has escalated its policy of separating the Palestinian populations of the Gaza Strip and…
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How to defy the regional bully
To understand the true signifinance of Israel’s loss to Hezbollah in the 2006 Lebanon war, this recent speech by the group’s leader Sayyid Hassan Nassrallah is essential reading: A lesson has to be internalized from the fact that a 33-day war launched by the most aggressive army in the world and backed by international support…
The nightmares continue
This forthcoming feature, Waltz with Bashir, is an acclaimed animation from Israel about the 2006 war between the Jewish state and Hezbollah:
The final days of hedonism?
Lebanon is a tinderbox and could blow at any time (and al-Qaeda is rising). Enjoy the good times while they last.
Good riddance to bad rubbish
Israeli peace group Gush Shalom explains why just resigned Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is a disgrace to his country (and to Jews everywhere): Nobody will shed a tear as the political career of Ehud Olmert grounds to its end. In the two years he had at the helm of the Israeli ship of state,…
Telling it like it isn’t (on Israel/Palestine)
My latest New Matilda column is about the Western media’s delusions over the Middle East: Distortions, delusions, misrepresentations. No wonder Western leaders and media don’t understand the popularity of groups like Hezbollah and Hamas in the Arab world It shouldn’t come as any surprise that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is consistently voted the most popular…
The Muslim mind
Part one of a Robert Fisk documentary from the early 1990s, Beirut to Bosnia, about the attitude of Muslims to the West in Egypt, Palestine, Lebanon and Bosnia. As relevant today as ever:
The Israeli death machine
Resistance to Israeli war crimes can take many forms. Sometimes even the judiciary vindicates these actions: There were jubilant scenes in a Belfast court yesterday as six anti-war protesters were unanimously acquitted of destroying property belonging to multinational arms company Raytheon. As the Crown Court jury of four men and seven women were led from…
Israeli stupidity (part 6742)
Dissenting historian Norman Finkelstein explains why he may have been barred from entering Israel: Well, I guess there are two possibilities. One, I think I’m more effective than I have been in the past. I draw fairly large audiences. And I think Israel is now facing a major public relations challenge. They’re losing the moral…
Packing a punch
Secretary General of Hizbollah, Sayyid Hassan Nassrallah, Beirut, May 26: Today, by the name of all gatherings here as well all free people in the Arabian and Muslim world, I call Iraqis along with their political and religious leaderships to make a noble and historical decision that prevents the ultimate fall of Iraq in the…