Finkelstein shows the weakness of Obama on Palestine

The latest interview with Norman Finkelstein this week, on GritTV, on the meeting a few days ago between Barack Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu that showed the real face of Washington towards the Middle East; weak, blindly pro-Israel and deep with empty rhetoric. America will not solve this conflict:

New York Times happy to publish call for ethnic cleansing

Following the extensive New York Times feature on American companies getting tax deductions for building settlements in the West Bank, one letter writer in the paper is upset: To the Editor: Some questions: Why should it be controversial for tax-exempt charities to aid people who live in disputed territory? Why is it that Jews living…

Speak to Hamas right now, says Haaretz

An editorial in Haaretz that speaks some sense (and will therefore be ignored by the Israeli government and its global support base): The writer David Grossman called on the government of Israel in these pages yesterday to cease its preoccupation with the number and identity of Palestinian prisoners who would potentially be swapped for captive…

Helpful hints for American reporters (Israel=bad, Arabs=bad)

Following the firing of a CNN journalist for daring to praise the recently deceased Lebanese religious leader Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, it’s clear that American corporate television allows anti-Arab statements to run 24/7, but dare say something that may upset the Zionist lobby or Israel, and you’ll be gone. Here’s (former AIPAC employee) CNN’s Wolf…

“We must learn from the Nazi tactics”, says retired Israeli judge

As Zionists continue to wonder who is running Israeli PR, here’s a very helpful suggestion to keep the Jewish state front and centre in the world: “We must learn from the Nazi tactics,” Retired Israeli Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto said recently during a conference discussing ways to improve the State of Israel’s PR efforts in the…

Of course the Palestinian Authority loves Sri Lanka

Ali Abunimah: Abbas PA loves the racist Zionist regime, so why wouldn’t they love the racist Sinhalese supremacist Sri Lanka regime? Here’s the story: Sri Lanka’s envoy to the Palestinian Authority was awarded honorary citizenship by the West Bank municipality of Beitunia on Monday, his office said. T Jayasinghe was awarded the certificate of citizenship…

Washington and Tel Aviv can’t speak honestly to each other

The Independent’s Patrick Cockburn explains that the power of Israel is declining but Washington is seemingly powerless to control its wild friend: Israel itself is getting politically and militarily weaker. The high point of Israel’s influence in the Middle East was after the peace agreement with Egypt in 1979 which freed it to invade Lebanon…

BDS brings out the worst in Israel

As we learn more every day about the strength of the BDS movement and the companies that should be targeted – ever considered the role of IKEA in the occupied territories? – feel the fear in the Zionist community: The decision last week by the Methodist Church of Britain to launch a boycott against goods…

New York Times discovers how colonies are formed

Welcome, New York Times, to the reality of US groups funding illegal settlements in the West Bank. Better late than never: Twice a year, American evangelicals show up at a winery in this Jewish settlement in the hills of ancient Samaria to play a direct role in biblical prophecy, picking grapes and pruning vines. Believing…

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