Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting on the continuing ability of the US corporate press to evade telling the truth about the Middle East: The big news out of the Middle East yesterday was the Israeli government’s decision to approve an expansion of… the Gilo settlement near Jerusalem. The White House’s muddled position on settlement expansion has…
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Battle of the Zionist lobbies
After J Street condemned Sarah Palin for encouraging the expansion of illegal, Jewish settlements in the West Bank, J Street condemned her recklessness. Leading Zionist figure Abe Foxman condemned J Street for condemning Palin and questioned the group’s “pro-Israel” position. J Street responded and wrote this: Abe, we can disagree on matters of policy.… You…
When “apartheid” is the only word to use
The Middle East Report dedicates an edition to the key issue in the Middle East: We have used the word “apartheid” to describe Israel’s system of rule over the Palestinians with eyes wide open to the incendiary quality of the term and the uniqueness of the South African ordeal that it automatically evokes. Our purpose…
The face of Palestinian resistance
The Palestinian town of Nil’in has been the place of countless acts of weekly resistance against Israel’s “security” wall. Here’s some raw footage of a protest on 13 November (thanks to Joseph Dana):
Settlements are killing Israel…so some Americans love them
The issue of illegal, Jewish settlements in the West Bank are getting a lot of press recently. First, Sarah Palin in a media interview for her newly released book (an utterly deluded affair, writes Andrew Sullivan, and a woman thrust on the world by a group of neo-conservatives, something we should never forget): I believe…
Washington proves how utterly powerless it wants to be in the Middle East
I thank Mondoweiss for drawing attention to this interesting exchange at the US State Department yesterday between spokesman Ian Kelly and Associated Press journalist Matt Lee (though a few other people are involved). They are discussing the news that Israel has approved 900 more homes in occupied territory: MR. KELLY: Well, I think, Michel, you’ve…
Settlement halt? Don’t make me laugh
Two abused children and one shows who’s boss: Israel has given the go ahead for the construction of 900 housing units in occupied… East Jerusalem, rebuffing a reported US request that it block construction at the Gilo settlement, officials have said.
Gideon Levy on Israel: we are in a coma
Gideon Levy, a fine Israeli journalist, speaks to the Real News Network: I know there is a change in the Jewish community in the United States, but it’s too little and too late…Israel, the Israeli society, is in a situation of coma for at least ten years.
Israel lobby funds another media tour. Read all about it
My following article is published today on Crikey: “Peter Hartcher is the Sydney Morning Herald’s international editor. He travelled to Israel as a guest of the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies.” Hartcher’s latest piece for his paper tells a familiar tale. The UN Goldstone report on the Gaza war… ”‰—”‰in which Israel and Hamas are accused…
A Middle East that could blow and soon
The idea that the status-quo is sustainable in the Middle East is both delusional and sensible. On the one hand, Israel’s occupation of Palestine will continue as long as the world powers allow it to. Without serious pressure, Zionist fundamentalists will continue pushing their apocalyptic view of the world. Alternatively, as Bernard Avishai notes today,…