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Times just hopes and prays Israel will listen to its pleasant request
A New York Times editorial gets tough (for a Zionist publication): Enough game-playing. Mr. Netanyahu should accept Mr. Obama’s offer and be ready to form a new governing coalition if some current members bolt. Arab states need to do more to nudge Mr. Abbas back to the table and give him the political support he…
We are failing in Afghanistan and most reporters don’t see why
Being unembedded in Afghanistan is a rarity, most journalists preferring to be near and dear to the military. That’s why Jeremy Scahill and Rick Rowley are in a class of their own. They’re just back from the war-torn country and reveal the utter failure of the American-led counter-insurgency. Here’s Scahill: Well, first of all, what’s…
Abe Foxman doesn’t want to talk about BDS, Arab rights, real democracy etc etc
The meltdown of an American Zionist leader, Abe Foxman, is an astounding thing to see: Abraham Foxman from Blue Pilgrimage on Vimeo. Max Blumenthal comments and I totally agree: Personally, I would prefer to see Foxman stay at the helm of the ADL for a long time, and not only because I enjoy witnessing the…
It’s not easy backing death squads in Iraq
This is what we have created in Iraq by our own actions; turning a blind eye to torture, murder and abuse. In the name of “liberation”, of course: One: During the foreboding months of 2005, one police unit struck more fear into Iraqis than the entire occupying US army. They were known as the Wolf…
Wolfensohn: “no-one particularly likes the Jews, no-one particularly likes the Palestinians”
James Wolfensohn, former World Bank President and former head of the Middle East Quartet, was on Australian TV last night talking about Israel/Palestine and the message was clear; America is Israel’s lawyer: Jim Wolfensohn, I’d like to focus mainly on your personal experience as George W. Bush’s handpicked choice as special enjoy of quartet to…
So we pay contractors in Afghanistan and have no idea what they’re doing?
So while Australian troops are training Afghan warlords here and working with them in their country – something the military establishment is defending because, well, that’s the way it is in Afghanistan and it’s jolly fun to work alongside alleged murderers and rapists in the “war on terror” – the Western war effort is going…
Nir Rosen on why Muslims don’t like occupation
The fact that such sensible views are so rarely heard in the mainstream is revealing in itself:
Mummy, why are Muslims so ungrateful when we kill them?
Just in case you weren’t sure, Nir Rosen is one of the finest war reporters in the world. His new book, Aftermath: Following the Bloodshed of America’s Wars in the Muslim World, highlights Washington’s idea that guns and a few loaves of bread don’t bring love: Supporters of General Stanley McChrystal, the former US commander…
Maybe America likes to fail in the Middle East
Steve Walt on Washington’s knowing cluelessness when it comes to Middle East “peace-making”. Yes, bringing on-board more failed “leaders” like Bill Clinton and Jews like Martin Indyk is going to work.