Robert Fisk on the destruction of ancient cultures while the West talks about “democracy” and “liberation” at the barrel of a gun: Over the door of the Kabul museum today is a Persian quotation: “A nation stays alive when its culture and history are kept alive.” But is it possible to believe that even these…
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The confused identity of those Jews (and fellow travellers) who rather like occupation and bombing
Following the publication today of Overland’s smackdown of Zionist attempts to silence alternative views on the Middle East in Australia, leading Australian academic Scott Burchill – we like him on this site – sent me the following response: Political apostasy is rampant amongst the Australian intellectual class. Overseas too. Think of Robert Manne (former right…
How the Palestinian Authority is building the Israeli roads that kill their future
This is the kind of story that should be read by anybody who actually believes that the US-backed Palestinian Authority will bring freedom to its people in 2011. Or ever. The article in The Nation shows how the PA is actively killing its own chances of statehood and entrenching the Zionist occupation. Perhaps the long…
Isolating Iran is part of the “great energy game”
Here’s my interview with Foreign Policy Journal by Kourosh Ziabari: The Middle East is witness to continuous developments these days, such as Iran’s active diplomacy to attract the indispensable 118-member bloc of non-aligned countries to support its nuclear program, the growing isolation of Israel in European countries and within academic circles in the U.S., Arabs’…
Iran is the enemy and must be stopped/destroyed/killed
A handy guide to neo-conservative thinking on Iran and Israel (bomb/suffocate the former and love to death the other):
Fox knows close to nothing about environmental issues
A television network of mass disinformation: In the wake of the catastrophic oil spill currently occurring in the Gulf of Mexico, Media Matters reviews Fox News’ fervent advocacy for offshore drilling. Its activism has including promoting Sarah Palin’s “drill, baby, drill” mantra and pushing myths suggesting that drilling is environmentally safe.
Guess what, students aren’t that keen on celebrating apartheid
A revealing editorial in the New York Forward that indicates some, and the accent on “some” within the Zionist Diaspora, are starting to realise that growing numbers of young Americans are turning against Israel for reasons other than anti-Semitism: Grumbling about a commencement speaker is almost a rite of passage on many a college campus,…
Some Jews see the Zionist credentials of Palin and praise the Lord
Benyamin Korn, founder of the website Jewish Americans for Sarah Palin, on when he first discovered her insights: I was captivated — not by her looks, for goodness sake — but by her charisma, her brilliance, her grasp not just of the issues, but of the moment. Which is a very different thing in politics,…
Arizona channels the friendly country known as…
What country does this remind us of (hint: it’s in the Middle East, funded and armed by the US and calls itself a “democracy”)? Arizona’s purging of brown-skinned residents continues apace with two new moves: It has decided to remove any teachers whose spoken English is heavily accented or ungrammatical – almost half the teachers…