How to define terrorism has become absurdly loaded since 9/11. According to key Newsweek journalists, it is simply impossible for Americans to commit terrorism; only Muslims are capable of doing so (and being labelled as such.) Really.
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Iraq in 2010
One of America’s finest journalists, Nir Rosen – fearless, intense and unafraid to embed with the “enemy” – writes that Iraq is not likely to descend back into chaos (but the West has still created a sick experiment in post-dictatorship development, something welcomed by the New York Times’ Thomas Friedman): It’s been frustrating to read…
The legacy of the war on terror (with a little help from torture)
A truly horrifying report from Britain about a man, Omar Deghayes, imprisoned for six years by the Americans, including at Guantanamo Bay, and never charged. He tells his story: It is not hot stabbing pain that Omar Deghayes remembers from the day a Guantánamo guard blinded him, but the cool sen…sation of fingers being stabbed…
Raising for Hizbollah is a problem (but Jewish colonies is not)
Americans raise money for the illegal settlements in Palestine and nobody says a word and yet this behaviour is deemed unacceptable: Three Florida businessmen were arrested for smuggling video games to a mall in Paraguay linked to Hezbollah. The businessmen, from the Miami-Dade area, were arrested Feb. 18 for smuggling video games and other electronic…
Why Israel’s nukes must be removed
With the nuclear issue once again in the news – the US has decided to start building new reactors – here’s Israeli Yael Lotan discussing the dangers of the Jewish state’s arsenal:
Why American Zionists are so desperate to smear all critics as extremists
The image of Israel on US campuses is taking a dive. And yet Zionists believe they simply need to improve their PR. This documentary preview, Crossing the Line: The Intifada Comes to Campus, takes a familiar line. Because a handful of extremists are anti-Semitic, therefore anybody critical of Israel is a Jew-hater. It’s almost comical…
The brutality of American exceptionalism
Former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo continues to be verbally attacked in the US. Imagine if this information emerged from any other country. The outrage would be utterly justified: The chief author of the Bush administration’s “torture memo” told Justice Department investigators that the president’s war-making authority was so broad that he had the constitutional…
How J Street makes the Israeli extremists crazy (because they don’t love colonies)
Israeli right-wing politician Michael Ben Ari (National Union) on J Street: They want international legitimacy, but everybody knows they are an anti-Semitic lobby that acts against Israel. They are dangerous people and they use the Congress people in order to try to receive legitimacy. One Israeli commentator, despairing at the act by Israel’s Foreign Ministry…
Standing up peacefully against the tyranny of torture
There appears to be a recent surge in the US for civil disobedience against alleged war criminals. Recently the Israeli ambassador Michael Oren was heckled. And now another wonderful example of action against Bush administration lawyer John Yoo who is accused of finding creative legal ways to authorise torture:
Hillary Clinton’s love of Egyptian torture
Need any more evidence why Washington’s supposed desire for Middle East peace is regarded as a joke across the region? Even the Washington Post understands: According to State’s latest report on Egypt, issued Feb. 25, “the government’s respect for human rights remained poor” during 2008 “and serious abuses continued in many areas.” It cited torture…