Guardian films on the one-year anniversary of the Gaza conflict, families whose lives have been shattered by US-made weapons. Such images are sadly familiar. I saw similiar scenes in Gaza in July and nothing has changed.
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Obama hates Israel and all that she stands for, says hardline Zionist
The settler organisation Women in Green hosted an evening recently with Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick. Two believers in the concept of Greater Israel and disliking Arabs. A match made in heaven, really. Here’s the Women in Green report of that peace-loving event: “Obama and Israel” was the topic of Caroline Glick’s talk on Friday…
How to make Muslims hate the West in one easy step
Lt. Gen. Thomas McInerney (retired) has a wonderful suggestion to keep America safe (and radicalise Muslims even more): If you are an 18-28-year-old Muslim man then you should be strip searched. And if we don’t do that there’s a very high probability we’re going to lose an airline.
Cairo declaration: end Israeli apartheid
The Gaza Freedom March (GFM) is over but the following declaration, led by South African trade unionists, has been issued globally and is a clear plan for future actions. Although drafted by delegates from the GFM, its aim is far more ambitious. I encourage readers to read it, sign it and get involved. One of…
Some in the American political elite want to help Gaza (but you can count them on one hand)
When one thinks of the American political elite, it’s far too easy (and correct) to presume that the vast majority of Congressmen and women are either utterly petrified of the Zionist lobby or simply believe that Israel’s occupation policies are acceptable. A few do not, including Brian Baird and Keith Ellison, and they should be…
Is the US capable of not only sending missiles to help Yemen?
Patrick Cockburn in the Independent on Washington’s seeming desperation to fall into al-Qaeda’s trap again and again and escalate militaristic policies in a Muslim land: There is ominous use by American politicians and commentators of the phrase “failed state” in relation to Yemen, as if this some how legitimised foreign intervention. It is extraordinary that…
Press TV shows the Egyptian response to a peaceful rally over Palestine
Some good footage from Press TV yesterday that captured the brutality shown by the Egyptian security forces to a peaceful protest for the Gaza Freedom March in central Cairo. US aid going to good use:
Not in our name: Americans speak out for Palestine
Yesterday in the US, protests took place to commemorate the devastating conflict in Gaza and demand the siege be lifted. This report is on Russian satellite television (would it appear on mainstream American TV?):
Breaking through American blindness over Gaza
The New York Times covers today’s protests in Israel and Palestine over the Gaza crisis: Hundreds of demonstrators gathered on both sides of the Israeli-Gazan border on Thursday to mark a year since Israel’s three-week war in Gaza, and to call for an end to the blockade of the area imposed by Israel and Egypt.…
Yes, the war on terror is doing wonderfully well in Yemen
It’s hard not to despair sometimes at the pathetic level of political debate in the US. It’s “anti-Semitic” to simply ask why the “undies” bomber from Yemen hated the West?