When causing chaos moves to the online world

A new way to wage war and guess who is at the forefront? Warning of a “cyber arms race,” top web security firm McAfee says that China, France, Israel, Russia and the United States have developed cyber weapons. “McAfee began to warn of the global cyber arms race more than two years ago, but now…

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.

Chomsky on our inability to see Middle East hypocrisy

Guernica: You cite a story in the New York Times where “the reviewer,” you write, “constitutional lawyer Noah Feldman, described Osama [bin Laden]’s descent to greater and greater evil over the years, finally reaching the absolute lower depths, when ”˜he put forth the perverse claim that since the United States is a democracy, all citizens…

Academics should not be too critical of Israel, demand Zionist enforcers

Jewish dissenters beware: Right-wing groups in Israel want to create a climate of fear among left-wing scholars at Israeli universities by emulating the “witch-hunt” tactics of the US academic monitoring group Campus Watch, Israeli professors warn. The watchdog groups IsraCampus and Israel Academia Monitor are believed to be stepping up their campaigns after the recent…

Without serious pressure, writes Roger Cohen, Israel will not change

New York Times columnist Roger Cohen has written extensively this year about the Israel/Palestine conflict, and his latest column continues that tradition. Its importance lies in telling Americans how content many Israelis are with the status-quo (namely occupation): I’ve grown so pessimistic about Israel-Palestine that I find myself agreeing with Israel’s hard-line foreign minister, Avigdor…

Britain’s Channel 4 looks into the reach of the Zionist lobby

Can you imagine a leading current affairs program in the US or Australia investigating the tentacles of the Zionist lobby? Hardly: Pro-Israeli organisations in Britain look set to see their influence increase if the Conservatives win the next election, a film scrutinising the activities of a powerful but little-known lobby warns today. At least half…

Blumenthal on Palin’s role as the radical Christian lady to beat

American writer and author Max Blumenthal – a unique voice in America who skewers the radical Right and religious fundamentalism as well as challenging Zionist apartheid in Palestine – writes here about Sarah Palin’s new book, “Going Rogue”: Sarah Palin’s heavily publicized book tour begins in earnest this Monday, but weeks before, her ghostwritten memoir,…

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