Middle East Report Online on the political power of the fundamentalist Jewish settlers (as ever, the impotence of the Zionist Diaspora to condemn these fanatics is telling): At first glance, it is hard to explain the success of the West Bank settlers. Numerically, excluding the 200,000 settlers in illegally annexed East Jerusalem, they constitute just…
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Drinking beer for Palestine
Time magazine on the curious case of Oktoberfest in the occupied, Palestinian territories:
West Bank settlers should be hugged not shamed, say reporters
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting show how the US corporate media feel terribly sorry for those beleaguered Jewish settlers living illegally on Palestinian land but show less sympathy for the Arabs whose land is being stolen by said Jews: Ethnic cleansing could hardly hope for a friendlier hearing.
No wonder the West loves Mahmoud Abbas
Omar Barghouti, one of the key leaders of the BDS campaign against Israel, writes about the Palestinian Authority’s capitulation to Israel and the US over the devastating UN Gaza report: It is crucial to remember that the PA does not have any legal or democratic mandate to speak on behalf of the people of Palestine…
The conditions for another Palestinian uprising are there
Jailed Fatah leader Marwan Barghouthi, and possible future Palestinian leader, speaks from an Israeli prison: The question that should be asked is why did the Al-Aqsa Intifada break out? Was it not because of the collapse of the peace process? Because the negotiation reached a dead end? Was it not because of continued settlement and…
Making occupied Palestinian lives bearable
Israeli peace group Ta’ayush, true heroes of the Middle East, were back in the West Bank this weekend: The residents of Krayot, a village of some 2,500 tucked in a hilly region between the settlements of Shiloh and Eli midway between Nablus and Ramallah, have destroyed the dirt mound blocking their access to the main…
Reporters might like to consider the Arab point of view
The Australian Committee for Truth in the Middle East, a group with a fine pedigree, offers some advice to journalists covering the Middle East: 1. In Gaza and the West Bank Hamas won popular support – enough to win an election generally regarded in the West as fair (except for the result, of course) –…
The public face of Zionist colonisation
Illegal West Bank settlers tell an audience how reasonable and God-abiding they are:
The democratic gap inside Israel
The fine Israeli blog Promised Land discusses the concept of Neo-Zionism and its ramifications for the Jewish state: The settlers are by no means neo-Zionists. They represent the old fashion right wing, the one that still dreams of colonizing Eretz Israel Hashlema (the great land of Israel). Netanyahu was supposed to be their natural leader,…
The nice benefits given to favoured Palestinians
The Jerusalem Post correctly slams the Western-backed Palestinian Authority (the kind of corrupt and complicit friends colonial powers have always loved): The Palestinian Authority’s actions and rhetoric, especially in the past few weeks and months, show that hypocrisy has become a major component of its official policy. One sometimes wonders whether the PA that speaks…