Answering 20 questions for New Matilda

Here it is: Antony Loewenstein has been writing for newmatilda.com about the Middle East since the beginning. He lobs 20 Questions back our way Antony Loewenstein started writing for newmatilda.com pretty much at the beginning and has been a regular contributor on the Middle East since. His articles, particularly on Israel-Palestine, have provoked heated debate…

Here are your Tel Aviv friendly talking points on Gaza

How the Zionist lobby (in this case The Israel Project) tells its little minions to sell Israel (via Richard Silverstein): Subject: In the “messages that fail” department, please see this”¦ Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 13:36:40 -0400 From: Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi To: Jennifer Laszlo Mizrahi As to research on saying that there isn’t a “humanitarian…

The Zionism is sick department

This is the state of public Zionism. J Street founder Jeremy Ben-Ami and Atlantic writer Jeffrey Goldberg talk in New York this week and fear the “demographic challenge” to the Jewish state. Yes, polite language for Palestinians campaigning for one person, one vote. On the more paranoid side, the Jerusalem Post’s Caroline Glick says that…

Hizbollah being part of the furniture

The new law of the Middle East; the harder you’re hit by Israel the more popular and resilient you’ll become: Hezbollah has opened its first permanent museum atop a wooded hill here that was strategic territory in a 2006 war with Israel, the latest step in the group’s evolution from a band of militants to…

Help, we’re drowning here in Obama hatred

Yiron Festinger, in Israel’s major paper Yediot, offers some increasingly comical Israel Derangement Syndrome: Prime Minister Netanyahu should not be envied over the challenge posed by the most hostile president in US history; a president who makes the anti-Semite Jimmy Carter look like a Righteous Gentile. However, we should be calling a spade a spade…

Gaza siege continues

Such generosity to get the world off Israel’s back. It may work but it shouldn’t. Note what is now being allowed into Gaza. Take towels, that massive security threat. Collective punishment with Western support: Israel’s security cabinet voted Thursday to ease its land blockade of the Gaza Strip, following its deadly raid on a humanitarian…

Zionist exclusion

“The Middle East’s only democracy“: Ultra-Orthodox Jews have called mass demonstrations to protest a Supreme Court ruling forcing the integration of a religious girls’ school. Parents of European, or Ashkenazi, descent don’t want their children studying with schoolgirls of Mideast and North African descent, known as Sephardim. The Ashkenazi parents insist they aren’t racist. They…

The day we’ll see an Israeli leader in the dock

A surprising result in the US and one that should be welcomed. For too long, Western leaders have enjoyed impunity simply because of their birthplace or connections. Let justice be served: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled this week that under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act, not…  all former foreign officials living in the United States…

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