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Sorry, Israel, you’re too kind to those activists, please come again
Are we seriously saying that a group of activists on a ship threatened the lives of Israel, its people and pets? Jon Stewart has a few words: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Clusterf#&k to the War House – Korean Peninsula & Middle East www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes…
When tribalism meets a land grab, stand back
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald: Thus, nuclear-armed Israel is bullied and victimized by starving Gazans with stones. … The… Israel Navy is threatened by a flotilla filled with wheelchairs and medicine. … And the greatest superpower the Earth has ever known faces a grave and existential threat from a handful of religious fanatics hiding in caves. … An American condemnation…
Some choice hate mail
Barely a week goes by without some highly intelligent piece of hate mail (often from fellow Jews) landing in my in-box (a full collection is published here). Here’s today’s contribution: Mr. Lovenshtein, you are disgrace to Jewish nation.… I have yet to see any Abdullah or Mohhamed going against own people the way so many…
Australians are increasingly vocal about Israel
Today’s letters in the Sydney Morning Herald show a combination of anger, defensiveness (on the part of Zionists who dishonestly claim that they actually think independently from the Israeli government) and passion: Immanuel Suttner and David Tester (Letters, June 4) ask if and when Bishop George Browning and others would express outrage about attacks by…
Public opinion is lost
While Israeli bloggers debate the rights and wrongs of this week’s Gaza flotilla massacre (there’s something right about it, I hear you ask?) this piece of news is pretty damning: Israel was tonight under pressure to allow an independent inquiry into its assault on the Gaza aid flotilla after autopsy results on the bodies of…
Where’s the Tea Party anger over Israeli killings?
A little message from Juan Cole: Hey, Tea Party. A foreign navy boarded an unarmed ship flying the flag of a NATO member in international waters and shot dead an American citizen with four bullets to the head and one in the chest on Memorial Day. It did this while the head of the belligerent…
BDS gets noticed by Murdoch press
This piece in the Wall Street Journal highlights a serious problem faced by Israel and its Diaspora supporters: Israel’s bungled attempt to stop the aid flotilla from reaching Gaza also highlights how an increasingly forceful strategy by Palestinians and their supporters to turn to boycotts, international isolation, and relatively nonviolent protests is confronting Israel with…
Blair suddenly shows some care for Gaza
Tony Blair, the man behind the Iraq war, Lebanon war and Gaza war, now calls for the lifting of the siege on Gaza. But these comments are simply delusional. Hope left Gaza many years ago: What is important is that we don’t end up with people [in Gaza] losing hope for the future, alienating young…