One year after the end of official hostilities in Sri Lanka still sees a country in turmoil, proudly anti-Tamil and unwilling to investigate the war crimes committed in the last months of the war. Chair of the UK-based Sri Lanka Campaign Advisory Council (I sit on the board), Edward Mortimer, says that the world can…
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Atwood wants to be on the right side of history in Palestine
Many pro-Palestinian activists criticised author Margaret Atwood in May for accepting a very large literary prize in Israel. She clearly came under a great deal of pressure and flak for doing so and perhaps this essay in Haaretz is a way to show she really cares about what happens to Palestinians under Zionist rule: …The…
So you love Israel but are you being paid to think that?
Where to begin with this story? So here’s what we now know. Anybody, repeat anybody, who may be speaking on behalf of Israel or supporting its policies may well be on the payroll of the Jewish state. Just brilliant. Yet another way to completely shoot down whatever credibility Tel Aviv may still have: The Foreign…
New Zealand Greens ask why Israel maintains a Gaza blockade
How one of the key Greens in the New Zealand parliament yesterday challenged the country’s foreign minister Murray McCully over the ongoing Gaza siege: KEITH LOCKE (Green) KEITH to the Minister of Foreign Affairs: Will the Government call for the immediate lifting of Israel’s economic blockade of Gaza; if not, why not? Hon MURRAY McCULLY…
What should NATO be doing (apart from not existing)?
Former UK ambassador to Uzbekistan, Craig Murray, has become very outspoken about the Western “war on terror” in the last years. This is very interesting: What I was being told last night was very interesting indeed. NATO HQ in Brussels is today a very unhappy place. There is a strong understanding among the various national…
Australian journalists, take some tips from the British how to speak to Israel
The Australian media treats Israeli spokespeople with almost fawning respect, oddly enough, without actually asking them serious questions about the Jewish state’s actions. Israel kills people and then their hacks are allowed to explain why “terrorists” were on the high seas. Here’s how it should be done, via Jon Snow in Britain:
Little room in Israel for anybody who doesn’t love the government
Here’s the Israeli Knesset, a rabble of bigots and haters. Charming: Rightist lawmaker Moshe Mutz Matalon (Yisrael Beitenu) told Palestinian MK Haneen Zoabi, “Nice work. In one day you’ve managed to accomplish what the treacherous people around you have been trying to do for years. Unfortunately, the (commando) fighters (who raided the aid flotilla) acted…
Obama administration and Israel sitting in a tree…
Sigh: U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Wednesday defended Israel’s blockade of the Gaza Strip and its decision to intercept the pro-Palestinian flotilla bringing humanitarian aid to the coastal territory, though he did not go so far as to defend the Israel Navy raid that killed nine people two days earlier. In an interview with…
A few simple steps for Israel to win back friends (measured in decades)
Note yesterday’s editorial in Murdoch’s Australian broadsheet. Defensive, seemingly pained that the beloved Israel had acted so brazenly and less defiant as usual. Next step, backing a targeted boycott campaign (ok, I can dream): The Jewish state must reassure the world it wants peace In boarding vessels intent on breaking the Gaza blockade the Israeli…
“We would never tolerate this from our enemies”
The letters in today’s Sydney Morning Herald. Hear the rising anger about the pass Australia and the West in general have given Israel for decades. Public opinion is shifting. Feel it: I am sick of the PR spin. I am sick of the tired justifications, I am sick of the diplomatic niceties and double standards.…