Just in case anybody was wondering, here’s a “progressive” Australian politician being asked about the independence of his party’s position towards Israel. Don’t believe a word he says: Federal Liberal MP Malcolm Turnbull, whose Sydney seat of Wentworth includes a large Jewish constituency, yesterday told the Herald intelligence agencies often arrive at views that are…
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What was Ban Ki Moon doing while Sri Lanka died?
The rights and responsibilities of the UN is constantly under scrutiny, as it should be. Its role in Sri Lanka last year, during the government massacres against Tamil civilians, is rightly challenged: Louise Arbour, the head of the International Crisis Group, called for an internal review of the U.N.’s conduct during Sri Lanka’s bloody 2009…
Remind me how Gaza’s isolation is weakening Hamas?
How the ongoing siege of Gaza is forcing separated families to use the dangerous tunnels from Egypt to reunite with loved ones.
Yes, Israel needs more weaponry to protect itself from dirty Arabs
How the US Congress “debates” whether to give yet more military aid to Israel. A nice lesson in loving Israel to death:
Today’s fun and games around Australia/Israel (and watch backing for the Zionist state decline)
There’s no indication that the current political theatre between Australia and Israel will end soon. Jews are upset, conservatives are fuming that Israel can’t just keep on killing anybody it wants and some rational players are calling for an even stronger reaction. Here’s the Herald Sun’s Andrew Bolt, never short of fury at, well, anybody…
Restricting Palestinian movement (and most Israelis say nothing, as usual)
A press release from a leading human rights group: Hamoked – Center for the Defence of the Individual served a petition to the HCJ, along with 15 other Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations, regarding the practice of expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank to the Gaza Strip solely on the basis of their…
Blind western backing for Israel only leads to more terrorism
The following article by Ian Munro appears in today’s Melbourne Age: Australia’s 12,000-strong Israeli community is deeply divided over the government’s deportation of an Israeli diplomat, with many angry that Israel risked good relations with a strong friend, former security analyst Ran Porat said. Mr Porat, a journalist who is undertaking postgraduate research into the…
Why the Zionist lobby has fewer friends by the day (and the old don’t realise)
Discussion of Australia’s Zionist lobby is far and few between though yesterday’s Crikey was a notable exception. Does the Israel lobby seriously believe that by backing every single Zionist position they’re doing Israel a favour? Death by a thousand cuts and oddly satisfying to watch: It’s one thing for the Israel lobby to jack up…
How did Australia find the Israeli rats?
The role of Mossad in Australia is largely ignored by our media elites. Who are they and what do they do? A rare ray of sunshine appeared in today’s Australian: The idea of Mossad operating in Dubai or other Middle East areas would not surprise most people, but Australians may be surprised at Mossad agents…
End the mad siege on Gaza, says Haaretz
An editorial in Haaretz that highlights the ways in which both Israel and the Zionist Diaspora manages the conflict, through spin and PR, rather than actually addressing real suffering of the Palestinians: We will soon mark five years since Israel’s disengagement from the Gaza Strip, but Gaza refuses to disengage from Israel. Border incidents continue,…