Foreign Policy’s Marc Perry argues: In early February of 2006, I submitted a book proposal about the wartime relationship between Generals George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower to a group of New York publishers. I had worked on the proposal for nine months and believed it would garner significant interest. Two weeks after the submission, I…
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Listening to Jewish calls for Arab genocide
If true, why the hell is a US ambassador sitting through this? Arutz Sheva (‘Channel Seven’), an Israeli media network that runs Israel National News (INN), reported that on Dec. 30, 2009, a rabbinical “congress for peace” proposed to U.S. Ambassador to Israel James Cunningham genocidal ethnic cleansing of Palestinians as “the Biblical approach to…
A Palestinian state “around 2011”
Here’s the Palestinian “vision”, courtesy of Western funding and largess. Impossible to achieve? No. A provisional Palestinian “state” could be called today. The question is what it will look like, what happens to the Jewish settlers and how will Israel react. Right now, the thought of a viable Palestinian state seems close to impossible: Next…
Vignettes from Gaza show us a hidden world
Back in January my American friend Nitin Sawhney – writer, activist and human rights worker – entered Gaza and wrote about his impressions. Now comes the promo for the upcoming film: A brief 2-minute trailer showing a vignette of scenes from the upcoming documentary film called “Strawberries, Roosters and the Chocolate Seas” by Nitin Sawhney…
If only Israel had more people like Gideon Levy
The totally unique Israeli journalist Gideon Levy is interviewed by the Electronic Intifada and doesn’t hold back: The Israeli media, which is a free media, free of censorship, free of governmental pressure, has been dehumanizing the Palestinians, demonizing them. Without the cooperation of the Israeli media, the occupation would not have lasted so long. It…
Jimmy Carter, stick to your guns
Why do political leaders (past or present) need the approval of the Zionist lobby? To be classed as sufficiently “Zionist”, “pro-Israel” and “friendly to Jews”? Or to attract the big bucks when running in elections? A prominent Jewish leader criticized former President Jimmy Carter on Monday, blasting Carter for saying in a speech this month…
Israel has room to move and she knows it
While Israel bombs Gaza and injures a number of Palestinian children, The Cable reports on the latest theatre performance between Israel and Washington: The Obama administration’s list of “actions” it wants to see from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is open to negotiation, not a hard list of demands as many believe, according to one…
The one-state solution gathers steam
The impeccably establishment publication Foreign Policy continues the mainstream discussion of a one-state solution for the Middle East conflict. Zionism is being challenged in profoundly serious way: The one-state solution has long had advocates among the Palestinian diaspora, from Edward Said to Ghada Karmi and Ali Abunimah. However, there has recently been an exponential rise…
South Africa and Israel were closer than you think
A blast from the past, proving that America’s leading Zionist lobby sometimes criticises the Jewish state (hardly for human rights reasons but the fear of Israel being seen working with despots). How times have changed (and note the irony, considering Israel today behaves in ways reminiscent of South Africa during its darkest days): In the…
Who writes the rules about “mature” discussion over Israel/Palestine in Australia?
One-time Independent Australian Jewish Voices blogger Michael Brull examines in Overland magazine the role of Zionism in Australia, the boundaries of so-called acceptable debate and the gate-keepers who want to tell us what to think about the Middle East.