Israel is a supposedly secular nation with an increasingly fundamentalist minority. Enjoy: Around 1,000 demonstrators marched Saturday evening outside the Prime Minister’s residence in Jerusalem to protest Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz’s decision to allow the continuation of single-sex bus lines that serve the Haredi community. Protestors held signs that read “Israel is not Tehran” and…
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Australian mainstream newspaper dares to say a few things about East Jerusalem
For the Sydney Morning Herald, yesterday’s editorial is pretty strong. A sign, perhaps, that the Zionist lobby isn’t always running the agenda in the corporate media: Stephen Smith, the Foreign Minister, is right to be outraged by Israel’s announcement last week of plans for 1600 houses for Jewish settlers in East Jerusalem. Venturing beyond Australia’s…
A letter in the SMH to counter Zionist spin
Following yesterday’s article in the Sydney Morning Herald by Zionist lobbyist Vic Alhadeff, I submitted the following unpublished letter: Once again we have the sorry sight of an Australian Zionist spokesman, Vic Alhadeff (15/3/10) seemingly incapable of condemning Israel’s ever-expanding colonisation of the West Bank. While the international community is becoming increasingly intolerant of the…
Stop the presses: Petraeus links Israel/Palestine to US impotence
Praise the Lord. Finally, somebody realises that Israeli actions are directly affecting American interests and lives. Sure, this has been clear for decades but better late than never. The likely outcome from Washington? More “disappointment” with Israeli actions in Palestine and little else: On Jan. 16, two days after a killer earthquake hit Haiti, a…
This is what Israel has created in Gaza: kids with one thought on their minds
The Independent reports on the children of Gaza, suffering and dying for vengeance: Homelessness is just one of the issues facing the 780,000 Gazan children in the aftermath of the conflict, problems that are explored in a revealing new documentary Dispatches: Children of Gaza, to be screened tomorrow at 8pm on Channel 4. Perhaps the…
Obama has no issue with settlements (if he did, he’d pull money)
Just in case it wasn’t clear that America essentially approves Israeli building in East Jerusalem, read here. The sound and fury coming from Washington is purely for show. And it means nothing on the ground. Meanwhile, the US Zionist lobby is getting angry with the Obama administration. How dare you say anything critical of Israel,…
Friedman asks America to do to Israel what it has never done
Everybody’s favourite American supporter of bombing civilians to freedom, Thomas Friedman, writes in yesterday’s New York Times that the rift between America and Israel is serious. I’ll believe this when Israel’s colonisation program actually decreases. Until then, it’s cheap rhetoric, at best: I am a big Joe Biden fan. The vice president is an indefatigable…
Goldstone threatens the chances of killing civilians, anywhere
Surprise, surprise. So the real issue with the UN Goldstone report over Gaza isn’t really the innocents killed, it’s that the recommendations could be used against the West (via the Forward): In Congress, New York Democrat Gary Ackerman, chairman of the House Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, is one of those leading…
The Left is a source of all evil (says extreme rightist)
Jerusalem Post writer Caroline Glick – there’s nothing like a good bombing to get her out of the bed in the morning – increases her rhetoric to the point of, well, you decide: Israel is not the only target of the Red-Green alliance. Its operations span the globe. Sometimes, as in the case of the…
How many American Jews are upset with Israel?
The Jewish Forward newspaper is unhappy (sure, it’s pitifully weak, but unlike the Australian Jewish News, Israel can occasionally step out of line): There were the expected handshakes and bear hugs, the slaps on the back and supportive words amiably expressed before the media. Just what ought to happen when Israel welcomes the vice president…