There appears to be a recent surge in the US for civil disobedience against alleged war criminals. Recently the Israeli ambassador Michael Oren was heckled. And now another wonderful example of action against Bush administration lawyer John Yoo who is accused of finding creative legal ways to authorise torture:
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“Israel is not a normal country”
A fascinating exchange between Norman Finkelstein and Israeli spokesman and former adviser to Ariel Sharon Raanan Gissan on Russia Today. The interview really speaks for itself but it’s worth noting the continual need for Gissan to claim that the Jewish people have a biblical claim over Palestine (“for 3000 years”) and this therefore justifies Israeli…
The West Bank Wild West
How many wild Jews are now operating in the West Bank? A senior army commander on Thursday accused settler leaders of losing control of West Bank areas under their control after 30 youths attacked soldiers and border guards, injuring three. A soldier and two Border Police officers were hurt in the hilltop settlement Yitzhar on…
Calling all Jews, please help us sell the vibrant state of Israel
Israel’s liberals have become politically invisible. The country is therefore increasingly run by the right and far-right. Hooray for them. In light of the Jewish state’s shocking global image (aside from the political elites who love its plucky nature and war against Palestinians), the Israeli government has a wonderful idea (it’s truly hard to read…
When Jimmy Carter talks about “apartheid” he is slammed and yet these days…
Uber Zionist Jeffrey Goldberg utters the “a” word: Israel will one day be considered an apartheid state if it continues to rule over a population of Arabs that doesn’t want to be ruled by Israelis. That is why it is vital for Israel to establish permanent, internationally-recognized borders that more-or-less adhere to the 1967 border…It…
Why don’t we regard extreme Jews as a threat?
The extremism of the ultra-Orthodox community is revealed once again in this Der Spiegel article: The community of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Israel is half a million strong and growing. They live in a parallel universe cut off from the modern world in tight-knit communities where everything revolves around religion. Only a few dare to abandon…
Fatah and PLO are bought and sold for little gain
A Palestinian, Ahmed Moor, writes beautifully and painfully about his people’s post-Oslo “vulture class”, the gangsters, frauds and freaks who largely still speak for their people. But who do they really represent?
How many Western states helped Israel murder a citizen in Dubai?
The Dubai murder of a Hamas leader is getting juicier by the day. Palestinian defectors may well have been involved: A key security operative of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas was under arrest in Syria tonight on suspicion of having helped an alleged Israeli hit squad identify Mahmoud al-Mabhouh before he was assassinated in Dubai,…
How much did Britain know about the death of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh?
A curious addition by Robert Fisk to the murder of the Hamas commander in Dubai: It’s a propaganda war. Whoever killed the Hamas official in Dubai – let’s speak frankly – it’s part of an old, dirty war between the Israelis and the Palestinians in which they have been murdering their secret police antagonists for…
