Norman Finkelstein’s new book on Gaza, This Time We Went Too Far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion, is shortly released. Here’s the promo video:
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How many Americans want Israel to be cast adrift?
A public debate recently took place in New York: “The US should step back from its special relationship with Israel.“
What will it take for more Jews to see that Israeli fascism is on the rise?
Naomi Chazan, president of the New Israel Fund – currently attacked by the far right for daring to support human rights in Israel and Palestine – tells the Independent that the current climate in the Jewish state is highly dangerous (and yet where are the Diaspora Jews speaking out? You can count them on a…
Australian member of parliament thinks bombing Iran is almost inevitable
Australian, Jewish Zionist MP Michael Danby loves to talk about human rights in many countries around the world, except of course Palestine. It’s the usual program; issue directives without political risk but support the most reactionary elements of the Israeli political elite. And bombing Iran. Take his piece in the Wall Street Journal that argues…
Fisk examines the messy Middle East (and knows who is in charge)
Robert Fisk’s latest essay is a long, poetic, sometimes confused, look at the Israel/Palestine conflict. It’s full of concise observations, depressing facts and insights. Very few other mainstream journalists are given the space to pontificate on any issue. Fisk knows the conflict well, remains convinced that a two-state solution is the only answer (though is…
Calm and peace in short supply in the Middle East
Such unhealthy rumblings are sadly familiar in the Middle East: Hamas political leader Khaled Meshal warned on Friday that should another war erupt with Israel, the majority of battles would not be contained to the Gaza Strip as they were during the conflict last winter. Meshal told the London-based Al-Hayyat that Hamas was not interested…
The New York Times has at least one vaguely honest writer on Israel/Palestine
New York Times columnist Roger Cohen is one of the better mainstream American commentators on the Middle East. Though unbelievably mild and seemingly unwilling to suggest Washington do anything to pressure Israel apart from harsh words (like that’s going to work), his latest piece continues the admirable trend: For over a century now, Zionism and…
If only Israel actually listened and read the Goldstone report
Bradley Burston on the importance of the Goldstone report for Israel: This is about the war we made in Gaza, and what it did to Israel. This is about how Israel’s conduct of the war has done more damage to the Jewish state than all the thousands and thousands of Palestinian rockets and mortar shells…
Fearing the simple act of peacefully resisting Israeli acts
Peaceful Palestinian resistance is paying off. Here’s one example.