Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Herzliya conference: Education begins first of all with the bible. So get to know the land.
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How many anti-Semites does a Jew see there?
Gary Rosenblatt, New York Jewish Week: There was a time when the American Jewish community saw its primary role as broadening support for Israel. Today, though, it seems like some among us spend more time trying to make our community ideologically pure, weeding out those who do not share our own specific views on Israel…
Is this the best way to deal with anti-Islam hatred?
Israeli historian Benny Morris – a Jewish man who rather likes the concept of bombing Arabs and/or Iranians – has run into a problem in Britain: The Cambridge University Israel Society have cancelled a talk by former Cambridge student Benny Morris after pressure from students. The political historian, who was due to speak at Catz,…
South Africa may be Israel’s future
Everywhere one turns these days, the apartheid/South African analogy is growing in strength: A senior Israeli military official during last year’s war in Gaza has said that an independent commission of inquiry should investigate allegations that Israeli troops committed war crimes. Colonel Pnina Sharvit-Baruch, who was in charge of the Israel Defence Forces’ international law…
Israel now wants to only mildly slam Goldstone
Jewish news agency JTA headlines a story in a way that is surely guaranteed to elicit a laugh: Amid heated rhetoric, Israel’s reply to Goldstone suggests more civil approach
Investigate Gaza and get over the victimhood
And Israel wonders why the world demands more from a supposed democracy? A high-ranking officer has acknowledged for the first time that the Israeli army went beyond its previous rules of engagement on the protection of civilian lives in order to minimise military casualties during last year’s Gaza war, The Independent can reveal. The officer,…
Israel expands the occupation and wonders why apartheid is alive
The “A” word by the Israeli elite: Israel’s defense minister warned Tuesday that if Israel does not achieve a peace deal with the Palestinians, it will be either a binational state or an undemocratic apartheid state. Defense Minister Ehud Barak’s comments came in an address to a security conference north of Tel Aviv. Israeli leaders…
Until Israel openly investigates Gaza, offiicials will be chased around the world
The Zionist elite sees itself at this week’s Herzliya conference in Israel, according to Robert Fisk, as “under siege. That was the dreary, familiar, hopelessly misunderstood theme at the 10th annual Herzliya conference of diplomats, Israeli civil servants, military gold braid and government yesterday.” It is under siege because it’s insufficiently mature to investigate its…
Why should Australia gain in the UN by ignoring Israeli criminality?
This “exclusive” in today’s Murdoch Australian (also featured in the Melbourne Age) is a wake-up call to the Australian government. Blindly supporting Israel and mouthing platitudes about a two-state solution, while remaining silent on the siege of Gaza and the growing occupation, comes with a price: Kevin Rudd’s bid for a UN Security Council seat…