My following New Matilda article is published today: While the rest of us toasted the New Year, newmatilda.com correspondent Antony Loewenstein was in Cairo for the Gaza Freedom March In late December, one year after Israel’s brutal military assault on the Gaza Strip, some 1300 people from 43 countries descended on Cairo to draw attention…
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Israel initiates terrorism, says Turkey and Lebanon
This must be Israel’s wonderful outreach working wonders on friends and neighbours: The prime ministers of Turkey and Lebanon on Monday lashed out at Israeli violations of Lebanese airspace and air strikes in Gaza, warning they were undermining prospects for peace in the region. “Attacks on Lebanon is terrorism itself ”¦ We have to stand…
Flying the not-so-friendly skies from Israel
The always interesting Jewish journalist Shraga Elam questions the supposed effectiveness of Israel’s airport security services, praised around the world: As an example we can take the Israeli Ben-Gurion Airport,… which boasts of having… one of the tightest “security” operations in the world, allegedly effectively eliminating… terrorist hijackings.… In fact,… Ben-Gurion’s… safety ranking is nothing to brag about. In November 2008…
When will our reporters actually travel past Jerusalem?
Another story ignored by the Western press: Defence for Children International/Palestine Section (DCI/PS) on Wednesday submitted 13 cases to the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture for investigation. The cases relate to the ill-treatment, and in some cases torture, of Palestinian children being held at the notorious Al Jalame Interrogation and Detention Centre near Haifa, in…
You can’t build a Palestinian state under occupation
I mentioned back in November the development of a new Palestinian city in the West Bank, designed to emulate American-style living. Two months later, despite no indication that Israel’s occupation will ever end, developments continue: Work crews have broken ground on what they hope will be the first modern, planned Palestinian city – a step…
Israeli diplomacy is stone cold dead
First, examine this photo from Israeli newspaper Yediot: Here’s Israeli blogger Didi Remez offering the background: Yesterday (January 11 2010,) Deputy Foreign Minister Dannay Ayalon gave the Israeli public a tangible demonstration of what his Minister, Avigdor Lieberman, meant when he told 150… ambassadors… convened in Jerusalem that “the era of groveling is over.” Ayalon summoned the…
New York Times continues to shield Americans from Mid-east truth
How much longer must we suffer through this nonsense? Here’s David Brooks in the New York Times, writing about the wonderful technology in Israel and its inspiration to the world. With growing amount of information getting out that shows Israel is an oppressive nation, Zionist propagandists, especially in the US, need to ramp up the…
Jews, don’t be afraid of questioning Israel
What are the boundaries for acceptable debate over Israel according to Zionists? Usually, we’re told that criticism is acceptable…but then any discussion over Israeli crimes is deemed inappropriate. So, this blog post by James Besser, Washington correspondent for NY Jewish Week, is interesting (via Muzzlewatch). He highlights a recent Haaretz editorial that challenges Israel’s policy…
Companies will be remembered for backing Israeli apartheid
The complicity of Western multinationals in the maintenance of apartheid South Africa continues to haunt the world (I wrote last year about the role of Britain’s Tory leader David Cameron in this sordid history). Who can read this latest news from the US and not wonder when Western firms will be hauled before courts to…
Tehran’s nuclear “threat” is far away
So much for those apocalyptic predictions: A general who was once in charge of Israel’s nuclear weapons has claimed that Iran is a “very, very, very long way from building a nuclear capability”. Brigadier-General Uzi Eilam, 75, a war hero and pillar of the defence establishment, believes it will probably take Iran seven years to…