The US-based Anti-Defamation League is usually far more interested in slamming critics of Israel, but its latest report makes for sobering reading: Since the election of Barack Obama as president, a current of anti-government hostility has swept across the United States, creating a climate of fervor and activism with manifestations ranging from incivility in public…
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How do Palestinians build a state with 500,000 Jews in the way?
Two recent articles in the Israeli press indicate the direction some of the Middle East debate is moving. Praise the “moderate” Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad while ignoring the ever-growing colonies in the West Bank. We should always be suspicious when occupiers praise the occupied: First, David Horowitz in the Jerusalem Post: Steadily and methodically,…
All Arabs are terrorists (say friends of Israel)
GlobalPost interviews some radical, West Bank settlers, supported, funded and protected by the Jewish state: Other than two friendly dogs and some iron bars, the kids on the hill have few weapons. Gottlieb keeps a small can of pepper spray in the pocket of his cargo pants in case of attack by people he calls…
Jews and Palestinians don’t have the same rights, deal with it
A photo tells a thousand words: Anna Baltzer, author, and Haithem El-Zabri, founder of the Palestine Online Store. Austin, TX, November 2008. [Photographer unknown]
Who is paying for that little trip you took to Iraq/Israel/Washington?
Following this week’s controversy over Sydney Morning Herald journalist Peter Hartcher taking a free trip to Israel and returning to Australia with wonderful tales of Zionist adventure, Foreign Policy’s Stephen Walt argues that transparency in think-tanks and public figures is key. Where is the money coming from of major columnists and journalists? We are drowning…
How to push as many Palestinians out of their own country as possible
Ethnic cleansing, allegedly supported by far too many Israelis: Transfer of Arabs from the Palestinian Authority to actual Arab countries was the most popular solution to the Arab-Israeli conflict, according to a poll this week by Israel National News. Of the more than 6,400 people surveyed, 53.2 said ‘Transfer of Palestinians to another Arab country’…
Settlements aren’t really colonies, says the Washington Post
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting on the continuing ability of the US corporate press to evade telling the truth about the Middle East: The big news out of the Middle East yesterday was the Israeli government’s decision to approve an expansion of… the Gilo settlement near Jerusalem. The White House’s muddled position on settlement expansion has…
We support the Palestinian charge for one person, one vote
Saree Makdisi, recent visitor to Australia, speaks to Democracy Now! on a Palestinian threat to unilaterally declare statehood: I think it would be a mistake for the Palestinians to declare statehood, because, first of all, they’ve already done that, and you can’t declare statehood twice. They did it in 1988. And the second thing is…
Get over the faux fear and speak to Hamas now
Former head of Mossad, Efraim Halevy, who headed the agency from 1998 to 2002, spoke this week to ABC Radio PM about the importance of engaging Hamas: Well as you know I am on record for the last six years saying that Hamas should be part of the solution not part of the problem. In…
Battle of the Zionist lobbies
After J Street condemned Sarah Palin for encouraging the expansion of illegal, Jewish settlements in the West Bank, J Street condemned her recklessness. Leading Zionist figure Abe Foxman condemned J Street for condemning Palin and questioned the group’s “pro-Israel” position. J Street responded and wrote this: Abe, we can disagree on matters of policy.… You…