The Financial Times covers the global boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel and finds a long road ahead. The fact that a leading newspaper even acknowledges the risk Israel faces due to its behaviour, including its recent strong editorial implicitly accepting a one-state solution as the only likely way forward, is progress: Yet, despite…
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Sorry for wanting an Arab player
No, Israel isn’t a racist society at all: Beitar Jerusalem captain Aviram Baruchyan met Thursday evening with fans belonging to the “La Familia” organization and apologized for saying that he would like to see an Arab play in the football team. The fans told him they were hurt by the remark he made about 10…
“Hamas is not obliged under international law to accept the legitimacy of the state of Israel”
Resistance will continue: Hamas political chief Khaled Meshaal vows of planning a new political initiative that would discard vain negotiations and instead adopt resistance to redress Palestinian rights. “Not much hope could be upheld for a future Palestinian state as long as the Zionist occupation persists; Israel pushes ahead with plans to build more homes…
The Israeli left is dead and buried
Yitzhak Laor in Haaretz: The threats uttered against a possible Palestinian declaration of independence by our leaders Benjamin Netanyahu, Avigdor Lieberman and Ehud Barak let the Israeli sanctimony (usually tedious and belabored) drop to the floor for a moment, like a woman’s slip. It exposed the ugly skeleton of force that gives only us freedom…
When “apartheid” is the only word to use
The Middle East Report dedicates an edition to the key issue in the Middle East: We have used the word “apartheid” to describe Israel’s system of rule over the Palestinians with eyes wide open to the incendiary quality of the term and the uniqueness of the South African ordeal that it automatically evokes. Our purpose…
Take cover when tackling Jewish power
The New Statesman’s Peter Wilby on this week’s Channel 4 documentary about Zionist power in Britain: The journalist Peter Oborne is a brave man. The inevitable accusations of anti-Semitism are already flying around after his Channel 4 programme on Britain’s pro-Israel lobby. Given 20th-century history, anti-Semitism is just about the most damaging epithet that can…
Australia looks briefly at the Palestinian cause and issues a sigh
The Australian government is so close to Israel it hurts the Jewish state’s jaw. So this news shows a) the hatred of the Zionist lobby towards the Palestinians, any Palestinians and b) the belief of the Rudd elites to only give rudimentary at best support for Palestinian rights: The federal Government has denied a shift…
How on earth did the wrong guys get Israeli weapons?
Israel has a world class arms industry, selling weapons to pretty much anybody. So this news is certainly curious: Use of Israeli-made light arms by militants against security forces in Waziristan has raised several questions amongst many recently. TheNation has learnt on good authority that militants are using Israeli-made light arms including “Uzi gun” and…
Jordan is happy to be used as a place where terror is trained
“The war on terror” is all about keeping our bastards on a short leash in an attempt to get them to abuse/kill/detain the pre-determined enemy. So simple and yet so costly: In the bleak and seemingly endless desert expanse that unfolds east of Jordan’s capital city, Amman, lies a crucial cog in the ambitious regional…
Getting Jerusalem in a head-lock and not letting go (if only)
I just caught up with Andrew Sullivan’s column from last weekend’s Sunday Times on Obama and Israel. Despite the fact that Jeffrey Goldberg worries about Sullivan’s Zionist credentials, Sullivan argues that Obama has played the Middle East well so far and holds a trump card: In the long run Obama retains one key advantage. He…