Palestinian politician Mustafa Barghouti was recently seen on The Daily Show with Jewish writer Anna Baltzer explaining to a mainstream American audience the reality of Israeli occupation. Here, to a press conference at the Wattan Media Centre, he expands his thesis and outlines the necessary direction of the Palestinian liberation struggle: “The present decision of…
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Blumenthal on Palin’s role as the radical Christian lady to beat
American writer and author Max Blumenthal – a unique voice in America who skewers the radical Right and religious fundamentalism as well as challenging Zionist apartheid in Palestine – writes here about Sarah Palin’s new book, “Going Rogue”: Sarah Palin’s heavily publicized book tour begins in earnest this Monday, but weeks before, her ghostwritten memoir,…
Rabbi Michael Lerner in Sydney
Rabbi Michael Lerner is rabbi of Beyt Tikkun Synagogue in San Francisco, Editor-in-chief of… Tikkun, author of the 2006 New York Times best-seller… The Left Hand of God, as well as author of… Healing Israel/Palestine: A Path to Peace and Reconciliation.… … He is in Australia as part of the World Parliament of Religions which will be held in Melbourne…
Some Palestinians still want American approval to breath
The Melbourne Age editorialises today that, “if the settlement activity continues, Israel will have no partner for peace” – it’s a pretty soft piece, but at least acknowledges that Zionists are running out of time with the one-state equation gaining global traction – the US-backed Palestinian Authority continues on its merry way towards Palestinian “independence”:…
Stealing water the West Bank way
A recent Amnesty International report documented Israel’s illegal and discriminatory control of water in the Palestinian territories. Jewish settlers get what they want and Palestinians get very little. This al-Jazeera reports shows the reality on the ground (via Joseph Dana):
1967 was a turning point in global attitudes to Israel
A friend of Phil Weiss (from Mondoweiss) recalls the reasons so many wealthy Americans back Israel: “I believed it all. When the Life Magazine cover came out after the 1967 war, with the Israelis on the tank, I thought, This is really a miracle. The people who were almost wiped out in the Holocaust have…
Our Zionist Gods will protect us from war crimes charges
Imagine if a prominent Muslim sheik said this? The world would be outraged. But a Rabbi? Just another day in the fundamentalist Jewish state: The Israel Defense Forces’ chief rabbi told students in a pre-army yeshiva program last week that soldiers who “show mercy” toward the enemy in wartime will be “damned.” Brig. Gen. Avichai…
Likud has an answer to the bi-national state issue
From a relatively new Israeli website called Coteret – “News you can’t read in Haaretz” – comes this jolly tale of Zionist extremism: Friday’s Makor Rishon, a right-wing Israeli newspaper, ran a… feature… on the Israeli reaction to Palestinian threats of either demanding a democratic bi-national state in the whole of Mandatory Palestine or unilaterally declaring a…
Peres is the kind, gentle side of Israeli expansion
Gideon Levy in Haaretz: [Israeli President Shimon] Peres is our beautiful and misleading face. Equipped with the ability to delude, one of the founders of the settlement movement has turned into Israel’s Mr. Peace. He travels the world, generating admiration for his physical stamina, scattering empty promises and slogans. He calls on Palestinian President Mahmoud…
9/11 was a stab towards Zionism, says Jew
Israel last week opened a monument in Jerusalem to the victims of September 11 but this comment was extremely odd: World JNF Chairman Efi Stenzler said, “The events of September 11 and the attack on the World Trade Centre are criteria for the free world’s approach towards terror organizations operating against the State of Israel…