Israeli self-loathing is spreading. On the one hand it’s encouraging that Steve Plocker, writing in Ynet below, is beginning to understand that Israelis will pay a price for their ongoing criminality and occupation. Such actions come with a price. And rightly so. But on the other hand, such self-loathing is pathetic. What are you doing…
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US public want justice for Palestinians, not dead end decisions
One more indication of a populace far ahead of the corrupted political elites: The U.S. House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution Tuesday condemning the Goldstone Report on Israeli and Hamas actions taking during the Gaza War as “irredeemably biased” against Israel and calling on U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton…
Is Washington’s peace process over?
My latest New Matilda column is about the failure of the two-state solution: With hopes for a two-state solution waning, the resignation of Mahmoud Abbas is prompting new calls for a one-state solution, writes Antony Loewenstein The decision of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to resign and not stand in proposed January elections is a blessing…
Goldstone smeared by Peres in typical Israeli style
Richard Goldstone is the leading international judge tasked to investigate Israeli and Hamas war crimes in Gaza. Israeli President Shimon Peres makes a fool of himself while in Brazil (playing the man is a Zionist favourite): Goldstone is a small man, devoid of any sense of justice, a technocrat with no real understanding of jurisprudence.…
Ilan Pappe is not Zionist enough for Germany
Ilan Pappe is one of Israel’s finest historians. He kindly endorsed my first book, My Israel Question. Sadly, some Jews, this time in Germany, remain petrified over open debate. Will they ever learn? Anti-Zionist historian Prof. Ilan Pappe, one of the most important “New Historians”, was scheduled to speak last weekend at the Pedagogical Institute…
Israeli self-loathing part 5432
Yet another in the ongoing series of Israeli commentators desperately wishing for the world to treat them like a normal nation. Well, guess what, they’re not, and they occupy another people. Normality is something you earn: The security fence has become a new version of the Berlin Wall in the simplistic perception of many Europeans…
J Street broadens public debate on Israel
My following article is published today in Online Opinion: Distinguished South African judge Richard Goldstone wrote the UN report on Israel’s December/January war against the Gazan people. It detailed war crimes by both Israel and Hamas and demanded both entities fully investigate the serious charges of targeting civilians and infrastructure. “Pro-Israel and pro-peace” lobby J…
The Greens official Middle East policy is clear
Following the recent discussions within the Greens over the one-state solution, the following message was posted to Crikey yesterday: David Shoebridge, Convenor, The Greens NSW, writes: For clarity I would appreciate it if you could place this statement on the record regarding Antony Loewenstein’s article. While the Greens NSW has agreed to discuss a possible…
Israelis believe in two states (in words but not in deeds)
Gideon Levy in Haaretz: Along with opinion polls showing that most Israelis support a two-state solution, it appears that those who seek peace and justice are in a clear majority. Everyone is sitting cozily in the “painful concessions” lounge. But this of course is a delusion. As soon as the spotlights are turned off and…
Dividing and conquering Palestinian lives is what keeps us up at night
Ben White writes in the Guardian on the Israeli-led separation between the West Bank and Gaza: Twenty-one-year-old Palestinian student Berlanty Azzam was seized by Israeli soldiers at a checkpoint in the West Bank last month. Bound and blindfolded, she was forcibly deported to the Gaza Strip. Berlanty was in her final semester at Bethlehem University…