Israeli pressure on Palestinians in East Jerusalem has largely fallen off the media radar. Here’s the latest: Most days, Sharihan Hannoun and her family sit along the sidewalk on dusty white plastic chairs watching the East Jerusalem home from which they were forcibly evicted, watching as the strangers who took it over come and go.…
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Aceh: the only Jew in the village
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey: The small sign in my bare hotel room in Banda Aceh was clear. “It is forbidden to bring a woman/man who are not husband or wife into the hotel.” I saw similar messages in Iran, Saudi Arabia and Gaza. I was in Aceh [Indonesia] as a…
Israeli hypocrisy over Lebanon
Israeli incursions into Lebanon show, for the umpteenth time, that Israel is a rogue state unafraid to breach international law.
Israel’s isolating glow over Goldstone
Eldad Yaniv in Haaretz: In the early 1990s, when Judge Richard Goldstone headed a commission of inquiry on the rising violence in South Africa toward the end of apartheid, he garnered the same kind of compliments from the Afrikaners as he has been getting from Israel over the last few weeks. But the “Jew boy”…
Hamas wants to move Gaza in the wrong direction
Everyone knows the greatest threat isn’t Israel but women bearing their dangerous hair, wrists and feet! It began with a rash of unusually assertive police patrols. Armed Hamas officers stopped men from sitting shirtless on the beach, broke up groups of unmarried men and women, and ordered shopkeepers not to display lingerie on mannequins in…
The war on terror isn’t a reason to kill Palestinians
The UN Human Rights Council last week endorsed the Goldstone report over Gaza. Israel may soon have its own Pinochet moment. Leading Jewish American journalist Jeffrey Goldberg is worried, however, and his reasoning is revealing: Tactics deployed to hurt Israel inevitably cause collateral damage. It’s a good thing that the United States, and a handful…
Sri Lanka can’t kill civilians and get away with it
A day will come, and soon, when Israel will also face these criticisms and pay a price for abusing human rights: A European Union probe has found Sri Lanka in breach of international human rights laws, meaning the South Asian country is likely to lose concessions worth over $100 million for its top exports to…
The IDF, moral crusaders in Gaza
The former commander of British forces in Afghanistan, Col. Richard Kemp: The IDF did more to safeguard the rights of civilians [during the Gaza war] in a combat zone than any other army in the history of warfare.
How not to report the truth about Gaza
Judith Miller is the infamous journalist who pushed bogus claims against Saddam Hussein before the Iraq war. She’s filed a report from Gaza, littered with falsehoods, not least that the Western-backed Palestinian Authority is friendly to the West, unlike Hamas. It’s called buying friends, Judith, you should know about all that.
What age is too young for Israel to detain somebody?
The lives of Palestinian children held illegally by Israel.