Ali Abunimah on the challenges facing Palestinian nationalism: Hamas’ long-term strategy of trying to join the slowly crumbling edifice of the Palestinian Authority now makes no sense. It now seems more likely that the deal will not go ahead, although Hamas is maneuvering to avoid blame, and to maintain its lifeline to Egypt, which backs…
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Drinking beer for Palestine
Time magazine on the curious case of Oktoberfest in the occupied, Palestinian territories:
Is al-Jazeera about to become a Zionist outlet?
Iran’s Press TV has the following report (interesting story though the last lines are impossible to confirm): An Israeli media tycoon has offered to buy the pan-Arab Al-Jazeera satellite television network from the government of Qatar. Haim Saban, has submitted an offer to the Qatari government in a bid to purchase half of the Doha…
The contradictory faces of Haaretz
Ari Shavit: To prevent the region’s deterioration into complete chaos, Israel must exercize force once every few years. These limited demonstrations of power do not achieve a decisive military victory or a breakthrough in the peace process. Their entire purpose is to stabilize the violent relationship between Israelis and Arabs. Thus they create a temporary,…
The UN are really Nazis, says prominent Jew
Michael B. Oren, Israel’s ambassador to the United States, issues an absurd argument that simply shows the desperation of Zionists only able to smear any fair critic: The Goldstone Report [on Gaza] goes further than Ahmadinejad and the Holocaust deniers by stripping the Jews not only of the ability and the need but of the…
When Israel wants to cuddle up with brutes
Human rights in Kazakhstan are dire. It therefore makes sense, according to the Zionist group Jerusalem Centre for Public Affairs, for Israel to closely align itself with the brutal dictatorship: Israel and post-communist, resource-rich states have similar geopolitical priorities in opposing terrorism and radical Islam. By developing closer ties with Kazakhstan – and with Eurasian…
Neither Sri Lanka nor Israel should have impunity in their ‘wars on terror’
My following article appears in today’s Lebanon Daily Star newspaper: Israel’s war against the Gazan people in December and January devastated the tiny Strip, killing over 1,400 people, a majority of whom were civilians. The Western powers, including America, England and Australia, backed Israel’s battle against Hamas and shared its belief that destruction of the…
You scratch our criminal, Israeli backs and we’ll touch yours
Palestinian independence? Accountability for Israeli war crimes? You’re dreaming (the quote below from the Israeli official is really well remembering): Israel is threatening to kill off a crucial West Bank economic project unless the Palestinian Authority withdraws a request to the International Criminal Court to investigate alleged Israeli crimes during last winter’s Gaza war. Shalom…
Israel is like any other state, only claims to be democratic
Ynet: United Nations investigator Richard Goldstone said Sunday that he was saddened by the fact that Jews felt he should not be investigating Israel because he is Jewish. As a Jew, he told CNN, I have an even bigger duty to investigate war crimes. I probed war crimes in other countries, he said, so why…