With the recent news that Barack Obama has no issue whatsoever with Israel maintaining its unchecked nuclear arsenal, Ira Chernus, writing in TomDispatch, argues that America is stuck in a Cold War mindset: If Obama’s troubles keep him awake late at night, he may hear the ghostly voices of past presidents echoing down the White…
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Let the Palestinian people breath, so Abbas must go
Another day and another condemnation by the Arab world of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. He is leading his people to ruin. Rami Khouri writes: I was at the United Nations two weeks ago when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas spoke at the 60th anniversary of UNRWA, and his performance was thoroughly empty and unimpressive. Abbas…
Mahmoud Abbas and friends urge the killing of Gazans, on tape
Just the latest and perhaps most damning of evidence that the Palestinian Authority is a corrupt, utterly irrelevant yet highly useful tool of Israel and the Americans. How can any Palestinian treat these goons with respect? If true, these allegations are sadly predictable. The following is from Israeli paper Ma’ariv on 5 October (via Norman…
West Bank settlers should be hugged not shamed, say reporters
Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting show how the US corporate media feel terribly sorry for those beleaguered Jewish settlers living illegally on Palestinian land but show less sympathy for the Arabs whose land is being stolen by said Jews: Ethnic cleansing could hardly hope for a friendlier hearing.
Hamas proves a point the hard way
The Washington Post reports the screaming obvious: after wars, bombardment and blockade, Palestinian resistance has won the day (despite huge costs for the people themselves): A top Israeli security official said there has been a frustrated acknowledgment in Israeli intelligence and military circles that, as it stands, there is no obvious alternative to continued Hamas…
The Palestinians must find a respected leadership
Palestinian-American Saree Makdisi, a recent visitor to Australia, writes about the Palestinian Authority’s role in the Middle East post its UN Gaza capitulation: What, then, are we to conclude from all this? Above all, that no Palestinian ought to look to the official leadership as a source of guidance and direction. It has betrayed the…
The kind of Zionism that appeals to only the weak
Isi Leibler, an Israeli with a desire to allow only hardline Zionist views to be heard, is back; he knows he’s struggling with reality because anybody who damns the occupation is classified as disloyal or worse. Hear the desperation and fury. This is modern Zionism: Unfortunately, in the wake of the Oslo Accords, the massive…
No wonder the West loves Mahmoud Abbas
Omar Barghouti, one of the key leaders of the BDS campaign against Israel, writes about the Palestinian Authority’s capitulation to Israel and the US over the devastating UN Gaza report: It is crucial to remember that the PA does not have any legal or democratic mandate to speak on behalf of the people of Palestine…
Jews who hate themselves so much it hurts
British-based Antony Lerman, a long-time critic of Israeli behaviour in Palestine, takes on the “self-hating Jew” smear: Now it’s quite obvious that calling someone a self-hating Jew in the context of the Israel-Palestine conflict is intended as a demeaning political insult, a way of delegitimising the views of Jews with whom you violently disagree. But…
Israeli officers will be chased worldwide without sleep
One of the main reasons to support a boycott, divestment and sanctions campaign against Israel is that the Jewish state, through its constantly illegal actions, cannot be seen globally as a “normal” state (a point made yet again by Sydney University’s Jake Lynch in his weekly column). Occupying Palestine must be a punishable offence. This…