Hugo Chavez speaks to French newspaper Le Figaro: The question is not whether the Israelis want to exterminate the Palestinians. They’re doing it openly.
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Norway should go much further against Israel
Amira Hass in Haaretz: The question is not why Norway divested from the defense electronics giant Elbit Systems, but why only now, and why only from that company? The country that gave the name of its capital city to what the world thought of as a peace process is still invested in companies involved in…
Ignoring Gaza is so much easier
Two pieces of news about Gaza that should shock the world and reveal our complicity. This: A UN report published Tuesday says poverty in the Gaza Strip has deteriorated to levels unseen since 1967. The UN trade and development agency says 90% of Gaza’s residents are currently beneath the poverty line and rates the damages…
For this Jew, boycotting Israel is a bridge too far
Following my article in Crikey yesterday, David Imber responds today (under the headline: “This time Loewenstein, you went too far”): As a Jew who is used to reading controversial pieces about Israel (and as someone who was friends with him at uni) I have been content to let the views of Antony Loewenstein go through…
The Israel lobby gets a bang for its huge bucks
Anti-War examines the ways in which the Zionist lobby in the US beautifully greases the wheels of the American political elites: Many Americans who thought that the health care debate was important must have wondered where their congressmen were in early August during the first two weeks of the House of Representatives recess.… It turns…
How to make trouble in the Middle East
Is this Middle East “peace plan”, obtained by Politico’s Laura Rosen, even close to reality? 1. Deploying international forces in the Jordan Valley and some areas of the West Bank. 2. Placing some areas in east Jerusalem under the authority of Israel and keeping the Islamic sites in Jerusalem under Arab control. 3. Disbanding all…
Drop rose-coloured views to lift Gaza peace hopes
My following article appears in today’s Canberra Times newspaper: Hussam Abuayish lives in Gaza’s Johrel-Deik district near the Israeli border. With yellow teeth and nervous demeanour, the 24-year-old told me in July of an Israeli missile that landed near his family home a month before. His sister died and he remains in pain because of…
Jews shooting those Arab terrorists
Just what the world needs; gun-toting, religious Jews in the US:
Arab killing is a Jewish commandment
After the recent Gaza war, reports emerged that rabbis instructed religious soldiers to kill Arabs in the name of God. Fundamentalism is being bred in the West Bank and the Israeli state is more than happy to support it. The BBC reports that military rabbis are expanding their reach: I visited an orthodox Jewish seminary…
The kind of Palestinian leader loved by Western elites
Newsweek profiles Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad. The tag-line for the story speaks for itself: Prime Minister Salam Fayyad’s unorthodox approach is winning plaudits from the West. That could be his undoing. While the Western-backed Palestinian Authority talks about “economic development”, the West Bank occupation merely deepens. This is no recipe for an independent Palestine…