This news will only bring belligerence on all sides (Iran, Israel and the US), though the hardline Zionist lobby will be rapt: A new round of international sanctions against Iran looked almost inevitable today, after the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei said talks with the Islamic republic were at a “stalemate”, and…
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My Israel Question Melbourne launch
My Israel Question will have its Melbourne launch on 24 September at Readings Carlton book shop. I will be in conversation with Overland editor Jeff Sparrow: Loewenstein’s forensic discussion of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is continued here in a fully updated and expanded new edition of My Israel Question. Tonight he will be examining the prospects…
So the mad settlers now run Israeli policy
Amos Harel writes in Haaretz: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows his control over the land of outposts is flimsy. He is not the one who will decide how many caravans will be placed on hill 725, or how many Palestinian orchards will be uprooted near Yitzhar. A senior defense official told Haaretz: “Israeli law was…
While the occupation deepens, Israel will continue to suffer
News emerged last week of film-maker John Greyson removing his film from the Toronto International Film Festival due to its planned spotlight on Tel Aviv. Now, with serious global stars attached, the situation in Palestine receives the kind of attention it deserves: An international group of more than 50 prominent filmmakers, writers, artists and academics…
The US government helps ethnic cleansing
We constantly read about Israel stealing property from Palestinians in Israel proper and the West Bank. This piece of information in the Khaleej Times is intriguing and in need of further investigation: As the Israeli government orchestrates increasing demand for Palestinian property, ordinary American Jews wishing to escape their credit card debts buy up stolen…
Dissident Jews should really just be shot
The following letter appears in this week’s Australian Jewish News: One of the revelations of the Jewish Population Survey was that 80 per cent of Jews support Israel. As editorialised in The AJN, this debunks the “absurd notion pushed by the likes of Antony Loewenstein and Jews Against the Occupation that there is a large…
Black is white and Israel is a pure nation
Sometimes it’s important to understand the mindset of Zionist extremism, its profound hatred for Arabs and belief in Jewish exclusivity. George Gilder, “the world’s foremost technology futurist”, published an essay in July in the journal of the neo-conservative American Enterprise Institute. Its message? At the heart of anti-Semitism is resentment of Jewish achievement. Today that…
How one Western government is showing the way against apartheid
The recent decision of the Norwegian Finance Minister to divest from an Israeli company deeply involved in the occupation is celebrated by Ilan Pappe (and rightly so): The significance of this alas, short lived exposure of what lies behind the apartheid wall and the fences that encircle the West Bank and the Gaza Strip stems…
Carter discusses one-state realities
Jimmy Carter, who recently visited Israel and Palestine, writes in yesterday’s Washington Post that the one-state solution is an increasingly likely option: We saw considerable interest in a call by Javier Solana, secretary general of the Council of the European Union, for the United Nations to endorse the two-state solution, which already has the firm…