Israel’s determined plan to remove Palestinians from East Jerusalem has been covered extensively on this site. Last night video activist/journalist Joseph Dana attended a peaceful protest against the evictions in the location of the original crime. It’s a typically sensitive and powerful film:
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Will Australia stand up and back Hamas?
Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser on the importance of bringing Hamas in from the political cold: Hamas was isolated, violence – predictably – resumed and the whole region paid the price. Israel and America also made attempts to strengthen Fatah, to weaken or destroy Hamas. Such attempts have failed. Fatah’s leadership was not up…
Zipper the movie
Zipper is an Israeli short film recently screened in Tel Aviv and the Jerusalem Film Festival:
Israel close to bombing Iran?
A story to be placed in the “what the hell?” file: Israel last month asked the United State for permission to attack Iran’s nuclear facilities, Kuwaiti newspaper al-Jarida reported on Friday. The paper quoted a “US diplomatic source located in Jerusalem”, but the report’s credibility was not confirmed. According to the sources, after the opposition…
Chomsky on the Gaza siege
I sent Noam Chomsky my recent article in The Nation about Gaza and his personal response (published with permission) is below: Harsh punishment of Gaza took place long before their preemptive coup in 07, in fact was announced and implemented immediately after the Jan 06 election, both by the US and Israel (with the EU…
What is happening in Gaza
John Ging, operations director of Gaza’s UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) – a man I met while there and found his passion, determination and objectivity truly inspiring – told Xinhua in late July that, “the ordinary people are continuing to pay a huge humanitarian price for the political failure to find a solution to…
How to laugh at Arab misfortune in a few easy steps
The organisation Zochrot is a group of Israeli citizens who work to raise awareness of the Nakba, the 1948 Palestinian catastrophe. They just sent the following email: On Friday, July 31, 2009, Channel 2’s popular TV program, “Awesome Weekend,” parodied Bibi Netanyahu’s ridiculous efforts to show the world and Israelis the reality of the conflict.…
Give us a plan on colonies or stop the side-show
Zvi Bar’el in Haaretz: It should be said from the onset: Do not freeze settlement construction, do not stop it in part or periodically, not for six months, not for a single day. As long as the U.S. administration does not present a comprehensive plan that explains its endgame – what the end will look…
Mr Obama, please continue your current Mid-East plans
New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman is in the West Bank city of Ramallah, lapping up the wonders of a more open and liberated occupied territory: For Palestinians, long trapped between burgeoning Israeli settlements and an Israeli occupation army, subject to lawlessness in their own cities and the fecklessness of their own political leadership, life…
Is this a typical Zionist idea?
The charming Daniel Pipes on his worldview: The Palestinians must be made to understand in the deepest recesses of their consciousness that they are a defeated people.