Nearly six months since the devastating war in Gaza, Palestinians are still living amid the rubble. Despite stirring talk of reconstruction efforts, little has changed. Inigo Gilmore visits the devastated neighbourhoods to see how families are coping.
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A belief in Zionist excess
Random beatings. Excessive violence. Hatred of Palestinians. Daily life in the occupied, Palestinian territories: Two Israeli officers have testified that troops in the West Bank beat, bound and blindfolded Palestinian civilians as young as 14. The damaging disclosures by two sergeants of the Kfir Brigade include descriptions of abuses they say they witnessed during a…
How to describe the Gaza experience
Jewish writer and blogger Phil Weiss recently returned from Gaza. His latest report is stunning: Over two weeks in the Middle East, I came to the idea that Israel/Palestine has become an epicenter of hatred; and hatred flows out to the outside world from both sides. The insistence that all of Palestine is Palestinian and…
Arabs, please wear a yellow star
Racism, Zionist-style: A community in northern Israel has changed its bylaws to demand that new residents pledge support for “Zionism, Jewish heritage and settlement of the land” in a thinly-veiled attempt to block Arab applicants from gaining admission.
Like it or lump it
The Israeli have had it good for too long, it seems, and don’t realise that unquestioning American support is killing their nation: A majority of Israelis believe that the Middle East policies of US President Barack Obama are not good for the Jewish state, according to a Dahaf Institute poll taken ahead of Obama’s speech…
Israeli society declines and what do we say?
Racism, my name is Israeli society: Lod’s Religions of Moses and Israel synagogue was burnt down seven months ago, but it’s manager has refused a generous donation to restore it, because the benefactor in a Muslim. Muhammad Abu-Matir, of the Muslim Waqf has offered to put up half the sum needed to rebuild the synagogue,…
Jews who need a good, long hug
Gideon Levy writes in Haaretz about the worthlessness and bigotry of the settlers in the West Bank and receives this comment (from Australia): It is people like Gideon Levy who do more harm to Israel than any anti-semite any where else could, simply because the fact that he`s *Israeli*, gives him the credibility to undermine…
The Australian government should say no
The following article appears in today’s Melbourne Age: British actor Miriam Margolyes, OBE, is among prominent Jewish people, eminent Australians, leading academics and Green MPs who have signed a petition calling on deputy MP Julia Gillard to call off her planned trip to Israel. The petition, which has more than 150 signatures, was initiated by…
It has to end, now
Has Israel forgotten who pays the bills? Just after US President Barack Obama’s landmark address in Cairo, and just before US Mideast envoy George Mitchell returns to the region on Tuesday, the dispute between Washington and Jerusalem over settlement construction ratcheted up a notch. Israeli officials rejected on Saturday a statement by US Secretary of…
Trying to hide the reality of apartheid (with a new, kinder face)
It’s curious that Zionists are constantly concerned that their efforts at selling Israel and Zionism is in need of a face-lift. A story in today’s Melbourne Age discusses a new blog, The Sensible Jew, that seems largely about how to promote Israel and Zionism in a nicer, less aggressive way. It’s hard to disagree with…