The invaluable Gaza Gateway blog has new information, challenging the Israeli government’s spin on conditions in the occupied territories: On December 6th, the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs released a newsletter highlighting the economic situation in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Though there are some miscalculations, for the most part the MFA’s data…
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Are we gearing up for Gaza 2?
Another war against Gaza? Here’s what establishment figure Bruce Riedel thinks. His bio speaks for itself: He’s a senior fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy in the Brookings Institution. He advised Presidents Bush, Clinton, Bush and Obama on the Middle East and South Asia in the National Security Council of the White…
The Israeli reward for Gaza invasion
Comments made by Israeli OC Southern Command Maj.-Gen. Yoav Galant to IDF soldiers honoured for their “heroism” during Operation Cast Lead: In the tough hours of the trial through fire you bravely and resiliently persevered. You are a lighthouse of morality and values.
Shoulder to shoulder with the Strip
My following article appears in the British magazine New Statesman: Freedom marches have a noble pedigree. Hundreds of thousands marched for racial equality in the 1960s US; among them was Martin Luther King Jr, who delivered his “I Have a Dream” speech at the march on Washington in 1963. Now, thousands of miles away, the…
Accountability is coming for Israel and its followers
The attempt by pro-Palestinian groups in the UK to legally apprehend Israeli politician Tzipi Livni has caused outrage in the Zionist world and corporate press. The Jerusalem Post helpfully provides a summary (and note the outrage that an Israeli, or by implication any Western leader, would ever need to answer for their actions): Senior Israeli…
Gazan children growing up in the shadow of conflict
The one year anniversary of the Gaza onslaught continues to produce fine journalism, such as this piece in today’s Guardian: Last December, Israel began a 23-day bombardment of Gaza, killing around 1,400 people. One year on, a generation of children is growing up amid the wreckage of that attack, traumatised – and radicalised – by…
Lieberman wants to smear all critics of Israel
Israel’s Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman wants the world to know that anybody who challenges his country’s policies is a secret Jew hater: Speaking at the Foreign Ministry’s third annual Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, Lieberman said “classic anti-Semitism, along with Iranian funding and Islamic anti-Semitism, is being used to incite hatred against Jews, and to…
Call for Israel to lift siege of Gaza
The following article by Pam Walker appears in this week’s Sydney City Hub newspaper: Author and journalist Antony Loewenstein is among a group of prominent Sydney activists who will travel to Gaza to join the Gaza Freedom March on December 31, an international protest demanding the opening of the borders and the breaking of the…
Israeli politicians should keep looking over their shoulders
The case of Israeli politician Tzipi Livni avoiding the UK due to concerns over her legal status continues to echo. The British government is deeply embarassed, pro-Palestinian activists are emboldened and Zionist officials are issuing defensive statements: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the situation was “an absurdity”. “We will not accept a situation in which…
We Australians are going to Gaza
The following story appears in this week’s Sydney Wentworth Courier: