The Israel that many Jews, including at the J Street conference, would rather ignore; a serial human rights abuser: Israel is accused today of denying the West Bank and Gaza access to adequate water through a “total” and “discriminatory” control that enables its own people to consume four times as much as the Palestinians. An…
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Annoying Gazans need to start enjoying death
The Goldstone report over Gaza is a defining document. Israel’s crimes are clear to see. For some in the Murdoch press – such as Alan Howe writing in Melbourne’s Herald Sun (the man has form) – “Jews prove easy catch“: The none-too-smart and ideologically unsound United Nations works on more simplistic levels – it sets…
Those rules don’t apply to Washington and Israel
Salon’s Glenn Greenwald on Benjamin Netanyahu’s definition of “war crimes”: The Prime Minister says Hamas is guilty for denying Red Cross access to prisoners: exactly what the U.S. did.
Smearing Goldstone isn’t really about Gaza at all
South African anti-apartheid politician, activist and Jew Ronnie Kasrils, a man with a long history of support for the Palestinians, spoke on 24 October at the National Association of Democratic Lawyers of South Africa about the Goldstone Gaza report: The reason for the hysteria against Justice Goldstone’s Report goes far deeper than the findings. Goldstone…
Why blame Israel for our own violence?
Zvi Bar’el writes in Haaretz on Israel’s sublime delusion and victim mentality: Goldstone was born in June 1967. I am not referring to the judge from South Africa, but to his report, or more precisely, the notion that Israel needs a synonym for the soul-searching it must carry out after 42 years of occupation. In…
The Goldstone story will not die
South African judge Richard Goldstone’s damning report of the recent Gaza war continues its public hearing (highlighting the complete lack of interest or will on the part of Israel, or Hamas, to investigate their own crimes): The Financial Times, with a history of real balance in the Middle East (or at least an ability to…
Amira Hass recognised for her tenacity and truth-telling
The Guardian editorialises today on the remarkable Israeli journalist Amira Hass: Only Amira Hass could have received the International Women’s Media Foundation lifetime achievement award by saying her life as a journalist had been a failure. By her standards maybe, but then she sets them high. If her aim is to stop successive Israeli governments…
Obama either takes Palestinian justice seriously (or not)
Australians for Palestine public advocate Michael Shaik publishes the following in the Australian: Nine months since the end of the offensive, Gazans continue to live in plastic tents alongside the ruins off their homes because Israel refuses to allow building materials into Gaza. … The Israeli government reasons that, by inflicting such punishment on Gaza’s…
We are keeping the Gazan people alive, barely
A strong New York Times story about the Gaza tunnels that keep the people there alive: Dusty sacks filled with cans of Coca-Cola were being loaded onto trucks by young boys, headed for supermarkets in Gaza City. Thousands of motorcycles were lined up on display in a nearby stadium, ranging in price from $2,000 to…
Perhaps tea can be used to kill Jews
Collective punishment, pure and simple: Israel has decided to allow coffee and tea into the besieged Gaza Strip starting on Thursday, a Palestinian official said. Nasser As-Sarraj, undersecretary of the Ministry of National Economy said that Palestinian authorities received word from Israel of the change in policy, which apparently removes coffee and tea from a…