The Dubai/Mossad saga rolls on: A former Israeli diplomat at the centre of a passport scam in New Zealand in 2004 has been named as a suspect in the assassination of a top Hamas leader. Zev William Barkan is one of 32 people Dubai police say they want to speak to as they investigate the…
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No concern with cuddly Americans killing for Israel
In case anybody was unsure, this story in Politico includes a key point about the profound hypocrisy of America’s foreign policy (and the situation is little different in Australia). It’s alright for Jewish, American citizens to visit Israel and kill Arabs in the name of “fighting terrorism” but anybody caught on the side of the…
Ever wondered what Netanyahu’s party really thinks about a two-state solution?
We always hear that Hamas are rejectionists who will never recognise Israel or Jews. So what about Likud’s charter?
Britain shows a modicum of guts towards Israel (take note Australia)
Some Western countries, at least on the surface, don’t treat Israel as the woman they always want to bed: Britain has refused to allow Israel‘s Mossad secret service to send a representative back to the country’s London embassy following the row over the killing of a Hamas operative by agents using forged UK passports. Israel’s…
10 tips to convince those virulent Israel haters
Rabbi Marvin Hier is the founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, a leading Jewish organisation in the US. The document below is truly astounding, a hilariously clueless attempt to refute allegedly unfair claims against Israel and Jews. Black is white, the occupation is a charming day in the park and Israel just wants…
Goldstone reminds Jews that Israel is no different to any other state
Justice Richard Goldstone addressed South African Jewish leaders at at a meeting on the 3rd of May: I welcome this opportunity of meeting with you this afternoon. At the outset let me say that I have taken no pleasure in seeing people around the world criticize the South African Jewish community and I commend the…
Stuck on the Israel/Gaza border with nowhere to go
The latest edition of Gaza Gateway: The eleven-day protest of Ahmed Sabeh, released from an Israeli prison on Wednesday, April 21, 2010, and taken to the Gaza Strip – even though his home, wife and son are in Tulkarem – raises an interesting challenge to Israel’s control over the borders and population registry of the…
Attacking a Jew who dares to welcome Richard Goldstone
The price sometimes paid for simply being a Jew who questions Zionist dogma (and who do you think was behind these actions?) The Berkeley, Calif.… home of Rabbi Michael Lerner, editor of the progressive Tikkun magazine, was vandalized with posters. The posters, attached to his door and the fence around his home, attack Lerner personally, and…
Debating Zionism’s boundaries
My following essay appears in the current edition of Jewish, American magazine Tikkun: IMPOSSIBLE PEACE: ISRAEL/PALESTINE SINCE 1989 by Mark LeVine Zed Books, 2009 THE MAKING OF MODERN ISRAEL, 1948–1967 by Leslie Stein Polity, 2009 POLITICS AND VIOLENCE IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE: DEMOCRACY VERSUS MILITARY RULE by Lev Luis Grinberg Routledge, 2009 ISRAEL AND PALESTINE: REAPPRAISALS, REVISIONS,…
Isolating Iran is part of the “great energy game”
Here’s my interview with Foreign Policy Journal by Kourosh Ziabari: The Middle East is witness to continuous developments these days, such as Iran’s active diplomacy to attract the indispensable 118-member bloc of non-aligned countries to support its nuclear program, the growing isolation of Israel in European countries and within academic circles in the U.S., Arabs’…