Always an inspiration, Rabbi Brant Rosen writes: Israel’s military assault on Gaza in 2008-09 represented an important turning point in my own relationship with Israel. I recall experiencing a new and previously unfamiliar feeling of anguish as Israel bombarded the people living in that tiny, besieged strip of land over and over, day after day…
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The Wire interview on Israel and Gaza
I was interviewed a few days by the Australian national current affairs program, The Wire: Israel’s latest strike on Gaza and assassination of Hamas military leader Amas Jabaari should be seen as traditional aggressive pre-election behaviour says commentator Antony Loewenstein. He says Egypt’s new regime and its connection to the Muslim Brotherhood is also making…
Repeat after me, media: not only Palestinians are “escalating” violence in Gaza
The always essential MediaLens offers necessary context for the mostly woeful media coverage of the current Israeli onslaught against Gaza: The role of BBC News as handmaiden to power is exemplified by its reporting on the latest series of brutal Israeli assaults on Gaza. On the first day of Operation Pillar of Cloud, thirteen people,…
“We brought a Nakba upon you”
During protests against Israel’s current aggression in Gaza held in Tel Aviv on the 15th November, there was a counter protest which shows vile racism against Muslims and hatred towards Palestinians. This short film is yet more fine work by Israeli journalist David Sheen and reflects a majority perspective in the Zionist state:
Insight into Israeli propaganda to sell its “civilised” onslaught
What does it say about a military policy that requires so many lies and distortions to try and convince a very skeptical if not hostile world? Here’s Anshel Pfeffer in Haaretz: The photograph of the wounded baby daughter of Mira Sharf, one of the three civilians killed this morning (Thursday) in a missile strike on…
ABCTV News24”²s The World talking Israel and Gaza
Israeli cries of war against Gaza are building. I spoke last night on ABCTV News24’s The World… discussing the growing conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza and the mostly Palestinian civilians caught in the middle:
The Islamist revolution is here; are we ready and even willing?
The grand sweep of history after the Arab Spring is yet to be written; it remains a work in progress. But this piece, by Hussein Agha and Robert Malley in the New York Review of Books, is a stunner, riffing on the prospects of an Islamist phase, what this means for democracy, Arabs in general…
The Jewish state counts acceptable calories for Palestinians in Gaza
No comment is really required on this story except to say that it shows Israel to be a nation that views another people, the Palestinians, as lesser human beings. Amira Hass in Haaretz: After a three-and-a-half-year legal battle waged by the Gisha human rights organization, the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories has finally…