Palestinians as alien creatures.
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Is there a choice?
The Al-Jazeera series Dining with Terrorists on Hamas and its claims of resistance:
Hold the champagne for a few decades
Friend John R sends a link to this bleak blog post by Jim Lobe from IPS with a comment: Jim Lobe writes that Secretary Clinton sees a settlement through a Fatah lens and will ignore Arab public opinion on Hamas. He sees the dead hand of Dennis Ross on rallying Sunnis against Iran. This is…
Behind the evil
My following review of Paul McGeough’s book, Kill Khalid: Mossad’s failed hit…and the rise of Hamas, appears in the March edition of the Australian Literary Review: At a pro-Israel rally in London in January, one Jewish participant compared fighting Hamas terrorism with treating cancer: “When you treat cancer you kill some of the innocent blood…
Blocked in every direction
An animator of the celebrated Israeli war film “Waltz with Bashir” has illustrated a new film depicting the life of a fictional boy in the Gaza Strip during the Israeli blockade of the coastal territory. Yoni Goodman’s short film “Closed Zone” runs only a minute and a half and was created for the NGO Gisha,…
Does anybody actually want to solve this?
At least the Guardian editorial writers understand the situation, if most of the Western media still refuse to accept reality: Pledging aid for is the easy bit. Getting it delivered to Gazans living in tents after Israel‘s three-week bombardment is another matter. The $3bn that donors promised in Sharm el-Sheikh yesterday will have to penetrate…
Killing them a lesson
All hail the noble Jewish state: Ah, Israel, the holy land, light unto the nations! Barely a month after valiantly killing 1300 Gazans, maiming and wounding thousands more, and leaving the rest for dead in an open-air prison, Israel has stood up for its right to stand up to other people’s rights by forming its…
Learning nothing at all
Amira Hass, Haaretz, March 4: The hundreds of millions of euros that have been donated or pledged to help Gaza, as though it were beset by natural disasters, are overshadowing the trade ties between Europe and Israel. The Western countries concerned about humanitarian aid for the Palestinians also buy from Israel arms and defense knowledge…
Are there really many alternatives?
Australian journalist Paul McGeough, whose fine new book on Hamas and Mossad, Kill Khalid, was released this week – and launched tonight in Sydney to a packed-house – tells Canada’s The Star of his ideal Middle East: I came to the conclusion some time ago that both sides are incapable of achieving a peace on…
Talk to anyone you can
Just what is a neo-conservative Palestinian journalist to do when asked how to resolve the Israel/Palestine conflict?