Such kindness: Just in time for Valentine’s Day, Israel allowed the export of a shipment of flowers from Hamas-run Gaza on Thursday for the first time in about a year, Israeli officials said. Does Israel realise the message this move sends to the world? That of a ruthless occupier that occasionally acts humanely.
Showing all posts tagged Hamas
Reducing the moderates
Yes: The one unmistakable victim of the Israeli election is the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, who can now look forward to many more years of deadlock with Israel, as well as an escalating effort by Hamas to discredit the Palestinian Liberation Organization, and then eventually either replace it with a more amenable structure or hijack…
Get out of the damn way
If peace between Israel and the Palestinians is to be achieved, writes Tony Karon in The National, both Washington and Hamas will have to engage. Israel will have to be made to realise that its current path is unsustainable. The Zionist lobby may not be pleased, but its influence in the US is a key…
Avoid easy classifications
Leading Australian foreign affairs correspondent Paul McGeough, whose new book on Hamas, Kill Khalid is released soon, tells the Columbia Journalism Review how the world should view the militants: Rather than describe Hamas as a terrorist group, I would say they’re a group that uses terror as a weapon and I think there’s a significant…
When peace has no chance
This Hamas official gets it straight when describing the Israeli election: This shows that the Zionist voters clearly start choosing the one who is most extreme in his speech, the one who wants war with the Palestinians. This troika, this trio of terrorism of Lieberman, Livni and Netanyahu chose the dramatic development in Israeli society…
Journalist Antony Loewenstein on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
If You Love This Planet is a weekly radio show broadcast around the world by famed activist and doctor Dr Helen Caldicott. Recent guests include New York Times columnist Frank Rich and Times writer Bob Herbert. Her latest interview: Australian author Antony Loewenstein joins Dr. Caldicott on the program to discuss the delicate situation in…
A challenge to the status-quo
I spoke at Sydney’s Politics in the Pub event last week on the crisis in Gaza (photos here). Actress Judy Davis and Palestinian activist Rihab Charida joined me in discussing ways to analyse the conflict and how to move forward. The following letter was endorsed by 300 participants at the meeting on February 6 and…
War comes at a cost
Yes, we can: [Irish] trade unionists are to launch a boycott of Israeli goods as part of a major campaign to secure a peaceful settlement in the Middle East, Stormont heard today. The Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU) launched a report on Israel and Palestine compiled by senior members who visited the troubled region.…
The story of Zionist victimhood
No other nation in history has dealt as humanely, and with such compassion, in its fight against terrorism as Israel. That “compassion” was sadly lacking in Gaza.