The siege of Gaza is (temporarily) broken. Proof that solidarity with the Palestinian people, suffering because they dared to vote for Hamas in free and fair elections, will never end until Israel’s malignant influence is over.
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Vote 1: militant Zionism
My latest New Matilda column is about the political realities in Israel and Palestine: Antony Loewenstein looks behind the pre-election rhetoric in Israel and says the lack of a real difference between the front-runners means deeper trouble ahead for both Israel and Palestine Israel is currently in political limbo. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s leadership of…
Crushing balls is more fun
Our leaders must not act like military commanders, take risks for peace. Tragically, Israel’s political establishment has shown time and time again that peace with its neighbours isn’t the main objective. A state of constant war is all they know, a belief that decades of occupation will wear down the Palestinians. In fact, the opposite…
Time for a different track
An Israeli Zionist commentator acknowledges what a blind man can see: The economic war against the Palestinians has failed.
Zionists (mainly) to blame
US Jewish blogger Phil Weiss hears leading Palestinian speaker Rami Khouri talk about the (welcome) shifts in the Middle East since 9/11: I wondered how long it would take him to get to the Arab-Israeli issue. It was about 30 minutes. From then on it was all that anyone could talk about. He did not…
How to starve the Arabs
The following letter appears in the July 26 edition of the Green Left Weekly: Three weeks after the Australian’s Richard Kerbaj whipped up a storm over humanitarian aid by a Sydney-based charity to the suffering people of Gaza, we find our own federal police jumping at this organisation in what seems to be a co-ordinated…
Telling it like it isn’t (on Israel/Palestine)
My latest New Matilda column is about the Western media’s delusions over the Middle East: Distortions, delusions, misrepresentations. No wonder Western leaders and media don’t understand the popularity of groups like Hezbollah and Hamas in the Arab world It shouldn’t come as any surprise that Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is consistently voted the most popular…
Teaching the West a few lessons
Hamas are routinely described as terrorists, murderers and other tasty put-downs. Hardline Zionists must be so disappointed that the Islamist group appears to be holding the ceasefire in Gaza.
Israel’s Orwellian love of peace
Since it went into effect last week, at least eight violations of the new ceasefire agreement with Hamas and the Palestinian factions have been recorded, a UN source told Ynet on Thursday. According to the source, seven violations were committed by the IDF, while the Palestinians are responsible for just one.
Believing in the ceasefire
Ali Abunimah, Electronic Intifada, June 20: After the unremitting hell that Israel has inflicted on Palestinians in Gaza, one can only feel relief and even joy at the ceasefire agreed between Hamas and the Jewish state that took effect this week. Its significance extends well beyond Gaza and opens new possibilities as the disastrous Bush…