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:
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Israeli goal in Gaza is “spring cleaning”
Typically astute thoughts and insights from The Magnes Zionist: I don’t know whether Nate Silver gives odds on wars, but the odds of Israel escalating its aggression against Gaza were higher than the odds Silver gave for Obama winning the last election — I mean the odds on election day. It has been clear for…
Discrimination against Arabs part of Israel’s DNA
Zvi Bar’el in Haaretz: The Soho restaurant in Rishon Letzion apparently refused an Israeli couple’s request for a reservation. Landlords deny requests from Arab citizens to rent their apartments. Businesses look for excuses to fob off Israeli applicants who seek employment, and residential communities make sure that only certain Israelis can live there. There is…
Ireland takes small but necessary step against Israeli colonies
Via Haaretz: Ireland is planning to utilize its upcoming term as President of the Council of the European Union, which begins on January 1 2013, to advance efforts to achieve a joint decision between all 27 member states to ban products from West Bank Settlements. The Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Eamon Gilmore,… revealed…
Israel and its biggest refugee detention centre in the world
The Zionist state as a light unto the nations? Here’s the reality by Noam Sheizaf in +972: On Thursday, I traveled to the south with a group of journalists and bloggers to view the construction of new detention facilities around Ketsiot, near the Egyptian border. When completed, the four prisons in the area are meant…
“Now I’m going to offer you a hamburger”
This is just weird. Benjamin Netanyahu talks awkwardly with Dan Shapiro, the US ambassador to Israel after Obama’s election win:
This is news: 65% of Australians view Israel negatively
According to a new BBC global poll (via the Jerusalem Post): Israel retained its position as one of the world’s most negatively-viewed countries, according to BBC’s annual poll published Wednesday night.… With 50 percent of respondents ranking Israel negatively, Israel keeps company with North Korea, and places ahead of only Iran (55% negative) and Pakistan…
Why Palestinians call for boycotts against Israel
Abir Kopty in The National: The Palestinian cause is not a charity. The international community, however, has often failed to grasp the nature of the struggle for justice, preferring to channel funds to Palestinian “development” projects to compensate for the lack of will to put serious pressure on Israel. That mentality has been challenged by…
Israeli Jews loudly call for expulsion of black Africans
On October 28, 2012 in Tel Aviv, Israel there was a protest demanding the expulsion of all non-Jewish African asylum-seekers. Zionist racism proudly displayed: