In the last years (and in fact for many decades), the Israeli government has become increasingly close with the global far-right. Why? They often share “values”, dislike/hate Muslims, nations want Israeli defence equipment and the Jewish state needs international support for its never-ending occupation of Palestine. I wrote about this extensively in 2017 and I’ve…
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How to define a people in one sentence
Mort Klein, president of the Zionist Organization of America, The New Republic, February 4: [Barack] Obama doesn’t understand that the Palestinians are more interested in Israel‘s destruction than in establishing a Palestinian state. This is the default Zionist lobby position. Defame an entire people, deny their right to independent thought and presume terrorism lurks within…
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Academics expand Israel lobby case
My following review appears in the November Australian Literary Review: The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy By John Mearsheimer and Stephen M. Walt Allen Lane, 544pp, $49.95 (HB) When “realist” academics John Mearsheimer of Chicago University and Stephen M. Walt of Harvard published their essay, The Israel Lobby, in the London Review of Books…
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Rudy and his love of Ayrabs
The New York Times‘ Maureen Dowd is an astute commentator who sometimes think she’s cleverer than she is (it would be nice, for a change, if she actually left Washington and saw how the average reader viewed embedded columnists such as herself.) Her latest, however, on the rantings of Republican Presidential hopeful Rudolph Giuliani –…
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War without end
Tony Karon, Rootless Cosmopolitan, October 16: Not surprising, then, that Abbas and Olmert want different things from Anapolis: Abbas needs his persistence with diplomacy to be vindicated by rapid movement towards a two-state solution based on Israel’s 1967 borders, with Jerusalem the shared capital and some form of recognition of the rights of Palestinian refugees.…
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Wrong priorities
Gideon Levy, Haaretz, October 7: The concern Israel demonstrates for the fate of one Palestinian boy touches the heart: Again, note what a fuss is being made about the case of the killing of Mohammed al-Dura. Our heart is impervious to the fate of other children who have been killed. Just little Mohammed continues to…