The following advertisement appears in Haaretz on 12 June and was placed by peace group Gush Shalom: OBAMA SAYS: All building activity in the settlements must cease forthwith! OBAMA IS RIGHT! There are no legal settlements! All the settlements sit on stolen land! There is no difference between “private” Arab land and the land reserves…
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Yes, we still occupy them
Thank God some Israelis are still protesting the West Bank occupation: Thousands of left-wing activists marched in Tel Aviv Saturday marking “42 years of occupation”. Protestors were chanting: “End the occupation – start living”. I guess it’s far easier to hate Arabs than actually wonder why Palestinians aren’t that fond of you.
Australian Jews have a chance
The Australian Jewish Democratic Society has just released the following petition (which I have signed): The Australian Jewish Democratic Society together with other Jewish Australians who care greatly for both the future of Israel and the legitimate national aspirations of Palestinians we strongly endorse the views recently expressed by the US President in Cairo. His…
It’s more than just swiping your plastic
Israeli peace group Gush Shalom alerts the world to the direct complicity of Mastercard in the West Bank colonial project: The holders of an Isracard and/or Mastercard credit cards in Israel have received in the past weeks an offer for a “City of David tour” with “attractions for the entire family” – an innocuous sounding…
This is the answer?
Ron Kampeas of JTA has an idea how to better sell Zionism to the world: Israel could — with some degree of success — portray the occupation as relatively benign. Look, the Palestinians have a free press (sometimes). They go to universities (sometimes). They elect their own mayors (once). Yes, those Arabs really don’t mind…
Obama hates Jews, did you hear?
Zionist fanatic Anne Bayefsky thinks Barack Obama has sold out the poor Jews: President Obama’s Cairo speech was nothing short of an earthquake — a distortion of history, an insult to the Jewish people, and an abandonment of very real human-rights victims in the Arab and Muslim worlds. It is not surprising that Arabs and…
A belief in Zionist excess
Random beatings. Excessive violence. Hatred of Palestinians. Daily life in the occupied, Palestinian territories: Two Israeli officers have testified that troops in the West Bank beat, bound and blindfolded Palestinian civilians as young as 14. The damaging disclosures by two sergeants of the Kfir Brigade include descriptions of abuses they say they witnessed during a…
Hey, we thought you loved us always
The Israeli press reflects the worry in the establishment: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said this weekend that no agreement to continued settlement expansion existed. Clinton is right. No such agreement exists, existed or is likely ever to exist. The issue isn’t what she said, but the tone that was used. Once upon a time,…
Jews who need a good, long hug
Gideon Levy writes in Haaretz about the worthlessness and bigotry of the settlers in the West Bank and receives this comment (from Australia): It is people like Gideon Levy who do more harm to Israel than any anti-semite any where else could, simply because the fact that he`s *Israeli*, gives him the credibility to undermine…
Lower expectations, don’t buy the spin
Jennifer Loewenstein (no relation) writes in Counterpunch that we shouldn’t expect too much from Obama when it comes to the Middle East: Obama’s brilliance in embracing the self-same rejectionist stance of his predecessors, by employing the language of the two-state solution, is equaled only by Netanyahu’s honesty in rejecting any such reality. For Obama, the…