Memo to Washington: your credibility over Iran would be massively higher if you told client state Israel to stop claiming Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the second coming of Hitler: WikiLeaks has worked its magic again, illuminating US efforts to promote change in Iran – and explaining recent goings-on at Durham University. Its proposals for exchanges with…
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Republicans find new ways to make love to Zionism
Just who is in charge of American politics? Don’t tell me that Zionist lobby money has nothing to do with any of this: Aspiring politicians in New York once made a point of visiting the three I’s: Italy, Ireland and Israel. For the GOP’s presidential prospects in 2012, it’s all about one: Israel. A stop…
Exclusive: Mamdouh Habib interview on new US/Israeli Egyptian pet Omar Suleiman
Australian citizen Mamdouh Habib was captured and tortured in the years after September 11 in both Egypt and Guantanamo Bay. For years, “war on terror” supporters defamed Habib and claimed he was lying about his allegations of mistreatment. However last year in just one case against the Australian Murdoch press, he won a small victory:…
What a US/Israeli backed state looks like
Egypt, February 2011. Robert Tait writes in the Guardian: The sickening, rapid click-click-clicking of the electrocuting device sounded like an angry rattlesnake as it passed within inches of my face. Then came a scream of agony, followed by a pitiful whimpering from the handcuffed, blindfolded victim as the force of the shock propelled him across…
Bravo to one Australian politician who isn’t bought by the Zionist lobby
Federal Labor’s Doug Cameron spoke yesterday in the Senate and outlined the reality of life in Gaza for Palestinians. He still urged a two-state solution but it’s a start. More, please.
Zionist has to hide in Britain
When you are a spokesman for an occupying army that commits war crimes, you should watch where you travel. This story highlights what is now the reality for Israelis and it hasn’t come a day too soon: The chief spokesman of the Israel Defense Forces said on Tuesday he had visited Britain incognito and under…
Louis Theroux’s The Ultra Zionists
Fundamentalist Jews and settlers, in Jerusalem and the West Bank, show the world why they are such a menace. And what does most of the Zionist Diaspora do? Nothing. Shame:
The fallacy of “moderate” Middle East client states
This is what happens when Washington (and the West) gets into bed with fundamentalist misogynists. Israel calls Saudi Arabia “moderate” because it seemingly tolerates Zionist occupation: The US fears that Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude oil exporter, may not have enough reserves to prevent oil prices escalating, confidential cables from its embassy in Riyadh…
I was once a liberal Zionist then I realised I was a walking contradiction
Brian Walt, rabbi emeritus of Congregation Mishkan Shalom in Philadelphia, former executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights-North America and co-founder of Taanit Tzedek-Jewish Fast for Gaza, writes in Tikkun: For most of my life I have been a liberal Zionist. Since childhood my Judaism had always been connected with a progressive Zionism. In 1987,…