American Jewish magazine Tikkun has turned 25. It’s covered matters related to the Middle East, from a left liberal perspective, for a long time, gradually becoming more alive to the impossibility of the two-state solution. Well, that’s my take anyway. I was asked to write a short reflection on this important milestone and it was…
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American Zionist asks radical colonists to behave
The pain of a hardline Zionist in the face of Israeli occupation. Here’s Jeffrey Goldberg, former IDF prison guard, being a little upset about ongoing settlements in East Jerusalem but hey, what are you going to do about it? Nothing, as usual, just slam those who back real action like BDS: Let me also stipulate,…
Because Israel can really speak credibly about accepting Palestinians
So it’s battle of the belligerent? Neither side here – Israel nor the Palestinian Authority – have much credibility with peace, understanding or recognition. If the Zionist lobby is pleased now, let’s not forget they completely ignored the occupation of the West Bank and Gaza in previous ads of their own. Sigh: The Board of…
Because Israel should just continue fighting and fighting
Is this really how Jews want to be seen? Here’s Melanie Phillips, frothing Zionist, speaking at a conference in the illegal Jewish colony of Ariel in late 2010, on why Israel and the Jews must fight back, must never give in to, well, everybody. Note the complete lack of stated facts. Everything is an emotional…
Just one more way the US political elite backs Israel’s move towards one-state
And not a peep from the Zionist Diaspora about ever-expanding expulsion of Palestinians from Jerusalem: Irving Moskowitz, the retired Florida businessman who is developing a controversial Jewish apartment project at East Jerusalem’s Shepherd Hotel, is a top campaign contributor to Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.), the new GOP chairwoman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, campaign…
Where’s the celebration that Israel doesn’t see Iran as a threat?
What, you missed the news, that the outgoing Mossad chief essentially said Tehran wouldn’t get the bomb until at least 2015? Maybe.
ABCTV News24 on US violence and Israeli apartheid
I appeared on ABC TV News 24’s The Drum last night (video here) with host Tim Palmer, and panelists NSW Liberal politician Pru Goward and ABC journalist Conor Duffy. We discussed the horrific killings in the US and the heated political and media rhetoric that may have created an atmosphere of hate. Commentators may not…
May the EU grow some balls and treat Israel as it deserves
The EU is usually supine when it comes to Israel/Palestine, following the blindly Zionist lead of Washington. Could something change? Perhaps: East Jerusalem should be treated as the capital of the Palestinian state, according to a report compiled by the heads of European diplomatic missions in Jerusalem and Ramallah. The report includes several other unprecedented…
So that’s who Israel is trying to emulate
Zvi Bar’el, Haaretz: The Knesset does not want to look like the parliaments in the Arab countries, but it does not want to give up the authority to act like them. It wants to act as if there is a law against receiving contributions from foreigners without actually having to legislate it and make a…