Dissident writer and academic Scott Burchill on the dead heart at the centre of the ruling Labor party in Australia (and the Prime Ministership of Julia Gillard): Caved in to miners within hours of becoming PM – not prepared to stand up to corporate power in the West, or defend the population’s resources equity Gushed…
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White House rolls out the silver cutlery for Netanyahu
In case you were wondering what Benjamin Netanyahu ate with the entire Obama administration team a few days ago in Washington (fine journalism, indeed): The kosher lunch menu included chopped White House garden salad with honey-apple cider dressing, thyme-roasted chicken with spring peas, leek puree and potato croutons, with apricot torte with White House honey…
Israeli discovers his country has some friends
An Israeli finds some people in South Africa during the World Cup who love his country. The irony alert was clearly malfunctioning when this was written: Well, as it turns out, the South Africans who suffered so terribly under the apartheid regime – which some in the world compare to Israel – happen to like…
What Israeli soldiers are told about fighting Arabs
Breaking the Silence is an Israeli group made up of former soldiers who detail the horrendous acts in the West Bank under occupation. One of the founders, Yehuda Shaul, 27, tells Haaretz that the IDF rarely has any intention of seriously investigating itself: What’s really disturbing about Operation Cast Lead is not the ordinary soldiers.…
Speak to Hamas right now, says Haaretz
An editorial in Haaretz that speaks some sense (and will therefore be ignored by the Israeli government and its global support base): The writer David Grossman called on the government of Israel in these pages yesterday to cease its preoccupation with the number and identity of Palestinian prisoners who would potentially be swapped for captive…
Helpful hints for American reporters (Israel=bad, Arabs=bad)
Following the firing of a CNN journalist for daring to praise the recently deceased Lebanese religious leader Sayyed Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, it’s clear that American corporate television allows anti-Arab statements to run 24/7, but dare say something that may upset the Zionist lobby or Israel, and you’ll be gone. Here’s (former AIPAC employee) CNN’s Wolf…
“We must learn from the Nazi tactics”, says retired Israeli judge
As Zionists continue to wonder who is running Israeli PR, here’s a very helpful suggestion to keep the Jewish state front and centre in the world: “We must learn from the Nazi tactics,” Retired Israeli Judge Hadassa Ben-Itto said recently during a conference discussing ways to improve the State of Israel’s PR efforts in the…
Of course the Palestinian Authority loves Sri Lanka
Ali Abunimah: Abbas PA loves the racist Zionist regime, so why wouldn’t they love the racist Sinhalese supremacist Sri Lanka regime? Here’s the story: Sri Lanka’s envoy to the Palestinian Authority was awarded honorary citizenship by the West Bank municipality of Beitunia on Monday, his office said. T Jayasinghe was awarded the certificate of citizenship…