Thaddeus Russell, The Daily Beast: The history of Israel and its relationship with the U.S. is infinitely complex, but there’s one damning fact that’s ignored as often as The Question: There was not a single act of Arab terrorism against Americans before 1968, when the U.S. became the chief supplier of military equipment and economic…
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Young Australian Jews taken to Hebron and asked to smell freedom
While Jewish settlers bleat about human rights – not of Palestinians, of course, but themselves – we learn that a Birthright trip has visited the illegal settlement of Hebron. Australians, no less, talking about how much they love being there and the connection to the Jewish people. Nothing about Palestinians:
Insulated Jews turn away from actions down the road
Joseph Dana on another day protesting in the West Bank and then returning to Israel: Often the subject of the West Bank will end conversations in Tel Aviv bars. It is a sad reality of this country. My reality of living in Tel Aviv but spending most of my time in the West Bank reinforces…
Israel needs a new salesman and damn fast
Straight from the mouth of the Zionist lobby to the Israeli Prime Minister; get your message right cos America ain’t buying your soiled product: The Israel Project (TIP), an American Hasbara outfit, commissioned Republican political consultant Frank Luntz to examine the effectiveness of Israel’s public diplomacy in the US on the Flotilla debacle. TIP gave…
Voices Beyond Walls inside Gaza
American Nitin Sawhney – writer, activist and human rights worker – has spent considerable time in Gaza over the last six months. He’s not a journalist but a teacher, aiming to bring to Palestinians trapped inside the Strip the media tools to tell their stories. It’s an inspiring story that deserves wide support. Here’s his…
BDS would only empower Israel’s nationalist right
The importance of the BDS against Israel is regularly covered on this site. Here’s a counter view, by Zvi Bar’el in Haaretz (essentially arguing that the world should not really do anything about Palestine but hope and pray?) How charming the boycott cry is. Boycott Israeli universities, Israeli products from the settlements, flowers grown in…
The ALP and Israel is like a disease that no medicine can cure
Australian unionist Paul Howes loves Israel. He supports its criminality, murder of opponents, defends it from everybody and would ideally like to make love to the Jewish state. He’s also one of the key figures behind the recent coup of Julia Gillard when overthrowing Kevin Rudd. Welcome to the modern Australian Labor Party, where Israel…
Australians rally around the Hebron Festival of Friendship
The following article by Vivienne Porzsolt appears in this week’s Green Left Weekly: Leichhardt Friends of Hebron can be very proud of the Festival of Friendship for Hebron it held over June 25-26. The event raised more than $5000 for a kindergarten in the impoverished village of Um al Khair in the South Hebron hills.…
Gillard reassures America and Israel of her backing
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has no original ideas of her own. Business as usual, “centrist” foreign policy dressed up as realism and pragmatism: The Prime Minister said she had no plan for big changes in foreign affairs. “Sitting here now it’s not my intention to change any of the fundamentals of our foreign policy,”…
New York Times readers start to see the darkness in Gaza
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has been travelling around Palestine (here’s his recent strong piece from the West Bank). Now it’s Gaza. Although his words are couched in too many cautious tones, his blog offers the reality of what he really saw: My Sunday column is from Gaza, where I argue that Israel should…