Following last week’s UN vote over Palestine, the Israeli government announced the building of yet more colonies. I was asked on the weekend by SBS News about what this means for the “peace process” (hint: it died years ago):
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“The Israeli political class is a full-blown train wreck”
The New Yorker editor David Remnick attends a major Zionist event in America and shows, intentionally or not, that the American and Israeli political classes are insular fools who don’t care a hoot about Arabs (so what’s new, right?): Hillary Clinton is running for President. And the Israeli political class is a full-blown train wreck.…
Baby steps towards neutering the fundamentalist Zionist lobby in Australia
Interesting piece in the Australian Financial Review that outlines the decreasing power of the Israel lobby to bully its way into the corridors of power. As importantly, its belief in apartheid in the West Bank shows that they speak for nobody but the Israeli government. They will never be independent players and should be ignored…
How Australia proudly defends Zionist apartheid
Canberra-based academic and writer Rick Kuhn appears in a book I co-edited this year with Jeff Sparrow, called Left Turn (still on the publisher’s best-seller list, six months after its release). Today in the Canberra Times Kuhn has a powerful piece about Israeli apartheid and the Australian government’s bankrupt position: Has Labor’s position on Israel…
“The employment of Palestinians is forbidden”
Yet more evidence that a great part of the American and Israeli relationship is about assisting the defence industries in both countries. The Washington Post reports: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers plans to… supervise construction of a… five-story underground facility for an Israel Defense Forces complex, oddly named “Site 911,” at an Israeli Air Force base…
The time is now; calling on military boycott against Israel
Via The Guardian: A group of Nobel peace prize-winners, prominent artists and activists have issued a call for an international military boycott of… Israel… following its assault on the… Gaza… Strip this month. The letter also denounces the US, EU and several developing countries for what it describes as their “complicity” through weapons sales and other military support in…
How the media picks “worthy victims” and who deserves a no-fly zone (hint: not Gaza)
The essential Medialens on how our corporate (and public broadcasting) media selects who deserves Western largesse and those “terrorists” who can just “suck on this” (the classic comment of New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in 2003 when explaining how the Iraqis should see the invading American troops): On March 30, 2011 – eleven days…
How we’re all targets now; journalists increased killed by state actors
Being a war reporter was also dangerous but the risks are increasing. Here’s a powerful piece by the always interesting David Carr in The New York Times: The setting at the Waldorf-Astoria hotel on Tuesday represented the height of refinement, but Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of The Guardian, reminded the black-tie crowd at the…
Why Israel lost the war and doesn’t recognise it’s now more isolated than ever
Adam Shatz in the London Review of Books: The ceasefire agreed by Israel and Hamas in Cairo after eight days of fighting is merely a pause in the Israel-Palestine conflict. It promises to ease movement at all border crossings with the Gaza Strip, but will not lift the blockade. It requires Israel to end its…