Earlier this week I met and spent time with the remarkable Miko Peled, an Israeli/American whose positions on the Middle East place him in that rare Jewish space; seeing Jews and Palestinians equally. From yesterday‘s Canberra Times: His father was an Israeli general in the 1967 war and his niece was killed by Palestinian suicide…
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The ultimate Zionist bastard child
Just a bunch of charming Jewish Defence League boys helping to protect a Jewish colony in the West Bank.
Memo to media; Tony Blair isn’t a Mid-East expert, he just loves making money
Indeed (via the Guardian): Tony Blair is facing calls for greater transparency in his role as Middle East peace envoy after it emerged that he visited Muammar Gaddafi in 2009 while JP Morgan, the investment bank that employs Blair as a …£2m-a-year adviser, sought to negotiate a multibillion-pound loan from Libya. Blair also championed two…
Democracy credentials inside Israel worsening (ie. Zionism rules)
The Israeli Democracy Institute releases its 2011 results after interviewing 1200 Israelis. As usual, the results make for despairing reading; this from the “Middle East’s Only Democracy Inc”: Jewish-Arab Relations: About a third of the Jewish population does not consider Arab citizens “Israelis.” Moreover, 77.9% of Jews believe that a Jewish majority should be required…
What Western-indulged colonists do to Palestinians
Amidst all the endless talk about the UN bid for Palestine (see here, here, here and here), this remains the grim reality on the ground in Palestine:
A rare correction in Murdoch press that denies BDS is anti-Semitic
What a change (no doubt after legal threats?) One day, and soon, the Murdoch hacks calling BDS against Israel anti-Semitic will realise how mainstream the movement has become globally, targeting Israeli businesses complicit in the occupation. This has nothing to do with Judaism: An article published in The Weekend Australian on August 20 (” ‘Anti-Israel…
Theatre at the UN over Palestine, nothing to see here, move on, please
Unelected Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas spoke. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke (and issued every paranoid Zionist cliche in the book). Only one man is democratically elected (and that’s Netanyahu). Both men spoke to different audiences but neither has either the ability nor interest to bring true justice to the situation. How much longer must…
Obama disaster on Israel/Palestine (and why he should be shunned)
Daniel Levy, former Israeli peace negotiator: There is virtually no thread of reason running between the way he related to the rest of the world and its developments, particularly in the Middle East, and the positions he espoused on Israel-Palestine. Palestinian freedoms, rights and self-determination are somehow supposed to be attained without the recourse to…
Cultural BDS against Israel exploding everywhere
Yes: Film directors Mike Leigh and Ken Loach, theatre director Michael Attenborough and actress Dame Harriet Walter are among the 117 signatories to a letter of protest over the “harsh” punishment. They claim that artists should be allowed to express themselves freely “without fear of financial or professional retribution”. The four musicians – Tom Eisner,…