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What is Hamas afraid of?
The Israeli parliament has taken the first step to clear the way
for the largest single act of ethnic cleansing of Arab citizens of
Israel since the 1950s. On 24 June it passed in the first reading the
Prawer Plan which, if implemented, will authorize the expulsion of tens
of thousands of Bedouin from their
Jul 16
Israel lobby tries to intimidate another British MP
Stuart Littlewood examines the smear and bully-boy tactics
employed by Israel’s stooges in the British Parliament against
colleagues who criticize Israel or question the Zionist claim of a
monopoly over suffering.
A US national debate about government spying?
Lawrence Davidson says debating the merits of US government
spying on citizens to protect against terrorism must include the causes
of terrorism – US foreign policy and the lobbies behind it.
Jul 15
Israel’s stooges in Britain’s Labour Party
With Agent Cameron and his “Torah” Party at the helm of British
politics, it’s easy to forget the Israel flag wavers on the other side,
in the Labour Party. Writing in Mondoweiss, British journalist James
Elliott reminds us of the Israel pimps-in-waiting, the Zionist elite
running Her Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, a preposterous misnomer given
primary
Jul 14
Britain still won’t come clean on Israel’s nukes
Stuart Littlewood shows how British ministers continue to
sidestep simple questions about Israel’s well established nuclear
weapons capabilities while threatening Iran with dire consequences over
its civilian nuclear programme.
Jul 12
Syria, Egypt and the grand dilemma
Uri Avnery says the choice of who deserves moral support in Egypt
and especially in Syria may no longer be between black and white or
shades of grey but shades of black.
Israel’s indigenous invaders
Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini look at how the Israeli
government and its Jewish colonist supporters are turning logic on its
head to “justify” the ethnic cleansing of the Negev Desert.
Jewish squatter paints “slaughter Jews” on own car to smear Palestinians
For decades Israelis and their Zionist lackeys around the world
have used the label of “anti-Semitism” to brand Palestinians seeking
freedom, justice and self-determination as racists bent on driving Jews
into the sea. This is despite the fact that most of the racism in the
Holy Land, from attacks on Palestinian schoolchildren to the growing
Egypt and the compatibility of Islamism and democracy
Here’s an extract from an excellent and succinct analysis of
Egypt’s predicament, and a hint at how it might be resolved, by Magdi
Abdelhadi, a freelance writer and broadcaster and former Arab affairs
analyst for the BBC: The ripples of Egypt’s second upheaval are still
being played out and their full impact may not be
Jul 11
The 1979 Egyptian-Israeli treaty of humiliation
Someone recently asked how can any reasonable person in Egypt or
elsewhere be against the 1979 peace agreement between Egypt and Israel,
especially when Egypt is so unstable politically and close to bankruptcy
economically? It’s a valid question, but also one that betrays some
ignorance about what this peace agreement actually entails. Many
Egyptians find
Jul 10
Israel’s ethnic cleansing zones
Jonathan Cook says Israel is accelerating its programme to
ethnically cleanse both its Arab citizens and Palestinians in the
occupied West Bank to give Jewish colonists unrestrained access to a
Greater Israel.
Jul 09
Walking from the Ogaden in Ethiopia
Following a recent trip to Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, Graham
Peebles describes how the Ethiopian government’s use of terror against
the Somali inhabitants of the Ogaden region has ruined many lives.
Egypt’s no-win dilemma
Amid the fast-moving developments witnessed by Egypt since the
ouster of President Muhammad Morsi, it is easy to be distracted by
peripheral issues and lose sight of the critical question at the heart
of the crisis. As put by Professor John Turley in his excellent article
“Morsi, democracy and the problem with fundamentalist politics”, the
Jul 06
The Achilles’ heel of the peoples’ revolutions
Uri Avnery explains why the popular uprisings sweeping across the
world, from Brazil to Egypt and Turkey, are in danger of of fading away
without leaving anything behind, except some memories.
Jul 05
Egypt: ignorance vs real analysis
Among the byproducts of the Arab Spring has been the revelation
that so many Westerners are so utterly clueless about politics, culture
and society in the Arab world. One can excuse the amateur “analysts”
whom the internet has allowed to de-educate the uninitiated with
baseless conspiracy theories, unfounded assertions and outright lies.
They are, after
Whither goest thou, Palestine?
Stuart Littlewood says the Palestine Liberation Organization’s
and the Palestinian Authority’s lack of resolve, leadership and vision
has left them prepared to negotiate away the Palestinian people’s
inalienable rights under international law.
Jun 30
Israel and the peace delusion
Nureddin Sabir highlights Israel’s abuse of peace talks to
deceive the Palestinians and the US alike, and argues that ultimately
the only language Israel understands is that of brute force.
Jun 29
Archbishop of Canterbury’s false start in Holy Land
Stuart Littlewood relates how Archbishop of Canterbury Justin
Welby side-stepped the beleaguered Palestinian Christian communities of
the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza, preferring instead to canoodle
with Zionist leaders.
The crime of indifference – in Israel and the US
Lawrence Davidson examines a key characteristic of the “special
relationship” between the United States and Israel: a view of history
that eliminates others’ suffering as well as one’s role in causing it.
Jun 28
David Cameron’s “Torah” government
Stuart Littlewood says the infiltration of a disproportionately
huge number of Zionists into every level of British political life has
shackled the UK, preventing it from promoting justice in the Holy Land.
Obama’s non-commitment to Middle East peace
Uri Avnery says US Secretary of State Kerry’s endless visits to
Israel and the occupied territories will achieve nothing unless
President Obama confronts the Zionist lobby and seriously commit to
genuine peace.
Jun 27
Archbishop of Canterbury says Israel “centre of the world”
With monotonous regularity, hardly a month passes without an
Israeli flag waver is appointed to a position of power or influence in
Britain, or a Zionist stooge already in authority feels impelled to
affirm his allegiance to Israel. Earlier in the week we reported the
appointment of Ian Livingston, an “outspoken supporter of Israel”, as
A concise answer to Israel’s New York consul-general’s question “Why boycott Israel?”
Lawrence Davidson writes: Ido Aharoni, Israel’s consul-general
for New York, and also “the founding head of Israel’s brand-management
team and the originator of the Brand Israel movement”, recently wrote an
op-ed in the New York Post (19 June 2013). In it he took to task the
famous American novelist Alice Walker for her promotion of
Why peace in Palestine-Israel is unattainable
Jamal Kanj says Israeli arrogance –"The international community
can say whatever they want, and we can do whatever we want" – coupled
with unqualified US support mean that peace is unattainable.
The G8’s commercial colonization of Africa
Graham Peebles says a G8 scheme intended to help African
agriculture - the New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition - is
likely to act as a mask for exploitation and profiteering.
Jun 26
Dutch rabbi calls a spade a spade
We’ve gotten used to the braying of Israeli stooges and flag
wavers claiming that “anti-Semitism” is on the rise. These Israeli
mouthpieces often take care to distinguish between “anti-Semitism” and
other forms of racism, which they rarely mention and in which the state
of Israel is a past master. For them the claim of rising
Jun 25
UK’s Jack Straw says Israel has nuclear weapons, steals Palestinian land
A tradition has developed in the West whereby politicians speak
common sense and the truth, but only when they are no longer in power.
Witness, for example, the former US president, Jimmy Carter. Now Jack
Straw, who was Britain’s foreign secretary at the time of the
Anglo-American aggression against Iraq, has stepped forward to keep
Jun 23
“Outspoken Israel supporter” gets UK minister post
British Prime Minister David Cameron has given a ministerial post
to Ian Livingston, a “most outspoken supporter of Israel" who thinks
the Zionist entity is “the most amazing state in the world”.
Jun 21
Israel: big racists vs little racists
Jonathan Cook argues that Israel’s racial discrimination strategy
– cultivating “grand apartheid” by placing control of resources
exclusively in the hands of Jews while shying away from “petty
apartheid” – is unravelling.
Jun 20
Israel hasbara would-be killers caught red handed
Israel’s hasbara activists are getting desperate, it would seem.
The Israeli news website Ynet reports that authorities in the US city of
New York have indicted two pro-Israel activists for assembling a
portable X-ray weapon that they intended to use to secretly sicken or
kill opponents of Israel. The two, Glendon Scott Crawford, 49, and
Failed hasbara insults bounce off Alice Walker
Stuart Littlewood examines the smear campaign being launched by
Israel’s pimps and stooges against American author, poet, activist and
Pullitzer Prize winner Alice Walker for criticizing Israel in her latest
book.
Stephen Hawking vs the last bigoted democracy
Jamal Kanj contrasts the hypocrites’ coven assembled in Jerusalem
to mark Israeli President Shimon Peres’s birthday with Professor
Stephen Hawkin’s principled boycott of a post-birthday bash conference
hosted by Peres.
Jun 19
Shimon Peres’s birthday freak show
Israeli President Shimon Peres’s 90th birthday bash has turned
into a real freak show. The theme of the party, held on 18 June, might
as well have been warmongering and death merchandizing. As we previously
reported, among the 3,000 guests were, as you might expect, former
British Prime Minister and war crimes suspect Tony Blair.
Jun 18
Palestinian Authority tries to snuff out anti-occupation groups
We’ve all become used to reports of scandals hitting the
Palestinian Authority (PA), so much so that it is fair to say we are
somewhat desensitized to them. Just thinking randomly, there was the
report back in 2004 of the cement factory owned by the prime minister at
the time, Ahmad Qurei, supplying concrete slabs
Jun 17
Perspectives on the US surveillance scandal
Lawrence Davidson considers the impact of organizational and
bureaucratic cultures and politics on the erosion of the public service
ethos of public servants, including elected politicians, and with it
citizens’ rights.
Israeli squatter chief speaks the truth
Over the next few days we can expect an endless stream of hot air
in response to Israeli Economy Minister Naftali Bennett’s declaration
that the idea of a two state-solution to the Israeli-Palestinian
conflict is a pipe dream. In remarks to a conference of Jewish squatters
and land thieves in Jerusalem, relayed by Israeli public
Jun 15
Israeli death merchants and Palestinian guinea pigs
Gilad Atzmon reviews a new groundbreaking documentary which
examines the Israeli military-industrial complex and the how Israeli
death merchants have assumed a leading role in world military and
“security” circles.
UN justice champion Richard Falk targeted
Stuart Littlewood examines the arguments used against UN Special
Rapporteur Richard Falk by the US and the Zionist lobby, who
simultaneously mount a rearguard defence of the criminal Israeli state.
Jun 14
Sweden set to punish Israel’s Palestinian victims
Nureddin Sabir examines the perverse “logic” behind Sweden’s
warning that it is poised to cut aid to the Palestinians under Israeli
occupation because they refuse to submit to their occupiers.
Seeds of change in Ethiopia
Graham Peebles sees in this month’s demonstration in the
Ethiopian capital signs of hope but says real change will happen only if
this serves as a catalyst for a coordinated, strategic movement.
Jun 13
Israel’s “worn-out whore” celebrates his 90th birthday
Israeli President Shimon Peres is set to hold the mother of all
parties to celebrate his 90th birthday. According to the Israeli news
website Ynet, the veteran Labour Party leader’s birthday bash, which is
due on 18 June, will be the hottest ticket in town. Among the 3,000
guests will be former US President Bill
Jun 10
Is the USA’s “unbreakable bond” with Israel close to breaking?
The Israelis are getting nervous. With 65 years of war crimes,
violations of international law and general contempt for the
international community under their belt, they are beginning to feel
that they are close to burning their bridges with the only country that
matters to them: the United States. A recent commentary in the Israeli
Jun 08
The writing on the wall for Palestinian collaborators
It has always been our position that the Palestinian struggle
will get nowhere as long as the Palestinian people are led by donkeys
(with due respect to the real donkeys, not their human imitators),
corrupt collaborators and primitive Islamist retards. What the
Palestinians need is an Intifada, or uprising, against the self-serving
quislings of the
Window on America’s right wing
Lawrence Davidson sheds light on a section of the American right –
the mostly white, mostly middle class folk that are organized around
the fear of government, its taxes and regulations.
Bloody future awaits the Middle East
Uri Avnery says events in Syria could signal the disintegration
of the nation-state and a return to ethnic-religious communities and,
with them, “wholesale massacres and ethnic cleansing” .
Ethiopia’s Ogaden refugees recount tales of horror
Graham Peebles relays first-hand accounts, obtained during a
recent trip to Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya, of the systematic terror
used by the Ethiopian government against its own ethnic Somali
population.
Jun 07
The USA’s irrational relationship with Israel
Jamal Kanj says 46 years after US officials whitewashed the
Israeli attack on the USS Liberty, little has changed and America’s
politicians are still putting Israeli interests ahead of their own
people’s.
Jun 06
US lays trap for Palestinians
Jonathan Cook says US Secretary of State John Kerry’s plan for
“economic piece” effectively gives the Palestinians a choice between
abandoning statehood or being blamed for the failure of the “peace
process”.
Jun 04
The BBC and Bradley Manning: censorship, incompetence or cowardice?
Whenever we see reports of censorship by Britain’s state
broadcaster, the BBC, we find it rather hard whether to describe this as
censorship, cowardice, cock-up, ignorance or sheer lack of editorial
integrity. Here’s the latest instance, involving prevarications by the
BBC over an invitation to British human rights activist and former
ambassador Craig Murray to
Turkish protests: the story behind the sound bites
Nureddin Sabir warns against simplifications, generalizations and
crude comparisons between the Turkish protests and the Arab Spring, and
highlights two short but informative analyses of the Turkish unrest.
Jun 01
Stooges seek to criminalize criticism of Israel
Stuart Littlewood examines the London Declaration on Combating
Anti-Semitism, which has been signed by a large number of Western
parliamentarians but seems to be aimed at criminalizing legitimate
criticism of Israel.
May 31
Israel’s peace no-hoper
Although no intelligent observer expected the new boy in Israeli
politics, Ya’ir Lapid, whose Hebrew name translates to “shining torch”,
to shine a light on the Middle East and usher in a just solution to the
Israeli-Palestinian conflict, a few idiots, such as Time Magazine, which
placed him among the world’s 100 most influential people,
May 30
America’s endless war
Lawrence Davidson says the US government’s embrace of targeted
assassination, plus modern surveillance technology and offshore prisons
for “enemy combatants”, could spell the end of freedom in the “land of
the free”.
Who are our friends?
Once upon a time, in our naïveté, we progressive Arab patriots
devoted to freedom, liberation, democracy and justice, thought we knew
who our foreign friends were. Our friends supported the Palestinian
cause, so we assumed they also support justice and freedom everywhere –
in Syria, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia, Yemen, Bahrain and elsewhere. We
assumed that,
May 27
Syria – victim of foreign machinations
Munzer Hindawi says the key to breaking the stalemate in Syria
lies with the United States, but Washington will move only if the Syrian
conflicts threatens to spill over to other countries.
May 25
UK Woolwich murder leaves unanswered questions
Nureddin Sabir considers the possible motives behind the
appalling murder of a British soldier in London by a Muslim convert, and
argues that the British police have many questions to answer.
May 23
Global Day of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution
Stand in solidarity with the Syrian people by joining the Global
Day of Solidarity with the Syrian Revolution on 31 May. To quote the
organizers, Assad’s regime has unleashed a violent rampage against the
Syrians, launching Scud missiles, cluster bombs, incendiary munitions
and aerial bombardments on his own people. The regime has detained and
tortured
Israel suffers major setback in Scotland
Israel and its allies have suffered major blow after the Church
of Scotland decisively rebuffed its misuse of the scriptures to claim
exclusive Jewish rights to Palestine. According to a media release by
Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign, Delegates to the Church of
Scotland General Assembly have today voted to adopt a report by its
Church
Iran’s presidential election, the West and Israel
Jamal Kanj says whoever wins Iran’s presidential election is
likely to find himself at loggerheads with the West as long as the
latter continues to view the Middle East through Israeli eyes.
May 21
Stuart Littlewood says the Church of England, which is shamefully
silent over the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian Christians and Muslims
by the Israeli occupiers, has much to learn from its Scottish
counterpart.
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