Robert Fisk in the London Independent on the current crisis in Lebanon:
Another American humiliation. The Shia gunmen who drove past my apartment in west Beirut yesterday afternoon were hooting their horns, making V-signs, leaning out of the windows of SUVs with their rifles in the air, proving to the Muslims of the capital that the elected government of Lebanon has lost. Read more »
My following article appears in today’s edition of Crikey:
Antony Loewenstein, author of My Israel Question and the co-founder of Independent Australian Jewish Voices, writes:
“I am not a Jew”, said an Arab radio journalist in Jerusalem to the New York Times. Read more »
As Israel’s 60th anniversary approaches, the country’s creeping apartheid continues:
Among the many tools used in the battle between Israel’s Arabs and Jews, you can add a new one: gentrification.
The Arab Association for Human Rights alleges that Arab residents in a seaside neighborhood of Jaffa are being driven out so that the area can be developed for wealthy Jews. Read more »
My following article appears in today’s Online Opinion:
During Israel’s recent bombardment of Gaza, the Australian Jewish establishment reacted with unreserved support. Israel’s leading human rights organisation B’Tselem reported that the majority of Palestinian victims of the onslaught were civilians. Read more »
The next UN investigator into Israeli conduct in the occupied territories has stood by comments comparing Israeli actions in Gaza to those of the Nazis. Speaking to the BBC, Professor Richard Falk said he believed that up to now Israel had been successful in avoiding the criticism that it was due. Read more »
My following piece in the Melbourne Age, co-written with Michael Shaik, reflects on Israel’s 60th anniversary:
“If you will it,” wrote Theodore Herzl, the founding father of the Zionist movement, in 1902, “it is no dream.”
The dream to which he referred was the establishment of a Jewish state in the Arab country of Palestine. Read more »
Israel and Hamas, like two peas in a pod (courtesy of Haaretz’s Gideon Levy.)
The Middle East is on fire. Israel is killing Palestinian civilians in Gaza. But the Australian Jewish News decides to feature on the front page of its website the following “story“: Read more »
Jimmy Carter speaks the truth about resolving the Israel/Palestine conflict:
There’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that, if Israel is ever going to find peace with justice concerning the relationship with their next-door neighbours, the Palestinians, that Hamas will have to be included in the process. Read more »
My latest New Matilda column is about the need to talk to Hamas and speak honestly about Israel’s ever-expanding occupation: Read more »
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