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Israeli apartheid is never fit to print in the ‘Times’, only in ‘Haaretz’
When has the Times ever filed a serious report on Israeli apartheid policies, and will it ever? Meanwhile, Haaretz today runs an editorial page broadside against the colony/settlement Ariel’s University expansion plans.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, One state/Two states, US Politics
Tagged Ariel, Ehan Bronner, Haaretz, media bias, new york times, Viable Palestinian State, West Bank
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Quoting Israelis, ‘NYT’ front pager says Iran will take a military strike lying down (won’t even raise oil prices!)
Ethan Bronner quotes Israelis saying that Iran won’t retaliate if it is attacked
Security expert formerly in Bush I administration says Holocaust rationalizes Israel’s nuking Iran
Bennett Ramberg, formerly of GHW Bush’s State Department, now a purported expert on international relations, offers this unsettling prediction/threat in the New York Times’s Jan. 25th print edition: If Jerusalem really believes that a nuclear-armed Tehran poses an existential threat –– … Continue reading
Santorum’s pulp hasbara
1974 novel envisioned Israel fighting Native Americans in Texas. Has Santorum been reading this book?
Free graphic novel explores CIA overthrow of Iranian gov’t in 1953
CIA’s Operation Ajax to overthrow Iran government in 1953 helped poison U.S. relations with Persians for decades to come
How to avoid war with Iran
Elided from mainstream media coverage, the root cause of the current standoff with Iran is the 1953 U.S.-orchestrated overthrow of Iran’s democratically-elected government and its Prime Minister, Mohammed Mossadegh. This led to decades of U.S.-backed oppression under the Shah’s brutal dictatorship. The … Continue reading
West’s 1% salivates over spoils of the Libyan 99%
Q: Who is set to financially benefit from the sacrifices of the 99% (okay, maybe it wasn’t quite that many, but you know what I mean) of Libyans who risked their lives in the revolution? A: The 1% of American … Continue reading
Burg, former Knesset speaker, endorses idea of one state from river to sea
Enormous. Former Speaker of the Knesset Avraham Burg has come out of the colonialism closet and endorsed one democratic state from the river to the sea if Israel fails to take real steps toward two states, which of course, it … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Will a US veto at the UN invite another 9/11 (followed by an attack on Iran)?
Former U.S. ambassador Charles O. Cecil’s letter to President Obama warns that a U.S. veto of Palestine’s application for U.N. membership will physically endanger American civilians: …if the United States vetoes the Palestinian request for statehood, we will damage our position in … Continue reading
Gideon Levy (unintentionally) lays bare the contradictions of liberal Zionism
Usually Gideon Levy’s razor-sharp commentaries in Haaretz get to the heart of the matter, but I think he blew a gasket with his latest, comparing the P.A.’s bid for statehood to early Zionist politics. Sure, there are a few tenuous … Continue reading
We’ve learned nothing since 9/11
Excepting a few marginalized journalists and thought leaders, most Americans have learned less than nothing about the causes of the September 11, 2001 attacks. In the wake of that dreadful day, and for years afterward, then-President Bush claimed, almost comically, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, US Policy in the Middle East
Tagged 10th Anniversary of 9/11, 9/11, Ariel Sharon, Blowback, Chalmers Johnson, Deir Yassin, Gandhi, George Bush, Hope or Terror, Larry Derfner, Mainstream Media, Metta Center for Nonviolence Education, Nakba, new york times, Propaganda, Satyagraha, September 11, Sharon is a Man of Peace, U.S. Foreign Policy, zinad samouni
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NYT’s Keller implies Iraq War aimed to save Israel from a ‘holocaust’
NYT Executive Editor Bill Keller pens a tortured mea culpa about his support for the Iraq War, stopping short of a full apology because he “couldn’t have known better at the time.” Along the way, he drops this stunning revelation … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Bill Keller, Iraq was a War for Israel, new york times, Propaganda
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‘Adbusters’ goes after NYT’s pro-Israel bias
Have we started a mini-earthquake that’s headed straight for the Grey Lady’s department of propaganda? Adbusters ran my piece critiquing Bronner and Kershner’s pro-Israel bias (also in print, Aug/Sept. issue): In June of 2010, a year and a half after the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Adbusters, ethan bronner, Isabel Kershner, media bias, new york times, Pro-Israel Propaganda
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‘NYT’ editorial on stalemate reflects Israeli talking points
Ali Abunimah said it best: you can’t negotiate over sharing a pizza when your adversary is eating the pizza during the negotiations. Well, the New York Times is back with more editorial page propaganda that blames the Palestinian Authority for not … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Ali Abu-Nimah's Pizza Analogy, new york times, Propaganda
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Bahour says Palestinians will call for secular democracy after statehood initiative fails
Sam Bahour argues persuasively in The Guardian that one secular state is both the best – and the only – option. Once this foredoomed move toward Palestinian membership in the UN runs its course, a new paradigm will take root, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states
Tagged one state, Sam Bahour, The Guardian
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The case against circumcision
Alan Dershowitz’s flippant, dismissive remarks about male genital mutilation (aka circumcision) are infuriating, but an apropos Freudian slip. From where I sit, military Zionism shares a lot in common with this barbaric practice. Both involve inflicting violence against an oppressed … Continue reading
More land grab in West Bank
I know there are denialists who will never pronounce the two state solution dead, no matter how old and rotten the corpse. Isn’t this just another shovel of dirt on the quite decayed body? Akiva Eldar in Haaretz:
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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Yahoo comments on boycott law suggest American backlash against Israel has begun
For a long time, I’ve wondered if the American people would ever rise up against the pernicious and destructive pro-Israel lobby. Maybe the boycott law is causing that to happen? Check out the comments on the Yahoo News report, for … Continue reading
Boycott law is crossroads for U.S.’s liberal Zionists
Thanks to Bradley Burston for calling the fascist spade a spade. It’s better when Israeli Jewish journalists say this stuff about Israeli society, and we American Jews can quote them, thus making it harder to call us self-haters. Burston: The … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine
Tagged Bradley Burston, Haaretz, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Fascism, New Afrikaners
21 Comments
Flotilla activists undergo nonviolence training (Israel fears mass nonviolent protest above all)
From Haaretz: “A non-violent protest of 4,000 people or more, even if they only march to a checkpoint or a settlement, and especially if the Palestinian police does not deter them, will be unstoppable,” one IDF officer claims. “Such a … Continue reading
Mr. Spock says ‘beam up the two state solution,’ but ignore the asymmetry
Leonard Nimoy’s on record with Americans for Peace Now in support of the two-state solution. His strangely passionate-for-a-Vulcan argument contains an enormous fallacy: You might recall the episode in the original Star Trek series called, “Let That Be Your Last … Continue reading
Videos of MoveOverAipac disrupting Netanyahu speech last night
Here is a report on the disruptions, from MoveoverAipac. And the videos:
Posted in Israel/Palestine
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‘Colonization is indefensible, not 1967 borders’ – Cohen in NYT
Roger Cohen busts out a brilliant catchphrase in the NY Times that could serve as the basis for the next Young Jewish Proud protest: The 1967 lines are not “indefensible,” as Netanyahu declared in his immediate response to Obama’s speech. … Continue reading
NYT’s Bronner says Netanyahu demonstrates ‘territorial flexibility’ on the basis of no evidence
Ethan Bronner’s NY Times reports are of fantastic comedic value. Check out the latest spin from the Israeli Army Daddy: Days before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is to meet with President Obama, he laid out his principles Monday for accepting … Continue reading
Posted in Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states
Tagged C.I.A., ethan bronner, new york times, Zionist Propaganda
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The New York Times‘s shameless Nakba distortion
The NYT’s front page leader propagandistically claims (emphasis added): “Israel’s borders erupted as thousands of Palestinians marched from Syria, Lebanon, Gaza, and the West Bank on the anniversary when Arabs mourn Israel’s creation.” I call this a distortion because Palestinians actually … Continue reading