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Newseum honors newsman who ran guns for ethnic cleansing of Palestine
Newseum glorifies the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by honoring Hank Greenspun’s gun-running to Israel in the 1940s.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, Nakba
Tagged 9/11, Hank Greenspun, Israel Lobby, JFK, Naqba, Newseum, Propaganda
17 Comments
Settler leader endorses boycott of apartheid
Check out this gem from the New York Times’ fawning GQ-like profile of Israeli settler leader Dani Dayan: [Dayan and his wife] built a showpiece home, where the sunken double-height living room is filled with a painting from Vietnam, a … Continue reading
Dennis Ross urges Iran war in deceptive ‘NYT’ op-ed
Under the misleading headline “How America Can Slow Israel’s March to War,” former White House official/former and current Israel lobbyist Dennis Ross delivers a prescription for the opposite: Second, America should begin discussions with the permanent members of the United … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Israel Lobby, Middle East, Neocons, US Policy in the Middle East, US Politics
Tagged Dennis Ross, Iran, Israel, Mohammed Mossadegh, War Against Iran
36 Comments
Circumcision deaths are a legalized non-scandal
Legalized circumcision-related deaths meet zero accountability, while the recent ultra-Orthodox sexual abuse scandal led to criminal charges.
Brave ‘NYT’ exposes depth of Obama ties to the a lobby
Front-page, above the fold, the New York Times rips off the veil of secrecy surrounding the extent to which a certain lobby controls U.S. policy.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media, US Politics
13 Comments
Avraham Burg: World must tell Israel it can’t be ‘the only democracy in the Middle East’ & the last colonial occupier in the Western world
Former Israeli Knesset Speaker Avraham Burg endorses boycott of settlement products in The Independent.
Green Party candidate for President calls for end to Israeli apartheid
Dr. Jill Stein, who recently clinched the Green Party nomination for President, demands: “an end to the discriminatory apartheid policies within the state of Israel, the removal of the Separation Wall, a ban on assassination, movement toward denuclearization, the release of all political prisoners and journalists from Israeli and Palestinian prisons, disarmament of non-state militias, and recognition of the right of self-determination for both Israelis and Palestinians”
Peter Beinart’s cognitive dissonance on ‘threats to Israel’s demographics’
Michael Lerner and Peter Beinart seek to preserve Israel’s Jewish majority from the right of return
The benedictions of Benzion Netanyahu’s racism
Teh late Benzion Netanyahu believed in unending conquest of Arabs till they accepted the higher morality of their overlords
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Benzion Netanyahu, Bibi, Jabotinsky, new york times, NYT, Propaganda, Revisionist Zionism, The Iron Wall
32 Comments
Beinart’s Blindspot: Israel has always been a non-democratic apartheid state
Beinart’s new book to be brave, important, and blinkered all at once. The biggest problem is Beinart’s false, idealized image of pre-1967 Israel as a “flawed, but genuine democracy.” This doesn’t work because even within the green line Israel has always been a non-democratic apartheid state.
Posted in Israel Lobby, Israel/Palestine, One state/Two states
Tagged A Land of Two Peoples Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs, Gideon Levy, Haaretz, Israel is a Non-Democratic Apartheid State, Israeli Apartheid, Israeli Palestinian Equality Movement, Judah Magnes, Martin Buber, Palestinian Civil Rights Movement, Peter Beinart, right of return, The Crime of Apartheid, The Crisis of Zionism, The Middle East's Only Pretend Democracy
34 Comments
‘When Netanyahu and I look up we see nothing but the sky’ — Deputy Messiah Barak
Ehud Barak has expressed messianism; it’s not just Yuval Diskin diagnosing it
Posted in Iran, Middle East
Tagged Barka, Bibi, Bomb Iran, featured, Messiah, Yuval Diskin
13 Comments
If you deduct the Israelites, Pharaoh’s Egypt was actually a marvelous country
Bibi Netanyahu says if you deduct the Palestinians, Israel is actually a very equal country
Bloomberg warns BDS will lead to ‘massacres’ as Park Slope Co-op holds initial vote on boycott tonight
New York pols are lining up against the effort to boycott Israeli goods in the Park Slope Food Co-op. Bloomberg says it will lead to massacres and Scott Stringer calls it “an anti-Semitic crusade.” Co-op members’ response? You won’t learn it from the ‘New York Times’ who didn’t think to ask.
Posted in Israel/Palestine, Media
Tagged Bias, Distortion, Jodi Rudoren, Michael Grynbaum, New Israel Times, new york times, Propaganda
33 Comments
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
12 Comments
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
31 Comments
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
69 Comments
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
76 Comments
