From Reuters, Nov. 20: GAZA – Israel’s air force cancelled a planned raid on the home of a Gaza militant on Sunday after hundreds of Palestinians barricaded themselves inside the building, an Israeli military spokesman and witnesses said. Hours after… Read moreGaza: “human shield” action halts Israeli air raid
Kinda heartwarming, eh? From The Telegraph, Nov. 8: Jews and Muslims unite against homosexuals Jews and Muslims in Jerusalem have found common ground in their fierce opposition to a gay rights rally due to be held in the city this… Read moreBigotry unites monotheistic faiths
The Israeli military brass is investigating whether human error or computer malfunction resulted in killing 19 Palestinians in their apartment block in Beit Hanoun, Gaza on Nov. 8. According to Ha’aretz, Nov. 9: According to the IDF, the “normal” margin… Read moreIsrael blames “errant shells” for massacre
Here we go again. This Nov. 1 commentary from the World Socialist Web Site (which is being echoed all over the left-wing blogosphere, e.g. on San Francisco Indymedia) relishes in the latest example of censorious behavior by Israel’s apologists, under… Read moreZionists seek to silence critics of Israel. Well, duh!
Nervous Democrats are distancing themselves from Jimmy Carter’s forthcoming Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, and urging him not to use the term to describe the continuing Israeli occupation and colonization of the Palestinian territories. It should be noted that Ha’aretz, Israel’s… Read moreDemocrats task Carter over “apartheid” Israel tome
Arthur Neslen on the UK Guardian’s Comment is Free blog Oct. 25 outlines various intellectual responses to the ascendance of the frightening Avigdor Lieberman to the Israeli cabinet. One which he overlooks is the “smokescreen” response, put forth by the… Read moreAvigdor Lieberman: “fascism” or “smokescreen”?
From Reuters, Oct. 25: Berlin: IAF jets fire shots over German ship off coast of Lebanon Two Israel Air Force warplanes and a German navy vessel have clashed off the Lebanese coast, the Defense Ministry in Berlin said on Wednesday… Read moreIsraeli war planes and German navy clash off Lebanon coast
Anybody have any idea who the “Lions of Monotheism” are? From Newsday, Sept. 19: Palestine’s Christians face retalliation from Muslims over Pope’s words NABLUS — The charred churches of this West Bank town were shuttered yesterday and circled by armed… Read moreAnti-papal backlash spreads to West Bank
From the Israeli Committee on Housing Demolitions (ICHAD), Sept. 13: Israelis and Hezbollah Haven’t Always Been Enemies When Hezbollah operative and diamond trader Samih Ossailly was arrested in Belgium in April of 2002, one of the items found in a… Read moreIsraeli diamond merchants worked with Hezbollah, al-Qaeda?
Once again, the idiot left delivers up propaganda ammo to the reactionary New York Sun on a silver platter. Are these claims true? If they aren’t, Al-Awda should sue. If they are, Al-Awda should be generally repudiated by the American… Read moreAl-Awda: “Jews are our dogs”
From DPA, Aug. 31: Damascus- Around 595 Druse clergymen from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights crossed into Syria Thursday for an annual pilgrimage to the holy Habil shrine at Zabadanto, a Red Cross official in Damascus said. The clerics crossed the… Read moreGolani Druze pilgrimage defies Israeli ethnocide
In the wake of the Lebanon aggression, Uri Avnery invokes the image of Israel as Washington’s attack dog—as he has before. Online at Gush Shalom, Aug. 26, emphasis added: America’s Rottweiler IN HIS latest speech, which infuriated so many people,… Read moreIsrael as “America’s Rottweiler”
