Category: Palestine

The threat that is deemed intolerable

Equality for Palestinians? Israel won’t have it By Ben White, Friday 3 February 2012 07.25 EST … The presence of a few Palestinian members in the Knesset (MKs) is often touted as a sign of Israel’s robust democracy. Yet elected representatives of the Palestinian community inside Israel face growing harassment by the state, by fellow …

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Prophetic excerpts

Arendt: Born in conflict, Israel will degenerate into Sparta, and American Jews will need to back away By Philip Weiss, January 1, 2012 … For the new year, here are some prophetic excerpts from two essays of Hannah Arendt’s, collected in The Jewish Writings (2007). Please note her predictions of the Nakba, of unending conflict, of …

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Bought and paid for

Newt Gingrich’s agenda-setting big donor By Arun Kundnani, Saturday 28 January 2012 14.18 ES … By donating $10m to the pro-Newt Gingrich Super Pac campaign, casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, one of the richest men in the US, and his physician wife, Dr Miriam Adelson, have kept Gingrich in the Republican primary race, and given him …

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Something faintly fascist

The present stands no chance against the past By Robert Fisk, Saturday 28 January 2012 … The Palestinians are not only, it seems, an “invented people” – courtesy of Newt Gingrich – but the only Arabs on the Mediterranean not to enjoy a Spring or an Awakening or even a Winter. And Benjamin Netanyahu has …

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Imminent threat of extinction

We’ve been here before – and it suits Israel that we never forget ‘Nuclear Iran’ By Robert Fisk, Wednesday 25 January 2012 … Turning round a story is one of the most difficult tasks in journalism – and rarely more so than in the case of Iran. Iran, the dark revolutionary Islamist menace. Shia Iran, …

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Unsayable

The World War on Democracy By John Pilger, January 20, 2012 … Lisette Talate died the other day. I remember a wiry, fiercely intelligent woman who masked her grief with a determination that was a presence. She was the embodiment of people’s resistance to the war on democracy. I first glimpsed her in a 1950s …

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Because injustice is here

Letter from a Birmingham Jail By Martin Luther King, Jr., 16 April 1963 … 16 April 1963 My Dear Fellow Clergymen: While confined here in the Birmingham city jail, I came across your recent statement calling my present activities “unwise and untimely.” Seldom do I pause to answer criticism of my work and ideas. If …

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