You can’t script something better than what has happened to Rep. Jane Harman of California. Last month, Rep. Harman tabled a bill in the United States House of Representatives to sanction and limit any foreign aid to Pakistan based on “access to AQ Khan.” Rep. Harman called AQ Khan “Mr. Khan is again a loose [...]
Read more →Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stormed off the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos after an argument with Israel’s president. Mr Erdogan clashed with Shimon Peres in a discussion on the recent fighting in the Gaza Strip, telling him: “You are killing people.” I watched the whole debate and was very surprised [...]
Read more →Retired Israeli official Avner Cohen told the Wall Street Journal, “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation.” In an amazing story, the Wall Street Journal draws a direct line between Hamas and the State of Israel with complete history of the hows and whys of its creation. Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked [...]
Read more →Naomi Klein, author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, said it best in a column published in The Guardian: It’s time. Long past time. The best strategy to end the increasingly bloody occupation is for Israel to become the target of the kind of global movement that put an end to apartheid in South [...]
Read more →I was reminded of a comment made by Israeli Deputy Defence Minister Matan Vilani that Palestinians risked a “shoah,” the Hebrew word for a big disaster and for the Nazi Holocaust. While his colleagues insisted to the international media that he had not meant “genocide” the events of the past few weeks would lead us [...]
Read more →Many of you probably recall my post on the MegaPhone software that the Israeli media machine uses to make sure that public opinion looks pro-Israeli, but what i found yesterday was amazing. Richard Silverstein, on the Guardian website, shared an email that was sent out by the Israeli Propaganda Machine (much like Hitler’s disinformation officers). [...]
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