Yoni Goldman, one of the creators of Oscar winner animated film “Waltz with Bashir,” has produced a 90 second animated short film to draw attention to the plight of the Gaza civilians. “People talk about Hamas, but there are many civilians there who are not Hamas supporters but who are suffering from this blockade,” the [...]
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 →Ever since the Palestinian Authority was established, the Israeli public relations machinery has exaggerated the danger of the military threat that the Palestinians pose to us. When they moved from stones to rifles and from Molotov cocktails to suicide bombings, from roadside bombs to Qassams and from Qassams to Grads, and from the PLO to [...]
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