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The decline of Israel and the prospects for peace

Jonathan Cook — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 20:50:35 +0000

In a wide-ranging interview with the New Left Project, Nazareth-based journalist Jonathan Cook describes the increasingly repressive nature of Israeli society and the prospects for a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict.

The dark face of Jewish nationalism

Alan Sabrosky — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 22:43:53 +0000

Alan Sabrosky considers the characteristics that differentiate Jewish nationalism from other nationalisms, highlighting in particular its intrinsic extremism, its xenophobia, racism and militarism, its undermining of civic loyalty among its adherents in other countries and its propensity to hatred and racial exclusivity.

Rachel Corrie family finally puts Israel in dock

Jonathan Cook — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:28:19 +0000

After years of efforts by the Israeli government to deny justice to the family of US peace campaigner Rachel Corrie, who was murdered by the Israeli army in 2003, the Corries have finally succeeded in bringing the case to court, Jonathan Cook reports.

Does Israel hope to spark a new wave of suicide bombing?

Stuart Littlewood — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:55:32 +0000

Stuart Littlewood looks at how Israel’s incessant abuse of the Palestinian people’s rights and freedoms, and its trampling on their dreams, lie behind almost every act of suicide bombing.

”Here in the West few of us can fully comprehend what turns a bright, intelligent person into a suicide bomber. But then, we don’t have a jackboot on our throat. We don’t have our front door battered down in the middle of the night by military thugs, our family abducted, our home bulldozed and our land confiscated.”

Is Europe planning seal of approval for Israeli settlers?

Jonathan Cook — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 21:54:23 +0000

Jonathan Cook reports that the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is set to accept Israel as a member – thus conferring legitimacy on its illegal occupation of Arab lands – despite Israel’s failure to meet a number of OECD criteria, including on corruption, copyright and wealth disparity.

A damning indictment of Israel’s “peace camp”

Alan Hart — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:10:36 +0000

Alan Hart views an article published in the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz, in which Gideon Levy castigates the Israeli “left” and “peace camp” for their “impossible adherence to Zionism”, for their complacency and for the unwillingness of their followers to take personal risk and show courage, which, he says, mean that Israel's left is “illusory” and its peace camp “an unborn baby”.

The US as a superpower and “the world's sickest warrior state”

Paul J. Balles — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 22:08:33 +0000

Paul J. Balles says the US “has not only become the world's major power, it has become the world's sickest warrior state”. He calls on humanitarians to reject the double standards set by warmongers, on the clergy to stop preaching sanctimonious sermons and on teachers to teach a zero tolerance policy for self-righteous warriors.

So when are you going to make war on Israel, Mr Brown?

Alan Hart — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 10:27:05 +0000

Alan Hart highlights the double standard displayed by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown at the Iraq Inquiry on 5 March, where he sought to justify the aggression against Iraq on the grounds of Iraq’s non-compliance with international law – something Israel has been doing for 62 years.

”for 62 years the Zionist state of Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest single violator of international law. No state on Planet Earth has been allowed to get away with defying UN resolutions for so long. And, I say, no state poses a bigger threat to the peace of the region and the world than Israel on its present course.”

UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown surrenders to Zionist pressure

Gilad Atzmon — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:57:52 +0000

Gilad Atzmon considers the role of Britain’s Israel lobby and stooges in Prime Minister Gordon Brown’s announcement that soon the UK would be turned into a safe haven for suspected Israeli war criminals.

“Peace or apartheid” are not the only options for Israel

Alan Hart — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 23:31:03 +0000

Alan Hart warns that unless President Barack Obama finds the courage “to require Israel to be serious about peace" with the Palestinians and its Arab neighbours, then we could face the real prospect of the Zionist state ethnically cleansing its Arab citizens, expelling the Palestinians from the occupied West Bank and leaving Gazans “to rot to death”.