Tag: israel
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The war after
The elections in Israel make us certain of the victory of the Israeli racial state. Livni, Netanyahu or Lieberman – the result is the same even though one speaks about ‘dialogue’ towards a ‘two state solution’, one speaks of ‘no dialogue’ and one speaks of conditioning citizenship on an oath of loyalty… In a sense,…
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New year, new war
To be published in Metro Eireann, 15 January 2009. (PHOTOS: http://gaza.haimbresheeth.com/gaza-carnage-archive/gaza-photos) What a start for the new year!! On 27 December, the Israeli Defence Forces launched an attack of unprecedented scale on the Gaza Strip. According to the Israeli government, the attack was in response to unyielding Palestinian rocket and mortar fire into Israel since…
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Let Obama not be a ‘friend of Israel’
Just read Gideon Levy’s article ‘Let Obama not be a friend of Israel’ in Haaretz: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1035415.html His main argument is that what Israel needs is a US president who encourages Israel to end the occupation, not bolster it, who remembers that Palestinians, not only African Americans, have human rights, who stops funding Israeli re-arming, who…