An intractable process, one that never seems to resolve itself, is either no process at all or a fraudulent one contrived to hide an ulterior motive. The so-called Israeli-Palestinian (at one time the Israeli-Arab) “peace process,” now in its sixth decade (counting from 1948) or fourth decade (counting from 1967) is, and probably always has been, just such a fraud.
Debate to recognise Palestine statehood
Despite all the veiled threats and the loony posturings of the pro-Israel lobby, Parliament voted 274 to 12 on Monday to recognise Palestine as a State.
If Pinocchio was a real character, he would have been more likely a Zionist card holding member and an expert in the Israeli art of confusing perception with reality.
By Jamal Kanj
In my last column, I discussed Benjamin Netanyahu’s proclivity to deceive, cheat and lie. During my research, however, I came across an article by Israeli journalist Amira Hass, who had a different take on the issue.
Washington’s response to the speech that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas delivered at the UN General Assembly last September 26 confirms that the bilateral Palestinian-U.S. relations are heading for stormy times.
Is this not the ultimate betrayal?
My compatriots, Mr. Abbas has just withdrawn the dagger from deep in the heart of Palestine and placed it firmly unsheathed and ready to cross the jugular. Please don’t allow him to administer the final and fatal cut to our hopes and aspirations.
The taste of betrayal is most bitter because it never comes from your enemies.
Treason: The betraying of one’s country… Oxford English Dictionary
Image: University of California, Davis — Davis, California
Donor blackmail is the last front line for the Zionists as they continue to suffer defeats in the battle for public opinion. Unfortunately, their activities on this front have resulted the erosion of academic freedom and the ruination of dozens careers.
Despite the pro-Israeli bias in Australia’s mainstream media, more than 69% of Australia’s population are now critical of Israel’s influence in the world (BBC Poll, 2013) and many of these critics in Adelaide are eager to express that disapproval by employing the time-honoured tactics of BDS.
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We are thus faced with a messy set of problems: widespread lack of popular awareness of how special interests can control government, what this can result in, and the fact that this lack of awareness is likely compounded by the public’s equally widespread apathy regarding their own ignorance.
by Dr. Lawrence Davidson
By all accounts Steven Sotloff was a good man and no probative evidence has surfaced that the American was anything other than what he appeared to be. Caught up in Middle Easter politics for which few are prepared and fewer these days should feel confident about their personal security
Image: Large group of Jews gathered at Rabin Square in the center of Tel Aviv, chanting hatred for Arabs, making fun of dead children and bombed schools in Gaza, and calling for all Arabs in Israel to have their citizenship removed and expelled from Israel.
Racism in Israel is not an exception, but the social norm. This was validated in a recent poll conducted by the Israel Democracy Institute, which showed that 95 per cent of Israeli Jews were fully behind their army’s genocidal campaign in Gaza.
