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.
The real beheadings which occur regularly in Saudi Arabia – there was a batch of 19 only recently – are never shown on American news, nor are they even discussed. But a single video of a fake terrorist beheading is played and replayed and commented on endlessly with indignation over such horror. And the hundreds of Palestinians, including children, whom Israel has beheaded with bombs and artillery never make an appearance on television or rate any commentary.
John Chuckman
Image: PA President Mahmoud Abbas (left) and chief negotiator Saeb Erekat (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90
The Pentagon regularly supplies those who teach at the War College with data on many military subjects.Recently received analyses make plain beyond question that every Israeli commander who ordered these operations in Gaza knew well before the first rocket or tank shell was fired that two thirds of the victims of these ‘operations’ would be women and children.
Tension mounts in Lebanon’s teeming camps….
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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
In a report published Thursday, human rights group B’Tselem said that the Israel Defense Forces is still using Palestinian citizens as ‘human shields’ during dangerous operations.
Netanyahu and Abbas [file]. (photo credit:REUTERS)
In June, a recording was leaked in which Saeeb Erekat, the Palestinian Chief Prosecutor claimed that Abbas had promised the Israeli Premier Benyamin Netanyahu not to make the application to the International Criminal Court.
An informed visitor from another planet who listened to Obama would scratch his head and say, “Has the president not heard about the occupied and oppressed Palestinians and their long struggle for freedom, justice and dignity?”
In laying out his plans to degrade and ultimately destroy ISIS, President Obama said this:
Image: Shmuley Boteach image for his New York Times ad, which he says thye paper insisted he change
Netanyahu’s depiction of Hamas and ISIS, or Islamic State, as “branches of the same poisonous tree” is a travesty of the truth.
Image: Bruce Shipman, Chaplain – Episcopal Church at Yale
