A.LOEWENSTEIN ONLINE NEWSLETTER

• Handy reminder of US war goals
• A lone voice who believes in truth (on Fox News)
• Another US Jew wondering why her people occupy Arabs
• BDS grows in power in Australia and Zionists don’t even wonder why (hint: the occupation)
• How ANZ bank is backing cluster bombs
• War with Iran may have to wait a few more minutes

Handy reminder of US war goals Posted: 06 Aug 2010 A beacon to the world, supposedly: Four of the nation’s most highly valued terrorist prisoners were secretly moved to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in 2003, years earlier than has been disclosed, then whisked back into overseas prisons before the Supreme Court could give them access to lawyers, The Associated Press has learned. The transfer allowed the U.S. to interrogate the detainees in CIA “black sites” for two more years without allowing them to speak with attorneys or human rights observers or challenge their detention in U.S. courts. Had they remained at the Guantanamo Bay prison for just three more months, they would have been afforded those rights.

A lone voice who believes in truth (on Fox News) Posted: 06 Aug 2010 A robust defence of Wikileaks against “lying” governments…on Fox News with Judge Napolitano:

Another US Jew wondering why her people occupy Arabs Posted: 05 Aug 2010 Emily Henochowicz, the American Jew who lost her eye from a Israeli tear gas canister in May, tells her story for the first time in a TV broadcast on Democracy Now! These stories are moving because they represent the growing numbers of American Jews questioning the Zionist state.

BDS grows in power in Australia and Zionists don’t even wonder why (hint: the occupation) Posted: 05 Aug 2010 Following the current controversy over the Melbourne Film Festival accepting money from the Zionist state, the Jewish News includes a very revealing and fearful quote: Zionist Federation of Australia president Philip Chester has spoken out against an attempt by the makers of the film Son of Babylon to boycott the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) because of Israeli sponsorship of the event. In an email to festival director Richard Moore, the film’s director Mohamed Al-Daradji and producers Isabelle Stead and Atia Al-Daradji demanded the film, a Palestinian co-production, not be show in protest against Israel’s “illegal crimes against humanity”. The email was sent on the day Son of Babylon was due to be screened. The film was shown as scheduled. “The request by the makers was completely inappropriate,” Chester told The AJN. “[The boycott] is part of a worldwide attempt to isolate Israel, to boycott Israeli products, creativity, programs and culture. We’re seeing it everywhere and that’s the real worry.”

How ANZ bank is backing cluster bombs Posted: 05 Aug 2010 Just one more reason to dislike the banking industry: A postcard produced by campaigners shows six-year old Abdullah, pictured with his left arm missing above the elbow.   It explains the Iraqi boy was sleeping in his home in 2003 when a cluster bomb came through his window, the shrapnel blowing off his arm and tearing open his abdomen. On the back of the postcard is the address of ANZ’s chief executive officer, Mike Smith, along with a message, urging the bank to stop financing the American weapons maker, Lockheed Martin. Mark Zirnsak is the social justice spokesman for the Uniting Church in Victoria and Tasmania and is part of the postcard campaign. ZIRNSAK: Members of the community have been sending in postcards to the ANZ, asking them to join those banks globally that have said they won’t do business with companies that manufacture cluster munitions – as a way of pushing these manufacturers to get out of the business. COCHRANE: Cluster bombs are particularly devastating for civilians, with hundreds or thousands of small bomblets scattered over a wide area, posing a risk to those clearing them or to children who pick them up to play with. Mark Zirnsak says ANZ has taken positive steps in helping facilitate dialogue between Lockheed Martin and the anti-cluster bomb campaigners. ZIRNSAK: And in that discussion, Lockheed Martin has indicated they’ll get out of the business of manufacturing cluster munitions that are banned by this treaty as of 2013. So, that’s a really positive step. But at the same time the ANZ has provided finance to another company, L3 Communications, who also manufacture components that go into cluster munitions, particularly fuses.

War with Iran may have to wait a few more minutes Posted: 05 Aug 2010 Leading American Zionist and hawk Jeffrey Goldberg is upset in his meeting with Barack Obama that the US President wasn’t more threatening towards Iran. Diplomacy will supposedly fail, we’re told, despite the fact that Washington has its foot on Tehran’s face.