NOVANEWS
- The ALP and Israel is like a disease that no medicine can cure
- India helped kill Tamil resistance
- Australians rally around the Hebron Festival of Friendship
- Gillard reassures America and Israel of her backing
- Asylum seekers deserve respect and a home
- What I found in my letterbox yesterday
- New York Times readers start to see the darkness in Gaza
- Better find another country to visit, Hebron oppressor
- Blumenthal on “fear” in America, used and abused by Murdoch
- Petraeus dying to be seen as pro-Israel
The ALP and Israel is like a disease that no medicine can cure 04 Jul 2010
Australian unionist Paul Howes loves Israel. He supports its criminality, murder of opponents, defends it from everybody and would ideally like to make love to the Jewish state. He’s also one of the key figures behind the recent coup of Julia Gillard when overthrowing Kevin Rudd.
Welcome to the modern Australian Labor Party, where Israel is a state religion. His column in yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph is a typical rant that conveniently forgets to mention that one of Australia’s leading Zionist lobbyists, Albert Dadon, is actually an Israeli lobbyist. He wields influence but of course we can’t mention this. Furthermore, Howes doesn’t want to see that there is a profound conflict of influence with the Prime Minister’s partner working for a Zionist lobbyist who is trying to affect government policy towards the Middle East. But of course for some, anything related to the Jewish state is beyond criticism. Fat chance:
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India helped kill Tamil resistance 04 Jul 2010 |
Australians rally around the Hebron Festival of Friendship 04 Jul 2010
The following article by Vivienne Porzsolt appears in this week’s Green Left Weekly:
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Gillard reassures America and Israel of her backing 04 Jul 2010
Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has no original ideas of her own. Business as usual, “centrist” foreign policy dressed up as realism and pragmatism:
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Asylum seekers deserve respect and a home 04 Jul 2010
When both major sides of Australian politics race to the bottom to demonise the most vulnerable within our borders (and the ones without a megaphone to tell us what they’re thinking and feeling), it takes brave voices to lead the debate:
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What I found in my letterbox yesterday 04 Jul 2010 |
New York Times readers start to see the darkness in Gaza 04 Jul 2010
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has been travelling around Palestine (here’s his recent strong piece from the West Bank).
Now it’s Gaza. Although his words are couched in too many cautious tones, his blog offers the reality of what he really saw:
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Better find another country to visit, Hebron oppressor 04 Jul 2010
Watching every step. Israeli officers and politicians will soon be before international courts. That day is coming:
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Blumenthal on “fear” in America, used and abused by Murdoch 04 Jul 2010
Jewish American film-maker Max Blumenthal recently premiered on US TV a documentary on the use of fear in the Tea Party movement, ably funded and backed by the Republican party and Fox News:
Max Blumenthal goes inside the Tea Party from Ram Bam on Vimeo. |
Petraeus dying to be seen as pro-Israel 04 Jul 2010
Oh dear:
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