Pillar of Defense
Noam Chomsky, who had been visiting Tromsø University in September this year, managed a couple of weeks ago to enter Gaza, where he attended a linguistic conference at the Islamic University, for the...
View ArticleRazing the Ghetto
It is inappropriate to compare Gaza with the Warsaw Ghetto which was created by Governor General Nazi Hans Frank in October 1940. Razing the ghetto commenced on 18 January 1943 and lasted until April....
View ArticleNo Moral Center
A couple of days before Inauguration Day for Barack Obama’s second term, Noam Chomsky had a damning indictment for the President. As a “man without a moral center,” he characterized him in an...
View ArticleInappropriate Comparisons
When Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu maundered the other day in a CNN interview, apparently nervous, about “telegenic dead Palestinians” for the cause of Hamas in the current ongoing Israeli...
View ArticleRazing the Ghetto Postponed
Two years ago, I had expected that the IDF would raze the Gaza ghetto but they didn’t. Today’s pictures of what the IDF has done in Sheja’iya recall those of what Nazi Germany did after the Warsaw...
View ArticleWho’s Driving Who Into the Sea?
Juan Cole had questioned the other day whether Israel has any war aims, “ordinary” countries when fighting wars usually have. Well, when looking at the map, it’s clear that there is only one aim:...
View ArticleEndlösung?
Update below. When confused Israeli blogger Yochanan Gordon yesterday maundered about a “permissible genocide” in Gaza and The Times of Israel posted this lunacy (but fortunately retracted it...
View ArticleIsrael’s War Aims
It wasn’t very clear from the beginning what the Israeli government and IDF actually wanted to achieve in the first place in Gaza. Punish Hamas for the three abducted and killed youths in the Westbank...
View Article“These Are the Worst Times Since the Nazi Era”
Dieter Graumann, president of Germany’s Central Council of Jews recalled Kristallnacht when interviewed by The Guardian. Inappropriate Nazi comparisons have also been made as regards Israel’s newest...
View ArticleElie Wiesel’s Turn
In the midst of the current and ongoing assault on Gaza, chief holocaust industrialist Elie Wiesel had written an ad which has been run in major U.S. and U.K. news outlets including The New York...
View ArticleAaron Maté’s Martyrdom
Aaron Maté has been a brave journalist. He had worked for DemocracyNow! and is now host at TheRealNews (TRN). He was born in Canada to Jewish parents but is a supporter of the Palestinian cause. So,...
View ArticleBrian Eno And Gaza
Brian Eno celebrated his 70s birthday yesterday. His decision not to perform at a more or less unimportant pop festival in Berlin later this year was because the organizers had accepted a small amount...
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