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Dora McPhee (VIC) responds to Ghitis’ article “David’s star shines bright”, The Age, 31Jan10
The Age: “David’s star shines bright” by Frida Ghitis, 31 January 2010
Frida Ghitis has done a sterling job of pro-Israel propaganda in “David’s star shines bright”, which The Age has seen fit to publish without an opinion piece that would balance and alert readers to its hidden agenda of discrediting those who stand up for [...]
SHAABAN: Haiti – Gaza: varieties of compassion
by Bouthaina Shaaban - CounterPunch - 26 January 2010
Akiva Eldar wrote an article entitled “Israel’s compassion in Haiti can’t hide our ugly face in Gaza” (Haaretz, January 18, 2010) in which he explains the contradiction in the public relations campaign conducted by Israel’s rulers in rescuing and treating victims of the earthquake in Haiti and [...]
ROSENBERG: Are Middle East negotiations dead?
M J Rosenberg - Media Matters - 29 January 2010
President Obama’s “State of the Union” left out the traditional call for the renewal of Israeli-Palestinian negotiations which, for years, has been boilerplate in Presidential addresses to Congress.
I imagine Obama left it out because his previous calls fell on deaf ears in Israel, with Prime Minister [...]
FISK: In the West Bank’s stony hills, Palestine is slowly dying
In the richest of the Occupied lands, Israeli bureaucracy is driving Palestinians out of their homes.
by Robert Fisk in Jiftlik, Israeli-occupied Palestinian West Bank - The Independent - 30 January 2010
Area C doesn’t sound very ominous. A land of stone-sprinkled grey hills and soft green valleys, it’s part [...]
Israeli female soldiers divulge violations against Palestinian civilians 30Jan10
The Palestine Telegraph - 30 January 2010
Somehow, a female combatant has to prove herself more, on the ground too. Again, a female combatant who can lash out is a serious fighter. Capable. A ball-breaker. There was one with me when I got there, she’d been there long before, she was – wow, everyone talked [...]
Haniyeh rejects Palestinians resettlements in Sinai 30Jan10
Press TV - 30 January 2010
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has rejected the new Israeli conspiracy of the resettlement of Palestinians in the Sinai under a land swap deal for a two-state solution.
Haniyeh’s remarks on the issue came at a Friday sermon at the Al-Omary Mosque in Jabaliya.
“The democratically-elected Palestinian government of Hamas does not [...]
Palestinian trade unions call for urgent action against settlers’ attacks 29Jan10
MEMO Middle East Monitor - 29 January 2010
A call has gone out from the Palestine General Federation of Trade Unions (PGFTU) for urgent action to be taken to stop attacks by Israeli settlers and military forces in the West Bank. Addressed to the Palestinian Authority, the European Union, human rights organizations and environmental protection [...]
Israel responds to Gaza war report 29Jan10
Aljazeera - 29 January 2010
Israel has submitted to the United Nations details of the investigations it conducted into war crimes allegations raised in a reports into the 22-day Gaza war, which ended last January.
Ehud Barak, the Israeli defence minister, told reporters in the southern Negev desert on Friday that his report backed the army’s actions [...]
EL-SARRAJ: Gaza’s agony
A year after the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip, Palestinians are still waiting for President Obama’s deeds to match his rhetoric in the Middle East.
by Eyad El-Sarraj - Foreign Policy - 28 January 2010
On the night Barack Obama won the U.S. presidency, he announced: “To all those … who are huddled around radios [...]
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