Posts Tagged ‘Palestine’
Hellmut Hattler’s Song: Assalamu Alaikum
Noticed on Adam Horowitz's post,'Our drum beats blast through this apartheid wall': A great music video by the German bass guitarist Hellmut Hattler; the video is for Hattler's song "Assalamu Alaikum" about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. End | (Not Continued) a great music video by the German bass guitarist Hellmut Hattler (the poster [...]
Critical Notes on Obama’s Cairo Speech: Imperialism with a Human Face
In pleasant contrast to his predecessor, Barack Obama is a cultured, sensitive, educated, well-mannered man and these personal qualities were on ample display and much appreciated in Cairo on Thursday. But the Muslim world on whom the government of the United States has declared a unilateral, indiscriminate, unconventional war of collective [...]
L’Express on Obama’s Cairo Speech
Rough translation from the French: Jewish associations divided after Obama's speech By Jim Jarrassé, published on 04/06/2009 18:40 If pacifists applaud the "rebalancing of the U.S. position on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict," the CRIF is more measured. A Palestinian state and the freezing of Israeli settlements. This is essentially what [...]
“Cast aside religion” — Obama Advised
Discipline Israel, negotiate with Iran, but first, cast aside religion By John Stanton Online Journal Contributing Writer Enough of the tail wagging the dog! This has been going on for too many years. The US must publicly keep a close hold on Israel as it openly works with Iran. We must not let Israel set policy for the USA. (more...)
Xinhua Reports of Growing Indian-Israeli Ties
Israel, India strengthen cooperation to serve both interests 2009-06-02 | by David Harris, Xinhua writer Xu Gang JERUSALEM, June 2 (Xinhua) -- Experts who track the Israel-India relationship see an increasingly strong bond between the two distant countries, analyst said the bilateral cooperation in various fields has been enhanced aimed at [...]
Great Expectations: Obama in Cairo
Obama's forthcoming (4 June) speech in Cairo has already raised such hopes that disappointment is inevitable. Based on a close reading of his Turkey speech, an earlier post (Good Islam, Bad Islam) had concluded that beneath the whipped cream of Obama's oratory, his underlying reading of Islam and Muslims (he didn't seem to differentiate between [...]
Ghassan Kanafani’s Letter from Gaza
Dear Mustafa, I have now received your letter, in which you tell me that you've done everything necessary to enable me to stay with you in Sacramento. I've also received news that I have been accepted in the department of Civil Engineering in the University of California. I must thank you for everything, my friend. But it'll strike you as [...]
Bush-Sharon Secret Agreement on Settlements Revealed
According to a story in the Washington Post (Excerpt): Netanyahu spokesman Mark Regev said there are no plans for a full settlement freeze. "The issue of settlements is a final status issue, and until there are final status arrangements, it would not be fair to kill normal life inside existing communities," he said. Regev said the Israeli [...]
Netanyahu: Old Testament Commands Genocide of Iranians
In a recent New York Times Op-Ed, Jeffrey Goldberg, revealed: “I recently asked one of his advisers to gauge for me the depth of Mr. Netanyahu’s anxiety about Iran. His answer: 'Think Amalek'.” (more...)
Mearsheimer: Saving Israel from Itself
University of Chicago professor, John J. Mearsheimer (author of a celebrated article with Harvard professor, Stephen Walt, The Israel Lobby, later written up into a book, The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy), has written an important article, Saving Israel from Itself , that is reproduced below from the 18 May 2009 issue of The American [...]
