Writing in the New York Times, Nicholas Kristof advises Barack Obama, should he become President, to show Israel some “tough love.”
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In the last 24 hours, much has been written about the shameful scenes of celebration which greeted child murderer and terrorist Samir Kuntar upon his return to Lebanon. Among the most insightful: the dignity of Israel’s position as explained by Simply Jews (”One thing, however, should not be forgotten - it is not about politics, not about national pride and even not about the grieving families. It is about the soldiers.”); Norman Geras’s invitation “…to resist the complaisant marking of a moral victory for Hizbollah; to give back its meaning to that word by giving its due to a country that would honour its dead, rather than to those whose joy is for the murderer of a defenceless child”; and Neil D and David T solemnly reminding all of us that we should take the time to remember little Einat Haran (ז״ל) , the four year old who, after seeing her father shot dead in cold blood, was herself murdered by the monster Kuntar as he slammed a rife butt against her skull. Her younger sister Yael died too, accidentally smothered to death by her mother as they hid from the terrorists.
I first learned of the visit of a “South African Human Rights Delegation to Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories” when I was on a brief visit to London last week. Ducking into a corner store to escape the incessant rain, I flicked through that day’s edition of The Independent and came across an article by Donald Macintyre, the paper’s Jerusalem correspondent, headlined “This is like Apartheid.”
Mohamed Omer is a young Palestinian journalist who was recently awarded the Martha Gellhorn Prize for his reporting. He says that on his way back to Gaza via the Allenby Bridge, which connects the West Bank with Jordan, he was detained and brutally treated by Israeli security officials. The Israelis don’t deny detaining him, but they do contest his account of what happened.
Continue reading ‘John Pilger: Never Let The Facts Get In The Way’
Pace Marx and Engels, a spectre is haunting the next President of the United States. The spectre is shaped like a missile, tipped with a nuclear warhead and is Iranian in origin. More than that, if the former German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer is correct, the next President will be dealing with the fallout of the military action against Iran which the current one is about to assent to.
