Monthly Archives: May 2015

US rebukes Israel while showering it with arms and favours

Eli Ben-Dahan Jonathan Cook draw attention to US President Barak Obama’s showering of Israel with arms and diplomatic cover despite it having the most extremist, racist and brazenly annexationist cabinet in its history. Read more [...]

Common interests vs military power, and the quest for peace

Real peace is based on common interests Uri Avnery reminds Israel’s politicians of the poignant lessons of European history, which show that the only real and lasting peace is one that is based on common interests, not military power. Read more [...]

Hamas, Fatah must start communicating or forget dreams of freedom

Palestinian miscommunications Stuart Littlewood challenges Hamas and the Palestinian Authority to get a grip and reach out with news and briefings to those who are likely to use their material, including the alternative media. Read more [...]

Persecuted Israeli human rights activist vows to fight on

Israeli human rights activist Moti Leybel Marianne Azizi describes the ordeal of human rights activist Moti Leybel who was arrested, strip-searched and imprisoned by Israeli police after exercising his right to free speech for only 30 seconds. Read more [...]

International law and crimes against humanity

Eroding international law Lawrence Davidson examines how states that are apt to commit crimes against humanity, such as Israel and its Western protecters, are wilfully eroding international law using spurious excuses, to the detriment of ordinary people. Read more [...]

Israel’s new government “partly ridiculous, partly terrifying”

Ayelet Shaked and Naftali Bennett Uri Avnery vividly describes the calamity freely chosen by the Israeli Jewish people: the most ultra-right-wing, openly expansionist, anti-democratic, anti-free speech and bigoted government ever elected in Israel. Read more [...]

Materialism, market fundamentalism and the global suicide epidemic

Suicide rope Graham Peebles argues that the materialistic values which promote individual success, greed and selfishness, and the market fundamentalism which so ardently promotes these values, lie behind the worldwide epidemic of suicide. Read more [...]

Israel: Breaking up families for profit?

Orr Shalom Marianne Azizi writes:  I have Read more [...]

“Shame on Israel”! Wealthy father bled dry, faces jail for complaining against the system

Justice denied Marianne Azizi writes about one aspect Read more [...]

Zionist lobby condemns re-enactment of murderous assault on Christendom’s holiest site

Church of the Nativity siege As Britain’s Zionist lobby mounts a campaign against the staging of The Siege, a play re-telling Israel’s siege of the Church of the Nativity, Stuart Littlewood recounts the story of one siege survivor. Read more [...]