Monthly Archives: October 2016
Despicable Balfour: A story of betrayal
To mark the centenary of the Balfour Declaration of 1917, Stuart Littlewood recalls Britain's duplicitous role in dispossessing the Palestinian people and creating Israel on stolen Palestinian land. Read more [...]
The Israeli Trumpess: Miri Regev
Uri Avnery examines the rise of Israel’s very own equivalent of Donald Trump, one Miri Regev, the descendant of Moroccan Jewish immigrants who views her ancestors and their culture with the deepest contempt. Read more [...]
Customising the truth: groupthink and US foreign policy follies
Lawrence Davidson examines the groupthink, ideological blinkers and the “we know better” attitude that blind US policy makes to the truth even when it hits them in the face, and condemns them to repeat the same follies. Read more [...]
نهاية السياسة في سورية (The end of politics in Syria)
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Israel Bailiff’s Office faces billion-dollar lawsuit in US for human rights violations and racketeering
Marianne Azizi writes:
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Israel’s bogus history lesson
Jonathan Cook looks at the latest instance of cheap Israeli propaganda which seeks to turn the truth of the conflict over Palestine on its head by portraying the Jewish colonists as normal folk and the Palestinian victims as barbarians. Read more [...]
UK anti-Semitism report tries to whitewash Zionism
Stuart Littlewood argues that a report on alleged “anti-Semitism” in the UK by a British parliamentary committee not only fails to consider the opposite view, but is also half-baked, lopsided and written in whitewash. Read more [...]
Blasphemy case highlights devastating impact of Saudi ultra-conservatism on Pakistani society
James Dorsey examines the corrosive impact of Saudi Arabia’s Wahhabi ideology on the Pakistani society and state, and argues that for both Pakistan and Saudi Arabia the outcome is a quagmire from which they will struggle to extricate themselves. Read more [...]
Decency demands we smoke out the real perpetrators of war crimes against Aleppo and Gaza
Stuart Littlewood contrasts the UK government’s sabre rattling over Russian military action in Syria’s Aleppo with London’s support for the Israeli regime and its war crimes against the Palestinians generally and the Gaza Strip in particular. Read more [...]
Fighting for the soul of Islam: A battle of the paymasters
James Dorsey says a recent gathering of prominent Sunni Muslim leaders in the Chechen capital suggests that Saudi funding of ultra-conservative worldviews may be meeting its match in more liberal interpretations of Islam backed by the UAE and Russia. Read more [...]
