Monthly Archives: November 2016
The real link between Israel’s forest fires and muezzin bill
Jonathan Cook argues that Israel's “muezzin bill” aims to eradicate the aural remnants of Palestine as completely as Israel’s forests obliterated its visible parts – and reassure Israelis that they live in Europe rather than the Middle East. Read more [...]
UK Momentum’s Jackie Walker vs the Zionist inquisition
Stuart Littlewood highlights the bullying tactics of Britain’s Zionist lobby and the duplicity of its Jewish “leaders”, and the cowardice and servility of institutions such as the Methodist Church which purport to stand up for justice. Read more [...]
First-ever conference on human rights violations within Israel
Marianne Azizi writes:
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Human Rights Watch and FIFA test Middle East fallout of Trump’s election
James Dorsey assesses the political significance of a request by Human Rights Watch for the UN Commissioner for Human Rights to include world football body FIFA in a registry of enterprises that do business with Israeli settlements on the West Bank. Read more [...]
Islamist terrorists target children in Benghazi while the West and UN look on
Following the latest terrorist outrage in Benghazi – a car bomb targeting schoolchildren – Nureddin Sabir notes the West’s duplicitous policy of supporting Islamist terrorists in Libya while maintaining an arms embargo on the army fighting the terrorists. Read more [...]
Qatari soft power efforts: two steps forward, one step backwards
James Dorsey explains why changes to workers’ conditions introduced by Qatar as part of its 2022 World Cup hosting rights have yet to convince many that they are only the beginning of a process that will ultimately lead to true reform. Read more [...]
Local fear and ignorance in the rise of Donald Trump
Lawrence Davidson explains how Americans can vote for a charlatan such as Donald Trump in terms of the “30-mile phenomenon, that is, ignorance of and indifference towards what goes on beyond the 30-mile radius of where they live. Read more [...]
Trump may kill Netanyahu with kindness
Although Trump – for now at least – seems like a dream come true for Israel’s Netanyahu, Jonathan Cook says he could ultimately “turn Israel into a pariah state in Western capitals and leave it exposed strategically”. Read more [...]
Donald Trump’s moment: Will it last?
Lawrence Davidson considers whether Donald Trump will try to meet his campaign pledges and bankrupt the country and alienating traditional US allies, or slot himself into the existing political system in Washington and thereby lose his domestic supporters. Read more [...]
American liberals unleashed the Trump monster
Jonathan Cook argues that the reason Donald Trump is heading to the Oval Office is because the US Democratic Party rigged the primaries to ensure that a candidate who could have beaten Trump, Bernie Sanders, did not get on the ticket. Read more [...]
