Tag: Iran
Obama vs Netanyahu – the next round
Alan Hart says people should give Obama more time to negotiate with Iran since agreement with Tehran “could be a real game-changer because it would leave Netanyahu without his best blackmail card”.
UK double standards towards Iran and Israel
Stuart Littlewood contrasts Britain’s ratcheting up of sanctions in response to Iran's peaceful nuclear programme with its rearguard defence of Israel’s nuclear weapons, and argues that Britons won’t tolerate another unjust conflict.
UK Chief Rabbi: “I think it has got to do with Iran”
Alan Hart examines what might lay behind British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’s rare moment of honesty when, caught off guard on radio, he blamed Iran for Israel’s bloody onslaught on Gaza.
UK Chief Rabbi caught peddling Israeli propaganda
Gilad Atzmon highlights the moment Britain's chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks - a leading pro-Israel lobbyist - was caught off guard on BBC radio blaming Iran for Israel' attacks on Gaza.
UK minister in denial on Israel’s nuclear weapons
Stuart Littlewood marvels at how British ministers are in denial regarding Israel’s nuclear weapons stockpile, to the point of watering down a parliamentary question to omit reference to Israel’s nuclear weapons capability.
What should we expect of Obama’s second term?
Lawrence Davidson says we should be sceptical that Barack Obama’s second term will be different to his first – because he will compromise with just about anyone (except progressives) on just about
From chaos to a new world order
Graham Peebles outlines the framework of a world order built on justice, equality and participation, not the stuff of dreamers but achievable aims to re place violence and inequality.
Calling British ministers to account – or trying to
Stuart Littlewood challenges British ministers, through his parliamentary representative, to explain the riddles and contradictions of UK policy towards Israel on the one hand and Iran on the other.
Israeli leaders set to repeat historical blunders
Uri Avnery argues that Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Ehud Barak, and their sycophants, are leading Israel to disaster, just as Golda Meir and Moshe Dayan did in 1973.
Israel’s own goal over Tehran non-aligned summit
Uri Avnery argues that the Israeli premier’s and defence minister’s reactions to the UN and Egyptian leaders’ participation in the Tehran non-aligned summit show their ideological fixations, mental outlook and low intelligence.
