Monthly Archives: June 2018
حرب كرة القدم (Football war)
بقلم منذر هنداوي
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Is there a “Jewish soul”?
Uri Avnery examines the so-called “Jewish soul” referred to in the Israeli anthem, noting its inbuilt contradictions as well as the notions of chosenness – “God’s chosen people” – and victimhood that are central to it and the collective Israeli psychology. Read more [...]
The defiance that launched Gaza’s flaming kites cannot be extinguished
Jonathan Cook says the latest Palestinian resistance tool, the flaming kite, underlines a refusal to bow before crushing oppression, a fear of becoming complicit through silence and inaction in being erased and forgotten, and a compelling need to take back control of their lives. Read more [...]
Saudi-Moroccan spat: Competing for the mantle of “moderate Islam”
James Dorsey says Morocco’s attempt to portray itself as a promoter of so-called “moderate Islam” so far appears more convincing than the efforts of Saudi Arabia to that end, especially in light of recent Saudi concessions to ultra-conservatives. Read more [...]
Inequality, social dysfunction and misery
Graham Peebles examines the social ills emanating from the neoliberal economic model and argues that the rich and comfortable must give up greed so that the rest can have freedom from economic insecurity, destitution, exploitation and dependency. Read more [...]
The Zionist lobby’s erosion of freedom of speech in UK: The case of Alison Chabloz
Gilad Atzmon writes:
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Diet, ignorance and the environmental crisis
Graham Peebles writes:
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Will the slaughter in Gaza finally prick the international conscience for firm action?
Stuart Littlewood highlights a rare moment of honesty in the British Parliament in which former Liberal Democrat leader David Steel – one of the very few UK politicians with integrity – gave a frank and honest summary of the situation in Palestine. Read more [...]
Knesset foils efforts to end Israeli apartheid
Jonathan Cook looks at how the Israeli “left” and right are in lockstep to prevent any internal attempt to erode Israel’s supremacist, apartheid system which systematically discriminates against the population’s 1.8 million Palestinian citizens. Read more [...]
The role of the Israeli media in the mass brainwashing of citizens
Uri Avnery highlights the role of the Israeli media in the mass brainwashing of citizens and turning them into passive, uncritical swallowers of state propaganda, and explores the little that can be done to counter this. Read more [...]
