Australians for Palestine – Providing a Voice Gandhi’s major statement on the Palestine and the Jewish question came forth in his widely circulated editorial in the Harijan of 11 November 1938, a time when intense struggle between the Palestinian Arabs and the immigrant Jews had been on the anvil in Palestine. His views came in [...]

- Snopes.com toes the militarists’ line – Snopes.com, officially known as the Urban Legends Reference Pages, has since its humble inception in 1995 come to be regarded as one of the most trusted debunkers of conspiracy theories on the internet. Described by one of its many fans – it apparently has over 6 million visitors [...]

On May 31 Israeli forces attacked innocent unarmed human rights activists  on the Freedom Flotilla which had terrible consequences, resulting in the death of (at least) nine civilians and the wounding of over 40. It was unprovoked, unwarranted, and illegal. As recognized by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), the United Nations (UN) [...]

Special for My Catbird Seat “The Gaza invasion marked the climax of Israel’s descent into barbarism” by Stuart Littlewood Quite simply, this is a cracker of a book and very timely. In explaining how Israel’s war on Gaza in 2008/9 was not the defensive action it is always painted, Norman Finkelstein recalls the 1947 UN [...]

Support for Israel is not only tragic and immoral, it is also extremely damaging to Americans.   by Debbie Menon / Salem-News.Com (DUBAI) – Mark Perry in his recent article in Foreign Policy journal “Petraeus wasn’t the First,” describes succinctly, the opposition to U.S. support for Israel, the rationale for it, and the cover-up on [...]

by Sonja Karkar The following article was first published in CounterPunch on 2 October 2007.  Much of what was said then remains relevant almost three years later.  It has been updated only to take into account some of the events since then. It is a curious phrase this “right to exist”. Israel wants the world [...]

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu met with Hamas supremo Khaled Meshaal in Damascus, Anatolia news agency reported Tuesday, a move that threatens to fan fresh tensions with Israel. The two men met on Monday to discuss efforts to heal the rift between Hamas — the resistance militant group controlling the Gaza Strip — and the [...]

Bibi Unmasked! In 2001, Bibi Netanyahu paid a condolence call on a group of Israeli settlers in the village of Ofra, widows whose husbands had been killed in the Intifada: the videotaped conversation has just been leaked, and broadcast by Israel’s Channel 10, and it is a blockbuster. At one point, Bibi is telling the [...]