Lying scumbag

30Sep08

“Ariel Sharon spoke about painful costs and refused to elaborate … I say, we have no choice but to elaborate. In the end of the day, we will have to withdraw from the most decisive areas of the territories. In exchange for the same territories left in our hands, we will have to give compensation [...]

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Tags: "peace process", charlatan, Ehud Olmert, settlements

Aid agencies expose “peace process” as a sham

29Sep08

A coalition of 21 prominent aid agencies, including the likes of Oxfam International, Save the Children UK, CAFOD, CARE International UK and Christian Aid, published a report (.pdf) this week condemning the failure of the ‘Quartet’ ( the EU, Russia and the UN, led by the U.S.) to achieve significant humanitarian or political progress in [...]

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Tags: "peace process", Annapolis, blockade, ceasefire, economy, Gaza, Human Rights, siege, West Bank

Anti-Iran propaganda gets a free pass

23Sep08

The Daily Telegraph’s Con Coughlin has a long and distinguished record of service as an uncritical conduit for the more dubious MI6 propaganda tales (you may recall, for example, his daring exposé of the links between Saddam and 9/11 back in 2003). Earlier this month he was at it again, citing unidentified “nuclear experts” and [...]

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Tags: Con Coughlin, Daily Telegraph, IAEA, nuclear proliferation, propaganda

Settler army

22Sep08

“Over the past year, settlers from Yitzhar and the surrounding area have sharply stepped up violent acts in nearby Palestinian villages. The attacks include throwing stones at passing cars, physically attacking farmers, burning down crops, and stealing livestock. On 14 Sept., after a Palestinian stabbed a Jewish boy and burnt down a [...]

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Tags: "purity of arms", B'Tselem, IDF, pogrom, settlement, settlers

Feeling cynical

17Sep08

A weird article in last Sunday’s Observer. It rightly points out that many people view politics and the media with cynicism, but then repeatedly portrays that cynicism – as opposed to whatever it is about politics and the media that engenders it – as the problem.
Then we get this:
“[Dr Alain] Samson said the indications were [...]

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Tags: cynicism, Democracy, Power Inquiry, PR

Fishing in Gaza

16Sep08

It’s a risky business.

“A Scottish human rights activist has filmed the Israeli navy firing machine guns at unarmed Palestinian fishing boats in the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of the Gaza Strip.
The footage, taken on September 6 by Andrew Muncie, who is from the Highlands, shows an Israeli gunboat engaging fishing [...]

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Tags: "peace process", Annapolis, blockade, ceasefire, EU, fishing, Gaza, settlements, siege