Posts by Tony Greenstein
Israel’s Changing Lies for its War on Gaza
But what are Israel’s objectives? The question is whether the Israeli State has any objectives other than perpetuating the misery of the Palestinians of Gaza and given vent to its own bloodlust. It appears to be destruction and murder for its own sake. See this excellent video.
Read MoreHAMAS – When Israel & Netanyahu Sang from a Different Songsheet
Why Israel Virtually Created Hamas Hamas, despite its reactionary politics (for example a Charter that noone reads which is anti-Semitic) has played the role of an effective resistance in Gaza. In particular it has acquitted itself well, unlike last time, and killed over 50 Israeli soldiers. However it should not be forgotten that Hamas is…
Read MoreRight-wing demonstrators in Tel Aviv wore neo-Nazi shirts
As the Israeli state’s war against the people of Gaza continues, Jewish neo-Nazis come out of the woodwork, wearing the exact symbols that European neo-Nazis wear. The reality of Israel as an occupier is influencing sections of the new generation of nationalist Israeli youth to identify with the Nazis. This is the legacy of Zionism.…
Read MoreHard Talk Interviews Ilan Pappe
Stephen Sachur’s Zionist Cliches Cut No Ice Stephen Sachur throws every cliché (‘Israel the only democracy in the Middle East’) at Israel’s foremost historian of the 1948 expulsion of the Palestinians, Ilan Pappe. Sachur’s argument that Pappe’s family, which obtained refuge in Palestine after fleeing Nazi Germany demonstrates the necessity of Zionism, was not only…
Read More“In Gaza there’s no studying, No children are left there’
There are no depths of depravity to which Israel will not sink From Electronic Intifada The video above shows a new racist chant mocking the more than two hundred children slaughtered by Israel’s merciless bombing campaign in Gaza: ‘Tomorrow there’s no school in Gaza, they don’t have any children left.’” Imagine if a group of…
Read MoreGaza War Tourism
Keren Levy: I’m a little bit fascist ‘Yes I think they should just clear off all the cities, yes take it off the ground, yes I’m a little bit fascist.’ This is the atmosphere in Israel today. Imagine – well heeled Israelis, drinking coffees and iced drinks, bringing sofas and popcorn so they can…
Read MoreLabour’s Road to Defeat
Ed Miliband’s Third Way to Electoral Disaster Miliband – torn between support for capitalism and the need for a radical manifesto There are times when you see someone walking headlong over the cliff and you feel bound to try and prevent the inevitable disaster. Such is the case with Ed Miliband’s catastrophic misleadership of the…
Read MoreSaudi Sponsorship of Isis and the tyranny of Wahhabism
Iraq crisis: How SaudiArabia helped Isis take over the north of the country Below is an interesting article analysing the Saudi ruling family’s baleful influence on recent developments in the Middle East, in particular its relationship to Isis. The article appeared in The Independent, whose coverage of the Middle East is by far and away…
Read MoreThe Killing of Palestinian and Israeli Teenagers Demonstrates The Difference Between The Treatment of Palestinian and Jewish Life
The Killing of Israeli Teenagers is Political, the Killing of Palestinian Teenager is Criminal The difference between the treatment of the killing of a Palestinian teenager and the three Israeli teenagers says everything you need to know about Israeli indifference to Palestinian life. The unspoken message if ‘they’ love death, we love life. racism as…
Read MoreBrighton’s Sodastream Shop is Forced to Close
A Magnificent Victory for BDS When Israel’s Sodastream decided to set up shop in Brighton, in an attempt to exploit our Green credentials, the local Palestine Solidarity Campaign took up the challenge and began a weekly picket with others on week days. Local Zionist and Kach/EDL thug, Simon Cobbs, vowed that this would not be…
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