Posts by Tony Greenstein
Commander admits: Undercover Israeli officers threw stones at soldiers in Bil’in
If you can’t find a terrorist then invent your own! IPS undercover agent arresting demonstrator in Bil’in, April 2005 (Oren Ziv / Activestills) The normal excuse for the attack by the Israeli military and police on demonstrators is that they threw stones first. It is also the excuse for firing plastic bullets and CS gas…
Read MoreThe Campaign to Free Ahmad Sa’adat – Leader of the PFLP
Netanyahu’s Campaign to Kill Ahmad Sa’adat Palestinian leader Ahmad Sa’adat transferred to Ramle prison hospital from isolation in Ramon For all it’s talk of ‘Islamo-fascists’ and similar nonsense, the main enemy of the Zionist movement and the Israeli State has always been the Left within the Palestinian movement. That was why, in the 1980’s the…
Read MoreBin Laden – Had He Already Been Retired?
An interesting story about Osama Bin Laden. If Gareth Porter is correct, he had effectively been pensioned off when he was killed by US Special Forces. Al Quaeda itself, as Hilary Clinton has recently admitted, was created by the US when anti-communism was the order of the day. But as is often the case with…
Read MoreEDL/MFE – We Won the Day
The Humiliation of the EDL/March for England Two independent film makers, Brosan and Godfrey, have posted a film on YouTube, you may like to view: As I have alread posted on April 22nd a massive turnout from people in Brighton, prevented the EDL and their sock puppets, MFE, from marching more than 1/3 of…
Read MoreIranian cartoonist Mahmoud Shokraye receives sentence of 25 lashes for ‘insulting ‘ caricature drawing of a local MP
Iran’s Clerical Regime Is Threatened by a Cartoonist – Religion & Humour Never Did Mix Mahmoud Shokraye drew conservative MP Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani in a cartoon deemed ‘insulting‘ An Iranian cartoonist has been sentenced to 25 lashes for a caricature of a local MP, the semi-official Ilna news agency has reported. Ahmad Lotfi Ashtiani, MP…
Read MoreThe Great Book Robbery
When the Israeli military launched its blitzkrieg on Lebanon in 1982 and the siege of Beirut, one of its main targets was the files and archives of the PLO cultural department. When you try to destroy a people you also try to destroy their culture. That is one reason why the Nazis burnt books of…
Read MoreSometimes with the Islamists, Never with the State
Protesters marching on the Egyptian Parliament to protest the Abbassiya crackdown. Image by Hossam el-Hamalawy. Socialists Working with Islamists Whilst Retaining Their Independence A very interesting article on the work of revolutionary socialists in Egypt, which Israeli socialist, Moshe Machover, has distributed. It is interesting on two levels. Firstly when a large section of the…
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Police in the ‘Only Democracy in the Middle East’ Prevent anti-Government Demonstration Police in action to prevent demonstration Israel’s major opposition party Kadimah, which was facing political annihilation, joined Netanyahu’s government last Tuesday. Kadimah, a so-called centrist Zionist party, had just replaced its previous leader Tsipi Livni, with Shaul Moffaz, a former Chief of Staff…
Read MoreTheir Fate is In Our Hands
May 17th: 24 hours of hunger in solidarity with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails This coming Thursday, May 17, will mark a month to the hunger strike, with over 2,000 Palestinian political prisoners in Israeli jails participating in it. As Israel refuses to accept the prisoners’ demands for their basic rights, including humane treatment, many…
Read MoreIsrael’s Big Brother
Video: Saar Skali – Talking about the Israeli Occupation – “The Big Brother” Reality show in Israel – Saar Szekely פורסם בתאריך 17 בפברואר 2012 מאת ערן ורד גיב This was seen live at prime time on Israel’s leading TV network (Ch. 2)
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