Posts by Tony Greenstein

This year has seen the overthrow of two dictators, Zine el Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia and Hosni Mubarak of Egypt. The struggle to oust Yemen’s dictator Ali Abdullah Saleh has still not been resolved but the United States and Saudi Arabia are doing their best to keep him. In Libya the struggle was effectively…

You would have thought that Hamas would have welcomed the presence of NGO’s in Gaza. After all they are a life-line to the outside world, they tell of Israel’s atrocities and also bring projects upon which the poorest Palestinians depend. But that is the point. Hamas has grown fat on the tunnel trade whilst poorer…

I thought it would be interesting to post this article from a disillusioned Zionist. He still sees himself a ‘friend of Israel’ but one willing to offer critical advice. There are not likely to be many takers. The course of Zionism was set in stone a century and more ago, not in 1967. Of course…

PCHR Denounces Gaza Ministry of Education’s Decision to Prevent Students Having Scholarships to Study in USA from Leaving Gaza It’s unbelievable. After Israel has come under attack for preventing Gazan students taking up Fulbright and other scholarships abroad, thus denying Palestinian youth educational opportunities, the backwoodsmen of Hamas, who look back to the 7th Century…

An interesting article from the daily bible of capitalism, the Financial Times about who owns Israel. Forget the nationalist rhetoric designed for the masses, Israel is a market economy designed to produce superprofits for the few and a diet of never ending war on the Arabs to divert the attention of its own citizens. But…

The Canteen Culture of the Company Employed by Government to Throw the Disabled off Benefits What a treasure Anthony Treasure is. Treasure is an Administrator for ATOS Healthcare. You know those oh so sensitive souls who run the Government’s testing of Incapacity Benefit claimants and soon those claiming Disability Living Allowance. There is no PR…

Officer who defended beating Palestinians to take over infantry Who would have thought it? The most moral army in the world is promoting a Colonel who supported the firing of a rubber bullet at point blank range at a Palestinian youth, bound and blindfolded. Clearly this is a man of exceptional qualities, who goes into…

The Calls for Vengeance By Eton Toff Cameron and his Sycophantic Supporters in the BBC Grow Apace I was on holiday in Ireland last week, nearly getting myself killed in a car crash (all my own fault!). But there was wall to wall coverage in rural County Galway. It all seemed so clear. And it…

Yes We Should Support the Israeli Protest Movement – But Without Illusions Almost unreported in the British press, there have been mass protests in Israel against the housing crisis. Some parts of the Left will undoubtedly see in these protests the harbinger of social revolution. Instead of Zionism, socialism will be ushered in through protests…