Posts by Tony Greenstein

Ahmad Sa’adat is a Political Prisoner Jailed for the ‘Crime’ of Resisting the Occupation Ahmad Sa’adat is the imprisoned leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. He was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment in a military trial for the ‘crime’ of having led the resistance to the Israeli Occupation. Resistance is, of…

“He may be a barbarian, but he’s our barbarian”. Thus spoke John Rothmann, a former President of the Zionist Organization of America, now a talk show host for KGO radio in San Francisco. It is of course a paraphrase of FDR’s description of Somoza, the dictator of Nicaragua and Israel’s good friend: ‘he may be…

It is difficult to understand the mentality of someone who deliberately destroys the access of an occupied civilian to that most basic of necessities – water. But then we know that given their Nazi-like mentality, the settlers consider the Palestinians as less than human. In this they are not alone of course. The Israeli State…

The Half-Finished Revolutions The Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt are beginning to look like half-completed revolutions. The tyrants themselves have either been forced to flee or promises not to continue in office but the structure of state power and in particular the armed forces have not so far been dismantled. That is the task of…

Puppet Palestinian Authority Security Services Stage their own Demonstration Against Al-Jazeera to Protest at the Leaking of 1,600 Documents on the ‘Negotiations’ with Israel No one is more afraid and upset by the revolution in Egypt than the Quisling Palestinian Authority and the Fateh/PLO leaders. After all, as the Palestine papers show, they were in…

Mubarak ‘Our Democratic Friend’ – Jo Biden, US Vice President Jo Biden, the vacuous Vice-President of the USA, a position that Harry Truman once described as not being worth a bucket of warm spit, just doesn’t get it. He couldn’t understand the grouse of the Egyptian people. Why they didn’t like going hungry whilst the…

This is an important article by well respected Palestinian journalist Ali Abunimah who was granted access to the 1,600 documents that were leaked to Al Jazeera. The article analyses how Obama has reneged even on the Bush administration’s pathetically weak Road Map and effectively accepts the Israeli position of a swap of peoples, i.e. Israeli…

The term ‘cleanse’ has a particular resonance in terms of the Holocaust. After the start of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 an area was ‘cleansed’ when there were no Jews left alive. For example according to a situation report by Himmler in February 1942: ‘While the Jewish question in the Ostland can be seen as…

The Overthrow of Mubarak is the Best Present the Palestinians Could Receive Egypt is, after Saudi Arabia and Israel, the United States closes ally in the Middle East and the recipient of the largest amount of US aid after Israel itself. The Tunisian revolution, itself only half-finished, is beginning to take off. These are early…

Palestinian Solidarity Campaign Should Cut All Links with PA This shocking report comes from the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in Britain and the London-based Middle East Monitor. It outlines abuse of detainees in the West Bank, including the types of torture used by Palestinian Authority (PA) security services against detainees, as well as a…