Bearing witness + Irak today!

  Irreversible
‘Noble, necessary and just’ George W. Bush called it, this war that has entered its 6th year, this invasion that has destroyed a society and killed thousands of people. It’s been ‘worth fighting’ this war that has caused death, destruction and terror on an unprecedented level.
US Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker was less celebratory. ‘The [...]

We Are Way Past 4,000 Dead in Iraq

Whenever a terrible milestone is reach in Iraq for the number of American soldiers killed, such as 4,000 today, it is necessary to point out that the milestone being focused on was actually reached a long time ago. In addition to the 4,000 dead American soldiers, the following fatalities have also occurred in Iraq over [...]

Israel’s strategy for permanent occupation and apartheid

One may well think that the struggle inside the Jewish community of Israel is between those of the political right, who want to maintain the settlements in East Jerusalem and the West Bank so as to “redeem” the Greater Land of Israel as a Jewish country, and those of the left who seek a two-state [...]

Israel raises the ante against Iran

We are in no danger at all of having an Iranian nuclear weapon dropped on us. We cannot say so too openly, however, because we have a history of using any threat in order to get weapons … thanks to the Iranian threat, we are getting weapons from the US and Germany.”
- Israeli author, Martin [...]

The naive armchair warriors are fighting a delusional war

The French philosopher Michel Foucault notes that in all societies discourse is controlled - imperceptibly constrained, perhaps, but constrained nonetheless. We are not free to say exactly what we like. The norms set by institutions, convention and our need to keep within the boundaries of accepted behaviour and thought limit what may be touched upon. [...]

Safed chief rabbi calls on state to exact ‘revenge’ against Arabs - “Hang the children of the terrorist”

 The chief rabbi of Safed, Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu, is calling on the government to carry out “state-sanctioned revenge” against Arabs in order to, in his words, restore Israel’s deterrence.The Musawa Center for Arab Rights in Israel said it planned to urge the Attorney General to censure Eliyahu over the comments and punish him “at the [...]

Shattering a ‘national mythology’

Of all the national heroes who have arisen from among the Jewish people over the generations, fate has not been kind to Dahia al-Kahina, a leader of the Berbers in the Aures Mountains. Although she was a proud Jewess, few Israelis have ever heard the name of this warrior-queen who, in the seventh century C.E., [...]

no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial

“Israel may have the right to put others on trial, but certainly no one has the right to put the Jewish people and the State of Israel on trial.”

– Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, 25 March, 2001 quoted in BBC News Online

“I would have joined a terrorist organization” + We Live In Constant Fear

“I would have joined a terrorist organization.”

– Ehud Barak’s response to Gideon Levy, a columnist for the Ha’aretz newspaper, when Barak was asked what he would have done if he had been born a Palestinian.

After looking at this video which really show no new aspects of Israeli Shoah in practice Barak´s statement makes so much [...]

Rabbi Lior Says It’s OK to Kill Civilians …and other rabbis are silent

The day before the Israeli army shot tank shells to disperse a crowd of demonstrators in Rafah, Rabbi Dov Lior issued a ruling that killing civilians during warfare is permitted if it will save [Jewish] lives. It wasn’t just a remark. Lior’s made it an official Halachic (Jewish law) ruling. He said “The law of [...]