Ex-President Jimmy Carter describes Israeli apartheid George Bisharat Counterpunch, January 4, 2007 “The government favors Jews over Palestinians in the allocation of resources. Palestinian children in Israel attend “separate and unequal” schools that receive a fraction of the funding awarded to Jewish schools, according to Human Rights Watch. Many Palestinian villages, some predating the establishment…
Continue Reading Breaking the Taboo (George Bisharat on Israeli apartheid)
Yes, There is Apartheid in Israel By Shulamit Aloni in Counterpunch, January 8, 2007 Jewish self-righteousness is taken for granted among ourselves to such an extent that we fail to see what’s right in front of our eyes. It’s simply inconceivable that the ultimate victims, the Jews, can carry out evil deeds. Nevertheless, the state of…
Continue Reading This Road is for Jews Only (Shulamit Aloni on apartheid in Israel)
Israel’s Purging of Palestinian Christians Counterpunch, January 9, 2007 By JONATHAN COOK The presence of Palestinian Christians reminds us that the supposed “clash of civilisations” in the Holy Land is not really a war of religions but a clash of nationalisms, between the natives and European colonial settlers. (more…)
Carter Doesn’t Tell the Half of It – How Israel Enforces “Demographic Separation”, Jonathan Cook Full article at: Counterpunch, January 19, 2007 …October…the addition to the cabinet of Avigdor Lieberman, leader of a party that espouses the ethnic cleansing not only of Palestinians in the occupied territories (an unremarkable platform for an Israeli party) but…
Continue Reading Israeli Popular Racism – Extreme & Rising Rapidly (Jonathan Cook )
Life Under Prohibition in Palestine Counterpunch, January 22, 2007 Amira Hass (more…)
The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Counterpunch By JOHN WHITBECK Pappe also makes clear that the cleansing spirit and cleansing practices have continued ever since, with public discussion in Israel of the “demographic threat” posed by those Palestinians still remaining in Palestinian never more openly conducted and with a recent poll showing 68% of Israeli Jews…