The Israeli knowledge of and outlook on Palestinians

The following is an excerpt of an article by Miko Peled, born in Jerusalem in 1961 into a well known Zionist family. Miko’s grandfather, Dr. Avraham Katsnelson was a Zionist leader and signer on the Israeli Declaration of Independence: Since my father was a general and I served as a soldier in the IDF terrorist […]

Palestine or Israel invented nations?

It is hard to believe that anyone who defends Israel’s legitimacy as a state would buy into former Speaker Newt Gingrich’s argument that Palestine is an “invented nation”. The singular triumph of the Zionist movement is that it invented a state and a people – Israel and the Israelis – from scratch. The first Hebrew-speaking […]

Jews against Zionism

A common denominator among all Zionists is the claim to Eretz Israel as the national homeland of the Jews. However, a large number of Jewish people are not Zionists. Some Jews even vehemently oppose Zionism, and support the Palestinians in their battle for survival against the onslaught of genocide from the Israeli government and military […]

Tariq Aziz: “Bush and Blair lied intentionally”

The familiar black-ringed spectacles signal to the visitor that this was Tariq Aziz, Iraq’s former face to the world – Saddam Hussein’s right-hand man, his most powerful deputy, also a practicing Christian. Iraq has been through hell since Aziz was last seen in public, days before Baghdad fell in April 2003. He has been in prison seven years […]

Israeli newspaper says U.S. officials face ‘pro-Israel’ background check

There is an amazing story in Ha’aretz on the “pro-Israel” litmus test that determines who is permitted to serve in the United States government: Every appointee to the American government must endure a thorough background check by the American Jewish community. In the case of Obama’s government in particular, every criticism against Israel made by […]

Richard Goldstone guided by conscience in his Gaza report

Israel Shamir, a leading Russian Israeli writer, puts forth the opinion that Russia’s vote to endorse the Goldstone Gaza report in the United Nations Human Rights Council was an important, milestone event both for Palestine and for Russia. For Palestine, this vote opened a way to try and sentence Israeli mass-murderers, and thus ushered Israel […]