Editorial

By Lawrence Davidson

On September 5, 2010 the Israel newspaper Haaretz published an article the headline of which read "Anti-Israel Economic Boycotts are Gaining Speed." [1] The subtitle went on to state that "the sums involved are not large, but their international significance is huge." Actually, what seems to have triggered the piece was not international. Rather, it was the decision of a "few dozen theater people" to boycott "a new cultural center in Ariel," an illegally settled town in the Occupied Territories. This action drew public support from 150 academics in Israel. The response from the Israeli right, which presently controls the government and much of Israel’s information environment, was loud and hateful.

Read more: The Boycott of Israel is 'Gaining Speed'

By Elias Akleh

Another round of the Palestinian/Israeli bargaining negotiations started September 2nd despite all the predictions and expectations of miserable failure. The two parties had met for the nth time, within the last 17 years, where they had discussed the same old issues again and again, and then departed without any positive results despite the American mediation (falsely called the honest broker). 

Read more: Why Negotiate …Again?

By Gideon Polya

Australia's post-election

An extraordinary feature of the neocon's "War on Terror" is the Mainstream media that conducts a terror hysteria campaign over several thousand Western victims of Muslim-origin over the last 4 decades but which utterly ignores the estimated 8 million people (mostly Muslims) who have died avoidably, either violently or non-violently die to deprivation, associated with the US-led wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. However a hung Parliament in Australia is set to create a Hole in the Wall of Silence of the neocon Mainstream media.

Read more: Media lying & censorship blocks Afghan War Debate

By Lawrence Davidson

Back in October of 2005 the Western media, starting with the New York Times, mistranslated a speech by Ahmadinejad. The Iranian President had called for regime change in Israel, a practice American Presidents indulge in repeatedly in terms of countries like Cuba, Sudan, and Iran itself. In this case, Ahmadinejad’s statement that “the occupying regime over Jerusalem” will one day “vanish from the pages of time” somehow became a desire that Israel should be “wiped off the the map.”

Read more: Israeli Rabbi Outdoes Ahmadinejad

By Ben Tanosborn

New York is not Córdoba a millennium later
 
By now it should be crystal clear to Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, founder of the Córdoba Initiative, that New York is not Córdoba one thousand years later, nor is the American nation an enlarged geopolitical version of the then caliphate of al-Andalus.  Sadly, for anyone to think otherwise is a romantic notion, one that will not alter an iota America’s etched-in-stone Middle Eastern foreign policy, nor ameliorate the threat of terrorism which has been cancerously growing, principally in response to that policy.

Read more: The Córdoba Initiative