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POPSWe can teach the world about freedom of speech Here's the secret: everyone can tell everything he wants, in an empty room, to himself. I am sure Ahmadinejad does not deserve my help. As I am sure that 'racism' has been often used as a tool of censorship against others that did deserve to be listened. No, wait, I am not sure of anything. Just... why don't the newspapers simply report his old and new speeches instead of telling us what he said with their words?
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POPS"The Holocaust is Over: We Must Rise from its Ashes""Nation of Victims" Avraham Burg was religious. He was quickly swept into mainstream public life, becoming first an adviser to the then PM Peres, then a Knesset member, then Speaker of the Knesset, head of the Jewish agency and the World Zionist Organisation and the almost-victorious candidate for the Labour Party leadership in 2001. It was not until his last year as a Knesset member that he began to build a reputation as something of an enfant terrible in Israeli intellectual and political life. ... Independent
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POPSIsrael politics by other means (e.g. air raid or strategy game as Risk) Prime Minister Ehud Olmert (Kadima former leader) is going to be replaced on the 10th of February, who's going to be lucky? No, in serious matters, luck doesn't matter!... let's ask who play Risk better? (ok, also: who's the luckiest with dice?) 1)his Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni (who replaced him also as leader of Kadima); 2)his Defence Minister from the Labor Party, Ehud Barak; 3)Benjamin Netanyahu (Likud leader)
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POPSOne man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter Anytime young people choose to blow themselves up or to blow up others, regardless of where are they from and irrespective of which religion and ethnic group they belong to, it is always because an inhumane treatment taught them that they have no choice but to blow themselves up or to blow up others.
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POPSIsraeli History of Abuse of UN Peacekeepers For which "frontier" would the UN then patrol? The UN border of the 1940s, the pre-1967 ceasefire lines – in which a pre-annexed East Jerusalem belonged to the Arabs – or the post-1967 border in which Israel claimed "annexed" Jerusalem, or the massive walled "frontier" which now bites deeply into yet more Palestinian territory – illegally in international law? And would the UN also have to "observe" the equally illegal Jewish settlements built on Arab land within the West Bank? Gaza sounds an easy option. The UN could place some international troops around Gaza. But it would only be a matter of time before they would be required around the West Bank. That would be a Palestinian dream – and, for those Israelis who wish to continue their expansion into Palestinian land – a nightmare. ... R.Fisk .
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POPSViews of Arab-Israeli citizens of their undemocratic state In Jaffa, several local Arab activists were arrested on trumped-up charges and held in jail, purportedly to prevent them carrying out future acts of sedition. Their detention served to scare off not only them from attending subsequent demonstrations, but also their friends, families and the rest of the Jaffa community, leading to the sharp drop in attendees at last night's protest.
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POPSFisk:"It is the job of journalists to be impartial on the side of those who suffer most" The contrast between UK and US coverage of Gaza will shock Americans. Just read the article. How can the US be again so out of step with the world that it now needs more than ever to understand it, so as not to HATE it? TFA Palestinian supporters used to complain that nobody reported how suicide bombings were prompted by the daily misery of military occupation in Gaza and the West Bank. As Israeli opinion sees it, rocket attacks from Hizbullah and Hamas, both allies of Iran, pose far more of an existential threat than suicide bombing did. But no amount of lobbying and PR can get away from a simple truth: Israelis no longer appear as victims.
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