YOU CANNOT CRITICIZE ISRAEL IN THIS COUNTRY AND SURVIVEHelen Thomas Cries, Denies Anti-Semitism, Calls President Obama 'Reprehensible'Text by Associated Press MARION, Ohio — In a radio interview, former White House correspondent Helen Thomas acknowledges she touched a nerve with remarks about Israel that led to her retirement. But she says the comments were "exactly what I thought," even though she realized soon afterward that it was the end of her job."I hit the third rail. You cannot criticize Israel in this country and survive," Thomas told...
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
From Apartheid South Africa to Palestine "To Exist is to Resist"
From Apartheid South Africa to Palestine "To Exist is to Resist" By PATRICK BOND October 13, 2010On a full-day drive through the Jordan Valley late last month, we skirted the earth’s oldest city and the lowest inhabited point, 400 meters below sea level. For 10,000 years, people have lived along the river separating the present-day West Bank and Jordan.Since 1967 the river has been augmented by Palestinian blood, sweat and tears, ending in the Dead Sea, from which no water flows out, it only evaporates. Conditions degenerated during Israel’s land-grab,...
The Real Bibi His Father's Boy
The Real BibiHis Father's BoyBy URI AVNERY October 13, 2010Which is the real Netanyahu?- Bibi the weakling, the invertebrate, who always gives in to pressure, who zigzags to the left and to the right, depending whether the pressure comes from the US or from his coalition partners?- The tricky Likud chief, who is afraid that Avigdor Ivett Lieberman might succeed in pushing him towards the Center and displace him as the leader of the entire Right?- Netanyahu, the man of principle, who is determined to prevent at any cost the setting up of the...
The Waning of Obama Fanon, D'Souza, Obama and the Echoes of Colonialism
The Waning of Obama Fanon, D'Souza, Obama and the Echoes of ColonialismBy VIJAY PRASHAD October 13, 2010Barack Obama, Dinesh D’Souza and I went to college at almost the same time. Obama was at one end of Los Angeles (Occidental College), while I was at the other end (Pomona College). “We smoked cigarettes,” Obama wrote in Dreams From My Father, “and wore leather jackets. At night, in the dorms, we discussed neocolonialism, Franz Fanon, Eurocentrism, and patriarchy. When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud...
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