Why can’t we build more colonies on Palestinian land, Mummy?
Likud activist: The Obama regime is anti-Jewish and anti-Semitic; it’s the worst.

How Middle East partition still kills any chance of peace
The organisation Zochrot are a group of Israeli citizens working to raise awareness of the Nakba, the 1948 Palestinian catastrophe. They were asked by Israeli news service Ynet last week to write something on the partition plan from 1947. Below is the translated piece of Ariella Azoulay: The United Nations partition decision of 29 November 1947 was adopted in complete opposition to the desires of the country’s Arab inhabitants who were at least 70% of the population. A not-insignificant number of Jews also opposed the d

The bloated amount required to maintain the US empire
To anybody who clings to the delusion that the US President is a man of peace and group hugs: “President (Obama) is on track to spend more on defense, in real dollars, than any other president has in one term of office since World War II,” reports National Journal’s Government Executive magazine.

The world wants no more settlements and Israel doesn’t give a damn
The New York Times writes a typically soft editorial on the Middle East – Israel, the Palestinians and Washington are all at fault, it claims, ignoring the profound power imbalances in the region – and Haaretz reports on how the Israeli government really views the occupation (more, please): Defense Minister Ehud Barak on Thursday ordered the IDF to issue a temporary freeze order, but at the same time allowed the construction of 28 new public buildings in settlements

Hacks can’t spin away Olmert’s shameful record
Following the news that former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert arrived in Australia, I submitted the following (unpublished) letter to the major papers: It is revealing that Israel’s former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert swung into Australia virtually unannounced this week and was given a “warm welcome” by the Parliamentary Speaker. Olmert is currently under investigation over serious corruption charges, led his country into the disastrous Lebanon war in 2006 and launched an aerial and ground assault on Gaza in December last year. The UN, under di