Maybe this isn’t the best metaphor for an Abrahamic faith but they’re squealing like stuck pigs. They being the government of Benjamin Netanyahu are squealing over the prospect of Bibi delivering a speech just a couple of weeks before he faces an election to a half-empty joint session of the
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The Disaffected Lib: A Visit Netanyahu May Come to Regret
Joe Biden won’t commit to being there. The Democratic caucus might give it a pass too. The “it” is Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s address to Congress on 3 March. Democrats have had to balance publicly supporting Israel with backing Obama, who’s trying to close a deal with Iran to
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: International Criminal Court Launches Probe. Israel Seethes and Squirms.
A prosecutor from the International Criminal Court has opened a probe into possible war crimes in the Palestinian territories. Israel wasted no time lashing out, threatening to dismantle the ICC. Potential cases [prosecutor Fatou] Bensouda could take on include allegations of war crimes by Israel during last summer’s Gaza war
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Okay you Liberal Bastards, What Now?
Trudeau the Lesser’s Liberals did backflips to support Israel’s brutal outrage against Gaza’s civilian population this summer. It was as though no one had ever heard the Israeli military’s term, Dahiyeh. Of course you didn’t need any fancy terms to see that Israel was brutally – and quite illegally –
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Fair and Balanced? Of Course, It’s Israel!
Let’s keep this in perspective. That takes us back to 2010 when an Israeli court acquitted an army captain of all charges related to his slaughter of a 13-year old Palestinian school girl. It’s too obscene to recite. You can follow the link to get the details. So consider, in
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Mr. Prime Minister, One of These Is Almost Exactly Like the Other
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Continue readingdrive-by planet: Knesset deputy speaker Moshe Feiglin calls for concentration camps… conquest of ‘entire Gaza strip’
Moshe Feiglin – deputy speaker of the Knesset and a member of Netanyahu’s ruling Likud Party – published a statement on his Facebook page on August 1 calling for the “conquest of the entire Gaza Strip, and annihilation of all fighting forces and their supporters.” He has also proposed what
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Israeli war crimes in Gaza – Beit Hanoun attack: US shields Israel from accountability
Images following the shelling of UN-run school in Beit Hanoun War crimes committed by Israel in the course of its attack on Gaza are a consequence of an overall strategy rather than isolated incidents due to alleged mistaken targeting or other “accidents.” The recent Israeli shelling of a UN-run school
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: The NDP and the Middle East-An Open Letter to Nathan Cullen
Dorothy Field, Writer, Artist, Poet, Contributor Dear Nathan Cullen, I’m writing to you because I think you are still a man we can trust, not just an NDP hack. I am in despair about the NDP’s silence on Israeli rocket attacks on Gaza. First, let me say, though I shouldn’t
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Israeli propaganda and spin seeks to justify Gaza attack: yet another civilian bloodbath
Top: Wounded Palestinian girl following strike in northern Gaza strip Below: Israeli strike on buildings in Khan Younis / Palestinian boy with younger wounded sibling upon learning family was killed in strike Yet another bloodbath in Gaza. One of the most powerful militaries on the planet is once again turning
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Netanyahu gov deceived public about killings of Israeli teens: incident exploited for political ends
A short time following the kidnapping of Naftali Frenkel, Gilad Shaar and Eyal Yifrach, Israeli authorities knew the teens were dead. They knew who the Hebron-based suspects in the killings were, yet the details were covered up. The gag order that banned media outlets from reporting details on the incident
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Palestinian legislator Ahmad Tibi slams Harper’s postion on Israel as "unbalanced" and "right of Likud": why Tibi gets it right
Ahmad Tibi, the Palestinian legislator who walked out of Stephen Harper’s Knesset speech said in an interview with CBC’s Evan Solomon that Harper’s views on Israel were “unbalanced” and “right of Likud.” Sounds pretty accurate. Harper’s views are indeed extreme even by some Israeli standards and certainly more extreme than
Continue readingdrive-by planet: The face of Israel we don’t see in Canadian mainstream media
In the light of Stephen Harper’s announcement of an upcoming visit to Israel, it might be worth taking a closer look at the country he will be visiting. Coverage of Israel’s apartheid-like policies isn’t readily available via Canadian mainstream media outlets. Instead we get stories such as the report in
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Israeli Prawer plan to expel Bedouin: Day of Rage protests: open letter signed by 50 UK public figures
Day of Rage protests against Prawer Plan A group of 50 public figures in the UK have written an open letter to the Israeli government opposing the Prawer Plan that will involve the forced expulsion of the Bedouin from their ancestral land. The signatories characterize the plan as “systematic discrimination
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Max Blumenthal’s Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel – reviews: liberal hypocrisy on Israel
Max Blumenthal‘s Goliath: Life and Loathing in Greater Israel is a remarkable and courageous book that reveals hard truths about Israel’s dark side. What makes Goliath especially impressive is the amount of time Max Blumenthal spent in Israel and the occupied West Bank in order to gather information and get
Continue readingdrive-by planet: Rashid Khalidi’s ‘Brokers of Deceit’: how the U.S. has undermined the peace process
In Jerusalem at the start of his current visit to Israel, Obama went over-the-top with superlatives in a speech that employed high flown rhetoric and symbolism. He painted the US/Israel relationship in transcendent terms – “eternal” no less. In a later speech, adopting a more pragmatic approach, the president characterized
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Taking the Real Measure of Netanyahu, An Arab Woman Speaks Up
There’s a new name being given to Benjamin Netanyahu’s newest illegal settlement crime. It’s being called the “Doomsday Settlement,” a term coined by the Israeli founder of Terrestrial Jerusalem, Daniel Seidemann. Nicola Nasser, an Arab journalist based in the West Bank, or at least what remains of it after years
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: 40-Years of Peace Tossed in the Garbage
Apparently forty years of peace has been too much of a good thing for Benjamin Netanyahu. Israel has enjoyed peace with its Arab neighbours since 1973.Don’t blame yourself if you didn’t realize that the Middle East has enjoyed four decades o…
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Germany Shines a Light on the Harp of Darkness
When it came right down to it, Germany balked at voting “no” on Palestinian recognition in the UN General Assembly and, instead, merely abstained. Netanyahu was not amused.What transpired between Angie Merkel and Benny Netanyahu may shed so…
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