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The Holocaust vs Israeli Occupation
Tuesday, 21 April 2009, 3:36 pm | Middle East News Service
[Middle East News Service Comments: This News Service is lucky to have made arrangements several months ago with the US Jewish Voice for Peace to take advantage of them having a reporter at the Durban 11 Conference in Geneva. (I had considered going there myself). ... More >>
Israel: Labor Votes To Join Netanyahu Coalition
Wednesday, 25 March 2009, 5:37 pm | Middle East News Service
The essence of the story below is covered in the serious Australian media. Reading the headline is almost enough. But the reverberations from the Labour Party’s decision to join Binyamin Netanyahu’s coalition will continue over the next few days. More >>
ME News Service: Akiva Eldar on Australian TV
Sunday, 8 February 2009, 3:59 pm | Middle East News Service
[ Middle East News Service comments : A comprehensive overview of Israel on the eve of the elections from Akiva Eldar via Australia. Frankly I recommend you listen to it. The transcript below, accurate as it is, is unedited. Eldar is a native speaker ... More >>
Translation: Why Did The Killing Ratio Increase?
Wednesday, 21 January 2009, 1:16 pm | Middle East News Service
[ Middle East News Service comments: Both Gideon Levy (yesterday) and David Grossman (today) have no doubt had access to the ample material in the Hebrew media in regard to the Israeli military’s tactics in Gaza. Essentially the theme applied was that ... More >>
Disgraced IDF no longer Israel’s "Defence Forces"
Tuesday, 20 January 2009, 12:26 pm | Middle East News Service
[ Middle East News Service Comments : The Gaza War, or at least the first phase that we have seen, in many respect’s Israel’s most violent one. While there are items in the queue to be translated that cover this issue, this report on a Jaffa ... More >>
Five comments on the Gaza crisis and what to do
Thursday, 8 January 2009, 1:34 pm | Middle East News Service
On day 10 of the Gaza crisis I would like to weigh in with some thoughts on (1) what needs to happen next and what a more rational, more thoughtful pro-Israel position might look like, (2) on this human tragedy that is unfolding and how to create incentives ... More >>
Tibet is here
Tuesday, 25 March 2008, 12:12 am | Middle East News Service
On turning a blind eye and losing our humanity in everything that relates to Palestinian suffering and humiliation. More >>
Gaza Militants Risk 'Holocaust': Israeli Minister
Sunday, 2 March 2008, 11:32 am | Middle East News Service
Virtually every news media in the country is reporting the story below which is taken from the Sydney Morning Herald. My colleague Shraga Elam, an Israeli journalist living in Switzerland, a winner of Australia’s Gold Walkley Award and, for anyone interested, ... More >>
What happens in Gaza doesn't stay in Gaza
Friday, 25 January 2008, 3:29 pm | Middle East News Service
[ Middle East News Service Comments : Rather than reading dozens of articles in both the media and the blogosphere I recommend you read this exceptionally useful article by Daniel Levy . The former Barak adviser starts with the humanitarian issues and ... More >>
Sol Salbe Translation: It's All About Talking
Thursday, 24 January 2008, 8:12 am | Middle East News Service
[Middle East News Service comments: Sometimes the messenger is as important as the message. Shlomo Gazit is not the first who says that says that the Gaza siege, the military operations and the rocket firings into southern Israel need to stop by Israel ... More >>
Yotam Feldman: Collision course
Sunday, 23 December 2007, 2:40 pm | Middle East News Service
From his home on the Upper Galilee road between Safed and Rosh Pina, as Brigadier General (res.) Zvika Fogel looks out over Lake Kinneret, the Gaza Strip seems a distant memory. But four years after Fogel retired from the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), ... More >>
(Iran Bomb:) The end of the military option
Wednesday, 5 December 2007, 9:43 am | Middle East News Service
[Middle East News Service comments: The English version of this article (below) is an abridged and truncated rendition of the Hebrew . Nevertheless, it is the best analysis I have seen so far of the new circumstances. Time constraints prevent me ... More >>
Sol Salbe: Israel's Syria Incursion
Thursday, 20 September 2007, 8:42 pm | Middle East News Service
Last Thursday week Israeli Air Force planes crossed the border into Syria. That is one of the few uncontested facts in a story that remained alive for nearly a fortnight. It is one of the most difficult stories that this reporter has ever encountered. ... More >>
A non-Jewish view of support for Israel
Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 5:18 pm | Middle East News Service
WHEN the editor invited me to write a piece on Australian Jews, I thought it would be easy. Not so. On the other hand, I imagine it would be equally difficult for a Jew to write of his experiences with other Australians. I believe that my invitation ... More >>
Translation: Aren't We Good Doggies, Mr Bush?
Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 11:10 am | Middle East News Service
Benny Ziffer is the Culture and Literature Editor of Haaretz who also has an outspoken blog on the paper. But it is his occasional TV review columns which often tell us more about Israeli alternative thinking than more formal writing. Naturally they ... More >>
Peres On The Holocaust & Both Banks Of The Jordan
Wednesday, 18 July 2007, 10:33 am | Middle East News Service
Middle East News Service comments: Another one of those seemingly small news items that carry a much bigger punch than their heavyweight cousins. Run a Googlenews search on Israel’s new president and you will find that just under half the references ... More >>
Conference on future of Jewish people
Sunday, 15 July 2007, 5:18 pm | Middle East News Service
At conference on future of Jewish people, delegates ask why peace is off the agenda More >>
ME News Service: Leaving The Zionist Ghetto
Sunday, 10 June 2007, 10:52 am | Middle East News Service
This is probably the most important item this News Service has posted for a long time. One of the scions of the Israeli elite, Avraham (Avrum) Burg is speaking out his mind. The former Speaker of the Knesset and Chairperson of the Jewish Agency ... More >>
Middle East News Service: Mission Impossible
Thursday, 31 May 2007, 10:31 am | Middle East News Service
[ Middle East News Service Comments : Another of those interesting reports from what must be a scintillating writers Festival in Hay (Hay-on-Wye in Wales not Hay in New South Wales.) Very useful background on the Haaretz newspaper and its editor, David ... More >>
Haaretz: First, We'll Shoot A Bit, Flex A Muscle
Friday, 25 May 2007, 12:22 am | Middle East News Service
The appalling situation in the Gaza Strip has not received the attention that it has warranted. Of course the disappearance of kidnapped BBC reporter Alan Johnston has meant that there are hardly any non-Palestinian reporters in the area thus reducing ... More >>
