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Knowing What We Don't Know
Monday, 13 February 2006, 9:43 pm | Translation by Sol Salbe
The issue of the extent to which US policy in the Middle East is affected by Israel’s interest is perennially controversial. There’s a whole range of views expressed with a disproportionate number of conspiracy theories bubbling around. More >>
What can Israel and the Hamas learn from Ireland
Thursday, 2 February 2006, 10:54 am | Translation by Sol Salbe
Hamas’s rise to power and the question of whether it will ditch terrorism and renounce its aim of destroying Israel is evocative of the experience of the IRA in Ireland. The Irish group and its political wing, Sinn Fein, switched from fervent extremism ... More >>
Letters in the Australian Jewish News re Cronulla
Monday, 19 December 2005, 4:36 pm | Translation by Sol Salbe
The Internet edition of today’s Australian Jewish News contains several interesting letters in regard to the Cronulla racist riots. There are also other interesting letters on Kadima’s politics and the long-running dispute between Norman Rothfield ... More >>
US Govt. Loses Key Court Test Of Patriot Act
Thursday, 8 December 2005, 3:50 pm | Translation by Sol Salbe
[This is a major story. In many respects it is the last 48 hours most important international news story. As the pre-trial Haaretz article below indicated a success for the government would have had implication for the act and would have probably resulted in tis extension. ... More >>
Costly Withdrawal Is the Price To Be Paid
Tuesday, 29 November 2005, 2:59 pm | Translation by Sol Salbe
Costly Withdrawal Is the Price To Be Paid for a Foolish War The independent Middle East News Service More >>
Sol Salbe: A Dangerous Interim Period
Thursday, 24 November 2005, 3:34 pm | Translation by Sol Salbe
As promised there will be a full analysis of the Sharon Upheaval when the dust settles. In the meantime one must remember whose influence has been crucial in all elections since the first Intifada. I am talking of the Palestinian organisations and their ... More >>
Sol Salbe: Analysis - The Peretz Ascendancy
Friday, 18 November 2005, 10:50 am | Translation by Sol Salbe
[Apologies for the delay in getting this item out. I appreciate the messages asking for information about Peretz’s election. Unfortunately I have been away on urgent family matters. Furthermore I have taken several days to compile this report as I ... More >>
Sonic Booms Used For Palestinian Punishment?
Friday, 4 November 2005, 12:16 am | Translation by Sol Salbe
I have been following this story for over a week now and while the Guardian article below is fairly comprehensive I am still not satisfied that we are getting the full story. More >>
Hebrew Translation: Back To The Old "Conceptzia"
Wednesday, 2 November 2005, 11:58 am | Translation by Sol Salbe
[Another morning another suicide bombing. If the pictures on Einyan Merkazi are any guide, it was a particularly gruesome one. But what was the point of repeating the condemnation or pointing out that the attack was targetted at the weakest and poorest ... More >>
West Bank Shooting: Why It Pays To Read Hebrew
Thursday, 20 October 2005, 4:22 pm | Translation by Sol Salbe
It's the headline I dread to read on turning my PC on but, there it was on Tuesday morning on ABC Online: Two killed, five wounded in West Bank ambush . It got worse-the number rose to three and a careful check indicated that all three killed were civilians. ... More >>
Biliin: Masked Troops Threw Stones At IDF
Monday, 17 October 2005, 10:32 am | Translation by Sol Salbe
[It’s getting monotonous but no less disturbing every Saturday morning to get the reports from Bili’in regarding army provocations and attacks on peaceful demonstrators. These days the reports from Israel’s mainstream media get here even before the accounts ... More >>
Translation: But Do Jews Drive Out Arabs?
Thursday, 13 October 2005, 11:24 am | Translation by Sol Salbe
Messages from Hebron are a dime a dozen. I get quite a few from both sides of the political divide. Generally speaking they tend to be monotonous. Often they get deleted before they can be read. But when the word was put out for a volunteer to translate ... More >>
Translation: Civilians And The Period Of Calm
Tuesday, 4 October 2005, 10:42 am | Translation by Sol Salbe
While Palestinian attacks on civilians in Israel have just about halted their own civilian death toll continues to rise. The Israeli Defence Force (IDF) has not changed any of its norms. This is disturbing. It is equally disturbing that Israeli society ... More >>
IDF Chief-Of-Staff Furious At Unnecessary Op.
Monday, 29 August 2005, 3:52 pm | Translation by Sol Salbe
Sometime there is a definite feeling of deja vu about the news we report. Both today's Haaretz editorial and Danny Rubinstein's article reprinted below were scathing in their criticism of the IDF raid in Tulkarm that costed five Palestinian lives. Both ... More >>
Shulamit Aloni: Holy insanity
Monday, 4 July 2005, 9:20 am | Translation by Sol Salbe
[The grand old lady of the Israeli peace movement has her say about the settlers and their removal. Like the Biblical prophets whom the irreligious Aloni emulates, there is plenty of controversy and never a dull word. - Sol Salbe] More >>
Sol Salbe: How To Turn The World Upside Down
Monday, 9 May 2005, 10:53 am | Translation by Sol Salbe
Over 100,000 trees have been removed. Some of these have turned up mysteriously in Israel, being sold for up to 25,000 shekels (A$7,500). For the Palestinians the trees have an enormous economic significance. An olive tree is not just a tree but often ... More >>
Savage Attack On Peaceful Palestinian-Israeli Demo
Friday, 29 April 2005, 1:31 pm | Translation by Sol Salbe
[Over the past few hours this news service has received several reports about events at the Palestinian village of Bili'in. They are disturbing indeed. The use of agents provocateurs (apparently captured by Israeli TV stations) by the authorities to provoke ... More >>
IDF Breaks Ceasefire Kills 3 Youths Playing Soccer
Monday, 11 April 2005, 11:12 am | Translation by Sol Salbe
The Israeli web site Einyan Merkazi (new-israel.net) did not mince words in reporting the death of three Palestinian youths yesterday. It chose to believe the Palestinian version of events rather than IDF's. More >>
Sol Salbe: The Chairperson's Price
Monday, 24 January 2005, 11:10 am | Translation by Sol Salbe
The current issue in Israeli politics at the moment was summed up by Ed O'Loughlin in the 17 January Sydney Morning Herald. He explained the two contrasting schools of thought of what Abu Mazen should do: More >>
Sol Salbe: No Excuses For Killing Children
Monday, 20 December 2004, 11:17 am | Translation by Sol Salbe
This is an unusual media commentary as it conducted to a large degree ex ante rather than ex post. It involves one of the most horrific, objectionable incidents of the four-year Intifada. The killing of 10-month-old Shalhevet Pas has become as symbolic ... More >>
