February 26, 2012 - Media -
A couple more previews of what the new Sacha Baron Cohen film is going to be like. The man’s a genius…
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According to a very scientific poll on Channel 9, Ricky Ponting is overwhelmingly the favourite to be Australia’s next prime minister. They have always said the captain of the test team is the toughest job in Australia…
Related reading: Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2012/02/25/ricky-for-pm/
Analysis by the New York Times suggests that even if Israel does want to strike and remove Iranian nuclear targets, it may not even have the capability to do it.
Related reading: Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2012/02/22/an-aerial-attack-on-iran-might-not-even-be-possible-for-israel/
Israel is sending settlers, among others, to Diaspora university campuses to educate Jewish and non-Jewish students about Israel’s “diverse society that values equality and human rights,” according to the Jerusalem Post. Israel has plenty of positive attributes it can use to show non-Jews on campuses around the world that it isn’t the bigoted, racist, apartheid regime the cultist BDS’ers portray it as. Showing the settlers and the settlements enterprise as a part of the “diverse society that values equality and human rights” is simply laughable.
Related reading:Tags: Diaspora Jewry, Israel, Israel Apartheid Week, Migron, Occupation, Palestinians, Settlements, Settlers, University campuses, West Bank, Zionism Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2012/02/22/israels-hasbara-ministry-sends-settlers-to-the-diaspora-to-combat-apartheid-week/
A month ago it seems that Bibi’s peace envoy presented the Palestinians with an actual proposal on borders. The proposal isn’t exactly the ideal one, and the Palestinians would (and should) never accept what was put in front of them. But it is a good first start. I don’t expect Bibi — or Abbas, for that matter — to show all his cards in the first round. This is a starting point, presumably. It takes strong leadership, a la President Clinton, to bring the sides closer together. A number of issues, including Jerusalem, were never discussed, it seems. But I still think this is a step in the right direction. The Quartet just needs to bring everyone back together now and continue to nut everything out.
Related reading: Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2012/02/21/bibis-first-step-towards-a-peace-agreement-is-a-good-start/
While perhaps a tad over-simplified, I don’t think it’s necessarily a far-fetched conclusion. I don’t think it’s necessarily fair to place the blame on the consumer — you also have to say that executives and shareholders are to blame, trying to milk every dollar out of supply chains or advertisers to maximise their profit. But still, it’s something interesting to think about.
Related reading: Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2012/02/20/are-consumers-to-blame-for-apples-labour-practices-and-googles-privacy-issues/
Hardly Israel’s best-friend Norman Finkelstein in a very interesting video interview. This should be compulsory watching for anyone who encounters BDS or BDS activists, particularly students on campus.
Related reading: Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2012/02/17/video-norman-finkelstein-calls-the-bds-movement-a-cult-slams-one-staters/
Isi Leibler’s latest column focuses on the Chief Rabbinate and conversion in Israel.
Related reading: Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2012/02/15/isi-leibler-on-the-chief-rabbinates-myopic-attitude-towards-conversion/
After creating a Facebook page “Im Tirtzu – Fascists”, seven Israelis are being sued by Im Tirtzu for NIS 2.6 million. Their defence centers largely on two points: one, that Im Tirtzu is, by definition, fascist; and, that the word “fascist” is nowadays actually slang that means anything right-wing and anti-liberal.
Related reading: Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2012/02/15/israeli-court-to-decide-if-im-tirtzu-is-a-fascist-movement/
Hamas’s leader in Gaza Ismail Haniyeh, in a speech in Tehran, pledged to never stop resistance or acknowledge Israel. Of course, eight weeks ago, formerly Damascus based Khaled Mashal said Hamas would be giving up weapons-based resistance and would agree to a Palestinian state based on 1967 borders.
Related reading:Tags: Gaza, Hamas, Iran, Ismail Haniyeh, Israel, Khaled Mashal, Mahmoud Abbas, Middle East Conflict, Palestinian Authority, Peace Process, PLO, Yasser Arafat Permalink: http://liamgetreu.com/2012/02/13/the-two-sides-of-hamas-haniyeh-says-hell-never-recognise-israel-mashal-says-they-will/
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