Under its latest fascist ethnocratic government with Netanyahoo at the helm, Israel steps up its vile theft of Palestinian land in East Jerusalem – Palestinians are evicted and their homes demolished so Jewish settlers can move in. Under international law, Israel acts illegally and thus far, with impunity, eroding the peace process in order to make both two state and one state solutions impossible. According to Israeli peace organisation B’t Selem, Israel has demolished 350 Palestinian homes in East Jerusalem since 2004.
Tim Minchin on a Sunday Arvo
Discussion of Israeli Fascism on Democracy Now
Amy Goodman interviews Dr. Mustafa Barghouti and Professor Neve Gordon on the shrill tenor of current Israeli politics, noting creeping fascism within all major parties and a flourishing culture of impunity. Because Western governments refuse to sanction Israel’s heinous acts, choosing instead to follow the bankrupt Israel only line, those with no respect for justice or human rights feel more than ever they can commit crimes of violence without any fear of retribution, as they have escaped censure for the recent horrors inflicted on the Gazan people.
Nutanyahoo supports stripping citizenship from those who are ‘disloyal’ to the ‘state’ along with Lieberman, the problem is how? Lieberman hasn’t a plan which Nutso can get away with satisfactorily – yet.
Neve Gordon says there is a racist culture within Israel and neo-Fascists like Lieberman are feeding upon the Israeli people’s decades fermented hatred for the Arabs. Palestinians are an inconvenience to the cryptoZionist, who dreams of thieving ALL the land they would like and to hell with anyone else. Gordon feels Israeli politics is at a watershed moment.
In discussing who is ‘loyal’ or ‘not loyal’ to Israhell with a view to banishing them, Lieberman and Nutanyahoo are talking about ethnic cleansing 23% of the Israeli population who happen to be Arab – and these cryptofascists are getting away with at least conspiring about doing it.
Barghouti has some hopes of Mitchell and Obama, and can feel the breeze of change. He regards Israel’s assault on Gaza as a preemptive strike against the Obama administration, to restrict the peace process to the Annapolis agreement failures, so settlement activities can continue unchallenged.
Conroy’s Stupid Filter Trials – You Gotta Laugh
Once a jolly swagman plugged into the internets,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited as he torrented
“Don’t go deploying your filters on me”.
“Deploying your filters, deploying your filters
Don’t go deploying your filters on me”
And he sang as he watched and waited as he torrented,
“Don’t go deploying your filters on me”.
Down came the content speeding through the internets,
Up jumped the swagman and viewed it with glee,
And he sang as he shoved that content on his backup disk,
“You’ll be a-wasting your filters on me”.
“Wasting your filters, wasting your filters
Don’t go a-wasting your filters on me”
And he sang as he shoved that content on his backup disk,
“Don’t go a-wasting your filters on me”.
Up rode the Conroy, mounted on his ISP,
Down came the troopers, one, two, three,
“Where’s that jolly content you downloaded so illicitly?
You’ve been evading the filters from me.”
“Evading the filters, evading the filters
You’ve been evading the filters from me.”
“Where’s that jolly content you downloaded so illicitly?
You’ve been evading the filters from me.”
Up jumped the swagman and handed them his backup disk,
“You’ll never crack my encryption”, said he,
And his packets are tunneled and proxied through the internets,
“You’ll never get your bloody filters on me”.
“Your bloody filters, your bloody filters
You’ll never get your bloody filters on me”.
And his packets are tunneled and proxied through the internets,
“You’ll never get your bloody filters on me”.
Hampshire College Divests from Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Hampshire College was the first academic institution in the US to divest from apartheid South Africa, and now has added weight to protests against Israeli apartheid by divesting its funds from companies which are involved in the illegal Israeli occupation of Palestine.