Tag Archives: Opinion
President-elect Trump and Israel
If President-elect Donald Trump wanted to put himself, his family and the rest of the United States in IS’s terrorist sights, he could hardly have found a better way than sending Jewish attorney David Friedman to Israel as his Ambassador. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Palestinian people, Settler colonialism, Uncategorized, War
Tagged Israel, Opinion, Trump Administration
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The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, a book review and commentary
From the time of modern Israel’s birth in 1948, the message from Israel to the world was a simple one: For the first time in over a thousand years, Jews have a home where they can live free of the … Continue reading
Posted in book review, Commentary, Israel, Uncategorized, Zionism
Tagged Book review, commentary, Israel, Opinion
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Jerk
Jerk is a word that shows contempt. We don’t talk with jerks, we ridicule them, push them away, and call them names. So when I read an article online about an elector on his state’s electoral college who had resigned … Continue reading
Does Israel have a future?
Israel is a settler nation, a nation created from cleansing the natives from the territory they sought to occupy. Israel became a nation in 1948, a homeland for Jews in the ancient land of Israel, a land where they could … Continue reading
When is a child not a child? To Benjamin Netanyahu, it’s when the child is Palestinian
Jerusalem (AFP) – Under a photo of a glowering Benjamin Netanyahu, “Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday vowed harsh retribution against Hamas, the Islamist rulers of Gaza, after a mortar round fired from the Palestinian territory killed an Israeli … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Gaza, Israel, Justice, Palestinian people, Peace
Tagged chilren, commentary, George Polley, Israel, moral values, Opinion, Palestine, Palestinian people
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Rise of the ultra-right in the Jewish State of Israel
From the top, Knesset member Moshe Feiglin, Israeli students, Gaza, Knesset member Ayalet Shaked. Photos, in the same order: Wikipedia, Press TV. The Independent (UK). The Independent (UK). * * * Reading the news that pours in from Gaza and … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Gaza, Israel, Palestinian people
Tagged George Polley, Israel, justice, moral values, Opinion
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Gaza is already unliveable and Israel is making it worse, by Rana Alshami
This article, by young Gaza resident Rana Alshami, is published in Richard Forer’s blog, at http://www.richardforer.com/2014/06/gaza-is-already-unlivable-and-israel-is-making-it-even-worse/ Please read and pass it on to others. The situation in Gaza is ghastly, sadistic, and urgently in need of intervention by the international community. … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Gaza, Gaza Strip, Israel, Justice, Palestinian people, Peace
Tagged Gaza, George Polley, Israel, justice, Opinion, Palestine, Richard Forer
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Israel, Palestine and Denial: A response to “When will Netanyahu nail himself to the cross?”
In a recent edition of The Japan Times (16 April, 2014), columnist Jeffrey Goldberg published an article about the peace process between Palestine and the Jewish State of Israel. In It he mentions Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, President Obama, Secretary … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Israel, Palestinian people, Peace process
Tagged commentary, Israel, justice, Opinion, Palestine, Palestinian people, peace process
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Is it wrong to call drug users “addicts”?
Meghan Ralston, the harm reduction coordinator for the Drug Policy Alliance seems to think so. “Addict,” she writes in her AlterNet blog on March 25, “is one of those words that so many of us use, largely without pausing to … Continue reading
Musings by George Polley 
Comments on an Israeli propaganda video
Israel has one response to critics like historian Ilan Pappe, author of “The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine,” attack the book and its author as frauds, the object being to kill the book and destroy its author. That is the only purpose … Continue reading →