Quick link: massive document leak from Palestinian Authority
Al-Jazeera has a scoop-and-a-half – a big collection of leaked documents from the Palestinian Authority covering their negotiations with Israel. The instant take? Israel doesn’t seem terribly interested in negotiation.
Gaza aid flotilla attack
There’s been some discussion of the deadly IDF attack on the humanitarian aid flotilla attempting to breach the blockade of Gaza already
Twitter, blogging, social media and the Iranian election
There’s been a ton of discussion about the role of social media in the protests ensuing on the Iranian election. Two notable posts are those by Rosanna Ryan at ABC Online and my QUT colleague Terry Flew at his eponymous [...]
Israel votes
An open thread for discussion of the Israeli election… As a brief discussion starter, it seems to me that commentary which suggests that Likud, Kadima and Labour have all been vying with each other to prove how “tough” they are [...]
Eyeless in Gaza VII
Discussion on a previous thread on the Israeli/Gaza conflict can be continued on this one. Linking again to the latest from Open Democracy, I thought both Paul Rogers on Israel’s exhausted strategic doctrine and Khaled Hroub on whether the Israeli [...]
Eyeless in Gaza VI
It’s probably time to continue the Gaza conversation on another thread. A discussion starter might be to link to some interesting thoughts from Daniel Levy, who for mine is one of the clearest thinkers about the whole morass of Israeli-Palestinian [...]
White House restrained Israel from attacking Iran
It’s hard to think of genuine foreign policy successes of the Bush administration – apparently the right-wing blogosphere in the US is touting “improved relations with Australia” as an achievement… The deals with Libya and North Korea were perhaps success, [...]
Eyeless in Gaza V: Propaganda 2.0
The Guardian reports that the Israeli Foreign Ministry is encouraging people to reproduce their spin on news websites and blogs, and providing talking points for “volunteers”. Elsewhere: Lyn Calcutt at Public Opinion. Update: Thread continues here.
Eyeless in Gaza IV (Open Democracy edition)
This post provides space for a continuation of the discussion on the previous thread about the Israeli attacks on Gaza. As a discussion starter, there’s a wealth of interesting commentary at Open Democracy. Paul Rogers looks at the current situation [...]
Eyeless in Gaza III
On the first thread here about the Israeli attacks on Gaza, I was struck by this comment in an article linked by Rob: Even when development and enlightenment stare them in the face, their instinct is to destroy them pretending [...]
Evan Thornley: "Nothing in his (political) life became him like the leaving it"?
[With apologies to Shakespeare's Macbeth.] It may be that political news abhors a (Christmas/New Year) vacuum, but hasn’t Evan Thornley’s departure from politics at the point when the Victorian ALP caucus was about to elevate him to a Ministry set [...]
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