You've got to hand it to the Israeli public relations flacks: only they could convince you that killing children was an act of self-defence.
In Australia, the ABC relies for "independent" comment on the smooth Mark Regev, an official spokesman for the Israeli Government, and Martin Indyk, a former official of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
It's the oldest trick in the book: if they look and sound like us, we are more likely to be sympathetic towards them. Anyone putting an alternative view is immediately cast as anti-Semitic. Our media glibly accept the excuses of the Israeli public relations machine and ignore the horrific realities of Israel's barbaric behaviour in Gaza.
It seems that no matter what injustice Palestinians have suffered in the past 60 years, they should be grateful for the privilege of being able to live under the jackboot of Israeli occupation.
On a December day when temperatures dipped below 20 degrees, Street Vendor Project staff walked along...
A young Palestinian man has died while being held in captivity by Israeli authorities, according to...
On July 20, around ten masked men raided the Palestinian hamlet of Ibsiq in the northern...
