Monthly Archives: August 2014

Elie Wiesel’s Turn

Posted on August 24, 2014 by Muller

In the midst of the current and ongoing assault on Gaza, chief holocaust industrialist Elie Wiesel had written an ad which has been run in major U.S. and U.K. news outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wallstreet … Continue reading →

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Under Which Circumstances?

Posted on August 16, 2014 by Muller

When Henk Zanoli yesterday returned to the Israeli Ambassador in The Hague, Haim Davon, his 2011 medal which asserts that he is one of the Righteous Among the Nations, conferred by holocaust museum Yad Vashem, I wondered under which circumstances the then … Continue reading →

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“These Are the Worst Times Since the Nazi Era”

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Muller

Dieter Graumann, president of Germany’s Central Council of Jews recalled Kristallnacht when interviewed by The Guardian. Inappropriate Nazi comparisons have also been made as regards Israel’s newest assault on Gaza, a besieged and largely defenseless, mostly civilian population living in … Continue reading →

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“If Everything is Terrorism, Then Nothing is Terrorism”

Posted on August 6, 2014 by Muller

Eventually, another whistle-blower after Edward Snowden appears to have emerged and provided the team at The Intercept with an outraging piece of the overreaching American intelligence community which seems in fact to consider 280,000 people who are not affiliated to … Continue reading →

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Israel’s War Aims

Posted on August 3, 2014 by Muller

It wasn’t very clear from the beginning what the Israeli government and IDF actually wanted to achieve in the first place in Gaza. Punish Hamas for the three abducted and killed youths in the Westbank in which Hamas was apparently … Continue reading →

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