Category Archives: Social Justice

Another War, Another Defeat by John J. Mearsheimer

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Father Dave

If Israel had really wanted to stop the rocket attacks from Gaza, there were any number of ways of accomplishing this through peaceful negotiation. So why then did they attack Gaza in an all-out bloody assault? John Mearsheimer cuts through … Continue reading →

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Not all Jews support Israeli violence by Antony Lowenstein

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Father Dave

This was the speech delivered by Antony at a rally held in Sydney, supporting the people of Gaza and calling for an end to the Israeli assault. Antony spoke alongside John Pilger. There were around 5000 people at the rally. … Continue reading →

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Getting away with Murder by Julia Irwin MP

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Father Dave

Australian Federal MP, Julia Irwin, does what her parlimentary colleagues are too afraid to do, for fear of the repercussions on their own political careers. She speaks the plain truth about what is going on in Gaza! YOU’VE got to … Continue reading →

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Bush, Obama and the Gaza Blitz by Patrick J. Buchanan

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Father Dave

Conservative columist Patrick Buchanan comments on the complete failure of President Bush to prevent the carnage at Gaza and President-elect Obama’s ominous silence. Can the suffering men, women and children of Palestine really expect a better deal from the new … Continue reading →

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Inside Gaza: a first-hand account by Sami Abdel-Shafi

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Father Dave

One resident of Gaza, who has survived the bombings, surmises that he and his neighbours are living in a pergatory that’s rapidly descending into first-class hell. I am safe, and yet I feel like a walking dead person. Everything around … Continue reading →

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Action, not words for Gaza! by Karen AbuZayd

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Father Dave

Karen AbuZayd, the commissioner general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, claims that the noble spirit of the universal declaration of human rights is being betrayed by a lack of help for Gaza As we approach the 60th … Continue reading →

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Gaza’s Death Throes and nobody’s listening! by Sonja Karkar

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Father Dave

Government after government in Israel continues to demand recognition and accolades as a first world democracy superior to all others, despite Israel’s flouting of international law, its human rights abuses and the criminality and corruption of Israeli leaders. Worse still, … Continue reading →

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There are no Checkpoints in Heaven by Ramzy Baroud

Posted on May 15, 2012 by Father Dave

Ramzy Baroud reflects on his upbringing and the life of his father – an impoverished refugee, but a man who maintained his dignity to the last. I still vividly remember my father’s face – wrinkled, apprehensive, warm – as he … Continue reading →

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Sailing into Gaza by Huwaida Arraf

Posted on May 14, 2012 by Father Dave

Huwaida Affaf was one of about 60 international human right activists who, in August 2008, symbollically broke the Israeli seige of Gaza by sailing their two boats – the SS Liberty and the SS Free Gaza – through the blockade … Continue reading →

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