by AJDS | May 2, 2010 | Uncategorized
David Hare is a British playwright and performer. His monologue, The Wall, was broadast on the ABC in Australia, but unfortunately, it is not available for streaming. Since he first visited Israel and the Palestinian territories to write Via Dolorosa, which the Royal...
by AJDS | Apr 30, 2010 | Uncategorized
It’s remarkable that there has been little in the general press about the killing of another Palestinian protester, Ahmed Salem Deeb, by a sniper in the Gaza strip 3 days ago. It’s another case of a protester suffering from ‘overkill’ and the...
by AJDS | Apr 28, 2010 | Uncategorized
Rudd’s backflip on the CPRS and emission trading is of a piece with his underwhelming backpedalling on child care centres, asylum seeker refugee status processing, the development of Australian Human Rights legislation, solar energy rebates and insulation...
by AJDS | Apr 26, 2010 | Uncategorized
[Yasher koah is a traditional Hebrew expression meaning “May your strength be firm”] Unlike the liberal Haaretz, the English-only Jerusalem Post is way to the right of Centre. These days it has only two progressive columnists left, so often, like others I...
by AJDS | Apr 24, 2010 | Uncategorized
Watch this space!
by AJDS | Apr 23, 2010 | Uncategorized
The past week or so has seen strong responses to Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel’s full page ads in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and elsewhere, in which he made a number of claims about Jerusalem being ‘above politics’, or that...