tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-115084152012-04-16T12:17:06.057+10:00Just what is "the whole truth"?Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.comBlogger1376125This is an XML content feed. It is intended to be viewed in a newsreader or syndicated to another site, subject to copyright and fair use.tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139873060367689622006-02-14T10:19:00.000+11:002007-02-02T13:32:01.796+11:00I've moved to a new website. This site will remain alive, but will not be updated. New comments will no longer be accepted. My new blog can be found here. It was time to upgrade, modernise and move...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139833216887276752006-02-13T23:13:00.000+11:002006-02-13T23:33:18.430+11:00The Guardian's Israel correspondent, Chris McGreal, has produced some of the best reporting from the region. His latest reports (part one and part two) discuss the long-standing relationship between...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139791973977241612006-02-13T11:38:00.000+11:002006-02-14T10:40:37.836+11:00- Craig Murray - the UK's former ambassador to Uzbekistan and now critic of the "war on terror - is facing hurdles in publishing his forthcoming book. The letter from the UK Foreign and Commonwealth...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139789506546617582006-02-13T11:05:00.000+11:002006-02-14T14:32:44.930+11:00John Pike, a military analyst at GlobalSecurity.Org, argues that the Bush administration should rename its ideological struggle, The Forever War. "'We're in the 17th year of The Long War,' he says,...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139787981306281002006-02-13T10:44:00.000+11:002006-02-13T15:33:05.320+11:00David Frost, The Observer, February 12: "But I think when viewers watch al-Jazeera International, they will be closer to watching CNN." Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139787828421935942006-02-13T10:17:00.000+11:002006-02-13T18:50:11.546+11:00While Israel's supposed leftist Labor Party prove their dedication to the extreme Zionist cause, the UN releases a report on the ongoing trauma of the occupation: "Israel's separation wall and its...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139785880874753682006-02-13T10:03:00.000+11:002006-02-13T10:11:20.883+11:00China's insatiable appetite for natural resources is taking the growing superpower to predictable places in Africa. For example, Sudan and China are increasingly close on military issues. Such...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139784026887694142006-02-13T09:37:00.000+11:002006-05-16T23:00:55.876+10:00John Bunzl, Haaretz, February 10: "It was the late Edward Said who thought differently. He argued convincingly that recognizing the Holocaust for what it was (a genocide of the Jewish people) would...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139783051944964482006-02-13T09:13:00.000+11:002006-02-13T18:55:57.400+11:00Iranian Jews deserve support for their courageous stand: "Iran's Jews have sharply criticized President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for denying the Holocaust, saying his remarks have sparked fears in their...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139741373548095272006-02-12T21:48:00.000+11:002006-02-12T21:49:33.556+11:00Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139697216671587972006-02-12T09:30:00.000+11:002006-02-13T21:42:03.613+11:00Saree Makdisi, Counterpunch, February 10: "...There can be no doubt that the Hamas charter is not only xenophobic, sectarian, and racist, but also ill-conceived, inaccurate, retrograde, and...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139634191068986582006-02-11T15:58:00.000+11:002006-02-14T14:45:39.596+11:00Conservative US commentator Andrew Sullivan publishes some "liberal" thoughts on the Danish cartoon controversy. Take this example: "I'm honestly starting to suspect that, before this is over,...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139633463175763312006-02-11T15:44:00.000+11:002006-02-14T01:40:12.330+11:00Italian footballer Paolo Di Canio - "a fascist but not a racist" - has been given some appropriate punishment: "Paolo Di Canio, the Lazio forward who has become the darling of the neo-fascist right...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139631159964373432006-02-11T15:03:00.000+11:002006-02-13T22:11:20.636+11:00Leonard Fein, The Forward, February 10: "Here's a puzzle, a small piece of a much larger set of nagging issues that bubbles just beneath the surface of our ordinary lives: On December 23, 2005,...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com12tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139578360565398802006-02-11T00:24:00.000+11:002006-02-12T05:27:13.930+11:00After a group of British academics decided to boycott Israel in 2005 (though later overturned), the inevitable second stage is upon us: "A group including some of Britain's most prominent architects...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139541662183047232006-02-10T14:19:00.000+11:002006-02-12T12:56:08.136+11:00Brokeback to the future.Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139536249959618392006-02-10T12:34:00.000+11:002006-02-12T05:39:56.146+11:00Yet more evidence that Guantanamo Bay is the "gulag of our times": "More than half of the terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay have not been accused of committing hostile acts against the...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139531610954673942006-02-10T11:15:00.000+11:002006-02-11T13:24:21.586+11:00- Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez tells Tony Blair to "go right to hell" and accuses him of being a "pawn of imperialism." - The Danish editor of "those" cartoons interviewed neo-con and...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139530259613259512006-02-10T11:08:00.000+11:002006-02-10T11:10:59.630+11:00The head of Israel's domestic security agency, Yuval Diskin, proves Israel’s belief in Middle Eastern democracy: "When you dismantle a system in which there is a despot who controls his people by...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139530013478091102006-02-10T10:58:00.000+11:002006-02-12T05:46:11.700+11:00While Nato dismisses the possibility of Israel entering the club as a "security umbrella" to protect the Jewish state from Iran and the World Jewish Congress launches a campaign against the Islamic...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139523133136740422006-02-10T09:07:00.000+11:002006-02-12T11:20:00.283+11:00Amira Hass, Haaretz, February 8: "The attempt to explain to Israelis that such acts of vengeance are puny compared to the intensity of the Israeli assault on every individual, and against the entire...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139461256248648622006-02-09T15:52:00.000+11:002007-03-01T04:49:46.376+11:00Eva Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, explains why his country will continue to cultivate coca: "You have to realise that, for us, the coca leaf is not cocaine and as such growing coca...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139460726413341122006-02-09T15:47:00.000+11:002006-02-13T22:17:52.153+11:00Israel proves its expertise in cultural sensitivity: "A dispute over the fate of an ancient Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem threatened Wednesday to ignite tensions in Holy City as workers removed...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com29tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139452939068761742006-02-09T13:30:00.000+11:002006-02-14T02:40:23.420+11:00While the over-heated debate continues over Iran, some uncomfortable facts are surfacing: "The George W. Bush administration's adoption of a policy of threatening to use military force against Iran...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11508415.post-1139445924094921552006-02-09T11:40:00.000+11:002006-02-13T02:45:00.626+11:00Following the recent controversy over Macquarie University's Centre for Middle East and North African Studies and its simulation programs, Director Andrew Vincent responds in this week's Australian...Antony Loewensteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13281306917181742047noreply@blogger.com20