Israel Doomed

There was very little “news” yesterday. That is to say, there were few new stories in the hard-copy newspapers and the many Internet sources that the Communist University scans each day. Sure, the columns and the web sites contained the usual number of words, but there was hardly anything worth passing on. CU policy is different. If there is no news, our output becomes less. Yet there is more to this particular lull than simply a freak of nature. There is a strong feeling of the whole world being “gobsmacked”, or struck dumb, by the enormous thing that has happened – the defeat of Israel after more than fifty (but not yet sixty) years. The Zionist project is doomed. So says As’ad Abukhalil, the Angry Arab, one of the world’s great bloggers – one the CU consults every day for its style and its writing quality, as well as for its good content. Use the link below to reach the particular entry on the dooming of Zionism.. These are amazing days we are living through. The incredible Robert Fisk – not a young man – who stayed in his Beirut flat throughout the Israeli bombing, now reports from South Lebanon, standing among ruins, together with jubilant Hizbollah supporters and fighters, looking clear across the border into Israel, and “only one tank in sight”! He gives the lie to the report of his own paper, the London Independent, a few days ago that “30,000 Israelis” had moved into Lebanon before the ceasefire. That was only fog of war. Link to Fisk’s report below. This type of thing is called “reversal of fortune”. A really big one in this case. So big that the Imperial “West” cannot think what to say about it. Actions have already spoken louder than any possible words. Back in South Africa, COSATU’s economist Neva Makgetla points out that what women need more than anything else is what men also need – well paid employment for all. Click on these links: The Zionist project is doomed, Asad Abukhalil, The Angry Arab (1374 words) A Victory for Hizbollah, Syria and Iran, Robert Fisk, Counterpunch (914 words) Women, hidden violence of discrimination, Neva Makgetla, B Day (734 words)