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Putting Syria Back Together Again by Firas Massouh, Yoni Molad and Stephen Pascoe

April 22, 2013 – 3:36 pm

A response to Jeremy Salt

Posted in against the current, Arena Magazine | Also tagged Assad, Firas Massouh, Jeremy Salt, Mioddle East, Stephen Pascoe, Syria, Syrian Revolution, the Middle East, Yoni Molad | Comments (2)

Ways to Claim a Country

November 14, 2010 – 10:11 am

Gillian Cowlishaw reflecting on the settler consciousness of place and origin

Posted in arena essay | Also tagged Aboriginal Australians, Aboriginal history, Anglo-Australians, Arab, archaeology, Captain Cook, colonisation, cultural hegemony, egalitarianism, equal rights, genocide, Gillian Cowlishaw, human rights, identity, immigrants, Indigenous Australians, Indigenous dispossession, Indigenous writers & artists, Jerusalem, Jewish history, Jewish state, Judaisation, legitimacy, nation building, nationalism, Native Title, oppression, Palestine, resistance, sovereignty claims, West Bank, white supremacy, Zionism | Comments Off

Afghanistan: Gift or Grand Conceit?

November 14, 2010 – 9:10 am

It is beyond most Westerners to understand today how offers of democracy are really much more than this: there is a widespread incapacity to grasp the social assumptions embedded in our ‘gifts’ writes John Hinkson

Posted in editorial | Also tagged Adam Smith, Arab, capitalism, China, colonialism, democracy, global markets, Greens, Greg Sheridan, intifada, Iraq, John Hinkson, Julia Gillard, market, media, Middle East, Muslim, Pakistan, technology, terrorism, Tony Abbott, United Sates, universities, war, Western culture | Comments Off

Now for Iran

August 3, 2008 – 6:28 am

Jeremy Salt exposes the interests that lie behind calls for a strike against Iran.

Posted in features | Also tagged Arena Magazine issue 96 August-September 2008, International Atomic Energy Agency, Iran, Jeremy Salt, Middle East politics, Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty | Comments Off

Israel and Iran : The Call of the Abyss

February 2, 2006 – 8:38 am

How can the West resolve the stand-off over nuclear power while preserving its own ways of living and promoting liberty, asks John Hinkson

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Intervention, Iran, Liberal Imperialism, Middle East | Comments Off

Turkey says No

April 2, 2003 – 6:51 pm

Jeremy Salt … or will it finally be yes?

Posted in against the current | Also tagged AK Party, Iraq War, Jeremy Salt, Turkey, Turkey government, Turkey people | Comments Off

Call for Australian Boycott of Research and Cultural Links with Israel

June 2, 2002 – 7:45 am

Despite widespread international condemnation for its policy of violent repression against the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories, the Israeli government appears impervious to moral appeals from world leaders.

Posted in Comment & Debate | Also tagged academics, anti-violence, Australian boycott of research and cultural links with Israel, civil war, Gaza, non-violence, Palestine, war crimes, West Bank | Comments Off

The Chemistry of War

June 2, 2002 – 7:38 am

Scott Burchill Forget the demonisation of Iraq. Chemical weaponry is the preferred choice of world leaders. It can spread diseases to those who are vulnerable to them, kill in minutes and leave infrastructure and industry untouched.

Posted in against the current | Also tagged Iran, Saddam Hussein, Scott Burchill, war on terror, weapons, Western science, Winston Churchill | Comments Off

Armageddon in the Middle East?

April 2, 2002 – 7:28 am

Jeremy Salt The roots of the current middle-east conflict were laid long before Israel was founded. The last, best hope for a just peace is that the Israeli people will come to terms with the problematic history of Zionism.