In his inflammatory opinion piece, dissected here, in last Sunday’s Observer newspaper the British journalist and novelist Howard Jacobson referred to: … the fallacious narrative that Zionists dropped out of a clear blue sky to occupy someone else’s country … … Read More »
Today’s Observer features an opinion piece by British novelist and journalist, Howard Jacobson. Under the header – Victim-blaming is a crime to progressives. Except when it comes to … Jews – he opens with his grief for fellow Jews killed … Read More »
I’ve had readers sympathetic to my writings ask if my posts on last week’s Hamas attacks may have overegged their swipes at our systemically corrupt media. Two directed me to Sarah Helm’s piece in today’s Guardian; some cite such Palestine-friendly … Read More »
His Innocence the 43rd President of the USA, on the Hamas attacks of October 7 Bush is the last person in the world anyone should be asking what to do. Literally dead last; there are eight billion people more qualified. … Read More »
If Superman is so clever, how come he wears his underpants outside his trousers? And if the combined efforts of IDF, Shin Bet and Mossad gave no inkling of the impending Hamas attacks last Saturday – two days after Israeli … Read More »
Collective punishment has been clearly forbidden under international humanitarian law through Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. No exceptions are permitted Michael Lynk, UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, 2020 We are fighting human … Read More »
The Telegraph, October 9 As one obliged to eat his words on the events of 9/11/2001 (see this recent post for why) I can’t rule out the October 7 attacks in Israel being a false flag operation. It should … Read More »
. For definitions and methodology, as well as greater granularity and contextualising of this data, see this page on the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) site. * * *
See also my other post, earlier today, on Saturday’s attacks … * Writing today on his substack, Andrew Koybko – a source I’ve also found valuable on Ukraine, Niger and the Azeri-Armenian conflict – has this to say: Hamas launched … Read More »
See also my later post, Hamas attacks: top ten takeaways … * As in Orwell’s 1984, words mindlessly spewed out in unison by narrative managers have come to denote their antitheses. A current favourite is “unprovoked”. It’s been used, ludicrously … Read More »