One of the earliest idiocies of identity politics was a belief – underpinning the feminist-pacifist slogan of the eighties: “take the toys [nuclear weapons] from the boys” – that war was a result of male ego. It was idiotic not … Read More »
Shaban Al-Dalou, 19 years old, burned alive by IDF airstrike on refugee tents at Al Aqsa Martyrs Hospital, Gaza, October 14 Nine days ago, on October 6, Guardian Media Group – still seen as more or less progressive by a … Read More »
Only connect, said Edward Morgan Forster. Sound advice, but to apply it with accuracy we need detailed facts, and axiomatic principles to organise them in evidence based narratives. I know intelligent men and women, whom I like and love and … Read More »
The Economist yesterday, October 11 – its pro-Israel tone as gung-ho as that of the politicians and the “some generals” its kicker invokes: Its second paragraph tells us that: Israel is again on the verge of thumping Iran. This time … Read More »
Yes they do. The Israel Defence Forces. With the chilling deliberation of men and women told since infancy that theirs is the world’s most moral army, their fight existential – if not biblically ordained – and their enemy a race … Read More »
So Bruce Springsteen – a man I’ve admired since 1978 and The Wild, The Innocent and The E-Street Shuffle – is supporting Kamala Harris. Those who follow this site will know my dismay does not arise from an equally deluded … Read More »
There are those who say the Hamas attacks of October 7, 2023 – the Gaza breakout if you will – had the collusion of the Israeli State. I think that unlikely but have been wrong before on such matters. Who … Read More »
I’ve not big on anniversaries. Never have been. Seismic events, joyous or tragic, don’t resurface for me at multiples of 365 days adjusted for leap years. They do so for other reasons or none at all. So I missed yesterday’s … Read More »
Some of us have being saying since early 2022 – see Yes, Ukraine IS in the grip of Nazis – that Zelensky has been a captive of far right and viciously antisemitic “nationalists” since the day he took office in … Read More »
As the world stares into the abyss of all out war in the Middle East, with every prospect of going global, the question could not be more pertinent. Israel’s crimes against humanity, before and after October 7, have been enabled … Read More »