Netanyahu released a video statement while waving an enlarged photograph of the children and talking about what savage monsters the Palestinians are. While the camera zooms in on the adorable little redheads, he tells us: Hamas murdered them in cold blood. As … Read More »
Yesterday – see What can a poor girl do? – I referenced Caitlin Johnstone’s post, written the same day and containing this: According to an Israeli media report, last May IDF troops strapped explosives to the neck of an 80 year-old Palestinian … Read More »
So Israel held a bunch of Palestinians in concentration camps without charge just for being Palestinian, and then they not only starved and tortured them but actually made them wear a Star of David on their prison garments. But remember kids, it’s evil and wrong to … Read More »
Here’s a tale in three short parts. On November 29, 2023 – fifty-two days into Israel’s Western backed genocide on Gaza – an article on the Human Rights Watch website posed this question: I’ve had my issues with HRW. Along … Read More »
“Biden did the murder. Trump’s just the guy who showed up to help dispose of the body.” * On January 19 I opened a post on the Gaza ceasefire with this: Why did Donald Trump post, on the X/Twitter platform … Read More »
In my last post but one, Donald Trump is the empire unmasked, I quoted Caitlin Johnstone as per the above image caption. In the post which followed it, What is to be done?, I offered Chris Hedges’ slightly more detailed … Read More »
Today Mark Taliano posted this. I concur without reservation and invite those with a different view to argue it in the comments section or, by arrangement, in a guest post. What am I thinking? What am I thinking. I am … Read More »
I’m kicking myself. It’s months now since I was at a Palestine demonstration, either in London or the steel city. Why wasn’t I at this one? Fortunately, the always reliable Jonathan Cook was. The former Guardian journalist and blogger from … Read More »
Why did Donald Trump post, on the X/Twitter platform owned by the world’s richest man and now a member of Trump’s team, a clip of Jeffrey Sachs – old school liberal and scourge of the Neocons – lambasting US policy … Read More »
Britain’s Independent newspaper yesterday, January 15 The [ceasefire] announcement was met with rousing cheers throughout northern Gaza where Hamas fighters reportedly came out of their tunnels to openly celebrate in the streets – make no mistake, this is being viewed … Read More »