“I’m overwhelmed with shame”
23
Oct
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Category Archives: middle east
US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 3
23
Oct
The territorial aspirations of Israel’s religious Right, by no means confined to West Bank settlers who deem the bible a Deed of Entitlement which trumps international law, look for legitimacy to conflictual texts written between the 7th and 1st centuries … Read More »
Torched in Gaza: Western ‘civilisation’
22
Oct
I’ve posted this twice now but, in case you missed it, here’s the Green Party foreign minister in Germany’s governing (and if the polls are reliable, electorally doomed) coalition energetically backing the war crime of collective punishment in Gaza. Her … Read More »
US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 2
18
Oct
Netanyahu is doing just what the US wants. The dream of Netanyahu is the dream of the US neo-cons: war with Iran. If you can conquer Iran, you close up everything between Israel and Iran. You take up Syria, Iraq; … Read More »
The West’s silent majority is wrong!
17
Oct
Most of those who judge historic evils correctly in hindsight are sleepwalking through their present-day reiteration in Palestine … Those who stood against such evil at the time were by definition a minority, else they wouldn’t have happened in the … Read More »
US Neocons & Israel’s far Right: Part 1
16
Oct
In March this year Jerusalem Post ran a piece by Avi Gil under the title, Ben-Gvr is good for the Palestinians. While acknowledging that Netanyahu is a prisoner of Zionism’s far Right, it rightly claims that this constrains him on … Read More »
Baerbock backs butchery in Gaza
15
Oct
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 »
Burned alive for a Greater Israel
15
Oct
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 »
Middle East, ecocide, imperialism
13
Oct
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 »
Does Israel have a death wish?
12
Oct
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 »