Those with even the slightest grasp of realpolitik saw in an instant the potential of the chain of events catalysed by the Hamas attacks of October 7 to go regional, and by that fact global. Provided we remember that it … Read More »
The Economist, November 2, 2023: Why Israel must fight on Israel’s bombardment of Gaza is taking a terrible toll. But unless Hamas’s power is broken, peace will remain out of reach Israeli forces are entering a hellscape of their own making. … Read More »
I can’t rule out the possibility that what a horrified world is witnessing in Gaza is precisely what those at the controls of the Israeli State wanted all along – stage one of a Final Solution, with Washington’s tacit blessing, … Read More »
There are moments in modern history when the mask of liberal and humanist democracy – its efficacy always premised on Westerners having little inkling of the price paid by the global south for our relative affluence and fading freedoms – … Read More »
“Let’s replace “Israelis” with “white South Africans”, who were also a settler-colonising people. Did the fall of apartheid require them to “get out”?” I opened my previous post with two quotes from Western Jews. One was Jonathan Freedland, a Guardian … Read More »
In 2019, I returned to Israel … the only country where being Jewish does not make me a minority … In Hebron I saw the mistreatment and oppression of its Palestinian population. Walking streets Palestinian residents are forcibly denied access … Read More »
The USS Gerald Ford As Israel commits war crimes in Gaza with impunity, could anything epitomise more starkly the hubris, bankruptcy and reckless folly of America’s foreign policy – if that’s not a contradiction in terms – than the presence … Read More »
Who is responsible for that mass-murderous strike on the Al Ahli Baptist Hospital? It’s not the most important question arising from the genocide in Gaza, I grant you. That ‘honour’ goes to whether and how soon this tiny hell on … Read More »
Outside Sheffield City Hall today: Not all the speeches were riveting, it has to be said … Here’s what the Met say about this slogan … One chant that has been the subject of extensive discussion is ‘Palestine … Read More »
Other than the Ukrainian people – hijacked, deceived and finally betrayed by false friends – the main loser of America’s proxy war on Russia in Ukraine is Europe. Not one of its leaders has so far broken ranks and dared … Read More »