Years ago I ran this as my masthead quote. Though focused on the USA, it applies to the West at large. As I sipped my coffee this morning and gathered my thoughts for part 3 of my nail-biting series, US … Read More »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »