Tag: critical commentary

Biden’s Israel trip reflects a flawed and hypocritical policy / State Department official resigns over Biden’s handling of conflict

The Biden administration also bears a wider responsibility for the deterioration in Gaza and the extinguishing of Palestinian political aspirations Mohamad Bazzi oe Biden flew to Israel on Wednesday to prove how deeply he and the US political establishment support Israel, even as it intensifies its indiscriminate bombing of Gaza, demands the forced displacement of… Read More Biden’s Israel trip reflects a flawed and hypocritical policy / State Department official resigns over Biden’s handling of conflict

Dilip

A real friend of Israel would be making it face up to some uncomfortable truths

Haggai Matar Deterring a regional war, if that is what US officials are most concerned about, is indeed a legitimate cause. Biden was also right to denounce the war crimes committed by Hamas on 7 October. The massacres of entire families inside their homes, of defenceless party-goers in the middle of a field, culminating in a death toll… Read More A real friend of Israel would be making it face up to some uncomfortable truths

Dilip

Standing up for Palestine is also standing up to save the west from the worst of itself

How many times have we been lectured about so-called western values? I am a person born and raised in the west. I am a westerner, and yet those so-called values are sounding very much like Gazans, Palestinians, Arabs and Muslims are utterly disposable. We hear Israel present the situation as if it has no choice… Read More Standing up for Palestine is also standing up to save the west from the worst of itself

Dilip

Angry old men set the Middle East ablaze. The young will pay the price

Incompetent and discredited leaders, in thrall to worn-out ideologies, have brought Israel and Gaza to this catastrophe Simon Tisdall ld men start wars. Young men and women fight them. It’s a phenomenon that has broadly held true throughout history. Now, once again, in today’s violence-racked Middle East, the aggressive blundering of angry old men rains… Read More Angry old men set the Middle East ablaze. The young will pay the price

Dilip

Australia is still in denial, its history of forgetting a festering wrong

The referendum became by proxy a vote on Indigenous peoples’ right to exist in our own land… and our fellow Australians voted to reject us. Imagine – just try – how that feels today Lorena Allam Anthony Albanese was fond of saying, during the campaign, “If not now, then when?” On Saturday night he got… Read More Australia is still in denial, its history of forgetting a festering wrong

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Chris Hedges: Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them

NB: I post this along with a separate view, contained in this essay: After the pogrom in Israel, the angel of death is licking his lips: Hamas is not identical with the Palestinian cause: it is a curse on it. With a founding charter, never revoked, packed with explicit, medieval anti-Jewish hatred, it has become an… Read More Chris Hedges: Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them

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