NB: I rarely comment on YouTube channels, but recently I did. They referred to the ongoing Palestine and Israel conflict. I enclose the links to both and the content of my observations. I used to enjoy watching Maher now and then; but after he (recently, not in this video) used the term ‘collateral damage’ to… Read More My comments on Piers Morgan and Bill Maher
Bharat Bhushan As Bangladesh moves closer to the general election due in January 2024, violence and instability in the country are set to increase. Nearly 10,000 opposition leaders and activists were arrested after the October 28 rally of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP). Media reports suggest that the prisons have no room left. The opposition… Read More Cambodian template for Bangladesh elections
Israel’s retaliation for the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas has rapidly evolved into another phase of what can only be considered a genocidal campaign to destroy and displace the 2.2 million residents of Gaza. As this article goes to publication (October 27, 2023), indiscriminate aerial bombings by the Israeli army have killed over 7,000 people in… Read More The Palestinian people have a right to their lives, land and sovereignty
Kenan Malik On Wednesday, the UK supreme court will give its verdict on the Rwanda deportation scheme. The decision will clearly have a major impact on those who face deportation. It will have an impact, too, on the political debate about immigration, with government supporters either hailing a victory or bemoaning the treachery of the liberal elite.… Read More Across the globe, compassion for migrants has given way to cruel, performative politics
Michael Hauser TovIsraeli security cabinet member and Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter (Likud) was asked in a news interview on Saturday whether the images of northern Gaza Strip residents evacuating south on the IDF’s orders are comparable to images of the Nakba. He replied: “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba. From an operational point… Read More ‘We’re Rolling Out Nakba 2023,’ Israeli Minister on Northern Gaza Strip Evacuation
Dear child. It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the Atlantic Ocean. I am traveling to Egypt. I will go to the border of Gaza at Rafah. I go because of you. You have never been in a plane. You have never… Read More Chris Hedges: Letter to the Children of Gaza
Lieutenant accused of murdering 109 civilians: By SEYMOUR HERSH The Pulitzer prize winning My Lai story, as readers experienced it when it was first published in 1969 In the fall of 1969, a friend with a source in the military called a part-time political columnist for The Village Voice with a tip: a U.S. soldier was being… Read More ‘I sent them a good boy and they made him a murderer’
But, Arwa, what about Hamas? You might be saying. Aren’t you going to condemn Hamas? Of course I will absolutely condemn Hamas massacring innocent Israeli civilians on 7 October and taking hostages. And let’s be very clear here: while nothing Hamas did on 7 October can be condoned, their actions did not take place in a vacuum. This… Read More Is it too much to ask people to view Palestinians as humans? Apparently so
The truth never dies but is made to live as a beggar: Yiddish proverb NB: For the terminally racist Western establishment, no amount of mass suffering of innocents is going to be enough. It is they, led by the USA who are enabling this enormity. Here’s an American expert in urban warfare, saying Israel is… Read More Dogs of war / New acronym in Gaza: WCNSF – Wounded Child No Surviving Family
Palestinian workers who were expelled back to Gaza from Israel last week have accused Israeli authorities of “torture,” alleging they were stripped naked, held in cages, viciously beaten and, according to one worker’s account, subjected to electric shocks. “They broke us and beat us with batons and metal sticks… they humiliated us… they have made… Read More Gaza workers expelled from Israel accuse Israeli authorities of abuse, including beatings
After the truth-shower 