Israel has long wanted Palestinians out of Gaza: my father saw it first-hand

Events point to Israel’s strategy of emptying the north of Gaza of its Palestinian population, with both the massive bombardment that has damaged at least 222,000 residential units, and the refusal to accept a ceasefire so essential life-saving provisions cannot enter. All this shows the massive pressure on the Palestinian population to move south, thus ethnically… Read More Israel has long wanted Palestinians out of Gaza: my father saw it first-hand

Israel’s Million-dollar Question: What to Do With the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Carolina Landsmann This column isn’t about Hamas. It doesn’t address the question of what Hamas wants and doesn’t try to put the events of October 7 into their historical context, much less into their moral context. What’s theirs is theirs. This column also isn’t about the more general question of what the Palestinians want and… Read More Israel’s Million-dollar Question: What to Do With the West Bank and Gaza Strip

Joe Biden at history’s crossroads: Is backing Bibi’s Gaza war a fatal mistake?

Joe Biden was the Democratic Party’s duct-tape solution to a national emergency, the compromise candidate who was almost everyone’s second (or third) choice. Given that, the duct tape held surprisingly well for a while, in increasingly precarious circumstances. Until it didn’t. It would be foolish in the extreme to predict the outcome of an election… Read More Joe Biden at history’s crossroads: Is backing Bibi’s Gaza war a fatal mistake?

Renewed Fascism: In Gaza Western Elites Live Out Genocidal Fantasy Against Global South

“Only those who can kill deserve to live” : American-led liberalism boils down to this See the full interview on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/full-vi… This is a mask off moment for the imperialist West. All of the sociopathic narcissism that underpins the dystopian global order they created is on display for everyone to see. They have made… Read More Renewed Fascism: In Gaza Western Elites Live Out Genocidal Fantasy Against Global South

Claudia Koontz: Hitler’s Assault on the Golden Rule

First posted December 29, 2011 The Third George J. Wittenstein Lecture: Hitler’s Assault on the Golden Rule  To ‘resist’, from the Latin resistere, means to stand fast, to uphold principles against pressure to abandon them Claudia Koonz discusses the appeal of the Nazis’ mandate to ‘Love only the neighbour who is like thyself’ Using examples… Read More Claudia Koontz: Hitler’s Assault on the Golden Rule

Bertrand Russell’s Last Message on Israel and Palestine

This statement on the Middle East was dated 31st January, 1970, and was read on 3rd February,the day after Bertrand Russell’s death, to an International Conference of Parliamentariansmeeting in Cairo. See/hear on YouTube. The latest phase of the undeclared war in the Middle East is based upon a profoundmiscalculation. The bombing raids deep into Egyptian… Read More Bertrand Russell’s Last Message on Israel and Palestine