Zionism
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The US president told the Western world’s press in Washington on February 4 that the American plan for Gaza is to permanently remove all Palestinians from the territory: “I don’t think people should be going back to Gaza. I think that Gaza has been very unlucky for them. They’ve lived like hell.” Asked for clarification…
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There was an informative interview on BBC Radio 4’s Today programme on Saturday 18 January with the senior Middle East correspondent Jeremy Bowen. It took place on the eve of the ceasefire in Gaza. Informative interviews are a rarity regarding events in Gaza because the senior management of the BBC have kept a tight muzzle…
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President Bashar al Assad has gone, but the problem of governing the state of Syria remains. The Western media (and its alternatives in the Western alt-media) have described the fall of President Assad as an “overthrowing.” It was nothing of the sort. Assad was not overthrown. He was, in fact, fired. The circumstances of the…
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The attacks on the Christmas market in Germany and the festivities in New Orleans has brought the subject of discontent Muslims in the West to the forefront once again. In the German case the discontent Muslim seems to have been an anti-Islamic Muslim, originally from that most Islamic of states, Saudi Arabia, who rejected Islam…
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The conflict between Arab and Jew in the Middle East and most of the mess in Syria and the general region is a direct product of Britain’s Great War on the Ottoman Empire. Britain, after declaring war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914, as part of the Great War taken on against Germany, expected…
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On occasion I have been asked to comment about events or affairs in countries that I know little about. I have always respectfully declined to talk about things I have not read about or studied from a historical perspective. We really should not comment on things we don’t know about. In recent years there has…
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Ze’ev (Vladimir) Jabotinsky was born in Odessa in 1880 to a liberal Russian Jewish family. He worked as a journalist in Rome and Vienna and at an early age began to devote his energies and skills as a writer, orator, and polemicist to the Zionist cause. During the Great War he persuaded the British to…
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The events of October 7 were the consequence of the brutish conditions of life Israel has imposed on the Palestinians over generations. Those conditions produced Hamas and produced October 7. Israel was, and is, content in imposing these brutish conditions of life and it expected the Palestinians to endure them until their will was broken…
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Hobbes famously wrote about the “state of nature,” when the state fails to provide order and security for individuals. Under the “state of nature” there would be “no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain; and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported…
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“My interest in Persia was aroused some years ago by the writings and the speeches of Professor Browne, and my interest to it was attracted because I have all my life thought that one of the greatest outrages against humanity that can be perpetrated is to kill the soul or the civilization of any nation……
