politics
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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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According to those who want Ukraine to fight to the last Ukrainian, President Trump has threatened President Putin: make a deal or else! More likely this is a piece of political theatrics that the Russian President understands well and will respond to positively, knowing what it is all about. This is what Trump actually said,…
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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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When “ethnic cleansing” is mentioned in the West in relation to the conflict over Nagorno Karabakh it invariably is in connection with the Armenian population who voluntarily left the region in late 2023. This was three years after the Second Karabakh war of 2020 had resulted in an Azerbaijani liberation of most of its national…
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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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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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George Friedman has always been an outsider within the US foreign policy establishment. Some would say he is not part of the establishment at all, since the Council on Foreign Relations has barely tolerated mention of his name over the past couple of decades. One presumes this is because Friedman has resisted the constraints that…
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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…
