Israel

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Nuclear Snobbery And Atomic Anniversaries

How do we commemorate it?  The atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki during the Second World War on August 6 and 9, 1945 by the United States remain the only examples of the use of such a weapon in history.  Rather than banishing any temptation to use them, the wholehearted […]

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Useful Expedient: Expelling Iran’s Ambassador To Australia

The rank odour of opportunity seems to have presented itself to Australia’s Albanese government.  To balance its apparently principled promise to recognise Palestinian statehood come the 80th United Nations General Assembly next month, it seemed only fair that some firm measure be taken against another Islamic outfit to balance the ledger.  The Israelis […]

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Albion Stupidities: Palestine Action And Anti-Terrorism Laws

Protest in Britain has become dangerous of late.  Shaky lawmakers minding their elected positions, displaying decorative ignorance, have been criminalising protests against the war in Gaza, branding certain groups “terrorist” in inclination.  While the laws dealing with criminal damage to property and such are already more than adequate, the government […]

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Making It Official: Famine Strikes Gaza City

History shows that famines are, for the most part, engineered.  Be it through carelessness, selfishness or plain malice on the part of officialdom, creating the circumstances under which a population expires to hunger is a matter of construction.  As the economist and Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen so powerfully showed in Poverty […]

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Answering Boris Johnson, About Ukraine

“By getting Ukraine into Nato, we would send the crucial message to the Kremlin, the one Russians really need to hear. The message is: that’s it. It’s over. You don’t have an empire any more.” … Putin thought that aggression would pay off. Boris Johnson, “It’s time to let Ukraine join […]