Monday 26-December-2022
In the latest incarnation of Israeli politics incoming ‘prime minister’ Benyamin Netanyahu has given the most extreme figures on an already extreme spectrum the portfolios for ‘national security’ and settlement-building on the West Bank.
Monday 10-May-2021
On May 10 this year the state of Israel … but wait a moment … before we go any further … in talking about this state its ‘independence’ was announced in 1948 by a colonial settler minority.
Saturday 23-January-2021
B’Tselem’s description of Israel as an apartheid state is valuable because B’Tselem Israel’s leading human rights organization is saying it.
Saturday 20-October-2018
No state established on land seized by force from the people living on that land can claim moral legitimacy and a ‘right’ to exist.
Monday 6-August-2018
Actually the heading is wrong even though this is how the ‘problem’ is generally described.
Tuesday 24-July-2018
It’s quite fascinating watching someone hammering nails into a coffin thinking it’s for someone else and unaware it might be for them.
Wednesday 11-July-2018
We have watched this for seven decades. Seven decades of unremitting remorseless violence.
Wednesday 27-December-2017
Holding hands the US and Israel have decided to walk out of UNESCO. Nothing could be more appropriate. Two rogue states run by two dangerous buffoons.
Tuesday 24-October-2017
Within a month two events will be celebrated that have a left a deep imprint on the ‘western’ consciousness. The most significant is the Balfour Declaration a piece of paper whose destructive consequences the people of the Middle East have had to live with every day since it was signed in November 1917.