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  • Israel Gaza, some more arguments

    The argument of discrimination and difference has come to the fore in Israel and Palestine over the past week. The anger is palpable in Israel as is the sorrow that surrounds those who have lost loved ones. But the situation is that this war will escalate, as both sides continue to fight. The moral ambivalence…

  • Another view.

    The soviets argued that Israel was an apartheid state, but on the ground is there a difference between the Israeli state and its citizens – and is discrimination determined by ethnicity. The declaration that Israel is a Jewish state negates the rights of twenty percent of its population, and disenfranchises those that live, work or…

  • The movement away from the forever wars.

    There is nothing quite like the spite of Putin, the end of Karabakh’s Armenian population is down to Armenia moving closer to the West. But the reasoning behind Putin’s negation of the Armenian population is down to larger concerns for the Russian government. The war in Ukraine has stripped the Russian military from much of…

  • The end of Armenians in Nagorno Karabakh

    There is no such thing as the innocent in the language of an aggressor, we have seen it in Syria, where hundreds of thousands have died, but the reality is that the world has turned its back on these forever conflicts and forgotten the innocent. Nagorno Karabakh has the unenviable history of a state in…

  • Azawad in the making?

    There has been much hype of Russia’s move into Africa, but the reality is that African nations mainly rely on Western and Chinese trade and investments. Countries such as Mali and Burkina Faso need Russian weapons, but the rest of the country requires aid and rational arguments put forward to find agreement when neither side…

  • Putin is likely to retain power, “but”

    There is a joke about time zones that ends with Putin complaining that he had commiserated with Prigozhin’s family before the plane had taken off. It is a great joke, which was told by the Prime Minister of Albania. But the element of truth is hard to miss, it is widely recognised that Prigozhin was…