Category: Israel, Likud, Hamas, Gaza, West Bank
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Will the 20 point plan lead to more….
Having read Yair Lapid’s argument for change in Israel there is one lesson and that is not to take anything coming out of the mouth of Netanyahu as having any value when in negotiation. In announcing Trump’s proposal for his 20 point peace plan, there is a realisation that Netanyahu had decided to destroy the…
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The Rage
It has been bothering me for over a month…. The words of Trump – that the Palestinians holding the hostages in tunnels were inhuman “ not a word – no humanity, nothing. There was no warmth, a little word of encouragement. A lot of bad things . Hamas have said they are going to use the…
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Voices in the Middle East
There is an argument that if you shout loud enough you will be heard. But in Israel there is also an argument that if you don’t give a damn, those voices will not be heard. The press in Israel is very slanted and the voices that are heard are those that shout loudly for the extermination…
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ICC, what went wrong for Netanyahu
Its hard to feel sorry for Netanyahu, he was warned repeatedly that Israel was breaking International Law, but did not do anything to manage the events happening in the West Bank or Gaza. You would expect a but at this point, but there isn’t one. The international community had warned Israel in a thousand different…
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Revisionists and war
It is just about the only time that arguments are defined biblically, but the start of extended wars has encapsulated not just Netanyahu but also Putin. The war in Gaza is one of biblical proportions according to the hard line cabinet that Netanyahu has gathered as a government. In many ways Putin has argued that…
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Can Israel really do without a two state argument.
There is an argument among the extremists in Israel for an enlarged state. Eretz Israel is translated as greater Israel and encompasses the West Bank and Gaza. But what nobody really asks is what do you do with the Palestinians? Of course there have been calls to forceably deport the Palestinians from these lands, and…
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Censorship and the crisis in Gaza
Thousands of column inches have been written about the war in Gaza, but underneath these columns is a darker murkier argument that is coming to play in both Israel and the West. It is the argument of censorship and how this censorship has played out in the West, as well as within academia, the arts…
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Four days to find an answer
Fifty seats will be taken out of two hundred and twenty tomorrow. The sadness of those sitting down to eat will not be lost on the families around them waiting for a loved one to take their seat. Of course the sadness will be tinged by some relief, but there will also be 170 seats…
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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…
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