An easy $4 billion hits an Israeli blockade
There’s something pretty stomach churning in the spectacle of the world’s major countries and large donors gathering in Egypt’s holiday mecca and in a day raising $4 billion to rebuild Gaza.read more
View ArticleOne person's terrorist really is another's freedom fighter
So here’s the analogy….I am in my own home going about my lawful business and someone breaks in…I defend myself and in the process injure the intruder, but he shoots me – fatally – and claims self...
View ArticleWorld News Brief, Friday September 17
Top of the Agenda: Anti-U.S. Protests in Kabul Threaten Election read more
View ArticleWinning the War of Empty Stomachs?
Israel has managed to avert a massive problem for itself...for a while perhaps.read more
View ArticleClinton's democracy headaches
What does the democratically elected Islamist leader of Egypt have that the democratically elected Islamist leaders of Gaza do not have? Well apart from timing - 2012 vs 2006 - it would appear the...
View ArticleWorld News Brief, Tuesday November 20
Top of the Agenda: Obama in Cambodia After Historic Burma Visitread more
View ArticleWorld News Brief, Wednesday November 21
Top of the Agenda: Clinton to Visit Middle East as Gaza Crisis Escalatesread more
View ArticleWorld News Brief, Thursday November 22
Top of the Agenda: DR Congo's Rebels Threaten To March To Kinsasharead more
View ArticleWorld News Brief, Wednesday May 1
Top of the Agenda: Israel Launches First Gaza Attack Since Cease-Fireread more
View ArticleGroundhog Day in Gaza
Repeating an action or a behaviour over and over and expecting a different outcome is supposed to be the definition of madness.Applied to the current disaster in the Middle East - the...
View ArticleStop. It is not worth it...
Yet another bloody day in Gaza.Yet another day of occupation.Yet another scripted justification from Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu...although perhaps a slight shift ...”as I said when this action...
View ArticleWorld News Brief, Tuesday July 22
Top of the AgendaFighting Resumes as Inspectors Arrive in Eastern Ukraineread more
View ArticleShuttling diplomacy between the bombs
The mounting death toll in Gaza has spurred an intensified flurry of diplomacy (again), and finally a stated acknowledgement that this time the terms of any ceasefire (which will eventually come) need...
View ArticleWorld News Brief, Tuesday July 29
Top of the AgendaLull in Gaza as Pressure for Cease-Fire Mountsread more
View ArticleIs the Gaza conflict going to resolve differently this time?
The world witnesses yet another tragic spectacle of the perennial Israel /Palestine war over Gaza. There are the appalling pictures of dead and injured children in schools and hospitals. Enormous...
View ArticleWorld News Brief, Friday August 1
Top of the AgendaIsrael Vows to Destroy Gaza Tunnelsread more
View ArticleHas the world finally had enough Palestinian casualties?
When Palestinina parents ask of their flayed, dismembered, burned, shrapnel riddled babies, toddlers or adolescents "are these the children of the resistance?"...and plead for "peace or you will make...
View ArticleWorld News Brief, Wednesday August 6
Top of the AgendaSeventy-Two Hour Cease-Fire Initiated in Gazaread more
View ArticleWorld News Brief, Tuesday August 26
Top of the AgendaFrance Dissolves Governmentread more
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