As Israel risks yet further charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity in its siege of northern Gaza, its defense of the indefensible is built on a preposterous inversion of morality. That is, the portrayal of Israel as the West’s protector of its very civilization in a sea of evil. Continue reading »
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The Foreign Secretary David Lammy is being urged to go much further in response to violence by Israeli settlers
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The ghosts of 1982 are hovering over Beirut. It was in the northern summer of that year that IDF forces under the command of General Ariel Sharon captured Beirut. They were there ostensibly to smoke out Yasser Arafat, the leader of the Palestine Liberation Organisation who had been based in Lebanon since his group’s expulsion Continue reading »
Hezbollah managed to breach the Iron Dome with an attack on a military base that resulted in the deaths of four soldiers and the wounding of over 60 - amid concerns Hamas may have found a way to breach the iron curtain dividing Gaza from Israel