I do wonder where State craft has gone in the international arena. To me the obvious play would be to say they will recognise a Palestinian State the minute the living and dead hostages are returned, whether or not Israel declares a cease-fire. This would not be acceptable to Hamas because it is not enough…
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The Art of the All
It is, obviously, ridiculous to argue in the general. I was always taught to argue in the general to the specific and never the other way round. You can make a general point but there is always going to be an exception that will undermine your argument. The specific does carry its own problem –…
Old Or Young
I listened to a commentator on France 24 stating that the two antagonists in the Iran/Israel conflict were 70 and 80 years old and obviously stubborn and bellicose and neither will back down. I found that to be the converse to what we were always shown in history that the older men get the less…
Changing Perspectives
Is the world really changing? Do we now believe and accept that all war no matter how carried on, is not mass murder but legal genocide? So the wars of Turkey on the Kurds, Russia on the Ukrainians, in Congo and Sudan are all genocides? Are we now in a space where any war carried…
Let’s Talk Genocide
We know that the Arabs believe that Israel exists because of the holocaust and European guilt. Perversely ever since 1948 they have attempted to dress is the clothes of Jewish suffering claiming Israelis are racist, apartheid loving nazis. Most recently they claim genocide – a wartime crime codified because of the plans of the nazis….
The Jew haters
of the world, of which there are many, are living a thousand years in the past. They still think they can carry out pogroms with impunity, that they can kill at a whim, that they can spew hate and teach hate for no other reason then the Jewish people worship differently and there is no…
for over 100 years
in the Middle East two wars have brewed and broken out. They are so enmeshed that people do not immediately see the distinction. There is the war we all see about Arabs wanting to go home and being denied and being kept in the permanent state of ‘refugees, even when they have passports from other…
What Is The Cost?
All over the world conflicts are being fought that cost money – fuelled, literally, by oil sales and other trade. But the cost to the human psyche, to individual soldiers suffering trauma, to brainwashed children with no other aim than to murder, to raped women, to destroyed communities, to broken alliances, the millions of hours…
Not All Home
There is a poem called The Prisoner of Chillon by George Byron about the incarceration of François Bonivard, a swiss patriot, for twnety-one years. I remember talking about him in relation to the release of Nelson Mandela because George Byron ends the poem with saying that after so long, a part of François Bonivard’s life…
Strange World
I am used to debating and having an audience discuss an issue with me but podcasting is very strange. We have been going once a week for five weeks and posting on youtube and for one of the discussions we had 390 views. Out of nowhere, I think my other host sent to five of…