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With sizable protests making it clear that the issue is of great importance and may even prove decisive in the election, I was wondering what was going to be said about Palestine in Biden’s and Harris’ speeches. And some lip service was paid to the issue, Biden saying “we’re working around the clock — my […]

Seeing as the modern Olympic Truce is formally recognized, wouldn’t it automatically follow that any country that openly violates it must be banned from the Olympic Games? And it is, correctly, one of the main reasons why Russia and Belarus are banned now, but it’s hardly enough when it comes to Israel, isn’t it? Not […]

I’m about to go out to vote, and over here that means casting no less than five votes today, since our officials have decided to lump our local elections together with those for the European Parliament. On the other hand, in a few other countries the European elections have already taken place over these past […]

Even if this trial was far less important than the others he currently faces, the fact that Donald Trump was found guilty of all charges in the hush-money trial should be good news, not just for his opponents or the USA, but for the world. But, on top of the fact that a convicted felon […]

The ICJ ordering Israel to halt its attack on Rafah is a good sign, but as long as it’s unenforceable, Israel doesn’t care, the US and UK continue to support them and the EU is too afraid to do anything about, well, anything, it doesn’t matter all that much in practical terms. Even the arrest […]