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Some Good Signs for Palestine… But Will Palestinians Live to See Real Action?

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 […]

At Least They Were Shamed into Approving the Aid Package for Ukraine…

It would appear that the stark contrast between the reactions to the attacks against Israel and Ukraine, made that much worse by the fact that Israel’s defensive capabilities already are among the very best in the world, far above their opponents’ offensive capabilities, and they’re also aggressors guilty of a long list of atrocities spanning […]

The Striking and Plain Wrong Difference in Real Support for Israel and Ukraine

Not that it hadn’t been blatantly obvious all along, but the way “the West” responded to Iran’s attack on Israel, even scrambling to get actively involved to protect the country that may well have the best defenses against missile and drone attacks in the world, while Ukraine is left to run out of air defenses […]

After Two Years That the West Could and Should Have Prevented All Along

After 500 days of the current stage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, I was saying that I must hope that 1000 days will never be reached, because Russia and Putin’s regime will be defeated long before that point, unequivocally and in a manner that will ensure that they will stop being a threat. Of course, […]

After 500 Days That the West Could and Should Have Prevented All Along

Yesterday was the 500th day of the current stage of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. True, counting the days made far more sense in the beginning, and even more so when almost everyone was expecting Ukraine to lose quickly, but 500 is the “roundest” number between 100 and 1000, and I must hope that 1000 will […]