Peace in our time with bombs
Three weeks into the war in the Lebanon and the UN has finally agreed, after some intense wrangling about the specifics, to prevaricate some more. The process in the UN…
US State department reads this site
Perhaps. Yesterday I mocked the Israeli Injustice Minister Haim Ramon for suggesting the world had given its permission for Israel’s campaign in Lebanon. Lo! Today the US State Department dismissed…
Australia pulls peacekeepers out of Lebanon — a told you so moment?
Yesterday in this space, I speculated that Israel’s apparently deliberate and definitely fatal targeting of UN personnel in Lebanon might have been designed to force their withdrawal. Today, Australia announced…
More bombing for peace
In another demonstration of iron restraint that BBC online reader Steve Gross (see below) would have to be proud of, Israeli armed forces have killed four UN personnel. The attack…
Israel’s deadly restraint
One individual, a Steve Gross from the US quoted on the BBC website tells us, “Israel is acting with tremendous restraint, were they targeting civilian populations there would be thousands…
US citizens to pay for their evacuation from Lebanon
As Israeli warplanes batter Lebanon and the army gathers on the border ready to invade, thousands are leaving the country. Ships from several countries are lining up in Lebanese waters…
Britain arms killers of Britons
This week it was reported that arms sales from Britain to Israel have doubled in the last year. In the same week we read that an inquest in Britain returned…
Witless in Gaza
The Israeli army has just withdrawn from Gaza after a 16 day operation that has left a hundred Palestinians dead — many of them civilians — and which has destroyed…
A heartwarming tale of undying faith in humanity
One story that stuck in my mind from the Israeli assault on Rafah. Probably you read it, so stop me if you’ve heard it before. This old Palestinian bloke finds…
US press cuts its own balls off
May 20, US forces bomb an Iraqi wedding party killing more than 40 people. Israeli forces push into Rafah and fire on a protest march killing many, the majority of…