“The ‘No!’ of Ireland’s new president.”
A critical mass gathers against the Zionist state. Catherine Connolly has such a sweet Irish face—broad and open, bright eyes with a touch of sadness about them, always either smiling or about to give the world one. She has Irish…
“Europe’s latest intelligence fakes.”
Having lived through most of the Cold War years, we thought there was no outdoing the Americans in the way of Russophobic paranoia. Who would ever have imagined the Europeans, Germany and some of the former Soviet satellites in the…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: Desperation Row
Reflecting Volodymyr Zelensky’s confidence that the Trumpster would oblige him, he, Zelensky, actually visited Raytheon, the Tomahawk’s maker, before his session at the White House. What a big game Volodymyr Zelensky talked before his latest little while in the Oval…
Patrick Lawrence: Against Chutzpah
I have been reading a lot these past days about how the Israelis treated those they detained when they illegally boarded the vessels that comprised the now-famous aid flotilla that never made it to Gaza’s shores. The Irish — naturally,…
“Keep the Champagne corked.”
As I read of the ceasefire Israel and the Hamas government in Gaza formally accepted in the early hours of Thursday, my mind went immediately to that memorable thought Hannah Arendt shared with Roger Errera, a French free-speech advocate, shortly…
“Drawing as resistance.”
It took Israel less than twenty-four hours to violate the current ceasefire in Gaza. As reported in The Cradle yesterday, 14 October, “the Jewish state” killed nine Palestinians by targeting civilians with a quadcopter and shelling neighborhoods. Anyone unknowingly crossing the “yellow line”…
Patrick Lawrence: Power and Justice
Those were an eventful few days as the General Assembly convened at the United Nations Secretariat in New York Sept. 22. France, Belgium, Luxembourg, Malta, Monaco and Andorra formally recognized the state of Palestine on the first day of the…
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Voices of Many Jews
This very welcome letter marks out the significantly worsening alienation between world Jewry and the Zionists’ defacement of the Judaic tradition. At last, at last, Jews with powerful voices have gathered en masse — a critical mass, I would say —…