“What Is This? Peace in Our Time?”
The Trump regime’s 28–point peace plan for Ukraine at last addresses Russia’s legitimate interests. The only losers, if negotiations win Moscow’s acceptance, will be the warmongers. All has been fluid and very few things clear since the Trump regime’s draft…
“As our postwar ideals fade into history.”
All around us the light dims on humanity’s shared aspirations. It falls to us to restore them. When he looked back much later on the first postwar years—mournfully, a little nostalgically—Arthur Miller, the noted American playwright, wrote of “the beautifully…
“78 years of betrayals.”
The long history behind the Netanyahu–Trump ‘peace plan.’ Like most others in the West’s paying-attention minority, we thought from the first the 20–point “peace plan” Bibi Netanyahu and President Trump announced with fanfare at the White House on 29 September had nothing…
“Stick, stones, matches, gasoline.”
The technology of ethnic cleansing. What follows is an updated version of a report published two days ago at West Bank Alerts, a newsletter devoted to reporting on the ethnic cleansing of Occupied Palestine. These Alerts are based on information sent to me…
“Starvation siege.”
Olive trees and the covetousness of West Bank settlers. Texts have arrived from Palestinian friends with increasing frequency these past weeks, each one documenting an upsurge in the destruction of olive trees by Jewish settlers and the Zionist Occupation Forces…
“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…
“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”…
“Recognition amid genocide.”
Palestinians speak. 29 SEPTEMBER—The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly turned out to be as momentous as many had anticipated. On Sunday 21 September Australia, Canada, Portugal, and the United Kingdom recognized Palestinian statehood. The following day, six…
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