PFYT2Did his plan to preserve Hamas in Gaza as a tool for keeping the strip separate from the West Bank and the Palestinian Authority weak finally backfire? ResponsibleStatecraft Is what happened a backfire? I’m not 100 percent sold on that idea This fact is not just a historical anecdote; it has a direct political meaning. […]
Cui Bono- Who benefits? The biggest beneficiary is most assuredly the perpetrator. Read entirely at link included. A year after the Nord Stream pipeline attacks, European energy markets are shaken – and the Americans are happy Just the facts.. Oh the culprits can be figured out quite easily when we think of which party benefits […]
Archive.ph Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor’s bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile’s trajectory back to an “enormous, stupid mistake” made 30 years ago. “Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel’s creation,” says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. […]
2014- Washington Post All signs indicate that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is prepared to wage a protracted battle in the battered Gaza Strip as it seeks to crush the capabilities of the Islamist militant group Hamas. The ongoing conflict has already exacted a bloody toll, with the Palestinian death count approaching the total […]
Indian Punchline Armenia no longer disputes that Nagorno-Karabakh is part of Azerbaijan. The prospect of peaceful resolution of a regional conflict ought to be good news, but this is an incredibly complex situation with an external environment where a brutal war is raging with no end in sight, and the protagonists pursue contrarian interests. A settlement […]
There’s also no question that the way organizations deal with it is more likely to hurt than help. Meanwhile, advocates for DEI—which stands for diversity, equity and inclusion—have bemoaned the fact that after decades of diversity training, many university faculties, state agencies and corporations have made little progress on diversifying the workforce. Are the right […]
Driving.ca- Read entirely at link- it’s a long article The number one claim of the truly pious is how convenient plugging in at home is compared to having to go to visit a gas station. Indeed, legion are the comments celebrating never having to use a “smelly” gas pump again. Now, of course, said convenience […]
Biden says not much time to keep aid flowing to Ukraine Many lawmakers acknowledge that winning approval for Ukraine assistance in Congress is growing more difficult as the war grinds on. Republican resistance to the aid has been gaining momentum and the next steps are ahead, given the resistance from the hard-right flank. While Senate […]
Interesting that it’s reported he’s a left populist- His party is not the west leaning liberal party.. So leftists and liberals are not the same. I would agree with that. The Liberals, here in Canada, are technocrats or autocrats. They aren’t leftists, though they are certainly Liberal A populist former prime minister and his leftist […]
Because truth is so much stranger than fiction The Guardian An arrest on gun possession charges in Queens, New York, in November 2021 has led the Federal Bureau of Investigation to a pedophilic, Satanist extortion cult that has victimized dozens if not hundreds of minors, according to law enforcement documents, court records and sources with […]