Israel: Settler Terrorists By Gwynne Dyer It has been a year since Canada, France and the United Kingdom officially recognised the State of Palestine (under Israeli occupation, final border to be determined). The killings by Israelis settlers and their military supporters in the West Bank are getting worse, so it was time for the next […]
When a bad man does a good thing, we should honour him for it even if his motives are selfish. Donald Trump is only trying to ‘bring peace to the Middle East’ because he wants the Nobel Prize, they say. He blusters and threatens and lies. He boasts about the seven wars he claims to
Ten more countries are recognising Palestine as a sovereign state in the course of this week. That merely brings the total up from 147 to 157, but it’s a big deal nevertheless because for the first time it includes quite a few big, rich Western countries (France, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia). But it
A motley band of greedy fantasists got together at the White House a week ago (27 August) and came up with a cunning plan to bring peace to the Middle East while lining their own pockets at the same time. It was ‘leaked’ within days, as it was clearly meant to be, and since then
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Gaza: Not Quite the Final Solution By Gwynne Dyer “Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas [from Qatar],” Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu told the parliamentary members of his Likud Party in 2019. They were questioning his policy of backing
Israel: The Impossible Dream By Gwynne Dyer A zombie dream has taken over Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s government, or at least the extreme right part of it, which is the tail that wags the rest. It is the dream that was once called ‘transfer’ and is now known as ‘relocation’. In its broadest form
12 May 2024 Thought Experiment: Buying the Palestinians Out? By Gwynne Dyer Last week a despairing reader asked me if the solution to the ‘Middle East Problem’ might be to throw money at it: just buy the Palestinians out. Offer every Palestinian in the Israeli-occupied territories enough money to settle somewhere else, and the endless
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22 November 2023 Israel-Hamas Ceasefire By Gwynne Dyer There are really three parties to the ‘pause’ – nobody is officially using the word ‘ceasefire’ – that brings at least a temporary end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip. Two of the three parties, Hamas and the United States, would very much like it to
8 October 2023 Another October War By Gwynne Dyer If you are wondering why Hamas launched its all-out assault on Israel on Saturday, I wrote it right here last week. “The Arab world has basically abandoned the Palestinians to their fate, whatever that may be. Six Arab countries have established diplomatic ties with Israel and
4 October 2023 A Short War Fifty Years Ago By Gwynne Dyer In 1973, fifty years ago on Friday, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, coincided with Ramadan, the Islamic lunar month of fasting. But nobody raised an alarm in Israel when it was reported, two days before the Arab attack, that