Category Archives: Israel and Palestine

Israel and Apartheid

Posted on 12 June 2010 by Robert

Is ‘apartheid’ a legitimate description of Israel? Continue reading →

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On Bias

Posted on 17 February 2010 by Robert

A while back, I noted that everyone, everywhere, thinks that their culture is under attack. Continue reading →

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Imagination and Perversity in Politics

Posted on 11 January 2009 by Robert

Returning to this idea of counter-intuitive solutions: I think perversity is a virtue here. It seems to be important elsewhere in political philosophy. Continue reading →

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Outmanoeuverings

Posted on 9 January 2009 by Robert

If you’re faced with a situation where bombing civilians seems to be the only course of action left open to you, then you’ve already been outmanoeuvered, you have already lost, and the only thing you are playing for is your own soul, your own humanity. Continue reading →

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‘The Unrecognized’ still unrecognized

Posted on 4 April 2008 by Robert

Our film shows state authorities ploughing up crops that have been planted by Bedouin farmers, and that many kibbutzes were actually established not on new desert ground, but on land that was forcibly taken from its Bedouin owners. Continue reading →

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Facetious Gaza Post

Posted on 23 January 2008 by Robert

Why can’t we get nomenclature correct on this one? Its just so darn difficult to dehumanise people these days. Continue reading →

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Johnston released

Posted on 4 July 2007 by Robert

Its very good news that Alan Johnston has been released from captivity in Gaza. Today would be a good day to remember that five Britons are still missing in Iraq (why do we not hear much talk about them) and … Continue reading →

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You’re still an MP, Tony

Posted on 25 June 2007 by Robert

With all this talk about Tony Blair taking on some role as a Middle-East envoy for the US, no-one seems to have remembered that he will still be a Labour MP after he steps down as Prime Minister on Wednesday. He won’t be able to go galavanting off to Palestine if Gordon Brown’s whips office need him for a crucial division on housing r Continue reading →

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Affirmative Aliyah

Posted on 25 May 2007 by Robert

Isn’t Israel’s Law of Return an example of Affirmative Action? Continue reading →

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Journalists in Trouble

Posted on 11 May 2007 by Robert

Two journalists find themselves without liberty, in two very different situations. First, via Mash at the Dr Strangelove Blog, we hear that prominent journalist Tasneem Khalil arrested by military police in Bangladesh. Khalil is only 26, and works for the … Continue reading →

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