Escalating conflict syndrome
The wars one fights with external enemies have their own relevance, but the wars one wages within are far more important because a country engaging in confrontation based solely on…
The spoke in the right wheel
FOLLOWING Benjamin Netanyahu’s overtly successful trip to Washington, Narendra Modi would become the second significant right-wing foreigner to meet Donald Trump in the White House. Reports say it could happen as early as…
Zero plus zero equals what?
DESPITE signs of defiance from the Arab states, most significantly Saudi Arabia, to US President Donald Trump’s Gaza ethnic cleansing plan, which visualises forced displacement of some two million Palestinians,…
Mad Hatter strikes again…and again
US President Donald Trump, in his inimitable style and thrust, continues to rock the boat globally. Not only has he unleashed (without, it seems, any consultation, and almost as a…
‘Democratic’ ethnic cleansing
THE discourse on democracy in the West — in particular — is self-congratulatory, and other systems that have delivered hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, hunger, illness, illiteracy…
A fleeting peace
THE guns have gone silent in Gaza with the ceasefire coming into effect, as life limps back to what is considered normal in the enclave, devastated by incessant Israeli bombing for the…
Trump’s first week orders and Pakistan
On Donald Trump’s inauguration day Western media was left struggling for headlines. His supporters focused on his anti-immigration executive orders, and his pledge to direct members of his cabinet “to…
What more could Bibi have done?
Turns out that Donald Trump’s warning, that “all hell would break out in the Middle East” if a deal wasn’t reached by the time he took office, was aimed more…
Arrest warrants for Netanyahu-I
This write-up seeks to examine the effects and impacts of emerging developments in International Criminal Law. The Prosecutor of International Criminal Court (ICC) recently filed Criminal charges against Benjamin Netanyahu,…
Zones of interest
ONE of the more thought-provoking movies to emerge in the past couple of years, from a western film industry that thrives on pointless fantasies, redundant remakes and superfluous sequels, was…
