Towards the end
EUROPE destroyed itself and also the rest of the world as a result of World War II. Since it had colonies all over the world, they were also inadvertently drawn…
France unbowed?
IN the run-up to last Sunday’s second round of French parliamentary elections, opinion polls and much of the media commentary chiefly focused on whether the far right would succeed in…
Ecocide in Gaza
THE ongoing war on Gaza, recently recognised as a genocide by the International Court of Justice, has garnered global attention for its devastating humanitarian impact. However, beneath the immediate human tragedy lies a…
A death foretold
LIKE his life, Yahya Sinwar’s death was an act of resistance against seemingly unsurmountable odds. Born in 1962, in a refugee camp in Khan Younis to which his family had…
Unending conflict
Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrullah along with 20 of his commanders in a strike in Beirut has done nothing to sate the Zionist state’s bloodlust. Israel continues…
If not now, when?
AMID all the horrors on show as a consequence of Israel’s explicit determination to pulverise the Gaza Strip, nothing is quite as soul-searing as the tiny white shrouds. In one…
Popularity and effectiveness
RECENTLY, in an academic session with students abroad, I was discussing human effectiveness and leadership. Subliminal disturbance about the events back home led me to dwell on correlating the popularity…
Collective crimes
TWO unrelated and very different events, one far away from us and the other in our own country — KP, to be specific — have given us cause to lament.…
A world sacrificed at Israel’s altar
IT isn’t concealed from the keen observer of politics that the Five Eyes Anglosphere created the modern state of Israel in 1948, which in turn birthed the Hamas as a…
The dispossessed
LAST Saturday, a majority of Australian voters decided to disallow the descendants of their continent’s original inhabitants constitutional recognition via a ‘voice to parliament’. The result of the referendum was…
