Callous and cruel realpolitik
Bombed. Razed. Blasted. Burned. Buried. Last two weeks have witnessed what we regularly witness every few years. Israeli military blazing fireworks on Gaza. This they claim is in self defence…
Israel’s Gaza challenge: stopping metal tubes turning into rockets
The Israel-Hamas conflict that ended with a ceasefire on Friday showed the Palestinian group’s ability to build an arsenal of home-made rockets largely with civilian materials and Iranian expertise, analysts…
Betrayal of the Palestinians
The current round of violence in Palestine was triggered by the Israeli security forces trying to quell protests during Ramazan in and around Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, considered Islam’s…
Israel escalation puts new Gulf partners in diplomatic bind
The deadly escalation between Israel and the Palestinians has embarrassed Gulf states which forged ties with the Jewish state and put a strain on their Abraham Accords that were billed…
The dark side of first world’s prosperity
‘Behind every great fortune lies a great crime’, so said the French novelist of 18th century, Honore de Balzac Indeed, massive corruption has been the major foundational basis of prosperity…
Hiding wealth
One of the virtues of globalization, from the perspective of a corporation, is the ability to move operations from one jurisdiction to another to take advantage of better tax deals.…
Tax havens and double standards—I
Prime Minister Imran Khan has rightly observed that the matters relating to offshore tax havens are to be seen in the wider perspective of outflow of funds from the poor…
A viable solution?
In August, the influential US magazine Foreign Affairs carried out a survey on the two-state solution in Palestine among “authorities with specialized expertise together with leading generalists in the field”.…
Battle of rival memories
THE Nakba is to the Palestinians what the Holocaust is to the Jews. There is a difference though. Nobody in their senses would deny the horrors inflicted on European Jews…
The doppelgangers of mayhem
THERE are striking similarities between Benjamin Netanyahu and Narendra Modi, not the least their cynical methods of staying in power. But there are differences too. One rose, self-confessedly, from a…
