From The US-Backed War In Yemen To The US-Ally Israel And Segregated Palestine
No one can doubt the baleful influence of the Russian Federation in south-eastern Europe and the Middle East. The annexationContinue Reading
Tag: Palestine
US Secretary Of State Acknowledges That Israel Is Not A Western Democracy
As regular readers of An Sionnach Fionn know, I am generally sympathetic to Israel and tend to see its historyContinue Reading
Ze’ev Jabotinsky: The Iron Wall – We and the Arabs
On the 4th of November 1923 the Jewish-Russian newspaper Rassvet (“Dawn”) published a short essay by the conservative Zionist writer Ze’ev JabotinskyContinue Reading
The Actions Of Ezra Nawi Make Headlines In Israel Again, As They Once Did In Ireland
In the summer of 2011 the former university lecturer and Joycean scholar, David Norris, was one of the front-runners in theContinue Reading
An Interview With The Parents Of Peace Activist Rachel Corrie
Back in August of 2013 the US-based current affairs website, MintPress News, gained considerable publicity when a report by its correspondents allegedlyContinue Reading
Israel On The Road To Self-Destruction
It is somewhat dispiriting, for those on the progressive left, to watch Israel’s continued slide into sectarian and racial totalitarianism,Continue Reading
Israel’s Journey From Jewish State To Pariah State
Are there any issues more divisive in “Western” political discourse than the existence, history and policies of the modern nation-state ofContinue Reading
Palestine’s Right To Defend Itself
The oft-stated right of the Israelis to “defend themselves” against their enemies, both near and far, is a claim encounteredContinue Reading
The English Empire Strikes Back In Scotland
Following on from yesterday’s post examining press reports that Dundee City Council had agreed to reverse efforts to place the EnglishContinue Reading
Underground Warfare
One of the commoner settlement types to be found in Irish archaeology are the ráthanna or so-called ring-forts 40,000 ofContinue Reading
This Land Is Mine, Israel And Palestine
From the talented Nina Paley.
The Reality Of War
Philip Weiss links to a shocking and profoundly disturbing video of a Palestinian father unable to accept the killing of his youngContinue Reading
Rhetoric Should Take Second Place To Respect
The ongoing military operations being carried out against the civilian population of Gaza and Occupied Palestine as a whole byContinue Reading
In Defence Of Israel
I’ve always admired the state of Israel and the Israeli people as a whole. From an Irish point of viewContinue Reading
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