Mladic, Caught
Sixteen years after the culmination of the Balkan War, the Bastard of Belgrade has been caught. By ‘caught,’ one must …
Category Archives: Conflict Zones
Suleiman Al Khalidi and the Cycle of Idiocy
That conflict yields casualties is a regrettable given and that they are innocents, more so. This week an increasing number …
Happy International Women’s Day! (But Not if Britain Gets Its Way)
100 years since its launch, we are commemorating The Woman. Considering this year’s post, I rather hoped to move towards …
US: Saudi Arabia to Arm Benghazi?
(I purposefully dropped the additional ‘rebels’ from Benghazi as it reeks of negativity – remember, they are fighting against Qaddafi.) …
War, Thy Name Is Terror… Or Is It?
Last year I posted on a seminar in which the students grappled with the application of the term ‘genocide‘. That …
Israel: Love and Other Obstacles
I have become a hostage to #Jan25 – this we know. Which is a pity, as Al-Jazeera is running a …
The Inexorable March of Neo-Orientalism
The following article by Soumaya Ghannoushi insightfully addresses the media’s inability to disassociate Islam with war, instability and repression. An …
Palestine Papers: Day II
And the revelations continue to pour forth. On the agenda is refugees: of the 7.2 million scattered worldwide, the number …
The Palestine Papers and The Enemy Within
When it seemed that nothing could top the surprised havoc wreaked by Julian Assange and the flow of WikiLeaks, a …
Tunisian Solidarity? Not in the West Bank
Mention ‘resistance’ in the context of the Arab world and the predominant result will be ‘Palestine’. Which makes the news …
