Gaza Ceasefire: Last Drops of Goodwill
After over a year of intense bombardment and abject slaughter of innocents, a ceasefire has finally been agreed between Israel and Hamas, with the desired goal of a permanent cessation… Read more »
Category: Israel-Palestine
Hassan Nasrallah and the New War in Lebanon
The political and military leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has last week died in an air attack by Israeli air forces in Beirut, Lebanon. This represents a seismic moment in… Read more »
Haniyeh Dead: The Road to Peace?
In a brazen and unprecedented attack, Israeli defence forces carried out the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, Hamas’s political leader, in Tehran on 31 July. The manner of attack is as… Read more »
April 13 Attack: Israel’s Choice
If you weren’t already nervous about the situation in the Middle East before, you should be now. Iran and Israel have each been filling the regional keg with gunpowder for… Read more »
2024: The Year We Save the World?
Happy New Year! 2024 is shaping up to be a doozie. It will be a year of elections, with 50 countries going to the polls to select new leaders and… Read more »
Post-Ceasefire: Waning Hope for Gaza
The war between Hamas and Israel drags on in the Gaza Strip, and inevitably, thousands more have died since my last entry on this blog. The death toll inside Gaza… Read more »
Armistice Day 2023 and the Hateful Home Secretary
The UK’s Home Secretary Suella Braverman has this week written an article in the Times newspaper accusing the Metropolitan police of double standards and bias in how protests are dealt… Read more »
Gaza Hospital Blast: Not Who to Blame, but How to Stop?
Hundreds more are dead in Gaza this week following an explosion at a hospital in Gaza City. At least 200 Palestinian men, women, and children were killed in the blast,… Read more »
Massacre in Israel, War in Gaza
There is death and destruction once again in Israel-Palestine this week, in the largest loss of life the region has endured in decades. Over 2,000 people are dead already, with… Read more »
Jenin: More Fear, More Death, More Hate
Israeli forces have this week conducted a major incursion into Palestinian territory, the largest since the Second Intifada in the early 2000s. Reports vary, but following a sustained period of… Read more »