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: Middle East
Syria: New Beginnings
Last week, after decades of struggle, millions displaced, and many hundreds of thousands dead, the brutal Assad dictatorship in Syria was overthrown. A coalition of rebel forces, led by the… Read more »
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 »
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 »
Earthquake Tragedy on Turkish/Syrian Border
At around 1am GMT on Friday morning last week, a massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck south-eastern Turkey and north-western Syria, causing unprecedented destruction and loss of life in the region…. Read more »