This business of keeping territory after winning it in war: where do we draw the line? Well, read Bret Stephens on the issue of Gibraltar, and it appears that no issue regarding territory taken in war is ever going to go to the UN for debate: not Gibraltar in Spain, not Tibet, not Ceuta and […]
Tag archives: Tibet
UN silence versus UN action
China invaded Tibet and has systematically ethnically cleansed up to one million Tibetan civilians – men, women and children – from their homes, forcibly transferring them to China and replacing them with ethnic Chinese. But Tibet has no oil. The UN has remained silent. No military action from the UN to protect Tibetan civilians’ human […]
Raising the crazy flag
There’s a leadership crisis in the world. Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez is showing increasing signs of mental instability. Now he is challenging the status of the Vatican and the legitimacy of the Pope. The next Libyan leader, Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, is trying to surpass his father’s record in the crazy league. Gaddafi senior, Libya’s dictator […]
Diakonia by numbers
The following experiment using search engine Google reveals some highly interesting results. Diakonia is a Swedish church organisation that professes to have the interests of the downtrodden at heart. What is revealing is whose interests it supports, and whose it utterly ignores. It turns out that its main – some would say only – focus […]
Silence and condemnation
Greenwich Street, New York, NY 10007. More specifically, 250 Greenwich Street. It’s where the World Trade Center used to stand. The street is going to be renamed. Its new name: Osama bin Laden Plaza. You may not have heard about this. No international protests. No public demonstrations about the unsuitability of naming the site after […]
Logical incoherence – Obama style
Fill in the blanks: “We did note that while we recognize that ___ is part of ___, the United States supports the early resumption of dialogue.” Finished guessing? Here’s the answer:“We did note that while we recognize that Judea and Samaria are part of the State of Israel, the United States supports the early resumption […]