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: Arab occupation
Abbas and his never-ending dance with the devil
Fatah/PLO/PA non-elected head/Holocaust denier Mahmoud Abbas has – surprise, surprise – cancelled a meeting with Israeli Vice-Premier Shaul Mofaz in Ramallah. The aim of the meeting was to kick-start peace talks between the two sides in the seemingly never-ending pan-Arab hostilities against the Jewish state of Israel. The Jerusalem Post reports that Abbas “bowed to […]
The truth about refugees in the Middle East
Watch this admirably short and factual film about the origins of refugees in the Middle East and the cynicism that has perpetuated a human tragedy for 63 long years. Danny Ayalon, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in Israel, explains why there still are Arab refugees from the 1948 pan-Arab onslaught against the Jewish state. He explains […]
"Occupation" in the Middle East becomes "self-defence" in India
India’s President Pratibha Devisingh Patil said on a visit to Syria that India recognizes Syria’s “legitimate right” to the Golan Heights. The Indian president’s host, Syrian dictator Bashar el-Assad, who inherited the Syrian regime from his father Hafez el-Assad, went on to bemoan “the sufferings of the Palestinian people, blockaded by an apartheid wall”. Assad […]
School quiz is political propaganda
I am writing with regard to your quiz no. 9 (May 2003, Basic), which my 13-year old son enjoyed doing this morning. I would like to congratulate you on putting together a well-expressed and highly topical quiz that trains the spotlight on current events in an interesting and easy to understand way, yet without talking […]