Writing for Stratfor, a provider of global geopolitical analysis, George Friedman penned a wide-ranging, nuanced and admirably detailed study of the current situation in Israel and the wider Middle East. His article is entitled “Israel’s New Strategic Environment”. His analysis is interesting, but flawed or at best incomplete in certain respects. One factor George Friedman […]
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Fact-ignoring visit to Gaza Plaza
“What we have been saying to the Israelis for a long time is that we need to allow aid into this region … for people to have the things they are clearly lacking.” EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton on the “plight” of Gaza Arabs. Ashton’s statement came at the same time as a rocket […]
A legal precedent
The Jerusalem Post reports that The European Initiative, a new European pro-Israeli lobby, has filed a lawsuit in Belgium against Hamas leaders from Gaza and Damascus, demanding that they be brought to justice for war crimes. About time too. The Belgian initiative is a welcome proactive move against terrorism and against support for intransigence, indoctrination, […]