A revived Taliban insurgency and alarming military revelations cast a new shadow over United States strategy in Afghanistan.
Before the operation started, the Israeli army ordered the residents of Khuza'a to evacuate their homes. Almost 70% of the residents left their homes to go to UN shelters or relatives' houses in relatively safe areas, while around 3,000 people decided not to leave.
While it is true that the US has, for once, signed up to a UN Security Council statement which calls for an "immediate and unconditional humanitarian cease-fire”, this might still be considered a tactical step to prevent more strongly worded resolutions against Israel being proposed in the Securit
Debate around the Palestintian-Israeli conflict needs to be framed around whether Palestinians have a legitimate right to resistance.
Especially in some European countries, dealing with the dark sides of one’s history has become a significant topos. Without such a change in cultures of commemoration of the different European countries, a European Union would have been impossible.
It is dangerous to argue that the peace process is dead, but it cannot be revived while the Israeli right is in power.
Labelling the conflict 'Palestinian-Israeli' is misleading. It is not simply a conflict over the future of Palestine. It is also a conflict over the future of the Arab world; a conflict that will be determined by the success or failures of the Arab revolt.
Though my writing is an intellectual exercise, the war itself has been a very real thing. Tomorrow, as the representative of my village, I will be attending the funeral of a twenty-two year old officer severely wounded two days ago.
A number of parties seem to have been complicit in the failure of the politics to prevent this latest round of deadly fighting in Gaza. In such a climate, one can be motivated to damage one’s enemy rather than to protect one’s own best interest.
One of the jobs of philosophy is to elevate principles that seem impossible, to stand by them and will them, even when it's unlikely they'll be realised.
The shock to Israel's system from the intense conflict in Gaza is profound.
