Gaza sealift all about saving face in Washington
There is no need for piers, ships or aircraft to get food into the Gaza Strip. There are lots of roads available.
Not exactly a shining moment for U.S. in Gaza
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Dyer on the “Pause”; West Bank Eruption? A Left-Wing Jew & the War
22 November 2023
Israel-Hamas Ceasefire
By Gwynne Dyer – Author, Historian & Independent Journalist
There are really three parties to the ‘pause’ – nobody is officially using the word ‘Author, Historian & Independent Journalistceasefire’ – that brings at least a temporary end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip. Two of the three parties, Hamas and the United States, would very much like it to turn into a permanent ceasefire, but Israel emphatically does not.
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Giving Thanks for Those Defying Hell & Sowing Hope — “From the River To The Sea”
New York Times
OPINION – THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
#1 – The Rescuers
Rahat, Israel, a Bedouin town in the Negev Desert.Credit…CreditPhotographs by Ofir Berman for The New York Times
Opinion Columnist, reporting from Rahat, Israel
I confess that as a longtime observer of the Arab-Israeli conflict, I aggressively avoid both the “From the river to the sea” activists on the pro-Palestinian left and the similarly partisan zealots on the “Greater Israel” Zionist right — not just because I find their exclusivist visions for the future abhorrent but also because the reporter in me finds them so blind to the complexities of the present.
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Two views: Recalling the Yom Kippur/Ramadan War- Half a Century Later
GWYNNE DYER: A short war 50 years ago in Israel
Gwynne Dyer — October 5, 2023
In 1973, 50 years ago today, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, coincided with Ramadan, the Islamic lunar month of fasting. But nobody raised an alarm in Israel when it was reported, two days before the Arab attack, that the Egyptian army had ordered its soldiers to stop fasting.
After their overwhelming victory in the Six-Day War of 1967, when Israel smashed three Arab armies in a “pre-emptive” attack and expanded its territory fourfold, the Israelis were almost unanimous in their contempt for Arab military capabilities – indeed, for Arabs in general. Continue reading Two views: Recalling the Yom Kippur/Ramadan War- Half a Century Later