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The seven lives of Mohammed Deif

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 1 comment

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
The Israelis believed that Mohammed Deif had serious functional difficulties that forced him to move around in a wheelchair, but videos released this week by the army show the head of the Hamas militias in the Gaza Strip fully functional, which has exposed the secret services to criticisms that must be added to those already accumulated in recent months.

Mohammed Deif has survived seven army attacks and on several occasions Israel has left him for dead, only to have to rectify them later.

COP28, a “tragedy for the planet”

7 min read DAVID SPRATT and IAN DUNLOP 1 comment

DAVID SPRATT AND IAN DUNLOP
Up to 100.000 people - most of whom derive their professional status and income from politics, defense and climate-related businesses - flew to Dubai to attend COP28, the Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Convention United Nations on Climate Change. And the result? An unmitigated disaster.

In the final session, a weak and incoherent compromise resolution between oil-producing countries and smaller states and climate advocates – which did not call for phasing out fossil fuels – was accepted without dissent.

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The infamous epilogue of the West

4 min read Javier García 0 comments

JAVIER GARCIA
The genocide that we witnessed live in Gaza is the infamous epilogue of the decline of Western dominance over the world, its most illustrative image. It is the absolute collapse of all the values that the West once proclaimed.

No one who supports what is happening by action or omission, no one who, having been able to do something to prevent it, has not done so, will be able to talk about human rights again after this without their face falling with shame.

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Death and destruction in Gaza

7 min read JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER 0 comments

JOHN J. MEARSHEIMER
I don't think anything I say about what's happening in Gaza is going to affect Israeli or American policy in that conflict. But I want it on the record so that when historians look back on this moral calamity, they will see that some Americans were on the right side of history.

What Israel is doing in Gaza to the Palestinian civilian population – with the support of the Biden administration – is a crime against humanity that serves no meaningful military purpose. As J-Street, a leading Israel lobby organization, says: “The scope of the humanitarian disaster and civilian casualties taking place is almost unfathomable.”

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Stopping Genocide

8 min read CRAIG MURRAY 0 comments

CRAIG MURRAY
All states in the world have a positive duty to intervene to prevent genocide in Gaza now, not after a court has determined the existence of genocide. This is abundantly clear in paragraph 431 of the judgment of the International Court of Justice in the Bosnia v. Serbia case.

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Carbon colonialism, COP28 and climate crisis

5 min read AMY GOODMAN and DENIS MOYNIHAN 0 comments

AMY GOODMAN AND DENIS MOYNIHAN
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While lobbyists enjoy virtually unlimited access to COP28, climate activists say they are finding it harder to get credentials than in previous years. Add to that the United Arab Emirates' authoritarian and strict ban on protests, and the UN climate summit looks more like what climate scientist Kevin Anderson wrote on social media: “a cabal of producers of oil, not a climate COP.”

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The debatable benevolence of the US in the Middle East

4 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
Washington's attitude in recent weeks has consisted of relentlessly feeding Israeli arsenals with bombs of all kinds, knowing the terrible humanitarian cost that the massive destruction has had for more than a million civilians.

The image of a benevolent power that the United States cultivates has been shattered, to the point that protests against President Joe Biden's administration in North American cities have become a regular, daily occurrence. The unrest has spread among thousands of officials in the White House, Congress, the State Department and the Pentagon. In some cases, the unrest has transpired through letters, signed or not, and even with a loud resignation.

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Joe Biden and Chinese culture

4 min read JOHN HOPKINS 0 comments

JOHN HOPKINS
Joe Biden's recent comment that Xi Jinping is a dictator and his linking this assessment to the fact that China's system of government is different from that of the United States is revealing. It seems a manifestation of the Eurocentric thinking that has dominated the world in the last 200 years and the unwillingness to recognize cultures outside the Western sphere. This practice not only denies the validity of other people's experiences, but also the opportunities to learn and seek solutions to the problems we face.

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Biden–Xi: an anti-cyclonic summit

7 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
The main success of the summit is to place both countries before the challenge of preventing relations from continuing to worsen, setting barriers to do so. Frameworks in the form of principles, core interests, red lines, etc., have been reiterated. Biden does not want more problems in the upcoming electoral contest. Xi, for his part, needs to focus on domestic affairs. If the summit revealed anything, it is that, at this precise moment, neither party is interested in the conflict.

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Biden maintains his unconditional support for Israel just one year before the elections

3 min read EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON 0 comments

EUGENIO GARCIA GASCON
With less than a year left until the November 2024 US elections, President Joe Biden insists on maintaining his unconditional support for Israel in Israel's war against the entire Gaza Strip, and not just against Hamas, an attitude which could cost the Democratic Party a good handful of votes, especially among young people.

An important sector of Biden voters, and not only young people, view with disgust the images that television broadcasts daily with Palestinian women and children injured or killed by the bombs that the United States sends to Israel through an airlift that works with the accuracy of a Swiss watch twenty-four hours a day.

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Much to talk about, little to agree

4 min read XULIO RIOS 0 comments

XULIO RIOS
A Biden-Xi summit taking advantage of the APEC framework can help to somewhat put the antagonism on track, but not dilute it. And less than a year before the next elections in the United States, when it is foreseeable that hawks from all possible sides will turn China into the favorite target of all imaginable diatribes. Both Democrats and Republicans agree on that. Get ready.

Undoubtedly, dialogue is always advisable. Essential to minimally stabilize their ties, something essential in view of the importance of their ties and the global significance of their differences. Another thing is that it contributes to rebuilding a certain level of mutual trust if it is not accompanied by concrete measures to mitigate conflicts.

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What they don't tell us about October 7

10 min read JONATHAN COOK 0 comments

JONATHAN COOK
A simple look at the remains of the various kibbutz communities that were attacked that day should raise questions in the mind of any good reporter. Were the Palestinian militants in a position to inflict physical damage of such magnitude with the type of light weapons they carried?

And if not, who else but Israel was in a position to wreak such havoc?
Another question that good journalists should ask themselves is this: What was the objective of such damage? What did the Palestinian militants hope to achieve with this?