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."

VIJAY PRASHAD "Stop the Genocide" in white letters on a red background appears on the screens above the band's heads, as guitars rip through the night. Nobody puts on a stadium show like Roger Waters. The music, of course, is resplendent, but so are the soundscape, the images, the giant sheep and pig, the lasers, the movies, the energy of the fans who - despite linguistic differences - chant... .

PASCUAL SERRANO That there is a split on the left is nothing exceptional, the novelty of this is that the departure is to the left, led by such charismatic politicians as the deputy Sahra Wagenknecht (she was vice president of the party and is the wife of the historic leader of left Oskar Lafontaine) and the polls give him a voting intention of up to 14%, which would mean fourth place, only behind the Christian Democrats of the CDU, the ultras of the AfD and hot on the heels of the Social Democrats of the SPD .