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Netanyahu’s hot mic moment
It’s common that world leaders chat more freely behind closed doors than they do with their counterparts in public or with the press. Which is what happened when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was caught on a hot mic criticizing European Union policies toward Israel during a closed-door meeting with East European leaders.Netanyahu evidently assumed the conversation was off the record but it was instead being broadcast, through headphones, to reporters outside.His gripe was that the EU was the only major power to attach “political” conditions to its relationship with Israel, condemning it as a “crazy” approach to dealing with his country.Netanyahu was referring to EU policies that try to place economic pressure on Israel to leave the occupied Palestinian territories and...
July 22, 2017

Netanyahu’s hot mic moment

Dangerous politics in America
The Western democratic convention is one of adversarial politics. The principle is that the decisions of the party in power must be tested in parliament by opposition politicians. This can lead to absurdities whereby the automatic response of those not in power is to decry whatever the government does. But, by and large, it works.For all the cutting invective, the limits of the adversarial principle are honored. Legislators are, after all, professionals. They know the rules. And once they have finished tearing strips off each other in the parliamentary chamber, they will often socialize quite happily and laugh about the debating points they have scored.However, in America, adversarial politics has turned almost homicidal. Donald Trump is like no other US president. He does not play the...
July 21, 2017

Dangerous politics in America

Unimaginable cruelty in Thailand
It is hard to comprehend the depth of inhumanity that causes human-traffickers to take money from refugees to smuggle them to a place of safety, but instead then enslave them, exploit them, rape them, ransom them and finally murder them.The Libyan people-smugglers are bad enough exploiting and torturing helpless sub-Saharan migrants seeking a better life across the Mediterranean in Europe, but the traffickers in Thailand have plumbed new lows of depravity in their treatment of Rohingya Muslims.A court in Bangkok has just found 40 Thai smugglers guilty of trafficking, kidnapping and murder. The trial of a further 60 accused is still proceeding. Among those so far found guilty is a former army general, Manus Konpang who was arrested two years ago but who, many assumed, would never actually...
July 20, 2017

Unimaginable cruelty in Thailand

The long arm of justice
There were those who thought it wrong to see very old men standing pathetically in the docks of German courtrooms on trial for crimes against humanity committed when they served as Nazi camp guards or officials during the Holocaust 60, even 70 years earlier.The reality was that the justice that caught up with them was absolutely necessary. Though many of their murderous comrades may, one way or another, have escaped punishment, it was important that these men paid for their crimes and for all the barbarous crimes that disfigured an apparently civilized European state under Hitler’s demonic rule.And so it will be with those responsible for blowing a civilian airliner out of the sky over Ukraine three years ago this week. At the memorial service near Schiphol airport, attended by 2,000...
July 19, 2017

The long arm of justice

Trump needs to get tough with Iran
IT may not be as bad as it looks. President Trump’s administration is likely this week to renew its certification that Iran is still complying with its obligations under 2015 Geneva agreement limiting its nuclear program to exclude the development of nuclear weapons.The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPA) provides for Washington to certify Iran’s honoring of its commitments every 90 days. If the Trump administration does not renew the sign-off, which it first did in April, Congress would be entitled to take up the issue.But the White House is also involved in a complete review of its Iranian policy, expected to be completed by the end of summer. For those who believe the Iranians are cleverly pulling the wool over the eyes of the international community, there is the hope the...
July 18, 2017

Trump needs to get tough with Iran

South Sudan crisis
Civil war and deteriorating humanitarian conditions in South Sudan are driving people from their homes in record numbers, according to the United Nations. This youngest country in the world is one of the four facing the greatest humanitarian disaster since World War II. The other three are Nigeria, Somalia and Yemen.A combination of vicious conflict which shows no signs of abating, drought and famine makes the situation in South Sudan especially grim. More than 1.8 million people, including one million children, have already fled to Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia, Kenya, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic to escape hunger or violence. Latest reports speak of thousands of civilians fleeing to neighboring Ethiopia as government troops advance on a rebel stronghold...
July 17, 2017

South Sudan crisis

A home for a home
Israel’s High Court of Justice has backed the government’s policy of demolishing the family homes of Palestinians accused of perpetrating acts Israel defines as terrorism while not likewise punishing the families of Israeli perpetrators.Last week’s ruling from the court rejected a petition from the family of Mohamed Abu Khudair that the Israelis who killed their son have their family homes demolished, a standard form of retribution when a Palestinian attacks Israelis.In July 2014, Abu Khudair was kidnapped from his home in East Jerusalem by three Israelis who took him to a forest and bludgeoned him, then went on to burn the 16-year-old alive in an act of barbarism that shocked the world.The ringleader of the attack said he wanted to avenge the kidnapping and killing of three Israeli...
July 16, 2017

A home for a home

At the UN, Israel loses again
UNESCO recently issued two resolutions that Israel could do nothing about. It designated Hebron’s Old City and Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank a Palestinian World Heritage site. And also put them on a list of sites considered in danger. On both counts, Israel was stymied.A resolution passed by a committee of the UN cultural agency accused Israel of an “alarming” number of violations that included vandalism, property damage, and other attacks that had an impact on its authenticity and integrity. The resolution called on the Israeli authorities to “cease the persistent excavations, tunneling, works and projects,” which it stated were “illegal under international law”.Naturally, Israeli officials missed no opportunity to grab a headline or two. The accusations ranged...
July 15, 2017

At the UN, Israel loses again

A year after Erdogan defeated the coup
Almost exactly a year ago, when troops marched onto the streets of Turkish cities at the start of the failed coup, the reaction of the populace was remarkable. Ordinary people were furious and marched up to heavily-armed soldiers and yelled at them; one old lady screaming into a young soldier’s face that he should be ashamed of himself.As the coup crumbled, these young soldiers, nearly all of them conscripts, were stripped and beaten. It was hard not to feel sorry for them. Turkish army basic training is brutal and absolute obedience is demanded. Moreover, the armed forces have troops serve their six or 12 month conscription well away from where they live. These young men blindly obeying orders were arguably the saddest victims of the coup.But Turkey, too, has suffered from this...
July 14, 2017

A year after Erdogan defeated the coup

Hate takes to the sea
Though it has come as a shocking surprise, it was probably inevitable that hate-filled racist bigots would try to muscle in on the tragedy of the Mediterranean migrants. A movement calling itself “Identitarian” has announced that it has chartered a 40-meter-long vessel in which it intends to sail up and down off Libyan territorial waters. Their purpose is to expose what they allege is cooperation between the nine non-governmental organizations that are rescuing migrants and the people-smugglers who launch them to sea in flimsy rubber rafts.These unpleasant individuals managed to raise the money to hire this vessel by an online crowd-funding campaign. When it found out what was happening, an attempt was made by Paypal to stop the donations. But the money was gathered in anyway by other...
July 13, 2017

Hate takes to the sea

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