The ten year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks and a recent Channel 4 documentary, ‘Bin Laden: Shoot to Kill’, shifted attention back to the assassination of Al Qaeda founder, Osama Bin Laden. I, like many others, viewed the event as justice being served. The end of a long chapter. Relief and closure for the families affected. It would seem logical that these were also my thoughts following the Israeli assassination of former Hamas leader, Sheikh [...]
Following the undesired – for Turkey – outcome of the U.N investigation on the Mavi Marmara incident – where 9 pro-Palestinian Turkish nationals were killed in the raid by the Israeli Special Forces – Turkey has decided to expel Israeli’s diplomatic envoy to Turkey and froze military cooperation with the state of Israel. Moreover, tensions between the two states have escalated following Recep Tayyip Erdoğan’s (current Prime Minister of Turkey) vow that Turkish warships would [...]
Seventy years on from the holocaust and the conviction that this must never happen again, Jewish people are suffering persecution and prejudice all over the globe. Often the hostility towards Jews is masked as a hostility towards the politics of Israel. Daniel Willis tells us why this is a dangerous attitude. It has not yet been seventy years since the liberation of the European Jews from the catastrophe that was the Holocaust. Yet now, it [...]
Why did not the Palestinians follow the lead of their Arab neighbours and rise up against the regime they consider to be oppressive? Maybe it is because they are too busy fighting themselves. And that Israel’s freer than anywhere in the Middle East, writes Alex Patnick. The Arab Spring started earlier this year in Tunisia and spread across the Arab world, like wildfire. Yet it has seemed to skip Israel’s Arabs and the Palestinians – [...]