Author: David Hearst
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Trump is abandoning Europe. Europe should abandon its appeasement of Israel
First came King Abdullah of Jordan. Now British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are slogging over to Washington to temper the passions of the man in the Oval Office. A pattern has been set. US President Donald Trump fires a salvo at the status quo on Palestine or Ukraine and the…
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As the world remembers the Holocaust, Gaza genocide survivors march home
Many calamities can befall an outside broadcaster – in this case, the BBC’s best-laid plans to host the Today programme from Auschwitz, and to devote a whole day of broadcasting across several channels to the 80th anniversary of its liberation. The lines could go down from Poland, which, in these days of the internet and…
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Revealed: How Assad’s downfall thwarted Israel’s plan to carve up Syria
The overthrow of Bashar al-Assad’s government thwarted an Israeli plan to divide Syria into three blocks in order to sever its ties with Iran and Hezbollah, according to regional security sources briefed about the plot. Israel planned to establish military and strategic ties with the Kurds in the northeast and the Druze in the south, leaving…