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Read more about the article Does Palestine have a right to exist?

Does Palestine have a right to exist?

OPINION BY GREG RAY To be insulted by a man credibly accused of fraud and war crimes is a badge of honour. To hear Israel's widely loathed prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, assert with a straight face that history will harshly judge his Australian counterpart, Anthony Albanese, is frankly surreal. This piece of Trumpian drivel was delivered by an amoral political opportunist whose machinations have caused the deaths of thousands of innocent people and turned Israel into a pariah state in the eyes of many. Netanyahu is furious because Australia dared to follow the lead of France,…

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What is the West’s game plan on Gaza?

COMMENT BY GREG RAY Suddenly something changed. The first big sign came when the conservative English media outlet, the Financial Times, published an editorial under the heading: "The West's Shameful Silence on Gaza". And just like that, it was suddenly acceptable to criticise Israel's ethnic cleansing campaign of territorial expansion in occupied Palestine. Up until then it seemed that Western governments and media outlets were determined to follow Israel's rogue extremist government to the mouth of Hell and beyond. Speaking out against the genocide was frowned on to the extent that doing so could cost jobs,…

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Read more about the article Watching a murder-suicide

Watching a murder-suicide

As soon as Israel made it clear that its goal, following the October 7 Hamas attack, was more or less a total purging of Gaza, that no two-state solution to its forever war against Palestinians would be countenanced and that there was no upper limit to the death and destruction it was willing to inflict, the words that sprang into my mind were “murder-suicide”. Somehow the assault on Gaza seemed of a type with other Israeli doctrines, like the “Hannibal directive” – where it is better to kill your own people than let them be taken…

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