Hiroshima 1945. A target-poor environment.
A target-rich environment
What Israel's use of AI in the killing of Palestinians implies for the future of repression.
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…
Hate, war, politics and chess
Opinion by Greg Ray I stand with the victims of this and other wars and massacres. Whether they are Jewish, Muslim or of any other faith and irrespective of the colour of their skin or the language they speak, I wish with all my heart that their lives could be restored and made whole. I do not stand with terrorism and I will not stand with warmongers. I will not stand with Hamas and I will not stand with Israel's Netanyahu government. I stand with those who want peace and I salute those who, against the…