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Director of Conflicts Forum; Former Senior British Diplomat; Author.
The details of the arrested perpetrators of the Crocus Concert Hall massacre and their mode of operation does not comport with the notion of their being ideological supporters of ISIS.
Schumer’s speech was less a bombshell in "Israel" than in the US as the paths of the Likud and Western Liberalism had long diverged.
Soon we become a people without memory of its past; a space ghosting shapes long broken or forgotten.
What is spooking the West more immediately is the cascading defeats inflicted on Ukrainian forces, after the Avdeevka rout.
Few in Washington seem to little appreciate ‘how deep-in’ they already are. Or, the extent and speed at which their options are vanishing, and are ineluctably tied to the fortunes of Netanyahu and his far-right coalition government.
‘Stupidity’ (and ignorance) reign. This might be an object of passing curiosity as to its precise psychological causes, were it not so consequential.
The explosive issue at the focus of the ICJ rulings likely will become the pivot to the new era -- likely one of struggle and schism in the West.
When Defence Secretary Austin last visited "Israel", he clearly ‘green-lighted’ Israeli military action to push Hizbullah away from south Lebanon.
The Israeli strategy against Hamas in Gaza has been a humiliating failure: Hamas remains generally intact, whereas the Israeli forces have suffered substantial losses of men (and women), plus armored vehicles.
One man -- a retired Maj. General Brik, a highly respected military officer -- warned PM Netanyahu personally that a quagmire trap in Gaza was a true risk.