For how long will I be in captivity? After so many years, where are the state and the people of Israel? These were the words, uttered in Hebrew, of a person believed to be Avera Mengistu, an Israeli soldier of Ethiopian origin who was captured and held in Gaza in 2014. Footage of Mengistu, looking…
Westmeath’s Wilson’s Hospital School is a great school if you abhor precision, debating, Gaelic games and travellers. Westmeath’s Wilson’s Hospital School is a great school if you abhor precision, debating, Gaelic games and travellers. This is evident from the school’s Facebook page where its young, vulnerable charges are forced to measure themselves, just like their racist ancestors measured the indigenous Irish in…
Ideology is political religion, said the conservative sage Russell Kirk. And what is the defining dogma of the political religion, or ideology, of America in 2022? Is it not that, “All men are created equal”? Yet, as with every religion, a basic question needs first to be asked and answered about this defining dogma of…
Most of the world’s conflicts take place without anyone noticing, unless you happen to be one of the unfortunates caught up in it. Even when other countries send in troops, the most anyone offers is fine words, and the casualties are accepted as collateral damage, or less than human when they flee to another country…
Shortly after former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul (who was banned from the country for deliberately marring relations) tweeted that “There are no more ‘innocent’ ‘neutral’ Russians anymore”, Russians found themselves and their property under attack in the West. McFaul’s call to collectively punish all Russians across the world wherever they may be embodies…
For whatever reason, some mistakenly perceive the Israeli newspaper, Haaretz, as liberal, progressive and even ‘pro-Palestinian’. Of course, none of this is true. This misconstrued depiction of an essentially Zionist and anti-Palestinian newspaper tells of a much bigger story of how confusing Israeli politics is, and how equally confused many of us are in understanding…
