Political prisoner, activist, journalist, hymn-writer, emerging thinktanker, aspiring novelist, "tribal elder", 2019 parliamentary candidate for North West Durham, Shadow Leader of the Opposition, "Speedboat", "The Cockroach", eagerly awaiting the second (or possibly third) attempt to murder me.
Sunday, 31 December 2023
RIP John Pilger
Just when we needed you most.
Oh, well, as we fortysomethings so often have cause to observe, it is up to us now.
The Arabs pretend to make a fuss about Israel for their domestic audiences but of course they don’t really care-to this day, the Palestinian refugees of 1948 are kept in refugee camps by Arab countries instead of being resettled. They’re possibly the world’s oldest “refugees”. Throughout the latest crisis, the Arab world has kept the oil and gas pumping and kept its vast currency reserves in US dollars. They care about Palestinian lives even less than Hamas, which carried out its October 7th pogrom of mostly civilians in the full knowledge that it would trigger the desired response from Israel.
No one with any knowledge of the Palestinian struggle has any time for the Arab regimes. Unlike the Palestinians' persecutors in Europe and the United States.
Still looking at June for the magazine?
ReplyDeleteAt the latest.
DeleteBest news in years.
DeleteEven better than that the Arabs are about to buy the Telegraph Group. Only just. But even so.
DeleteThat will create a lot of vacancies.
DeleteEither that, or none of them ever believed a word of it.
DeleteThe Arabs pretend to make a fuss about Israel for their domestic audiences but of course they don’t really care-to this day, the Palestinian refugees of 1948 are kept in refugee camps by Arab countries instead of being resettled. They’re possibly the world’s oldest “refugees”. Throughout the latest crisis, the Arab world has kept the oil and gas pumping and kept its vast currency reserves in US dollars. They care about Palestinian lives even less than Hamas, which carried out its October 7th pogrom of mostly civilians in the full knowledge that it would trigger the desired response from Israel.
ReplyDeleteNo one with any knowledge of the Palestinian struggle has any time for the Arab regimes. Unlike the Palestinians' persecutors in Europe and the United States.
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