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Israel's Gaza plan not quite the final solution
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 11/08/2025
» 'Anyone who wants to thwart the establishment of a Palestinian state has to support bolstering Hamas and transferring money to Hamas [from Qatar]," Israel's Prime Minister Binyamin "Bibi" Netanyahu told the parliamentary members of his Likud Party in 2019. They were questioning his policy of backing Hamas, and he was explaining why.
Israel cabinet approves plan to seize Gaza City
Bloomberg News, Published on 08/08/2025
» JERUSALEM — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu secured cabinet approval on Friday for a military takeover of Gaza City, which he described as part of a final push to topple Hamas after 22 months of fighting and recover its last 50 hostages, dead or alive.
US envoy visits Gaza as starvation fears grow
AFP, Published on 01/08/2025
» GAZA CITY - US President Donald Trump’s special envoy inspected a US-backed food distribution centre in war-torn Gaza on Friday, as the UN rights office reported that Israeli forces had killed hundreds of hungry Palestinians waiting for aid.
Hamas exploits humanitarian aid
Oped, Published on 01/08/2025
» Across Gaza, humanitarian aid is urgently needed. Yet much of it fails to reach the people for whom it is intended. Instead, international assistance is routinely hijacked by Hamas -- a reality enabled by the troubling complicity of the United Nations.
Gaza famine warning as Israel resists ceasefire calls
AFP, Published on 29/07/2025
» GAZA CITY (PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES) — Gaza is slipping into famine, United Nations-backed experts warned Tuesday, as the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory said the death toll in the nearly 22-month war had surpassed 60,000.
France will recognise State of Palestine: Macron
AFP, Published on 25/07/2025
» PARIS - French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday his country would formally recognise a Palestinian state during a UN meeting in September, the most powerful European nation to announce such a move.
Corrupt monks have lost their way
Oped, Sanitsuda Ekachai, Published on 14/07/2025
» Just as Thailand was about to celebrate Asalha Bucha Day and the start of Buddhist Lent, the nation was gripped by the biggest sex scandal ever to rock its clergy. How irony.
Trump nominates ‘alpha male’ influencer as envoy to Malaysia
Published on 12/07/2025
» WASHINGTON — US President Donald Trump has nominated a fiery right-wing influencer known for his machismo and professed love for steaks and Hooters to be the ambassador to Malaysia.
Around the world in 100 years
Life, Kanokporn Chanasongkram, Published on 11/07/2025
» In an almost square case, the groundbreaking hand-wound Longines Zulu Time from 1925 displayed both the local and second time zone.
Israel-Hamas ceasefire negotiations resume as Trump pushes for deal
AFP, Published on 08/07/2025
» DOHA — Indirect negotiations on a Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas resumed in Qatar on Tuesday, as United States President Donald Trump pressed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for a deal to end the war.