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Waging a just war and the Gaza Strip
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 07/12/2023
» 'If you [Americans] were OK with us killing 5,000 children, you are OK with killing 10,000 children," said Daniel Levy, a former Israeli diplomat who helped negotiate the Oslo peace accords in the 1990s. That's what Israeli diplomats really think of US policy, he says.
When legal battles shake democracies
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 10/08/2023
» Three of the world's biggest democracies, all with past, present and/or prospective leaders facing prison at the same time. In the end, it's the courts that decide.
International law must prevail in Ukraine war
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/02/2023
» Just before the first anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which falls tomorrow France's President Emmanuel Macron declared that he wanted to see Russia "defeated, but not crushed". That is a very fine distinction, but an important one.
2 coups (failed) and random speculation
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/12/2022
» Could there be anything more ridiculous than last week's failed coup attempt in Peru?
It's only news when the man bites the dog
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 20/11/2019
» As British newspaper magnate Viscount Northcliffe said: "When a dog bites a man, that is not news, because it happens so often. But if a man bites a dog, that is news."