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Hope on horizon for starving Palestinians?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/03/2024
» Good news! The US logistical support ship General Frank S. Besson Junior has just sailed from Norfolk, Virginia, carrying the equipment needed to build a temporary pier off the coast of Gaza. That will enable the US to deliver food to the starving (yes, literally starving) Palestinian population of the Israeli-occupied Gaza Strip.
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ICJ's efforts to build rule of law must continue
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 31/01/2024
» Israel's defence minister, Yoav Gallant, dismissed the ruling by the International Court of Justice in The Hague on the accusation that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip with the words "Hague Schmague". US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was equally dismissive, saying that the case brought before the ICJ by South Africa was "meritless".
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Israel vs the ICJ: Is this a waste of time?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/01/2024
» The two sides have had their day in court -- one day each, actually. The 17 judges of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have now retired to consider what interim decisions they should make on South Africa's accusation that Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip amount to the crime of genocide. Is this just a waste of time?
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Schrödinger's Island: Taiwan election 2024
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 12/01/2024
» Taiwan's fate is as unknowable as usual, even though we know who the next president will be. The Democratic Progressive Party's (DPP) William Lai, vice-president under outgoing President Tsai Ing-Wen, will almost certainly win the election tomorrow because the two opposition parties failed to agree on a joint candidate and will split the slightly-less-anti-China vote between them.
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COP summits must persist, despite failures
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 14/12/2023
» The key debate on the last day of the COP28 climate summit was about whether or not the conference should endorse a resolution to "phase out" fossil fuels -- or, in a less ambitious formulation, phase them "down" (but not out).
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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.
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Modest drop in emissions can help the world
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/12/2023
» At the opening of the COP28 global climate summit, here are some thoughts about the state of climate science.
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Long ceasefire in Gaza may snooker Hamas
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 24/11/2023
» There are really three parties to the "pause" -- nobody is officially using the word "ceasefire" -- that brings at least a temporary end to the fighting in the Gaza Strip. Two of the three parties, Hamas and the United States, would very much like it to turn into a permanent ceasefire, but Israel emphatically does not.
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Argentina must break its vicious political cycle
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 15/11/2023
» Bertolt Brecht lived in Germany, not in Argentina, and he has been dead longer than he was alive, but his famous question applies to the Argentine election next Sunday: "Would it not be simpler if the government dissolved the people and elected another?"
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The Israel-Gaza crisis: A question of numbers
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 08/11/2023
» Being the heritage minister is not the summit of achievement in Israeli politics, but it is a cabinet position, and Amihai Eliyahu, the current occupant, really should watch what he says. When Radio Kol Berama asked him whether an atomic bomb should be dropped on Gaza, he should not have replied "This is one of the possibilities."
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