Don Quixotes travels

Israel are correct. There is ‘no moral equivalence’ between them and Hamas. The State military terror regime and its brutal occupation of Palestine is far more lethal and deadly than a Islamist resistance movement. Israel’s military killing machine is 40 times more lethal, barbarous and destructive for civilians. Hamas committed an atrocity on one day, the Israeli war planes, bombs, drones, quadcoptors, tanks and guns have assailed Gaza’s population every single day for now, over 400 days. Near to 80% of its buildings inhabitable, civilians fired upon while being forced into displacement camps. Most Hospitals destroyed, those open without anaesthetics, pain killers or oxygen to treat childrens mutilated and amputated bodies. Schools, aid centres, mosque’s, ambulance’s, journalists, medics and nurses systematically targeted. Hamas kidnapped innocent hostages and holds them underground. The IDF for decades have kidnapped young people and children and detained them in military jails witho...

  No Justice, No Peace   A Two-State solution (Revisited) A single, secular, democratic State of Palestine for Jews and Arabs, protecting Islam, Christianity and Judaism, ending Zionist Colonialism, is a beautiful but I believe, delusional ideal. Not only that, awaiting the ideal and denying a compromise already agreed by the PLO 30 years ago(universally accepted as the ‘sole representative of the Palestinian people’) would be like western ‘revolutionary communists’ endlessly waiting for the ‘proletarian revolution’ while condemning participation in the democratic process under capitalism.  Increasingly, some on the left, and other Pro-Palestinian voices in the Western world, are taking on an aggressive tone in dismissing ‘Two-Stater’s’ as sell- outs. This is a position that deserves to still be taken seriously, despite the corruption and collaboration by Abbas and other elements of the PA. I point specifically to Marwan Barghouti, the leader who consistently comes top of...