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Sanctioning the settlements: A bullet bitten. A space opened up.
Governments long enchantment with, and fear of, the clamorous, pro-Israel Jewish Establishment has ended. This is the symbolic meaning of Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband’s announcing sanctions against the settlements of the West Bank. The substance of the sanctions proposed may not amount to much so far as agricultural products are I concerned, but there is… Continue reading
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A charade and a reflection on relative time: Jewish Establishment meets with Foreign Secretary Miliband
The Board of Deputies of British Jews, alongside something called the Jewish Leadership Council, had a meeting with the new Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, on the 10 August. Those two organisations are part of a cluster of pro-Israel bodies that can fairly be characterised as the Jewish Establishment. Up until now, seemingly without shame, British… Continue reading
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Clumsy and wrong: Jewish Establishment’s attempt to influence Church of England’s York Synod
The Church of England’s General Synod – the Church’s highest governing body, essentially its Parliament – is meeting in York from 10 to 14 July 2026. It has a key, controversial, question to address, namely, will it ‘receive’ – not ‘approve’ – the Kairos Palestine – Palestinian Christian Initiative A Moment of Truth: Faith in… Continue reading
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Chinks in the Zionist edifice
Only delusional seers, along with the very foolish, would try to predict, with any degree of certainty, how the bloody saga of the USA/Israel aggression against Iran will ultimately unfold. What can be said, however, is that it’s as near to certain as one can get that neither the USA, nor Israel, can have imagined… Continue reading
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The war on Iran: A wicked folly
It is impossible to predict with any degree of certainty the final outcome of the USA/Israel war on Iran. What one can say, however, is that looming through the fog of war, there is the only too real prospect of uncontainable turmoil in the Middle East. That turmoil to reverberate through the rest of the… Continue reading
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Trump’s Board of Peace: a cracked vessel
On the 17th November 2025, the UN Security Council (UNSC) voted on Resolution 2803 to endorse President Trump’s Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict. Thirteen states voted in favour, the UK among them, with no votes against. China and Russia abstained. That same resolution included the establishment of a Trump dominated Board of Peace… Continue reading
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Phase two of Trump’s peace plan: A charade is being enacted before our eyes
It is important not to be misled by what we might call the surface activity that Trump’s plan for Gaza has prompted. Surface activity: a charade Beneath the flurry of international activity directed at taking Trump’s plan for Gaza into its second phase, lies another reality. The reality that Israel has not deviated from its… Continue reading
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Football anyone? Travels in irony
It’s an odd sight, PM Starmer falling over himself to seek additional resources to enable Birmingham police to cope with the ‘high risk’ possibility that were Maccabi football fans allowed to attend their November Europa League game against Aston Villa, violent disorder emanating from the Maccabi fans was a realistic possibility. The ‘high risk’ designation… Continue reading
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Trump’s peace plan. Really?
It’s over one hundred years since the then League of Nations, in 1922, bestowed upon Britain a mandate over Palestine. Much has come to pass in the intervening years, yet the spirit of the Mandate, and its anchor point, the 1917 Balfour Declaration, is with us still, finding expression in Trump’s so-called Gaza peace plan.… Continue reading
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No hindrance placed in their way
Victory is near. So at least must the West Bank Israeli-Jewish settlers’ assess as they consume by fire, bullet and bulldozer Palestinian land, livelihoods – and lives. No hindrance placed in their way. In Gaza, too, the death knell sounds as Israel busies itself with the dirty – but it must be done! – business… Continue reading
About Me
This is Bernard Spiegal’s blog.
I write mainly about Palestine/Israel and related issues; sometimes other stuff too
Recent Posts
- Sanctioning the settlements: A bullet bitten. A space opened up.
- Chief Rabbi Mirvis: Moral purpose shattered
- A charade and a reflection on relative time: Jewish Establishment meets with Foreign Secretary Miliband
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- Synod begins loosening the shackles that tied it to the pro-Israel Jewish Establishment
