Zionism
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Israel knows how to break things, but not how to fix them
According to a Pew survey published in May, based on enquiry undertaken in March and early April, thirty-nine percent of Israelis think that Israel’s military assault on Gaza is ‘about right’. Thirty-four percent, however, believe the military assault has ‘not gone far enough’; and a paltry nineteen percent think it has ‘gone too far’. Might… Continue reading
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It’s Hezbollah. Or is it? Caution required
It hits you first: the grotesque hypocrisy of Prime Minister Netanyahu, responsible for the deaths and maiming of thousands of Palestinian children, expressing sympathy for the twelve Druze children killed at Majdal Shams, a Druze village in the Israel annexed Golan Heights. His heart, apparently, is broken. He emoted: Among the victims were young children… Continue reading
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What we see should not be possible to do
You’ll have noticed. It’s slipping away. Barely a news item now. A brief clip of the devastation, then reversion to ‘informed’ interviews and comment. Will there, won’t there, be a ceasefire? Who rejects a ceasefire? Who accepts a ceasefire? Like a tennis match, back and forth, the ball soaked in blood and viscera, spraying the… Continue reading
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Hamas: an erroneous silencing. Part two
This is Part two of a two-part article. In Part one I focus on the wrongness and futility of proscribing Hamas. Here, in Part two, I set out in outline Hamas’s position on ceasefires and ultimate objectives. Hamas: from 1988 to now Hamas’s original 1988 Charter prompted accusations of antisemitism, because it characterised the conflict… Continue reading
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Israel does not have a right to exist – nor does any other state
People have the right to exist – not states. States are political formations, born out of the interaction of any number of factors – economic, ethnic, topographical, military, form of governance, and so forth. They are not sentient beings in any meaningful way. It is, therefore, simply a category mistake to assimilate the concept of… Continue reading
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Can Israel change?
In a couple of earlier blog articles I wondered whether Israel has the internal resources – ethical, psychological, imaginative, political – to reflect upon itself critically; to shed its self-imposed, self-defeating burden of maintaining and justifying a state founded on Jewish Supremacism. All the indications are that it has not. This was the case… Continue reading
About Me
This is Bernard Spiegal’s blog.
I write mainly about Palestine/Israel and related issues; sometimes other stuff too
Bernard Spiegal 