The military ordered hundreds of thousands of people into a designated “safe” zone. On reaching it, they were shelled by the army and the air force. The generals said there was another safe zone; if the people kept moving, respite would be found. It wasn’t. Again they were attacked. The scene repeated, but now, corralled onto a tiny stretch of beach and trapped against the ocean, there was no way out.
The preservation of democracy requires its curtailing. That is the logic of those attempting to strike Donald Trump from the ballot in the Republican presidential primaries and general election this year. Panicking that they may be unable to build a political coalition to defeat the far-right buffoon in November, a section of American liberals and old-establishment conservatives have leaned on the power of state institutions to compensate for their own unpopularity.
A few signs depicting Benjamin Netanyahu as Adolf Hitler were postered in Sydney over the weekend. The police reportedly are investigating and urging people to contact Crime Stoppers if they have any “information in relation to the incident”.
There is a power in the Middle East that is the natural ally of the Palestinian struggle, and which holds the key to the liberation of the region. It is more formidable than Hamas, Hezbollah and other purported anti-imperialist forces. But no-one wants to talk about it: the Arab and Iranian working classes.
“I have ordered a complete siege on the Gaza Strip. There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed. We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly.”
The Commonwealth Bank has reported a yearly cash profit increase of 6 percent—to a record $10.2 billion—as working-class borrowers continue to be throttled by higher interest rates and declining savings due to price rises.