Democracy, Shemocracy

It’s tough to get people to agree; it’s even tougher to get the minority to submit to their opposition. But this is the nature of democracy – majority rule, over everyone else. We have recently been treated to a rare minority uprising, using a surprise set of tactics,...

The Geopolitics of al-Aqsa Flood

Hamas’ Operation Al-Aqsa Flood was meticulously planned. The launch date was conditioned by two triggering factors. First was Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu flaunting his ‘New Middle East’ map at the UN General Assembly in September, in which he completely...

A Population With Nothing To Lose

The coming days are going to be full of western news media slyly reversing the aggressor-defender relationship and reporting as though all the violence began with the Hamas offensive, spontaneously out of nowhere. ❖ The problem with oppressing a population with...