OPINION by Jan Egeland- Last year three UN Security Council resolutions were passed aiming to protect and assist civilians in Syria. But, a year after the first resolution was passed, the words ring hollow. In a report being released today, my organisation, Norwegian Refugee Council, along with several other organisations,[…]
OPINION by Iqbal Jassat- Citing Iran as an existential threat is to don a mask which conceals what many Israelis perceive to be the real danger arising from internal Israeli policies that Netanyahu refuses to acknowledge. Now that all the hype is over following his controversial grandstanding at a joint[…]
OPINION by Marwan Bishara- The political rift between US President Barack Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has become evermore personal with the latter’s visit to Washington this week. But behind the personal and the political spat lies a strategic difference with dangerous implications for the Middle East, indeed[…]
OPINION by Andriques Che Petersen In the year 2015, where one can find out what their favourite celebrity had for lunch yesterday just by entering a simple Google search, we were shocked this week to hear that our government had been spying on others and keeping tabs on other governments[…]
OPINION by Shafiq Morton Recent reports that government had been told by the UN that 11 foreign terrorists might want to use the country as a base is nothing new. A neutral space in the “war on terror” and a gateway to the continent, South Africa’s neutrality is often seen[…]
OPINION by Tony Laurance- Writing for Al Jazeera last October, ahead of the Cairo Donor Conference for Gaza, I warned that it was not enough to pledge large sums – as donors duly did. We needed to learn from past failures and ensure that the aid was actually delivered. Alas,[…]
OPINION by Randa Abdel-Fattah- In 2011, then opposition immigration spokesman, Scott Morrison, sought to persuade the shadow cabinet to take advantage of what were perceived to be increasing concerns among the general public about Australian Muslims. That there was opposition by some members of the shadow cabinet to the suggestion[…]
OPINION by Nabila Ismail- The Times article by Graeme Hosken (Al-Qaeda at the gates :Friday, 20 February 2015) reports that the United Nations Security Council has informed the South African Government to be on the look out “for 11 international terrorists who might consider using the country as an operational[…]
OPINION by Robert Fantina- One may be excused for thinking that the impossible has occurred: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu may finally have pushed the United States too far. One might have thought that constant, ongoing violations of international law might have done it. But no, that didn’t interest the[…]
OPINION by Ramzi Kassem- “They’re savages! It’s not about them! It’s about us!” In that exchange between the protagonist, Chris Kyle, a man who holds the dubious distinction of being the most lethal sniper in American military history, and his wife, lies the central conceit of “American Sniper”, nominated in[…]
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