Tag: gaza
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Gaza: Where’s that?
The first phase of the so-called Trump peace plan came into effect on October 10, 2025. This ceasefire included the return of all hostages by Hamas, dead or alive, and the withdrawal of the IDF to within a yellow buffer line. Hamas have delivered on their part of the ceasefire agreement, the IDF have retreated…
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It’s clear, Keir: Back to the day job
If the current cohort of Labour MPs have not realised that the current leader of their party is leading them to political oblivion, you have less foresight than an ostrich with its head in the sand. Starmer’s close advisors, such as McSweeney, Ingham, and Driver, are politically inept but seem to have the ability to…
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Board of Pricks
In Davos, Donald Trump announced the setting up of the Board of Peace, of which he will be the Chair. The announcement was equivalent to Darth Vader replacing António Guterres as Secretary General of the UN. The board is set up fulfill the second phase of Trump’s Middle East peace plan, but has morphed into…
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The French used Madame Guillotine; you have got the 25th Amendment.
Let’s start with something depressing: he, being Donald J Trump, has 3 more years of his presidency unless an act of God intervenes. I do not believe in an interventionist God or, for that matter, in a God; however, 90% of deluded white evangelical Christians will be praying hard for him. Here are some reasons,…
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HANUKKAH VIOLATED
Apologies, I promised I wouldn’t write another blog until the start of 2026 On Sunday, the 14th of December, two gunmen, father and son, killed 15 Jews who were at a festival on Bondi Beach celebrating Hanukkah. Is this antisemitism? Of course, it is, so this terror attack must be unreservedly condemned. A 43-year-old man…
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Apologies, My End-of-Year Rant 2025
Once again, another embarrassing and tragic year for our species has passed. Firstly, let us start off with the genocide in Gaza, where the death toll passed 70,000, which includes 20,000 children and not yet counted the many thousands who remain under 50,000 tonnes of rubble. We have a ceasefire where all the October 7…
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A War of Words: Playing Identity Politics as Rome Burns.
We, by which I mean ordinary citizens of this dysfunctional political system, have just appointed 3 people into three non-jobs, the Commissioner of the Irish Language, Pol Deed, Lee Reynolds, Commissioner for Gibberish, and Ulster British Tradition, whatever that is and finally Katy Radford as the Director of the Office of Identity and Cultural Expression,…
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A Tail of Two Peace Plans
TRUMP’S PEACE PLAN SEPTEMBER 2025 1. Gaza will be a deradicalised, terror-free zone that does not pose a threat to its neighbours. 2. Gaza will be redeveloped for the benefit of the people of Gaza, who have suffered more than enough. 3. If both sides agree to this proposal, the war will immediately end. Israeli…
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Yes,this is antisemitic. Yes,this is anti-democratic.
On the 2nd of October, a man stabbed and killed one person and injured others at a synagogue where members of the Jewish community were celebrating Yom Kippur. This attack on the Jewish community is unjustifiable on any level, and I, as someone with no faith, unequivocally condemn it. A recent report commissioned by the…
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A week at the Féile.
A piece published in 27/02/2025 Belfast News Letter This is the third year I have attended the debate and discussion element of the festival, and I am only speaking to this part. However, anecdotally, people I have spoken to found the community events to have been successful. The first event I attended was Nick Hayward’s…
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