Israel’s attack on Gaza and the disastrous ‘peace talks’ compelled me to leak what I knewIn Palestine, the time has come for national reconciliation. On the eve of the 63rd commemoration of the Nakba – the uprooting of Palestinians that accompanied t… Continue reading
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Why I blew the whistle about Palestine | Ziyad Clot
Israel’s attack on Gaza and the disastrous ‘peace talks’ compelled me to leak what I knewIn Palestine, the time has come for national reconciliation. On the eve of the 63rd commemoration of the Nakba – the uprooting of Palestinians that accompanied t… Continue reading
Libya: the morality of intervention | Bernard Kouchner
The Libyan crisis has shown how a united Europe can be used as a force for common goodCould we leave Colonel Gaddafi’s victims to die in full view of our TV cameras? I think not. It is quite understandable that the UN’s courageous decision to reso… Continue reading
Sub-Saharan Africa is not Egypt, Hague | Blessing-Miles Tendi
In suggesting Zimbabwe and others are ripe for an Egypt-style revolution, William Hague overlooks realities unpalatable to himWilliam Hague, Britain’s foreign secretary, declared this week that “we are only in the early stages of what is happening in n… Continue reading
If Gaddafi stays, well, he stays | Michael Tomasky
Typically sharp piece by Fareed Zakaria in Time, headlined “How Will Libya End?” He starts by noting that this is a truly multilateral operation, unlike all the others that are called multilateral by are really American:But more than anything else, wha… Continue reading
Libya, the UN and the R2P debate | Ian Williams
Yes, the US should step aside soon from a leading military role, but the UN is justly discharging its ‘responsibility to protect’It is doubtless of some comfort to the citizenry of Benghazi or Misurata that if Gaddafi “exterminated” them without hindra… Continue reading
Arabic, phlegm and the battle of Tarf al-Ghar | David Shariatmadari
Western commentators struggling with Arabic pronunciation might find a solution in their own languageAz Zawiyah. Sana’a. Benghazi. Over the last few months, western commentators have had to get to grips with an array of confusing new words. We can assu… Continue reading
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France plays hawk, Germany demurs. Libya has exposed Europe’s fault lines | Timothy Garton Ash
With the west at sixes and sevens, Gaddafi may yet get away with murder. And this in the year of EU unitySo Europeans are from Mars and Americans are from Venus. Those “cheese-eating surrender monkeys” – the French – have led the military charge i… Continue reading
There’s nothing moral about Nato’s intervention in Libya | Seumas Milne
The attacks on Libya risk a bloody stalemate and are a threat to the region. The alternative has to be a negotiated settlementIt’s as if it’s a habit they can’t kick. Once again US, British and other Nato forces are bombarding an Arab country with crui… Continue reading
The Right Word: Fox New declares war on dithering | Sadhbh Walshe
The pundits can’t make up their mind which they dislike more – Obama’s inaction or his action? But they’re not dithering, oh no!The much anticipated military intervention in Libya was met with scepticism by Fox News hosts because America is not leadi… Continue reading
Which humanitarian doctrine should France follow in Libya? | Jean-Christophe Rufin
Our heritage means people turn to us when their liberty is at risk. But the question of how far to intervene has yet to be decidedLet’s welcome the fact that the threat of civilian massacres in Libya may have been removed. The bloodthirsty dictator who… Continue reading
The consensus on intervention in Libya has shattered | Simon Tisdall
Russia and China have called for a ceasefire in Libya. Now South Africa and India have joined in the outrage over the scale of the attacksBritain and France are facing a rising torrent of international criticism over military intervention in Libya, wit… Continue reading
The difference with Libya | Brian Whitaker
Unlike Bahrain or Yemen, the scale and nature of the Gaddafi regime’s actions have impelled the UN’s ‘responsibility to protect’Why not bomb Bahrain? Why not declare a no-fly zone over Yemen? Such questions are aired increasingly on the internet – im… Continue reading
France had a duty to intervene in Libya | Dominique Moisi
A prominent international profile is important to the French – but Sarkozy’s course of action is not just politically expedientIn 2003, France, under President Jacques Chirac, took the lead in opposing America’s planned invasion of Saddam Hussein’s I… Continue reading