Ten days on from President Trump’s whirlwind visit to Israel and Egypt, the images of showmanship remain, but the ceasefire (let alone talk of peace) is very evidently and predictably fraying. As I noted here when the plan was first published – its terms “almost guarantee Netanyahu will resume killing, perhaps initially at lower intensity”.
Geopolitics
The Palestine Chronicle: ‘No Homes Left’: Rights Group Warns Israel Escalating Campaign to Empty Gaza
Rights groups warned Israel is systematically destroying Gaza’s remaining homes while expanding forced displacement policies. Read Article HERE
Economics
Thomas Piketty: The return of the Popular Front
Let’s say it straight away: the agreement reached by the French left-wing parties under the label of the “New Popular Union” is excellent news for French and European democracy. Read Here © MathieuMD / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA […]
EU politics
Wolfgang Streeck – Europe under Merkel IV: Balance of Impotence
An insightful, although long, analysis concerning where EU politics, especially with regard to its German/French axis, is headed. Read here
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