Tag Archives: The West
Watch: “And now the latest news from Aleppo from the BBC…”
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Islamist terrorists target children in Benghazi while the West and UN look on
Following the latest terrorist outrage in Benghazi – a car bomb targeting schoolchildren – Nureddin Sabir notes the West’s duplicitous policy of supporting Islamist terrorists in Libya while maintaining an arms embargo on the army fighting the terrorists. Read more [...]
The United States’ favoured autocrats
Lawrence Davidson says the US does not care if its allies are murderers, corrupt thieves or racists as long as they help it spread capitalism, achieve resource reliability, and ensure security for its allies and strategic advantage over old enemies. Read more [...]
Islamic State, the lack of self-reflection, and moral disintegration
Rich Forer says as long as Western societies refuse to look into the root causes of despair and anger, fear and discrimination, they will continue to sow the seeds for more violence and self-destruction, as exemplified by Islamic State. Read more [...]
What to do with militant or radical Islam?
Magdi Abdelhadi points to the housework that Muslims must do before the ideology of Islamism can be defeated, and Alan Hart argues that Western governments must cut off the policy oxygen on which Islamism flourishes. Read more [...]
How to defeat violent Islamic fundamentalism
Alan Hart says Western foreign policy and repressive Arab and Muslim regimes are at the core of violent Islamic fundamentalism, and that Western leaders could change both, but they will not. Read more [...]
How Western policy assists the transformation of anti-Israelism into anti-Semitism
Alan Hart writes:
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Israel’s atrocity and the West’s ignorance
Jamal Kanj highlights the Western media’s complacent, hollow and ignorant repetition of Israel’s propaganda line on the Gaza conflict, which is regurgitated uncritically and without applying the most basic principles of journalism. Read more [...]
Kosher theft? Palestine and Crimea compared
Jamak Kanj highlights Western hypocrisy by contrasting the Wests’s consternation over Russia’s annexation of Crimea on the one hand with the unconditional support for Israel’s annexation of Palestinian territories on the other. Read more [...]
Stop inflating Israel’s huge denial bubble
Jonathan Cook argues that it is time for Western states to stop apologising for Israel, treating it with kid gloves and rewarding its criminal behaviour, and to start taking concrete actions. Read more [...]
