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Pro army propaganda and true journalism
The headline is mine and this is part of an attempt to reveal — and encourage — honest journalism, that continues to survive in an increasingly fascist state of Israel. What follows is the latest op-ed item by Gideon Levy, in Haaretz, Jun 4, 2025 Two pictures and a conclusion: The editor of the Presspectiva […]
The aid debacle in Gaza
May 27, 2025
ISRAEL’S MAMMOTH SICK JOKE This week saw the horrible unravelling in Gaza of a grotesque public relations stunt that might better — if inadequately — have been described as a mammoth sick joke. It was in the chaos prompted by the “intervention” of the hastily founded and clearly politically motivated Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and its […]
A future Nuremberg?
May 22, 2025
We have heard it all before: ‘We were only obeying orders’. It’s the standard excuse by state sponsored murderers, torturers and assorted sadists when finally brought to book. As Gideon Levy points out in this latest column in Haaretz, it applies very much in Israel today. May 22, 2025 The Israel Defense Forces has killed […]
‘Annihilating Hamas’ = Destroying Gaza
May 15, 2025
Gideon Levy, writing in Haaretz, May 11, 2025, highlights the dominant views in Israel and the reality that continues to be ignored. Everyone is in favor of destroying Hamas. Who would oppose this? No one would. Extremists want it to happen before the hostages are released, and the moderates say: Let’s release the hostages first […]
ECD ruling exacerbates inequality
July 7, 2020
The Pretoria high court ruling that childcare centres, closed since March, may open immediately, but subject to safety requirements will not affect the overwhelming majority of such centres. Instead, it will exacerbate existing inequalities.
Bitter succession battle looms in Zambia
November 8, 2014
A wide-open and bitter Zambian presidential contest seems on the cards especially because, on his deathbed in a London hospital President Michael Sata nominated a backbench MP as his successor.
‘Prodigal daughters’ speak out
May 15, 2013
The position of women in the exile liberation movements — a largely neglected aspect of SA history — will feature this year at the Franschhoek Literary Festival in a discussion on the book Prodigal daughters
Threat of Egypt’s ‘morality police’
January 25, 2012
The fact that the radical Islamist Nour (Light) party scored nearly 30 per cent in the recent Egyptian elections has given rise to a worrying development: religious vigilantes. And with Islamists of one or other variety comprising the largest bloc in the new parliament, the country waits to see how strong is the influence of the fundamentalist Salafi.
Terry Bell Writes 
June 5, 2025
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