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Israel’s efforts to malign and cripple UNRWA remains a vital part of the agenda of murderous collective punishment, one used against a people seen more as mute serfs and submissive animals than sovereign beings entitled to rights and protections.
If we want a habitable world for not only humans, but all species of animals and plants, then we need to take climate change seriously. Techno-fixes and offsetting carbon schemes are at best fanciful and at worst distracting from what is a dire emergency.
Trump’s re-election after the Biden interregnum will certainly be the end of America as the world has known it, and with it the post-World War II largely US-made international order. The question is, what will take its place -- more fragmentation, disorder and authoritarianism around the world, or the emergence of a true planetary civilization?
EU policy towards Israel and its settlements has been one of schizophrenic “differentiation”, notably on the subject of trade. A 2015 policy brief from the European Council on Foreign Relations describes it as “a de facto policy of differentiating between Israel and settlement activities in the Occupied Territories within its bilateral relations.”
There is a difference between a country fighting a defensive war on multiple fronts and another fighting for colonial expansion, for regional hegemony and for military dominance driven by religious prophecies.
The wider question this whole situation raises is the appropriateness of the Green Party relying on legislation to resolve an internal situation largely of its own making. Legislation should focus on broad areas of policy or principle, and not be a device for helping political parties to patch up their internal mistakes.