Last year I posted on the Israeli blockade of Gaza and the incident in which Israeli soldiers killed several of the people on board one of the ships attempting to run the blockade. I opined that the blockade was probably legal but that … [Read more...]
A Bug? Or a Feature?
I'm going to steer clear of the issue of whether it is morally right to acknowledge it with the word 'genocide.' (For the record, I think it is morally right plus long overdue, and it should be done while some people who lived through … [Read more...]
Leaving Iraq and Turkey
The main problem of course is the relationship between Turkey and the Iraqi Kurds.KurdistanWorld War I saw the end of the Ottoman Empire. Originally, the Treaty of Sèvres (1920) between the victorious European powers and Turkey was to … [Read more...]