Paul Rogers

1 week ago | opendemocracy.net | Paul Rogers

Conditions for Palestinians are getting progressively worse as Israel’s effort to control Gaza intensifies. Aware that his war can continue only as long as he has the backing of a highly unpredictable US president, Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is ramping up efforts to bring the territory under total control as quickly as possible, whatever the human cost.

3 weeks ago | opendemocracy.net | Paul Rogers

As Gaza’s traumatised and grieving Palestinians continue to suffer Israel’s daily bombing and the collapse of food and medical supplies, the aim of Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu is clear. His government wants to clear the area of its population, whom it plans to replace with Jewish settlers. Gazans will first be herded into a grossly overcrowded area in the south-west of the Gaza Strip, close to the Egyptian border, and held in appalling conditions.

1 month ago | znetwork.org | Paul Rogers

Although Donald Trump is thoroughly unpredictable on many issues, his support for Israel’s government remains firm for now, allowing Binyamin Netanyahu to continue with the devastating war in Gaza. Israel aims to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its Palestinian population and repopulate it with Jewish settlers, according to work by the Washington-based Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

1 month ago | opendemocracy.net | Paul Rogers

Although Donald Trump is thoroughly unpredictable on many issues, his support for Israel’s government remains firm for now, allowing Binyamin Netanyahu to continue with the devastating war in Gaza. Israel aims to ethnically cleanse Gaza of its Palestinian population and repopulate it with Jewish settlers, according to work by the Washington-based Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft.

1 month ago | opendemocracy.net | Paul Rogers

As Donald Trump’s global tariffs come into effect – with the world continuing to reel and the markets still in turmoil from the shock of their announcement – it makes sense to look for parallels in US political history to try and better understand the plan. The law-breaking of the Nixon administration and his eventual resignation may be comparable, as may Eisenhower’s bitter anti-left attacks of McCarthyism in the early 1950s. You could perhaps also compare Trump’s actions to Franklin D.