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As US role in Gaza escalates, expect retaliation in the West

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.
Keir Starmer could win back voters by standing up to Israel

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.
Gaza faces increasingly bleak reality one month after Israel ended ceasefire

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.
Trump’s tariffs are similar to previous disastrous US plan

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.
Netanyahu apuesta porque Trump retome su idea de expulsión de los palestinos de Gaza

2 months ago | opendemocracy.net | Paul Rogers

¿Por qué la idea de Donald Trump de convertir Gaza en la Riviera de Medio Oriente fue tan útil para el primer ministro israelí Benjamín Netanyahu? Para entenderlo, vale la pena echar un vistazo rápido a las primeras etapas de este conflicto centenario. Israel se convirtió en un estado en 1948, después de lo que los israelíes llaman su Guerra de Independencia y los palestinos llaman Nakba, que en árabe significa “catástrofe”.
Is UK’s support for Israel’s atrocities finally wavering?

2 months ago | opendemocracy.net | Paul Rogers

From the start of this, Israel’s fifth recent war in Gaza, the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) and government have insisted that every possible care is being taken to minimise civilian casualties. But this week, its airstrikes reportedly killed 183 Palestinian children and wounded another 220 on the first day of Israel ending the ceasefire. In total, 436 Gazans died on 18 March alone, making it one of the deadliest days since the war started 18 months ago.
Gazans suffer as Netanyahu pins hopes on fickle US president

2 months ago | opendemocracy.net | Paul Rogers

Why was Donald Trump’s suggestion on turning Gaza into a Middle Eastern Riviera so helpful to Israeli prime minister Binyamin Netanyahu? To understand this, it is worth briefly looking back to earlier phases of the century-old conflict. Israel became a state in 1948, after what it calls its War of Independence and Palestinians call the Nakba – Arabic for ‘catastrophe’.
Trump is testing the waters on Ukraine to see how far he can go elsewhere

Mar 7, 2025 | opendemocracy.net | Paul Rogers

Donald Trump’s team has had the best part of four years to prepare for his second presidency and has hit the ground running with a welter of executive orders, hirings and firings, all concentrating on Making America Great Again. On the global stage, Trump’s primary focus is on cooperating with some of the world’s leading autocracies and oligarchies in the hopes that they can help the US get richer at the expense of just about everyone else.
Will Trump’s entire term be as damaging as his first month?

Mar 3, 2025 | opendemocracy.net | Paul Rogers

Donald Trump’s presidency has barely entered its second month, and the change he has brought about has already been so significant and so rapid that it is hard to imagine how his administration will evolve in the long term. The substantial changes are, in part, due to the extensive planning done in anticipation of his winning a second term.
How the UK could be a world leader in the climate revolution

Feb 20, 2025 | opendemocracy.net | Paul Rogers

There are plenty of ways we could enter a new global crisis. One might stem from a pandemic, a cyber attack, or any one of the current wars escalating out of control. Already underway, though, is the crisis of accelerating climate change. That unfolding global catastrophe has long existed but is becoming more urgent week by week, as climate scientists issue increasingly strident warnings over what is happening and we see hard evidence in the form of extreme weather around the world.