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End of the deal: by revoking its stance on Jerusalem, Australia isolates Israel, not Palestinians
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Labour’s new Treasury unit will ‘challenge unnecessary regulation’ by forcing nominally independent bodies like Ofwat to bend to business demands — exactly what Iain Anderson’s corporate clients wanted, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
DR DYLAN MURPHY looks at a Big Brother Watch report which exposes the government as an enabler of DWP secret spying on benefit claimants
The EU faces a critical choice: will it remain in the shadow of an increasingly unreliable US ally, or will it forge its own path in a multilateral world where co-operation with China is essential, asks MARC VANDEPITTE as leaders meet for the EU-China Summit
A lot of discussion about how the left should currently organise – including debate on whether the Green Party is a useful vehicle for advance – runs the risk of refusing to engage with or learn from the reasons the left was defeated previously, argues KEVIN OVENDEN
For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE
DONALD TRUMP’S so-called “deal of the century” was meant to represent a finality of sorts, an event reminiscent of Francis Fukuyama’s premature declaration of the “end of history” and the uncontested supremacy of Western capitalism. In effect, it was a declaration that “we” — the US, Israel and a few allies — have won, and “you,” the isolated and marginalised Palestinians, have lost.
Just as Fukuyama failed to consider the unceasing evolution of history, the US and Israeli governments also failed to understand that the Middle East — in fact, the world — is not governed by Israeli expectations and US diktats.
The above is a verifiable assertion. On October 17, the Australian government announced that it was revoking its 2018 recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Predictably, the new decision, officially made by Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, was strongly criticised by Israel, celebrated by Palestinians and welcomed by Arab countries who praised the responsible diplomacy of Canberra.
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