Mask-off outbursts by Maga insiders and most strikingly, the destruction and reconstruction of the presidential seat, with a huge new $300m ballroom, means Trump isn’t planning to leave the White House when his term ends, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
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The roots of IDF brutality
BERNARD REGAN traces the origins of the Israeli armed forces’ barbaric practices back to the past masters — the British
British policemen disperse an Arab crowd during the Jaffa riots in April 1936
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BEN CHACKO speaks with Knesset member OFER CASSIF about rising political violence, the prospects for peace and his continuous ‘silencing by suspension’
The City is leaning on Rachel Reeves to cut welfare spending — when what’s needed is cuts to all the benefits given to the mega rich, corporations and banks to help them not pay or blatantly dodge their fair share of tax, explains BERNIE EVANS
The choice between two Blairites to revamp the tepid centrism of our ruling party doesn’t even come as cold comfort as we wander the city streets suffering from their third decade of austerity and the fifth of wage stagnation, writes MATT KERR
ANN HENDERSON looks at the trailblazers of the Women’s Trade Union League and their successful fight for female factory inspectors — a battle that echoes in today’s workplace campaigns
HENRY FOWLER puts the strike of public-sector workers in New Zealand in the wider context of deteriorating employment conditions throughout the world’s major economies
MAT COWARD looks back at a protest 105 years ago this month, whose reporting by the media bears uncomfortable similarities with demos today
HOW could they do that? How often over the last few tragic months of the war on Gaza have we heard that said? As the body count escalates and the tally of wounded surges, disbelief mounts as to how the Israeli soldiers could continue to act in the way they do — remorselessly killing children, women and men without any semblance of doubt or hesitancy.
Of course, they are acting on the orders of their superiors, the faceless generals for whom the fighting appears as a routine of their fantasies of total war — the relentless murder of people as if they were mere animated figures in some computer game — lacking any real humanity or individuality.
Above them, however, are the politicians whose comments were so forensically dissected by the South African lawyers at the International Court of Justice in January. Among them former Israeli Defence Forces general, Likud member and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant who on October 9 described the Palestinians as “human animals”; Benjamin Netanyahu who referenced the biblical narrative invoking the wholesale slaughter and destruction by the Israelites of the “Amalek” to spare “no-one, but kill alike men and women, infants and sucklings, oxen and sheep, camels and asses.”
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ANSELM ELDERGILL draws attention to a legal case on Tuesday in which a human rights group is challenging the government’s decision to allow the sale of weapons used against Palestinians
