Israel still has strict gun laws for private citizens
11 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economics of crime, law and economics, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, gun control, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
How the First World War Created the Middle East Conflicts (Documentary)
11 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, International law, war and peace Tags: Israel, Middle-East politics, World War I
Whose Land Is It? Almost a Biblical Story
10 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, economic history, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror, West Bank
The failure of Western “Liberals and Leftists” to hold the Arabs to the same moral and ethical standards as Israel is a “example of old colonialist and racist habits. They don’t see in the Arabs moral equals.” – Michael Walzer (1982) I think that most of the arguing and fighting over land and religion should […]
Whose Land Is It? Almost a Biblical Story
The war cabinet vs. the security cabinet
08 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
A very interesting development reported today by Barak Ravid of Axios (in a Twitter thread) shows some further evolution of the relationship between Israel’s security cabinet (an inner team of ministers with grounding in law) and the “war cabinet” that was set up as part of the process of bringing some (former) opposition parties into […]
The war cabinet vs. the security cabinet
The Fall of Bucharest – Political Turmoil in Russia I THE GREAT WAR Week…
08 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Ceasefire: IDF vs. Hamas
06 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - USA, war and peace Tags: Gaza Strip, Israel, Middle-East politics, war against terror
An interesting post by one “Diogenes” on the recent ceasefire in Gaza that occurred for about a week until Hamas made a terrorist attack inside Israel, Was the Ceasefire Worth It? The question is worth asking because there was much criticism of both Israel and the USA over allowing this ceasefire to occur; the primary […]
Ceasefire: IDF vs. Hamas
Chris Trotter in strife?
03 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, International law, laws of war, liberalism, Marxist economics, politics - New Zealand, war and peace Tags: Age of Enlightenment, Israel, Middle-East politics, regressive left, war against terror
Given his (qualified) support for Israel in their cage fight against Hamas I had wondered over the last few weeks if Chris was feeling the pressure from the New Left who hate Israel and have grown to outnumber he and his kind here in New Zealand over the last couple of decades. I noticed that […]
Chris Trotter in strife?
Romania On The Ropes – Reflections On The Battle of the Somme I THE GREA…
01 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Western Front Tank Warfare 1944 – WW2 Documentary Special
01 Dec 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
The World’s Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia by James Fergusson (2013)
30 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, development economics, economic history, economics of crime, growth disasters, law and economics Tags: Somalia
Caado la gooyaa car alle ayey leedahay (‘The abandonment of tradition calls forth the wrath of Allah’, Somali proverb, quoted in The World’s Most Dangerous Place, page 398) James Fergusson worked on this book with help from a grant from the Airey Neave Trust, a charity whose objective is to promote research ‘designed to make […]
The World’s Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia by James Fergusson (2013)
The Death Of Franz Joseph – The End of The Somme I THE GREAT WAR Week 122
25 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Life Inside a Panzer – Tank Life Part 1 – WW2 Special
24 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War II
An Undersea Oil Pipeline to Beat the Nazis – WW2 Documentary Special
18 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: D-Day, World War II
Heavy Action At The Somme – The Fight For Monastir I THE GREAT WAR Week 121
17 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, war and peace Tags: World War I
Mugabe: Power, Plunder and the Struggle for Zimbabwe by Martin Meredith (2007)
17 Nov 2023 Leave a comment
in defence economics, laws of war, war and peace Tags: Zimbabwe
‘Africa for Africans’ ‘In Africa, the African is supreme’ (p.230) (Mugabe slogans) ‘This is not about correcting a colonial imbalance. This is about punishing your enemies and rewarding your friends. This is about staying in power no matter what the damage is to your country or its economy.’ (Philemon Matibe, MDC i.e. Zimbabwe opposition candidate, […]
Mugabe: Power, Plunder and the Struggle for Zimbabwe by Martin Meredith (2007)
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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