Tag Archives: Hamas

Dichotomy in approach to Israeli-Palestinian conflict

What Hamas carried out on 7 October is certainly justifiable. We have to recognise that those freedom fighters created a terrible massacre that belies all humanity. The world got to see the scale and brutality of Hamas’s grisly attack on … Continue reading

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Tweespalt in de benadering van het Israëli Palestijns conflict

Wat Hamas op 7 oktober uitvoerde, is in zeker geval goed te praten. Wij moeten erkennen dat die vrijheidsstrijders een verschrikkelijk slagveld hebben aangericht dat alle menselijkheid te buiten gaat. De wereld kreeg de schaal en wreedheid te zien van … Continue reading

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Inadmissible Israeli violence

The IDF believes the ground offensive will last at least several months to achieve the objective of eliminating Hamas while minimizing casualties to Israeli forces and to Gazan civilians. But concerning those last ones, we can only see the slaughter of many children. Continue reading

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Imprisonment and slaughter in the Gaza Strip

The current conflict between Hmas and Israel is the straw that broke the camel’s back and carries with it the danger of a long-lasting war. As a result, the outside international community must put pressure on Israel to reach a lasting solution. Continue reading

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Horror for a cornered people

One may wonder whether the militant Palestinian nationalist and Islamist movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip Hamas has seriously considered the possible consequences, before carrying out their terrible attack on Israel during the Jewish holiday. With their action, … Continue reading

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The Many Faces of Extremism

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Extremism has always existed although it is since the 9/11 attacks that many people around the world began to fear it. As extremism is a complex phenomenon, scholars and policy makers have significant differences as…

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June – July 2019

June was hottest ever recorded on Earth = Data provided by the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), implemented by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts on behalf of the EU, showed that the global average temperature for June 2019 … Continue reading

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2016 in review Politics #1 Year of dissonance

2016 year of dissonance, despair, where all certainties were brushed away When Israeli commandos in 2010 intercepted a flotilla of ships seeking to break Israel’s blockade of Hamas in the Gaza Strip a diplomatic rupture broke several contacts in the … Continue reading

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Silence, devotion, Salafists, quietists, weaponry, bombings, books, writers and terrorists

Trouble-spots across the globe Bob Van Laerhoven seems to have survived life among the Doomed. The full-time Belgian/Flemish author debuted in 1977 as a short story writer, and in 1985 as a literary novelist. More than 30 novels followed, some … Continue reading

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2014 Politics all over the world

Thailand The 2013–14 Thai political crisis did not seem to come to an end and the ‘peaceful’ protests were silenced at certain moments, with brutal police force. Anti-government protests took place between November 2013 and May 2014, organised by the … Continue reading

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