Follow RT on There are trillions of tonnes of recoverable gas lying underneath the disputed waters off Gaza, Israel, Syria and Lebanon. And the Israelis want to make sure they alone control and profit from it.
Few topics rile people up on both sides of the political aisle more than the Israel-Palestine question. It is without doubt one of the most – if not the most – explosively divisive issues on the planet.
For example, when I have criticised Saudi Arabia’s criminal bombardment of Yemen, I have never once even contemplated fearing a backlash of people accusing me of being anti-Islamic or labelling me an Islamophobe. (Sure, Saudi nationals critical of its government’s actions may have to avoid entering into their local Saudi consulate upon invitation, but that’s for a different reason.)
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There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad.”
– George Orwell from 1984
As a Canadian who moved to Israel six years ago, I have had a second-row seat to the recent round of fighting between Hamas and Israel. I don’t live on the front line near Gaza, but in the sleepy suburbs of Tel Aviv where the most dangerous thing before the rockets starting flying were speeding Uber Eats drivers on electric scooters. The older I get, the more I appreciate that most things in life are nuanced. Rarely black or white, rather shades of grey. The war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza is
The BBC, Independent, Associated Press and The Times report on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Israel and the West Bank yesterday, in .