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Barry Finger (“Questioning the call for a ceasefire”, Solidarity 689) wants us to support Israel in its immediate military conflict with Hamas. But if there is an abstract case for supporting a state in a war against a clerical-fascist militia, the means by which Israel carries out its side of that conflict puts it beyond support. Israel’s military strategy, which aims to reduce Gaza to a “city of rubble”, means it is not merely making war on Hamas, but on the population of Gaza as a whole.

By Deji Elumoye in Abuja and John Shiklam in Kaduna President of the Senate, Dr. Ahmad Lawan, yesterday gave the armed forces a pass mark in battling insecurity, notwithstanding the challenges facing them. He said their efforts are paying off as the security crisis confronting the country is gradually being reversed. He spoke on a day a northern group, under the aegis of Coalition of Northern Elders for Peace and Development, urged President Muhammadu Buhari to step up efforts to end the siege of Boko Haram, bandits and kidnappers in the region. Lawan, while hosting a delegation from Adamawa ...