Tag: Gaza
Hey everyone! I hope your weekends are going much better than mine. I am still very much under that cold, in fact, no matter what I try, it just gets worse. As a result, my motivation level is below an all time average, all I want to do is sleep all day. I have quite a few promised and unfinished posts here too, so all I can tell you now is once I get myself together, I’ll post everything. In the meantime, here’s a seemingly poor collection of last week’s bes An Umbrella Revolution in Hong Kong? The One Country…
Happy weekend everybody! And happy long weekend to all my readers from the US! I should say happy last weekend of summer, but it just doesn’t sound right… 🙂 As always, I have ambiguous feelings this time of the year. Summer being my favorite season, I want it to last forever (I know, I should move someplace warm…), and at the same time I am excited for new things and things freshening up with fall approaching. Speaking of new things, I will be introducing some new features of the blog this coming week, I can’t wait to share them with…
Happy Sunday, everybody! This is the first post ever that I am writing on a train, can you tell? Actually, I am pre-writing it on Saturday, and when you are reading it on Sunday, I am on a boat – a Danube cruise trip (still on my mission to catch-up on this rapidly passing summer). Hope your are all having a great time too! Take a look at what happened this past week, through the lense of my favorite bloggers. Russia’s convoy to East Ukraine and the International Committee of the Red Cross This convoy which turned out not to…
theweekmagazine: How a Palestinian turned airstrikes into art A young artist chooses to see hope amid the ongoing crisis between Gaza and Israel
Hey Everybody! Hope all your weekends are going fine and you can take a few minutes to check out this week’s posts. With Maliki Gone, Can Iraq’s New Prime Minister Put His Country Back Together? That we’re going to have to wait and see. What You Need to Know about the UN Human Rights Council’s Gaza Investigation Sadly, it is probably true that the investigation will be no use in improving the situation. I have to insert one of my favorite quotes from Henry Kissinger’s Diplomacy here. He writes that fact-finding missions are “the standard device for diplomats signaling that…
Happy Sunday, everybody! This is a pre-scheduled post from Friday, so I hope nothing has happened during the weekend that could make it inappropriate. While you are reading I am probably somewhere out there trying to catch up with this summer I almost missed altogether. We are having an incredibly boring down time in my workplace recently (usual August in the public sector I guess), I am constantly joking that if I did not have all  these writing and learning to do, I would probably have started looking for a new job already. But seriously. Summer is my favorite season,…
Happy August, everybody! I can’t help repeating myself, but how can it be August already? It means 2/3 of this summer went by almost unnoticed by me. I need to speed up on doing all my favorite summer things before it’s really over. By the way, may I now call your attention to an interesting quotation from Hillary Clinton’s Hard Choices? On one of the first pages she cites advices she received from former US Secretaries of State when she got appointed. One of those is from Warren Christopher: “Don’t plan vacations in August because something always seems to happen…
Under fire and out of cash, U.N. overwhelmed by Gaza crisis GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) – The United Nations in Gaza is struggling to withstand a flood of almost a quarter of a million refugees into shelters that have repeatedly come under Israeli fire.Out of cash, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), the main U.N. body in the impoverished enclave of 1.8 million Palestinians, says it can barely handle the humanitarian crisis unleashed by more than three weeks of fighting between militants and Israel. The same old problem might require new approaches to be solved for once. Yet again, the UN…
Happy last weekend of July, people! Can you believe it is almost August already? I sure can’t. It is still these two sad stories that set the agenda of world news. There were quite a few great blog posts about them this week. Hamas and Israel: why a paradigm shift is needed It indeed seems like the same script is being played out again and again. Something really does need to change if we want a different ending for once. This is Not the First Time an UNWRA School Has Been Attacked UNWRA is the number one NGO on the…
Happy Sunday, everybody! Many unfortunate, even sad events are going on in the world these days. Check out what my favorite bloggers had to say about them. Security Council Meets on MH13 Disaster. What’s Next? What’s next, indeed? Russia tries to blame it on Ukraine, while all the other members blame it on Russia. And we know there is no real decision making in the SC without consensus. This Iran Nuke Deal Might. Just. Work. This post is from the first half of the week, we now know that the talks are extended by four months. The post sums up…
