World Affairs

  • Israel is right to tame the West Bank

    The belief that Israeli’s are subjugating a West Bank population step by step is a falsehood setup on notions of statehood and of implicit abuse by the Israeli state.

    This is a narrative that’s so far produced zero reasoned understanding and has led to acrimonious clashes between protesters and counter-protesters, and the political elite and civilised populations everywhere.

    The bare reality is that the West Bank is a raw and wild place – whatever it looks like on paper. Israeli ‘settlers’ move there to tame a rampant strain of corruption that moves through populations. They do it to stop tides of crime spilling over into Israel, as Jordanians also attempt the same but without the rhetoric.

    The full picture is now becoming clear to many decision makers worldwide, and the time that’s wasted on so-called peace plans in places where state-backed help is needed is an embarrassing state of affairs for its advocates.

  • Exclusive: Dover Crossings returnees

    The Dover Crossings has rocked the political establishment to its core, but further details are now providing a much more concerning picture than any previously foresaw.

    The scene of hundreds of thousands of criminals – many convicts from prisons across the Middle East and Africa – has shocked and instilled fear in local populations everywhere.

    At the top, planners and legislators have continued to look over the statistics, and have included a running theory that single criminal masterminds are backing the ‘logistics’ involved in the event.

    On the ground, the picture is looking increasingly bleaker. As criminal ‘runners’ continue to provide documents for escapees to then throw them away, it emerges ‘insiders’ have been active in the UK to quarantine their arrival.

    In-depth research also suggests up to half of landers at Dover have already been to the UK. These trips were organised by Sarah Kaplan – who also scheduled their untimely release from prison facilities using bribery – to tourist drinking traps.

    The arrival of undocumented prison inmates is a security risk of unprecedented proportions to people here and it has been taken seriously by the UK. But its true scale, however, has extended the time needed to deal with it in its entirety.

    *A change was made to correct a spelling error.

  • America expects a new world order to snap into place

    The hooha over Iran’s leader falling, only to be replaced by a new one, is jaded in the international scene by an insistence that free countries get behind America as soon as the order is given.

    It’s obvious in halls of power across Europe that Ali Khamenei had to be confronted at some point, liked only perhaps in his own country, and yet hated to increasing degrees elsewhere.

    The despotic way of thinking that had come to define his rule, and intrusive way of being alongside a political elite not prone to being assertive, didn’t win friends but alienated people.

    This is the argument for his demise, and against his continuation as a problem in everyone’s eyes.

    But America has a mentality that says we must rally behind its every move, seeking a new world order at every turn, and that it’s only a matter of time before every domino falls.

    There’s less enthusiasm for this than is believed in the White House, where internals are ignored at the altar of ultimate victory. European leaders see dark skies ahead, but not just for the reason America has in mind, and with worries that are different in kind to theirs.

  • Who you gon’ call? Board of Peace!?

    It’s a thrilling time to be alive for Trump’s Board of Peace, having multiple fronts on which to probe the resolution of conflict in novel and conceptual ways.

    But if it weren’t for the two drivers of global change right now – the US and Israel – being founding members, it might have thus rallied with a lot more proficiency.

    The technical challenge is finding compromise. This doesn’t come easy in more formal environs, and such a Board has to find conventions along which lines it’s done.

    It may be speaking and listening is it for now, but if successful proves a lot more than UN meetings that end in bad faith. However, it’s a long-shot for gung-ho Trump.

  • The UN lacks advice

    The fact now is that as the world looks increasingly out of shape, the global bodies that make up the largest attempt to keep it in shape are bereft not just of immediate ideas but of things to say that may lead to reasonable conclusions, or at the very least requests for further, useful information.

    The debacle the UN plunged itself into recently concerning its criticism of Israel shows just how volatile its forum of debate is. It looks unsafe for delegates to state points that may lead it to making different conclusions. It certainly feels unsafe even on the fringes here, as argument turns to rancour.

    In the UK we’ve long suspected the involvement of less than qualified individuals in its whole remit. This has led to impressions of abusive attitudes at its core. In one sense, we feel offended by people who give us the impression they hate who we are. As simple individuals who identify with common ethical values, we’ve learned to hate our own souls deeply.

    The lack of rigorous analysis of claims and counter-claims has led to ordinary people feeling disheartened. This world looks bleak to those of us who seek to work hard in it. The evenings are stale, one mother told me, because she feels humanity hates a position she’s not adopted in the first place. The spread of protest has unleashed an unlimited feeling of rejection.

    The UN itself clearly lacks decent advice. I’ve seen the effects of its poorly handled, marginal influence in the world in the backstreets of London, where families have worried because they are posited as enemies of Western culture. They choose to enjoy life here, if not to learn more about it than avoid the fake news of hating it as the ethnic minority on its fringes.

  • Exclusive: UK slips back

    In an exclusive report for Conservative News Site, it’s believed the UK has been downgraded secretly according to a number of measures due to a significant state of internal insecurity and an unusually unstable economy.

    It’s not yet determined how long these special measures will last, but experts at various world-leading institutions have concluded the UK has a long way to go to learn how to govern itself.

  • Iran is an agitator of states

    Iran isn’t an easy state to control. The actions of Israel will not change its rhetoric. It fuels the inspiration of terror networks to attack us. The front we fight is not likely to disappear soon.

    The words of its public figures are inflamed in rage. Their words are curses for us. It’s doom and gloom for the West and otherwise death to Israel. The threat is no less because of strikes.

    Their terrorist networks will find other ways. Iran’s nuclear program is in ruins but its resolve is there. They will look to each other. Israel is safer from a nuclear strike but it’s not safe from terrorism.