Joe Biden is an armchair warrior who never fought in war but his presidency is being defined by war. War in Ukraine and war in Palestine.

Israel and the US have mounted a vigorous joint effort to block a possible indictment by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of senior Israeli officials for crimes committed during the ongoing Gaza war.

While considering the South African accusation that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) located in The Hague could also examine separately charges against Israel of urbicide and ecocide.The December 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention

Concern over how Israel will respond to Iran’s foiled missile and drone attack on Israel last weekend has deflected international attention from Israel’s deadly and destructive war on Gaza.

Nothing deters US President Joe Biden from following the policy he adopted on October 7 when southern Israel was attacked by Hamas. Last week, in recognition of Arab Heritage Month, a White House statement belatedly admitted that US Arab and Muslim citizens felt “pain”!

Seven hundred and thirty Israeli academics have signed a petition calling on their government to “take urgent measures to prevent starvation in the Gaza Strip [before] the humanitarian catastrophe gets out of control, causes mass death and becomes an indelible stain”.

Israel has not only slain more than 32,000 Gazans, robbing the narrow coastal strip of men, women and children who had consigned their lives and their futures to never-ending hostile occupation, but Israel has also stolen from Gazans literacy, academic and cultural life, proofs o

Seven hundred and thirty Israeli academics have signed a petition calling on their government to “take urgent measures to prevent starvation in the Gaza Strip [before] the humanitarian catastrophe gets out of control, causes mass death and becomes an indelible stain”.

Starvation has come to northern Gaza, which has not received food aid in sufficient quantities to fend off famine. More than a dozen children and one elderly mam have died of malnutrition and dehydration over the past ten days.