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Well, Israel has been building settlements in the West Bank since they started occupying it in 1967, and the logic of the settlements (take the land, kick out the people) is the same logic of the 1948 Nakba, so in that sense its a very long term dynamic. As for what's happening in Gaza - they...

I read that this is the largest single such seizure of land since the Oslo Accords: it's so, so obvious to anyone who isn't deluding themselves that Israel is currently pursuing a policy of ethnic cleansing in both Gaza and the West Bank. It's much more violent in the former case, obviously, but...

There's a weird thing in Britain where we don't really talk about class when it comes to black people, or (to a certain extent) other minorities either. I think people perceive Abbott as kind of loosely classless, they're just focused on her race. It's like how the only discussion about the...

When I was a kid in the 90s Manchester Music Service (part of the council) would lend you a musical instrument for free if you had lessons from them. I don't know if the lessons cost or not (my parents would have been able to afford it if they did - I'm not trying to claim Working Class Cred)...

I'm pretty sure this was mine too. I remember us singing "you're not fit to wear the shirt" at the players.

What are Israel's borders?

I agree that Israel won't fight for a Palestinian state, that much is obvious; if anything it's spent most of the last 75 years fighting against that prospect. My point is that Israel's hostility to Hamas, or Hamas's stance on Israel, aren't the most important limiting factors on longterm peace...

seems this bowling alley has Sky sports and is open on sunday http://bowling-goerlitz.de/?page_id=12

I think it's a bit more complicated than that actually, and there is more possibility for peace than you allow in what you write here. Hamas revised their charter in 2017, indicating an openness to a Palestinian state with the 1967 borders. The exact phrase they used is: Without compromising...

I googled that commemorative coin. Here's an article from the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung (German Federal Agency for Civic Education) about the history behind it. You can run it through translate quite easily...

Hey up. I’m thinking ahead to the derby and wondering if there’s a bar in Berlin you regularly watch at? Would be nice to be with some fellow blues @berlinblue

A warning which Starmer et al would do well to heed https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/27/britain-germany-olaf-scholz-keir-starmer-afd

it's fucking mental here trust me. this morning the Minister of Justice is in the papers saying there should be criminal charges relating to the supposed antisemitism at the Berlinale film festival.

I logged on to say the same thing. It really comes to something when it takes Rees-Mogg to remind everyone of very basic principles of constitutional liberalism.

Given it doesn't include a row for deaths of starvation the total figures will end up being higher.

do you think the war improved things in the region, on the whole?

You know the police actually started that fight in Times Square, by the way? https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/it-looks-like-police-started-the-times-square-migrant-brawl.html Not that it’s relevant to the far right in Germany.

This is a good idea. That’s how it works for book authors, for example (typically 15% of royalties). Although the money involved there is peanuts for most writers, especially compared to football.

By that logic none of us should be here talking about football at all

Interesting article in the Guardian today by Jason Stockwood, the chair of Grimsby Town, arguing for a wage cap and for more regulation of agents and agents' fees. Obviously, he's not impartial on the subject, but I thought it was an thought-provoking read. (Also please be reassured he doesn't...