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Deranged, or what?
Israel is this week supposed to be hosting a meeting of the four Visegrad Group countries, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, except that, thanks to an extraordinary spat, the Poles will no longer be there.The row started when the Jerusalem Post quoted Israeli premier Benjamin Netanyahu as saying that the Polish nation had cooperated with the Nazis in the extermination of the country’s three million Jews. The reaction from Warsaw was hardly surprising. Polish premier Mateusz Morawiecki cancelled his flight to Israel to attend the Visegrad meeting. Netanyahu’s people appeared to try and row back on his comment insisting that he had been misquoted and had not used the word “nation”. The Jerusalem Post subsequently withdrew the quote, though it is not entirely clear...
February 19, 2019

Deranged, or what?

Dealt a bad hand
For the first time, the US administration has given some sort of date when its long-awaited Palestinian-Israeli peace plan will roll out – or actually when it will not. At the recent Middle East security conference in Warsaw, Jared Kushner, senior White House adviser, son-in-law of US President Donald Trump and part architect of the deal, reportedly confirmed behind closed doors that the administration will not release its peace plan prior to Israel’s elections in April.That Kushner would rather sit on the deal until after the elections is to Benjamin Netanyahu’s advantage. Although he will probably win, as he almost always does, Netanyahu will be carrying heavy baggage, including the possibility of being indicted on corruption charges, which may make it hard for him to assemble a...
February 18, 2019

Dealt a bad hand

Honest hotels
Hotel booking sites can make it so much easier to choose a destination for a holiday or streamline a business trip, but only if the public is able to trust them. This looks like it will happen soon. Major travel websites have agreed to change the way they do business after a UK investigation found some of them were deceiving users. They have now agreed to follow a common set of guidelines. While at present they apply only to Britain, because tens of millions of people travel around the world every year, need to stay in hotels and use travel websites to find them, it is hoped that the new rules will apply elsewhere to help stem what often appear to be questionable practices being employed to book rooms.The issues range from pressure selling, misleading discount claims and hidden charges....
February 17, 2019

Honest hotels

Russia’s internet chess game
THE Russian government plans to turn off direct connections to all internet routers outside its borders. The exercise, which is unlikely to last for more than a day or two, is supposed to allow Moscow to test its defenses against outside cyberattack. The shutdown does not in fact mean that Russians will suddenly find themselves unable to access servers around the world, but rather than they will reach those sites through routers set up in Russia. There are in fact 12 international routers, none sited in Russia, which handle the huge daily flows along links to billions of different addresses. These dozen routers are the official “post offices” for the Domain Name System (DNS) upon which the entire internet relies. But the address information held in those “post offices” has been...
February 14, 2019

Russia’s internet chess game

Hold on there
As Bugs Bunny would have said: “Just one cotton-picking moment!” Newly elected Democrat congresswoman Ilham Omar has been damned for anti-Semitism and forced to apologize for two social media messages. Her “crime” was to write that the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) was using its financial and lobbying muscle to influence US politicians in support of Israel.It has long been a fact of Washington political life that major lobbying groups, such as the National Rifle Association and those representing defense contractors, accountants and bankers, have played a key role in the shaping of government policies. One of the most successful has been the AIPAC whose operations are seen as one of the best examples of political lobbying. Whether any big-money lobbyists should...
February 14, 2019

Hold on there

Recep Tayyip Erdogan
Erdogan gets it wrong
It seems perfectly possible that the Chinese leadership set a trap for Turkey’s president. Somebody told Recep Tayyip Erdogan that a prominent Uighur musician had perished in one of the huge camps Beijing has established in China’s western and supposedly autonomous Xinjiang region.Erdogan, anxious to demonstrate his standing with the Muslim Brotherhood and its fellow sponsor Qatar, thundered against the death of the musician Abdurehim Heyit and went on to protest that China’s treatment of the Muslim Uighurs was “a great embarrassment for humanity”.While the Turkish president was absolutely right about Beijing’s deplorable treatment of the Uighurs, which has included incarcerating around a million suspects in “reeducation camps”, it appears he was plain wrong about the death...
February 13, 2019

Erdogan gets it wrong

Hungarian Islamophobia
When five paintings supposedly by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler failed to sell at the Nuremberg auction this week, the main reason given was that they were probably fakes. However, there was no shame about trying to sell these pictures along with other Hitlerian memorabilia.Adolf Hitler was himself a fake, with his racist diatribes and megalomaniacal ambitions. Yet, astonishingly, the civilized, educated and urbane people of Germany, the country that gave the world Bach and Beethoven, went along with him. Tragically, the delusions of this insane little man gave birth to the hideous slaughter of as many as 85 million people. One of the Nazi’s key policies was to encourage the birth of more and more little Germans, naturally of pure Aryan birth, and to give medals and financial awards to German...
February 12, 2019

Hungarian Islamophobia

The Ifs and Buts of Bitcoin
It could be argued the only reason that crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin have been given any sort of house room by the markets is that, as a general rule, there is far too much money chasing too few attractive investments. And that word “attractive” is worth refining into its modern sense. By and large it no longer means, “safe” and “reliable” but “high return”. But with any security offering a large profit, there is also a large risk. And those who have poured fortunes into the likes of Bitcoin are discovering that such risk does not simply consist of the high volatility in the value of their computer-generated currency. A new problem has emerged which, however it is sorted, is likely to undermine this supposedly ultra-secure store of value. Bitcoins are kept in...
February 11, 2019

The Ifs and Buts of Bitcoin

Unlikely foes
The fraying of relations between France and Italy is extraordinary. These are two west European countries who are neighbors, allies and - from fashion to football, tourism to culture - marquee names on the continent.The dispute is all of Italy’s making. It was Deputy Prime Minister Luigi Di Maio’s decision to show up unannounced near Paris last week for a meeting with a prominent yellow vest protester – one of the tens of thousands of demonstrators who have repeatedly sparked violence in Paris. Di Maio has been on record as calling for the military to oust French President Emmanuel Macron.This is stunning interference. As for the visit, the least the Italians could have done was notify the French government. It was a surprise even to Italy’s Foreign Ministry.Before that provocative...
February 11, 2019

Unlikely foes

Anti-BDS bill is unconstitutional
TheUS Senate has voted overwhelmingly in favor of a bill that would give states legal cover to punish companies that choose not to do business with Israel or Israeli-owned enterprises. The bill, known as S 1, thus clears its first major hurdle in Congress. But the bill is trying to muzzle criticism of Israel at the expense of the US Constitution.The bill, which passed in a 77-23 vote, says US states can “divest” from companies they disagree with on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. This is in reference to the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement, which seeks to pressure Israel economically and politically to end its abuse of the Palestinians, and ultimately, the Israeli occupation.Interestingly, S 1 was the very first bill the new US Senate considered in 2019, exemplifying its...
February 10, 2019

Anti-BDS bill is unconstitutional

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