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The Course of History
It’s a common idiom, I’m sure you’ve heard it before: they changed the course of history. When you think about it, it largely doesn’t make sense: ordinarily the facts of history do not change – they may be reinterpreted, they may be purposely altered, but the facts of the past remain intact. This saying, then,…
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1918-39: Peacetime?
Historians denote the, apparently expectedly temporary, years between wars as ‘peacetime’. This categorisation, however, in my view, can be problematic. Numerous questions are raised by this term: What even is peace? Can peace, localised geographically, co-exist with times of conflict? Is war an inevitability, or perhaps even a constant?
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This did not start on October 7th
For almost half a year, Palestinians have been ruthlessly and systematically targeted by Israeli forces, in what has become the bloodiest and most well documented ethnic-cleansing campaign in decades. The response from Western governments? Silence and complicity, support and capital.