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From Auschwitz to Nagasaki to Gaza: whatever happened to Never Again? Whatever happened to our decency?
Ian Powell discusses conviction rightwing politician David Seymour and how the ‘political left’ might respond.
Funny how “blow-out” gets so readily applied to cost escalation in the provision of public services (hospital rebuilds, the Cook Strait ferries) but when politicians get the figures wrong for their pet projects, its just a matter of opinion.
The human crisis isn’t political and national, but psychological and spiritual. Its remedy will never be found at the superficial level of “resistance,” protest and marches, but in a revolution in consciousness, beginning within the individual.
Camps of concentrated human life – concentration camps, in other words – are often given a different dressing to what they are meant to be. Authoritarian states enjoy using them to re-educate and reform the inmates even as they gradually kill them.
Israel's persistent fantasies of control invariably fail. Despite their profound wounds, Palestinians are more unified than ever, their collective identity and nationhood hardened by relentless resistance and countless sacrifices.
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