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Andrew Mitrovica

Andrew Mitrovica

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Is­rael’s mes­sage: ‘Don’t feed the Pales­tini­ans’

The invading Israeli army ought to have erected signs throughout Gaza that read: “Don’t feed the Palestinians: Punishable by death.” Here’s...

07.04.2024 40

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Delu­sions at the Unit­ed Na­tions

We have now entered the comforting world of delusions. Earlier this week, 14 members of the United Nations Security Council agreed on a resolution...

31.03.2024 200

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The Cana­di­an arms em­bar­go on Is­rael that was not

Alex Cosh is an editor with the status-quo-allergic independent Canadian news upstart, The Maple. Cosh is a young reporter with an old-style...

24.03.2024 60

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Play in Is­rael, just don’t pre­tend you didn’t know

Since October 7, scores of writers have authored scores of columns pleading – to no avail – with prominent politicians who wield transformative...

16.03.2024 80

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Is­rael’s killing rage

Another day, another outrage. That is the inevitable lot of Palestinians in the grim, dystopian wasteland that is Gaza. It is inevitable because it...

01.03.2024 200

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Blame Joe Biden for Pres­i­dent Trump come No­vem­ber

It is over. I wrote a column a few months ago expressing the sincere hope that Joe Biden would lose the upcoming presidential election. Now, I can...

29.02.2024 100

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In Gaza, hope is a fan­ta­sy

I wanted to be wrong, but it turns out that I was right. Since early October, I have been sure that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has had...

12.02.2024 80

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Robin­son, Pelosi and the sham of West­ern pro­gres­sive pol­i­tics

Politicians love to talk. It’s a big part of the job. You talk in legislatures. You talk at committees. You talk to voters. You talk to reporters....

05.02.2024 30

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The ICJ rul­ing was a le­gal vic­to­ry at the cost of Pales­tin­ian lives

I need to preface this column with the following proviso: Given the scale of the cruel circumstances, my reading of the much-anticipated preliminary...

28.01.2024 60

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Piz­za, Gaza and an Is­raeli-made famine

It’s not often that a columnist is obliged to make reference to pizza in the midst of a rogue-nation-made famine. But the times and decency demand...

23.01.2024 20

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This past week, we all be­came South Africans

Inevitably, contempt breeds disgust. Anyone with a scintilla of awareness and sympathy for the horrors that Palestinians have endured for generations...

15.01.2024 60

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Biden is no dif­fer­ent than Trump

Joe Biden is a lie and a liar. That opening sentence is meant to sting. More importantly, it is meant to shatter the happy caricature that the sitting...

09.01.2024 70

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I don’t care who wins the US pres­i­den­tial elec­tion

It was a choreographed scene starring the US president and First Lady that was meant to convey the restorative spirit of the festive season. Last...

31.12.2023 30

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Justin Trudeau’s be­lat­ed and shame­ful volte face on Gaza

Some of Israel’s most prominent enablers now claim to abhor the scope of Israel’s wanton killing of Palestinians with a barrage of bullets, bombs,...

20.12.2023 20

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Biden, Kir­by and dead, un­grate­ful Pales­tini­ans

More than two years after his death, the odious spirit of Donald Rumsfeld has been resurrected. It is not surprising. Every US administration has its...

14.12.2023 80

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Volodymyr Ze­len­skyy: The for­got­ten man

Volodymyr Zelenskyy is a forgotten man fighting a forgotten war. The Ukrainian president’s shooting star has lost much of its altitude and gleam as...

07.12.2023 20

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Hap­pi­ly, Joe Biden is fin­ished

It will be remembered, I hope, as the hug that sank a craven president. It was mid-October. US President Joe Biden made the requisite pilgrimage to...

27.11.2023 70

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‘All of them’

It was a spontaneous moment of honesty and clarity. Representative Angie Nixon, a Democrat, was speaking earlier this month on the floor of the...

20.11.2023 20

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Nev­er for­get is now

In the West, this is the season of remembrance. It is an almost sacred time, when we are obliged to pause and reflect on loss and sacrifice and to...

13.11.2023 40

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Cana­da is a whol­ly owned sub­sidiary of Ben­jamin Ne­tanyahu and com­pa­ny

Save for humane Ireland and Scotland, most Western diplomatic corps, including the banal dilettantes who staff Global Affairs Canada in Ottawa and...

07.11.2023 30

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So­ciopaths in suits

Sociopaths in suits. With all their genteel embroidery and grand honorifics, the mundane men who lead Western “democracies” in Washington, DC,...

02.11.2023 70

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Why are Pales­tini­ans sup­posed to take it – again and again?

Since Israel began its blatant genocide of occupied Gaza almost three weeks ago, a frothing army of pedestrian Western politicians has confirmed their...

27.10.2023 80

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It’s a time for choos­ing

These awful times require each of us to make a choice. Will we choose measure over mayhem? Will we choose humanity over horror? Will we choose...

23.10.2023 20

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Joe Biden owns this

So, US President Joe Biden got off a big plane in Tel Aviv on Wednesday and embraced a war criminal whose war crime-addicted military had, only hours...

19.10.2023 30

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This is geno­cide

The cataclysm that you and I are witnessing in Gaza is a genocide in the awful making. It is not an “onslaught”. It is not an “invasion”. It...

14.10.2023 40

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Get this straight, West­ern me­dia: Pales­tini­ans aren’t sub-hu­man

This fact may come, I suspect, as a surprise to many people whose grasp of the world is shaped by their exclusive consumption of Western media: Israel...

10.10.2023 400

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Cana­da, Nazis and Ukraine

The perpetual outrage-du-jour circus otherwise known as Canada’s political discourse is, surprisingly, on pause. By my count, it’s been about 48...

05.10.2023 40

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Trudeau’s In­dia cri­sis shows he has lost con­trol of Cana­da’s spies

For anyone with functioning sight and synapses, it’s become obvious that some rogue Canadian spies are, in effect, in charge of Canada’s foreign...

25.09.2023 50

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If In­dia killed a Cana­di­an Sikh cit­i­zen, Justin Trudeau is to blame

Canada is the world’s doormat. A big, insecure nation that pleads to be taken seriously as an indispensable global “player” is, instead, largely...

21.09.2023 60

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Walk away, Justin Trudeau. Cana­da’s love af­fair with you is over

One way or another, all love affairs end – often badly. At least in politics. In 2015, when he became prime minister with a robust majority at age...

18.09.2023 70

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Britain’s monar­chy is dy­ing, and no PR can save it

By now, the British monarchy ought to have been put into hospice care. It would, at the least, be a merciful end to a spent, vacuous institution that...

14.09.2023 30

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Sor­ry Trumpers, there won’t be a US civ­il war for 2024

Every once in a while, Sarah Palin tries to escape the purgatory of irrelevancy by doing or saying something that the failed Congressional candidate...

07.09.2023 50

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