The Occident is heading for an Accident: Some predictions Jan Oberg December 7, 2023 – two months into the Israeli genocide of Palestinians. Introduction – the boomerangs from supporting Israel’s genocide I published the article below on TFF Substack on October 22, 2023. I had been waiting for someone to intervene and tell Israel to […]
A Conversation With Miko Peled December 5, 2023 Miko Peled is one of the most outspoken advocates of justice for Palestinians – but born and raised to a distinguished Zionist family. He is also a TFF Associate. In this conversation, you’ll learn about his background and path to a clearer understanding of his own society […]
Jan Oberg December 4, 2023 In 2020, I wrote an impressionistic article, ”Could everyday micro malfunctions be signs of a coming macro breakdown?” It was inspired by the brilliant sociologist C. Wright Mill’s concept of the sociological imagination. Out of many more, I selected 14 examples of everyday things that I had experienced simply did […]
December 3, 2023 Here is a very eloquent explanation of three underlying, non-material factors that explain how the occupier has built a mental self-defence that makes everything look normal and fine. Note Levy’s three very substantial points. More about Gideon Levy “Is Gideon Levy the most hated man in Israel or just the most heroic?” […]
Jan Oberg at China’s global television network CGTN – “The Point” with Liu Xin Originally broadcast on November 23, 2023 Go to the video too, and see the very positive comments there. People around the world are most receptive to thoughts on peace when they get a chance to listen to them – which they […]
John Mearsheimer Unravels “Especially Dangerous” Israel-Gaza War November 10, 2023 An intellectually delightful conversation with Glenn Greenwald about the series of dilemmas the West and Israel have created for themselves. The interview was broadcast on October 31, 2023.
Gordon Hahn November 10, 2023 The world split is quickly evolving into something less like a split – if by ‘split’ one means a more or less evenly balanced division between two parts – and more like the isolation of one smaller part of the international community from a larger, significant or supermajority. Moreover, this […]
Richard Falk TFF Associate November 10, 2023 [Prefatory Note: A slightly updated and modified interview on Gaza with Zeynep Busra Conkar, an Associate Producer of TRT World, published October 30, 2023, an important Turkish media platform. A link to a short audio excerpt: https://twitter.com/trtworld/status/1719078356577075573%5D TRT: Israel’s bloodlust shows international law is ‘a manipulated series of […]
Friends do not let friends commit crimes against humanity. Jeffrey Sachs November 10, 2023 Israel is running out of time to save itself—not from Hamas, which lacks the means to defeat Israel militarily, but from itself. Israel’s war crimes in Gaza, verging on the crime of genocide according to the Center for Constitutional Rights, threaten […]
Johan Galtung, TFF Associate This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 22 Sep 2008. October 27, 2023 Israel and Palestine met for peace this weekend or, rather, so did positive parts of their civil societies, under the good auspices not of Italy’s government but of the Regione Toscana, in Pisa, where a […]