Sirens sounding in Southern Israel, another Hamas attack. 40,000 dead souls and the fabled "total victory" is as far away as ever. (View Post)

I've been a supporter of Biden, but his past year of foreign policy has been appalling. There's a sense of the U.S. as a bystander. (View Post)

The BBC has made some of the best documentaries and dramas in the world, particularly between the 1960s and 1990s, which are woefully under-repesented by BBC4, whose increasing predictability relativ… (View Post)

This actually works extremely well here in Greece. The main state channel, ERT1, has news, advertisements and gameshows, and one of the other channels, I think either ERT2 or ERT3, has more upmarket … (View Post)

Precisely so. Netanyahu's goal is transparently obviously not "total victory" but continuous war. Total victory would mean the end of war unity in Israel, and his long-delayed trials o… (View Post)