Samskara

Shows a house being searched and three Palestinians forced to strip in sun and being arrested.

Hamas barra barra!

Means Hamas out out

For almost a decade Ash Sarkar has been one of Britain’s most prominent left wing political journalists. She first met Aaron Bastani in 2010, and was later invited on to the NovaraFm podcast. It wasn’t long before she was calling Piers Morgan an idiot on morning TV.

Now she has written her first book, ‘Minority Rule’. It chronicles the rise of identity politics - left and right - and how social attitudes changed as our economic model became ever more rigged over the 2010s.

Has identity politics been damaging for progressive change? What does it get right? And what does left-wing politics look like in a moment when ‘woke capitalism’ has subsided?

Rudolfine Steindling - von den Wienern liebevoll die "Rote Fini" genannt - ist eine erfolgreiche Geschäftsfrau, und sie gilt als die größte Wirtschaftskriminelle des vergangenen Jahrhunderts.

Mit Charme und Resolutheit bringt die "Gucci-Kommunistin" den Handel mit der DDR via Österreich in Schwung. Als einzige Frau in einer reinen Männerwelt arbeitet sie mit allen Mitteln, die ihr im Kalten Krieg zur Verfügung stehen, und verdient dabei Millionen.

With the violence and horrors this war has produced, many people struggle to see the meaning of even engaging in dialogue. After people witness the suffering of their own family, they often lose hope that the painful divide can ever be healed. Some even lose the desire for that healing to take place.

Perhaps it’s because they have never seen or been a part of a productive dialogue, one that comes from a place of love and empathy, and that creates light and compassion.

It's crucial for Israelis & Palestinians to be the ones communicating. Those without a direct connection to this conflict shouldn’t be “picking sides” but rather encouraging each side to come closer to the other.

The solutions clearly won't come from those who currently hold the power, so let us rise from below and access the power we would have, if we stood united.

Palestinian advocates like to quip that the current war "didn't begin on October 7." That's true, of course, though unhelpful. It didn't begin in any one specific place. There are no singular first causes in history. When we choose the beginning of the story, we choose its framing and meaning.

For most Israeli Jews, the story of the current war might be said to have begun in the fall of 2000, in the great collapse of Oslo that still casts its long shadow on the Israeli political psyche.

This is that story.

tl;dw What was the second intifada about?