
ISRAEL was condemned today after it pummelled southern Lebanon with air strikes, driving the Middle East further into crisis, in what it claimed was a pre-emptive strike on Hezbollah.
Hezbollah launched hundreds of rockets and drones of its own towards Israel in what they said was vengeance for the killing of Fouad Shukur, one of its top commanders, last month.
The heavy exchange of fire has further raised the tensions in the region, although both sides appear to have pulled back for the moment from any further escalation.

For Egypt trade trumps the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians, but how long can the country’s ‘misleaders’ – and others in the region – continue their indifference against the popular will of their own people, asks ROGER McKENZIE

ROGER McKENZIE expounds on the motivation that drove him to write a book that anticipates a dawn of a new, fully liberated Africa – the land of his ancestors