SOLOMON HUGHES asks whether Labour ‘engaging with decision-makers’ with scandalous records of fleecing the public is really in our interests

NOT many of us will want to give 2020 a backward glance as we move into the new year, with renewed hope of a better future.
For Palestinians, 2020 was marked not just by the fight against the ravages of Covid-19 but against the attempts by Israel, supported by Donald Trump and authoritarian Arab states, to obliterate their cause entirely.
The sketch of the deal Trump laid out when he moved the US embassy to Jerusalem in 2018 was inked in full — No capital in Jerusalem, Israel given the green light to proceed with the annexation of huge swathes of the West Bank, leaving the Palestinians with a series of disconnected Bantustans.



