Étiquette: Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Blatten, Gaza and the selection of facts

Blatten, Gaza and the selection of facts

These two seemingly unrelated tragedies, on different scales, reveal the same mechanism: each political camp selects the facts that confirm its beliefs - an old reflex. What should worry us is the disappearance of confrontation between these opinions.
October 7, 2023, the world turns upside down

October 7, 2023, the world turns upside down

Gilles Kepel's erudition is unquestionable. Nor have his pedagogical skills or the freedom of his views, as the hundred or so people who came to listen to the Emeritus University Professor on May 21 at a conference-debate in Lausanne organized by the Cercle démocratique «Le Regard Libre.
Terrorism: the Munich Games massacre

Terrorism: the Munich Games massacre

On September 5, 1972, eleven Israeli athletes were murdered during the Munich Olympic Games, against the backdrop of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A look back at a tragedy that has become part of our collective memory.