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Once again. The search for political logic

Once again. The search for political logic
10.11.2023

On November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution on the partition of Palestine into an Arab and Jewish state (Israel). On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was proclaimed in the former territory of Mandate Palestine. The next day, seven Arab states (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Yemen) attacked the new country, thus starting the first Arab-Israeli war. 

Nec plus ultra. No more than that

Nec plus ultra. No more than that
19.12.2022

These words would have been engraved on the Pillars of Hercules that is, on the extreme limit of the world, impassable and forbidden to all mortals. Impossible to face the Ocean. According to the ancients, venturing westward would have meant being swept away by violent storms, as Dante thought had happened to Odysseus.