Sparks: UK and allies sanction 'networks' enabling settler violence in West Bank

The mechanism of the sanction addresses the merchant’s purse to curb the violence of the faction, yet it leaves untouched the monopoly of sentiment that allows one class of men to treat the property of others as void.

Forget the speeches about disgrace and virtue; here is a prince who lacks the leverage to stop his subordinates from provoking a more powerful alliance, and an alliance that uses paper bans because it lacks the will for steel.

This minister rages at a closed door and his rivals celebrate a temporary wall of laws, yet the earth they contest remains indifferent to their passing shadows and the dust of their many decrees.

Civilization agrees to speak of 'sanctions' and 'diplomatic measures' so that it may avoid looking at the simple, physical reality of a man in a uniform standing by while a man in a hat steals a neighbor's cow.

There is a fence of international custom being torn down here, and before we cheer the new restrictions, we must ask if we are merely replacing an old, messy peace with a very tidy and efficient form of hatred.

The government has decided that the best way to stop a man from occupying a valley is to prevent him from visiting a bistro in Paris, which is a perfectly logical solution if one assumes the valley is located inside the bistro.