La reine Sirikit de Thaïlande, décédée récemment, incarnait les aspects les plus réactionnaires de la monarchie. Au-delà de son image publique soigneusement construite, elle s'est distinguée par son soutien actif aux forces antidémocratiques, notamment lors des massacres de gauchistes en 1976 et des manifestations royalistes de 2008. Ses discours incendiaires contre les musulmans malais du Sud ont exacerbé les tensions communautaires. Narcissique et dépensière, elle a dilapidé les richesses (…)

Queen Sirikit of Thailand, who died on 26 October 2025 at the age of 93, embodied the most reactionary aspects of the monarchy. Beyond her carefully constructed public image, she distinguished herself through her active support for anti-democratic forces, notably during the massacres of leftists in 1976 and the royalist demonstrations of 2008. Her inflammatory speeches against Malay Muslims in the South exacerbated communal tensions. Narcissistic and profligate, she squandered national (…)

Le 29 octobre, les Pays-Bas connaîtront de nouvelles élections législatives – une fois de plus. Début juin, le gouvernement du Premier ministre Dich Schoof a perdu sa majorité, lorsque le PVV de Geert Wilders, d'extrême droite, a fait exploser la coalition. Peu après les élections, le contraste entre les événements politiques les plus importants dans le pays ne pourrait être plus fort. Le 20 septembre, après un meeting anti-immigration, la Hague a été traversé par des émeutes fascistes. Le 5 (…)

On October 29 the Netherlands will have parliamentary elections, again. In early June, the government of prime-minster Dick Schoof lost its majority as the far-right PVV of Geert Wilders blew up the coalition. Shortly before the elections, the contrast between the most important political events in the Netherlands could hardly be sharper. On 20 September, after an anti-immigration rally, fascists rioted in The Hague. On October 5, a quarter of a million people marched through the streets of (…)

Through testimonies, recordings and survivor accounts, Haaretz reconstructs the battle for Kibbutz Alumim – revealing the courage of those who fought to hold the line against waves of Hamas terrorists, and the migrant workers left exposed to the terror beyond it Guai understood what was happening. What he couldn't see from his hiding place in the medical dispensary, the echoing sounds left little to his imagination. “Where are you from?” he heard a voice ask in English, with an Arabic (…)