Home truths

or those not forced to live it day to day, the reality of Israel’s occupation of Pales tine can be conveniently repackaged with whatever euphemism fits the prevailing political mood, from “peace initiative” to “rising tensions”. For the past couple of years, the buzzword has been “normalisation” – the aim of the US-brokered Abraham Accords of 2020 by which a number of Arab states, led by the UAE, discarded their red line of independence