500 years of global dominance by the Euro–American culture, the Atlantic culture, has come to an end… What we are seeing at the moment in Palestine is the end of settler colonialism. Settler colonialism is a phenomenon of the last two centuries or so, and it is always accompanied by genocide… But we are watching… Read More Patrick Lawrence: ‘The Hinge of History’
NB: Delhi police have warned imams in mosques not to pray for Palestine. Not only are they ill-informed (they think Palestine = Hamas); they also have no idea Gaza and the West Bank are occupied territories. And they now have the license to enter our consciences. Our prayers are now state property. DS There can’t… Read More We are Spartacus
While the IDF and the Shin Bet are busy in the Gaza Strip, West Bank settlers are exploiting the war to invade private lands, attack Palestinians and arm themselves with military weapons Yaniv Kubovich While public attention in Israel is gripped by the fighting in the Gaza Strip and the rising tensions along the Lebanese… Read More As Gaza War Wages On, Israeli Settlers Attack Palestinians and Create a New Reality in the West Bank
Hani Almadhoun I keep waiting for someone to wake me up. As I witness the surreal and staggering devastation on the streets of Gaza, where my parents live, and the tragic loss of more than 10,000 Palestinian lives unfolding in real time, my heart keeps sinking. I hold on to the hope that something, or someone, can… Read More Do Palestinian lives matter to the world?
NB: I rarely comment on YouTube channels, but recently I did. They referred to the ongoing Palestine and Israel conflict. I enclose the links to both and the content of my observations. I used to enjoy watching Maher now and then; but after he (recently, not in this video) used the term ‘collateral damage’ to… Read More My comments on Piers Morgan and Bill Maher
Israel’s retaliation for the 7 October 2023 attack by Hamas has rapidly evolved into another phase of what can only be considered a genocidal campaign to destroy and displace the 2.2 million residents of Gaza. As this article goes to publication (October 27, 2023), indiscriminate aerial bombings by the Israeli army have killed over 7,000 people in… Read More The Palestinian people have a right to their lives, land and sovereignty
Michael Hauser TovIsraeli security cabinet member and Agriculture Minister Avi Dichter (Likud) was asked in a news interview on Saturday whether the images of northern Gaza Strip residents evacuating south on the IDF’s orders are comparable to images of the Nakba. He replied: “We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba. From an operational point… Read More ‘We’re Rolling Out Nakba 2023,’ Israeli Minister on Northern Gaza Strip Evacuation
By Dennis Kucinich / Substack The leaders of the world must assert common humanity and create a new path, a new map which is fair to all, and establish a new, peaceful coexistence which recognizes the inner equality of all Dennis Kucinich Commentary on November 5, 2023 Palestine, Israel, and the US war machine: Dennis Kucinich… Read More Dennis Kucinich: The Nothingness of a War Consciousness
Dear child. It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the Atlantic Ocean. I am traveling to Egypt. I will go to the border of Gaza at Rafah. I go because of you. You have never been in a plane. You have never… Read More Chris Hedges: Letter to the Children of Gaza
But, Arwa, what about Hamas? You might be saying. Aren’t you going to condemn Hamas? Of course I will absolutely condemn Hamas massacring innocent Israeli civilians on 7 October and taking hostages. And let’s be very clear here: while nothing Hamas did on 7 October can be condoned, their actions did not take place in a vacuum. This… Read More Is it too much to ask people to view Palestinians as humans? Apparently so
After the truth-shower 