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Archives for October 2024

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The Israeli Likud Party’s Endless War Agenda

The Israeli Likud Party’s Endless War Agenda

H. Scott Prosterman

Oakland, Ca. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Finding and killing Yahya Sinwar was Israeli PM Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu’s cover and justification for the genocide in Gaza, which has killed over 42,000 people; most of them innocent women, children and non-combatant men. Many in Gaza who were not killed by Israeli-US ordnance, “are delighted with […]

Israel/ Palestine
The Generals’ Plan: An Israeli Blueprint for the Liquidation of Gaza

The Generals’ Plan: An Israeli Blueprint for the Liquidation of Gaza

Middle East Monitor

By Nasim Ahmed A chilling scenario detailing Israel’s plan to liquidate northern Gaza through starvation and extermination was revealed by +972 Magazine. Originally published in Hebrew by journalist Meron Rapoport, the Israeli magazine outlined a hypothetical operation that bears a striking resemblance to current events in Gaza. Presented as a simulation of Israel’s plan in […]

Israel/ Palestine
Exile, Resistance and Cactus Pears: Two Writers on Palestinian Life

Exile, Resistance and Cactus Pears: Two Writers on Palestinian Life

The Conversation

By Michelle Hamadache, Macquarie University | – (The Conversation) – While Hasib Hourani’s Rock Flight and Samah Sabawi’s Cactus Pear for My Beloved are both books by Australian writers that speak of the Palestinian experience, they could not be more different. This is not simply because one is a book-length poem, the other a novelised […]

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The Global South must Step up on Palestine: The Role of Latin America

The Global South must Step up on Palestine: The Role of Latin America

Arturo Desimone

Buenos Aires (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Most coverage of the ongoing Israeli wars have fomented a superstitious belief that limits our ability for action: there prevails this idea that the gruesome erasure of Gaza can only be determined by Israel and the White House and by the good will of the Democratic Party’s […]

Well-being
Your True Self

Your True Self

H. Patricia Hynes

On a blackboard in a 1930s log cabin at Jacob’s Pillow dance theater in the hills of western Massachusetts, I came upon an intriguing question written in chalk: When do you feel your true self?  Visitors had left responses on the blackboard, some thoughtful, some light, such as: “When I am with my friends eating […]

Donald Trump
The Empire is Going Down

The Empire is Going Down

Tom Engelhardt

( Tomdispatch.com ) – He’s the man of the hour (and you can choose your hour), win, lose, or draw. I mean, who can deny it? Certainly not the crowd at his debate with Kamala Harris that, as he reminded us recently, absolutely “went crazy” over what he had to say. (And it couldn’t matter […]

Featured
Is Iran Next?

Is Iran Next?

Fariba Amini

Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – In 2005, in the summer of that year, while visiting Iran, I happened to meet an opinionated man. The first thing he asked me was whether I was coming from abroad. He could tell.  I replied, yes.  He told me, well you are lucky.  Here we’re suffering.  […]

Israel/ Palestine
Palestinians Count The Toll Of Israel’s Devastating War In Gaza

Palestinians Count The Toll Of Israel’s Devastating War In Gaza

Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty

By Iliya Jazaeri ( RFE/ RL) Muhammad Nasser’s life was torn apart after Hamas, the U.S.- and EU-designated Palestinian terrorist group, carried out an unprecedented attack on Israel one year ago. Within hours of the October 7 attack that killed some 1,200 people, Israel launched one of the deadliest and most destructive bombing campaigns in […]

Arab World
Can the West ever Humanize the Arabs?

Can the West ever Humanize the Arabs?

Middle East Monitor

by Hissa Al Thani ( Middle East Monitor ) – To be humanised is to be recognised as worthy of life, respect and the fundamental right to be seen and heard. Yet, for Arabs, this acknowledgement has persistently been withheld, rendering their humanity invisible in the global narrative. Arabs have long been cast beneath the […]

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