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 […]
Archives for October 2024
The Generals’ Plan: An Israeli Blueprint for the Liquidation of Gaza
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 […]
Exile, Resistance and Cactus Pears: Two Writers on Palestinian Life
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 […]
The Global South must Step up on Palestine: The Role of Latin America
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 […]
Your True Self
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 […]
The Empire is Going Down
( 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 […]
Is Iran Next?
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. […]
Palestinians Count The Toll Of Israel’s Devastating War In Gaza
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 […]
Can the West ever Humanize the Arabs?
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 […]