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An Honest Terrorist List Would Include Israel Military

The Canadian government needs to put the Israeli military on its terrorist list. And no Canadian should assist that organization in any way. Over the past year the IDF has committed a holocaust in Gaza. The IDF has destroyed most of the occupied coastal strip’s buildings, water sources and agricultural land. According to the UN […]
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Inconvenient Truths: The Shia Salah al-Din and 10/7

Salah El Din – Salah El Din El Ayoubi – Saladin and Richard the Lionheart Jerusalem’s hard-fought liberation, now in process, is a recapitulation of the Christian Crusades of the 11th-13th centuries, this time, not by the knight on a white horse of legend, but through the long march of guerilla warfare by the much […]
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Time to Face Truth: Canada’s Terrorist List Enables Terrorism

Justin Trudeau justified the brutal killing of the leader of a Lebanese political party on the grounds Canada lists his organization as “terrorist”. On Friday Israel leveled six large apartment buildings in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut with some 80 bombs weighing 2,000 to 4,000 pounds each. Dropped by US-made F-15 fighter jets, the US-made BLU-109 […]
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Can You Be a Man with Two Faces in America?

Serendipity, picking Viet Thanh Nyugen’s memoir, A Man with Two Faces as the main book for the memoir writing class I am teaching. Last time it was Liar’s Club and Wild and other things to haunt the student with other writers’ haunting memoirs. Mary Karr and Cheryl Strayed, and the students learned about all sorts […]
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Where was Amnesty International during the Genocide in Gaza?
Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, one ‘safe zone’ at the time– Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt,10 August 2024 One would expect that human rights organisations would spring into action during an impending or […]
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The more definitive the proof of Israeli atrocities, the less they get reported
The coverage of Israeli soldiers pushing three Palestinians off a roof in the West Bank town of Qabatiya – it’s unclear whether the men are dead or near-dead – is being barely reported by the western media, even though it was videoed from two different angles and a reporter from the main US news agency […]
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How the war on Gaza exposed Israeli and western fascism

Nearly a year into the world’s first live-streamed genocide – which began in Gaza, and is rapidly expanding into the occupied West Bank – the establishment western media still avoid using the term “genocide” to describe Israel’s rampage of destruction. The worse the genocide gets, the longer Israel’s starvation-blockade of the enclave continues, the harder it […]
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The Canine and the Refugee

Emad, a thirty-five-year-old Palestinian man, has a dog named Shuhaybar. He’s a small, white fluffy guy with hair hanging over his eyes. Americans call him a West Highland White Terrier. Emad calls him a friend. He looks completely out of place in Gaza, yet somehow he fits. Maybe it’s Emad’s handmade chamois sombrero that he […]