Tag: Politics of the Arab world

  • Pandora Box Has Been Opened, and No One is Trying to Close It

    Lately the response of the world community to global events has become more and more ambiguous. While some countries define specific actions as an act of terrorism, the others consider them to be merely the way of protecting the interests of a certain state. Thus, on September 17-18 Lebanon was shocked by the series of […]

  • Hezbollah Military Leadership Nearly Wiped out – Israel

    Hezbollah Military Leadership Nearly Wiped out – Israel

    Officials in West Jerusalem shared a list of more than a dozen top commanders who have been killed in recent weeks. ©  X / @IsraelMFA Nearly all of Hezbollah’s military leaders have been eliminated in recent Israeli strikes, officials in West Jerusalem have claimed, after the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in a bombardment […]

  • 150,000+ Guns and Weapons to Israeli Settlers Since October 7

    It is farcical to suggest a distinction between settler and state violence: They are part of the same settler-colonial structure, and not only complement each other but depend on one another. — Fathi Nimer, The West Bank: Settler Colonial Spillover of the Gaza Genocide While Israel continues its brutal genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, armed […]

  • Even in Palestine, the Birds Shall Return

    Even in Palestine, the Birds Shall Return

    Rula Halawani (Palestine), Untitled XII from the Negative Incursion series, 2002. On 26 July, senior United Nations (UN) officials briefed the UN Security Council about the terrible situation in Gaza. ‘More than two million people in Gaza remain trapped in an endless nightmare of death and destruction on a staggering scale’, said Deputy Commissioner-General Antonia […]

  • China Blasts Israel at the UN

    ???? China blasts Israel at the UN: “This is a grave violation of the UN Charter and international law and a breach of the sovereignty of both Syria and Iran. This attack is of an extremely vicious nature… 25 years ago, China’s embassy in Yugoslavia was bombed by a US-led… pic.twitter.com/ipZTgzfKOj — Megatron (@Megatron_ron) April […]

  • The End of Gaza

    I feel like I’m watching the film Don’t Look Up. We all know that the comet is headed straight toward us, but our society paralyzes itself with self-interest, corruption and politics until the avoidable inevitable happens. Israel’s genocide is proceeding according to plan, and it looks like we won’t have to wait long for its […]

  • Arab States Call for Israel Football Ban

    Arab States Call for Israel Football Ban

    ©  Marco Canoniero;  LightRocket Football federations from a dozen Middle Eastern countries, including Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates, have written to global governing body FIFA to demand that Israel be banned over its offensive in Gaza, Sky News reported on Thursday. In a letter obtained by the British news outlet, the West […]

  • Face to Face with Hezbollah

    As part of a fact-finding mission to the Middle East in late 2007, one year after Hezbollah concluded a war with Israel, we spent a few days with Hezbollah. I knew that Hezbollah carried heavy baggage, could be threatening, and operated as a state within a state, but it never seemed, as bludgeoning reports insisted, […]

  • Turbulent Winds of the Last Peace Conference: Annapolis

    For those interested, here is a previous article on a significant past event that gives a background to contemporary events. George W. Bush organized the Annapolis peace conference; predictions had it going nowhere and the last ”peace conference” went nowhere. While U.S. administrations warned Israel not to expand settlements, claimed they favored a two-state solution, […]

  • Israel is Your God (Dammit)

    Israel is Your God (Dammit)

    Many thousands of us protested the Zionist abomination at the Los Angeles Israeli consulate on October 14. Miscellaneous thoughts: With the US stymied in Ukraine, failing to slow the BRICS and getting no traction on Taiwan, it appears that it’s going to fire up the war on/of terror again using the Israeli fuse. RFK Jr. […]

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