The day after: How Hamas envisions the future of Gaza

December 23, 2024

Jamil Mazen Shaqura and Saif Alislam Eid

On October 7, 2023, Hamas carried out operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” targeting the Israeli military positions surrounding Gaza, and the Israeli towns adjacent to the Strip. In the words of Mohammed Deif, the commander of Hamas’ military wing the Qassam Brigades, the Al-Aqsa Flood operation was aimed at eliminating the Israeli army’s Gaza Division. In Deif’s words, it was also meant to mark the beginning of the battle for “the Great Liberation” — to restore all occupied Palestinian territories that were settled in 1948. 

A Palestinian woman walks past buildings destroyed in Israeli strikes in the southern Gaza Strip city of Khan Younis, on April 12, 2024. (Credit Image: © Rizek Abdeljawad/Xinhua via ZUMA Press APAimages)

What if… Musk is the real President?

December 23,2024

Lorenzo Maria Pacini

 

World ignores us as Israeli shelling, blasts rock Gaza hospital: Director

December 22, 2024

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I am living my own Nakba

 

مجلهٔ دانش و امید

آتش افروزان و مرگ آفرینان روزی در بند خواهند شد و
صلح و سعادت و زیبایی، جهان گستر!ا 

سال پنجم، شماره، ۲۷ دی ۱۴۰۳
دوماهنامه اجتماعی، اقتصادی، فرهنگی

روزی رسد که در همه گیتی اساس ظلم
گردد به دست ما و تو، پامال انقلاب
دنیا شود به کام دهاقین و کارگر
از همت عناصر فعال انقلاب
(فرخی یزدی )ا

 

Israel probes failure to intercept Yemení ballistic missile after latest attack

December 21, 2024   

Israel's military is having difficulty defending its cities from missiles fired by the Yemeni Armed Forces (YAF), Israel media reported on 21 December, after a Yemeni missile exploded in a public park in south Tel Aviv overnight Friday.

Israel’s War on Gaza Is a War on Children

December 21, 2024   

Henry A. Giroux

In November, over a year into Israel’s genocide in Gaza, a report by the Gaza-based Community Training Center for Crisis Management produced a grim statistic: “Nearly all children in the embattled Palestinian enclave believe their death is imminent — and nearly half of them want to die.”

 

Palestinian children flee from Israeli bombardment in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on November 6, 2023. MOHAMMED ABED /AFP via Getty Images

Annexing the West Bank: Why Israel might pounce now

December 20,2024

Ramzy Baroud

ISRAEL is getting ready to annex the occupied Palestinian West Bank. The annexation will be a major step backwards on the road to Palestinian freedom and will likely serve as a catalyst for a new Palestinian uprising.

 

 The Israeli settlement of Har Homa, seen from the West Bank city of Bethlehem, December 17, 2024

‘My hands are paralyzed from torture’: Gazans reveal horrors of Ofer Camp

December 19, 2024

Oren Ziv

In February, Rami was arrested by the Israeli army at Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital. The 42-year-old Palestinian was taken to the notorious Sde Teiman detention center, where, like thousands of Gazans detained there, he endured severe abuse at the hands of the guards. But he was soon transferred out. “I thought I was being returned to Gaza, but I found myself in another prison,” he told +972 and Local Call. That prison was Ofer Camp — a military facility that Israel established during the current war to hold detainees from Gaza, located between Jerusalem and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

 

 Detainees at Ofer Prison, near Jerusalem, occupied West Bank, August 28, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Burning Witches and Torching American Democracy

December 19, 2024

James Bovard

On December 1, President Joe Biden announced that he was pardoning his son Hunter for all the crimes he committed from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024. Biden’s sweeping pardon of all of his son’s abuses epitomizes how presidents and their families are now above the law. It also illustrates how the “King James Test for American Democracy” could become the death of the Constitution.

Chess King Gukesh: How an 18-year-old dreamer checkmated the world

December 19, 2024

S. Sujatha

What dreams can an eight-year-old boy harbor? Perhaps a new video game, a favorite toy, or a cherished destination. At most, an autograph or selfie with a beloved sports star. But young Gukesh Dommaraju’s dream was extraordinary: to become world chess champion.

 

 Ding Liren (L) of China plays against Dommaraju Gukesh of India during the Game 14 of the FIDE World Chess Championship 2024 in Singapore on December 12, 2024. ©  Global Look Press / XinHua / Then Chih Wey

This festive season, Gaza is starving

December 18, 2024

Esraa Abo Qamar

Winter has now come to the Northern Hemisphere and has ushered in a festive mood in many places. In Gaza, it has brought more misery. The cold weather and rain have made the lives of the 1.9 million Palestinians displaced in Gaza that much more unbearable.

 

 Palestinian children wait for a food portion at a distribution centre in south of Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on December 17, 2024 [Bashar Taleb/AFP]

Now Is the Time to Protect Progressive Organizations

December 18, 2024

Mattie Armstrong-Price

The coming year promises to be a dangerous time for progressive groups. Last month the House passed resolution 9495, which would grant the executive branch extraordinary powers to designate nonprofit organizations as terrorist supporting and thereby to revoke these organizations’ 501(c)3 status unilaterally and without due process.

 

Hundreds of activists gather for an encampment on the University of Michigan's campus calling for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, on April 24, 2024 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States.(Photo: Adam J. Dewey/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Hamas indicates ceasefire deal is close, if Israel ‘stops adding new conditions’

December 17,2024

Hamas said on Tuesday that it believes ceasefire talks have been productive enough for a ceasefire to be agreed, but only if Israel does not impose further conditions. 

Palestinians inspect the damage in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on a school sheltering displaced people in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip 16 December 2024 (Mohammed Salem/Reuters)

The Hypocrisy of Bombing Iran

December 17,2024

Ted Snider

President-elect Donald Trump has reportedly expressed concern that Iran could develop a nuclear bomb on his watch. In considering his options to prevent that, The Wall Street Journal reports that Trump is considering the possibility of airstrikes on Iranian nuclear facilities.

“7 countries in 5 years”: Regime change in Iran coming soon?

December 17,2024

Gavin O’Reilly

In the early hours of last Sunday morning, a seismic geopolitical shift occurred when the 24-year Presidency of Syria by Bashar al-Assad came to an end in dramatic fashion.