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When Mandela’s Grandson Met the “Only Democracy in the Middle East”

  Two Nelsons. One fought apartheid; the other’s grandson just got a front-row seat to its reincarnation. Different century, same arrogance — this time in uniform with Hebrew insignia and U.S.-made rifles. So here’s the scene: The Sumud Flotilla — a peaceful humanitarian mission, forty boats strong, loaded not with missiles or militants but medicine, baby formula, and human decency — sails toward a starving Gaza . Among its passengers: activists, clergy, parliamentarians … and Nkosi Zwelivelile “ Mandla” Mandela , heir to a name that once made tyrants tremble . Enter the Israeli navy — that proud defender of blockades and reputations — intercepting the flotilla in international waters. 1 Because nothing screams “self-defense ” like seizing aid ships outside your own border. Suddenly, Mandela’s grandson — a South African MP — is handcuffed with plastic ties so tight they left bruises of democracy . The “world’s most moral army” parades him, cables biting into his wrists ...
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When the Police Wear Moral Armor: The Story of Hannah Thomas

  By Malik Mukhtar — ainnbeen.blogspot.com The world watched in silence — again — as another eye of conscience was crushed in the name of “public order.” This time, it wasn’t in Gaza, or Jenin, or Nablus. It was in Sydney. It was Hannah Thomas — a young Australian woman who dared to look directly at the machine of complicity. She didn’t lose her eye in war. She lost it in democracy. A Democracy That Kicks, Punches, and Then Investigates Itself On June 27, 2025, outside a modest plating factory in Belmore, Sydney, about sixty peaceful protesters stood with banners, chanting against Israel’s use of Australian-made components in its F-35 fighter jets — the same jets that turned Gaza’s hospitals and classrooms into cemeteries. The police arrived to “maintain peace.” They told protesters to move on. Hannah Thomas — former Greens candidate, activist, and daughter of Malaysia’s former Attorney General — stayed. She stayed because silence was the true crime. Moments later, ...

The Ceasefire 2025 That Exploded

  By Malik Mukhtar — ainnbeen.blogspot.com History, it seems, is allergic to peace—especially when written in Hebrew and rubber-stamped in Washington. On October 9, 2025, Israel and Hamas signed what the world was told was a “historic ceasefire.” Trump called it a “ miracle of peace. ” Biden mumbled something about “stability was d d like a weary parent rewarding a serial arsonist for promising not to light another match. And then, almost poetically— before the ink on the ceasefire dried, before the displaced could even lift their broken children from the floor of UNRWA schools— Israel began bombing again . The war, it turns out, never ended. It just changed its costume. Ceasefire as Performance Art The ceasefire was supposed to begin at noon on October 10. By dawn, the skies over Gaza City, Khan Younis, Nuseirat were already on fire again. Drones, artillery, tanks—each one humming the same old hymn of “self-defense.” Nine Palestinians were killed that morning, do...

The Orphans of Occupation: Israel’s Forgotten Militias After the Ceasefire

By Malik Mukhtar — ainnbeen.blogspot.com Two years of blood and rubble later , Israel’s war on Gaza has ended not with victory parades but with an exhausted exhale — and a fresh moral hangover. Among the wreckage, a strange question lingers like smoke after a fire: What happens to Israel’s “friends” inside Gaza — those Popular Forces , those hastily armed “ Anti-Terror” auxiliaries , those who bet their lives on serving the occupier’s script? The Frankenstein Files In the ruins of Rafah and Khan Younis, Israel’s internal intelligence service, the Shin Bet , built a small army of convenience — men with grudges, ambition, or desperation . They were told they were the future of Gaza : the new “anti-Hamas,” the “security partners,” the “civil order.” For months, they helped identify targets, pass intelligence, and even guard IDF-controlled zones. Some were given money, others weapons. A few were promised “ protection ” — a promise now as worthless as the rubble beneath their fee...

The Ceasefire of Exhaustion: When Empires Collapse from Within

  By Malik Mukhtar — ainnbeen.blogspot.com Two years after Gaza was first set on fire , the war that began with biblical vengeance has stumbled to an exhausted ceasefire . On October 9, 2025 , Israel and Hamas — after endless carnage, famine, and rubble — have signed the first phase of a ceasefire agreement mediated in Sharm el-Sheikh . Trump called it a “ historic peace plan. ” History may call it a truce of attrition — a war that collapsed under the weight of its own hubris. What the Ceasefire Says — and What It Doesn’t Under the agreement, Israeli forces are to pull back to a designated “yellow line” within 24 hours of cabinet ratification. Hamas, in turn, will release all remaining hostages — alive or dead — within 72 hours after the withdrawal. Israel will free about 2,000 Palestinian prisoners, though it made sure to exclude political figures like Marwan Barghouti , whose freedom would remind the world that Palestine still breathes. Humanitarian convoys — food,...

The Perimeter: Where Morality Ends and Fire Begins

  By Malik Mukhtar — ainnbeen.blogspot.com There are wars fought with weapons, and then there are wars fought with absence — of truth, of conscience, of boundaries . Israel calls this absence the perimeter . It sounds clinical, almost hygienic — a military term with the sterile precision of a ruler drawn across a map. But in Gaza, the perimeter is not a line. It’s a wound — a thousand meters wide — where humanity has been methodically erased under the camouflage of “security .” “ There are no civilians. They’re terrorists, all of them.” A reservist from the Armored Corps recalls the words of his commander during briefings: “ There is no civilian population. They’re terrorists, all of them.” That’s not a metaphor. That’s policy. So the rules of engagement , that sacred language of military morality, dissolved into something simpler — something primitive. If it moves, it dies. If it doesn’t move, the bulldozer will come later. “ There were no clear rules of engage...

A Masterclass in Crime-Scene Management: Netanyahu’s Gaza Strategy

Let’s all take a moment to appreciate the sheer, unadulterated genius of Benjamin Netanyahu . In an era of bumbling, incompetent statesmanship , he is giving the world a masterclass in forensic foresight . His strategy in Gaza isn’t just about security ; it’s a brilliant, pre-emptive legal defense played out on the rubble of a civilization. We must, of course, understand the predicament . When your military is accused of potential war crimes—the kind that involve leveling entire city blocks, turning hospitals into mausoleums, and creating a generation of orphans—the number one priority isn’t a ceasefire or introspection. No, no. It’s custody of the crime scene. And what a crime scene it is ! Gaza is a sprawling , open-air archive of potential indictments. It’s littered with inconvenient evidence: the corpses under the rubble , the shrapnel-ridden schools , the mass graves . It’s a prosecutor’s dream and a war criminal’s nightmare . So, what’s a nation committed to its " purity ...