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, ...
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...