✍️ By Malik Mukhtar ๐ www.ainnbeen.blogspot.com ๐
July 2, 2025 “Medicine is a humanitarian profession. In war, it becomes a moral defiance.” —Anonymous Gaza paramedic, 2024 The Last Heartbeat of a Doctor Dr. Marwan al‑Sultan was not just a cardiologist. He was the heart of Gaza’s northern healthcare system. As director of the Indonesia Hospital —one of the last functioning medical outposts in northern Gaza—he worked around the clock treating blast victims, operating with headlamps under siege, and somehow managing to keep both patients and staff alive amid rubble and rations. And now? He’s dead. Killed by an Israeli airstrike on July 2, 2025. Along with his wife. Along with his children. His apartment wasn’t a command center. It was his home. His resting space between surgeries. His last refuge. Until it wasn’t. Let that sink in: a cardiologist was silenced by a state-of-the-art missile . A man who repaired hearts… had his stopped by a war machine. Gaza’s Doctors: ...
๐ฐ The New York Times and the Art of Grieving Selectively ✍️ By Malik Mukhtar ๐ ainnbeen.blogspot.com ๐
July 2, 2025 Bret Stephens is upset. Again. Apparently, he’s still recovering from Cafรฉ Moment. And Passover in Netanya. And that one horrific morning in 2004 when he saw carnage on Azza Street. And he has every right to grieve those losses. Every human does. But here’s the thing: Some corpses get columns. Others get erased. Stephens, perched on the prestigious opinion page of The New York Times , just spent a full-length sermon condemning Zohran Mamdani—not for what he said, but for what he refused to denounce: the phrase “ globalize the intifada.” According to Bret, refusing to ritually cleanse your political career with the holy water of pro-Israel respectability is now akin to blessing bus bombings. What “ globalize the intifada” really means, Mr. Stephens, is refusing to accept a world where genocide is livestreamed, and the world just shrugs. It means dari...