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Don’t Spoil the Show: Gaza, Davos, and the Business Class of Peace

There is a rule at Davos—unwritten, but strictly enforced. Reality is bad for business. Yossi Alpher learned this the hard way. Sitting on a panel at a luxury resort near the Dead Sea, surrounded by ministers, executives, and conflict “experts,” he made the unforgivable mistake of speaking honestly. Grim facts. Grim assessments. No PowerPoint optimism. No Riviera renderings. No applause. A prominent Israeli industrialist later pulled him aside and explained the crime: “ Don’t spoil the show . The idea is to radiate optimism that nourishes an investment climate . It’s all about business. No room for realism .” That sentence may be the most accurate peace-process doctrine of the 21st century. Phase II: Now With Billionaires Fast forward to Davos again. This time, the stage is Gaza—or rather, Gaza™ , the investment opportunity. Trump’s “Board of Peace,” staffed by billionaires and brand managers of global destruction , announces Phase II of a Gaza peace plan with all the s...

When the Sky Becomes a Weapon: Chemical Spraying, Plausible Deniability, and the Slow Violence Against the Land.

There are crimes that explode in a single moment—and then there are crimes that drift. They fall quietly from the sky. They settle into soil. They poison roots before they reach lungs . And by the time the damage is visible, the perpetrators are already hiding behind language. In recent weeks, residents of southern Lebanon and parts of southern Syria have watched Israeli aircraft spray unknown substances over green and agricultural areas. Fields were coated. Farmers panicked. UN peacekeepers were told to shelter. Governments demanded answers. And once again, the world was handed a familiar script: “Non-toxic.” “Defensive.” “Unverified.” “Under investigation.” This is not a new story. This is a recycled method. What Is Known — and What Is Being Carefully Left Unsaid Let us begin with facts, not slogans. The United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) confirmed that the Israeli military notified them in advance of an aerial operation near the Blue Line in whic...

Even the Dead Are Not Safe: How Power Desecrates Graves and Calls It Security

There is a final dignity that every civilization, every faith, every moral tradition claims to respect: the dignity of the dead. In Gaza and the West Bank, even that has been revoked. Homes can be flattened. Children can be starved. Hospitals can be reduced to ash. These crimes, we are told, are “tragic necessities.” But graves ? What threat does a corpse pose to a modern army armed with drones , tanks , and nuclear ambiguity ? Apparently, enough to be bulldozed. Graves as Enemy Infrastructure According to detailed reporting by Al Jazeera , Israeli forces in Gaza did not merely fight the living — they waged war on cemeteries . Tombstones were crushed. Graves were excavated . Human remains were scattered, mixed, lost . Families returned not to mourning, but to forensic horror: bones without names, names without bodies. This was not collateral damage . This was not crossfire. This was methodical excavation . Heavy machinery was deployed to retrieve the body of one ...

“I Cannot Unsee What I Saw”: Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan’s UN Testimony on Gaza

On 26 November 2024 , pediatric intensive care physician Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan stood before a United Nations body not as a politician, not as an activist, but as a witness — a doctor who has repeatedly volunteered in Gaza’s hospitals and seen, with her own eyes, the devastating toll of war on children, families, and healthcare workers. Her testimony was raw. It was unvarnished. It was deeply human. “ My name is Tanya Haj-Hassan. I am a pediatric intensive care doctor and have worked in Gaza many times over the past decade.” She described herself not as an observer from afar, but as someone embedded in suffering — someone who has treated the wounded, witnessed the destruction of life and infrastructure alike, and held the hands of children as they died. “ You cannot witness what is happening in Gaza and not emerge enraged and determined to stop it.” A Hospital Like No Other Dr. Haj-Hassan did not speak abstractly. She spoke of real hospital wards , real families , and...

“Not Auschwitz — Yet Still Genocide”: When Israeli Holocaust Historians Break the Silence on Gaza

There are moments in history when the most unsettling truths do not come from one’s enemies, but from within. From those who know the past most intimately. From those whose moral authority is built not on ideology, but on memory. In December 2025, two of Israel’s most respected Holocaust and genocide scholars— Prof. Daniel Blatman and Prof. Amos Goldberg of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem—published a deeply unsettling opinion article in Haaretz . What they argued was not casual, rhetorical, or activist hyperbole. It was a grave historical judgment. Their conclusion was stark: What is happening in Gaza is not Auschwitz. But it belongs to the same family of crimes: genocide. Why This Voice Matters Blatman and Goldberg are not marginal figures. They are historians whose professional lives have been devoted to studying Nazi crimes, genocide mechanisms, memory, and moral responsibility . Their scholarship is rooted in the very catastrophe that shaped modern Jewish iden...

Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja: How Ethnic Cleansing Happens Without a Declaration

Ethnic cleansing rarely announces itself with sirens or official decrees. More often, it arrives quietly—through sleepless nights, smashed water tanks, stolen sheep, armed men grazing livestock on stolen land, and the slow realization that survival itself has become impossible. On 8 January 2026 , Israel completed what it had been methodically engineering for months: the forcible transfer of 26 Palestinian families from the shepherding community of Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja in the southern Jordan Valley. That is 124 people , including 59 children , pushed from homes their families had lived in for decades—not by a single evacuation order, but by sustained terror. This is not a humanitarian crisis caused by “clashes.” It is not a byproduct of war. It is a deliberate policy outcome . Violence as Policy, Militias as Instruments Ras ‘Ein al-‘Auja lies about ten kilometers north of Jericho. It is the last remaining shepherding community in the southern Jordan Valley , and the largest sti...

Never Attack a Revolution—Unless It’s Gaza

By Malik Mukhtar There is a peculiar confidence that comes with being wrong for decades and still being invited back to explain the world. Yossi Alpher—former Mossad official, veteran intelligence analyst, and institutional voice of Israeli “realism”—offers us precisely that confidence in his January 12, 2026 reflections on Iran. His message, distilled, is simple: things are complicated, revolutions are unpredictable, and humility is required . This is sound advice. It just arrives from the wrong mouth, at the wrong time, over the wrong bodies. Because while Alpher warns us—correctly—not to “attack a revolution, ” Israel has spent the last two years doing something far more obscene : attacking a trapped civilian population with no revolution , no army , no air force, no escape —and calling it self-defense . Intelligence: A Sacred Failure, Repeated Faithfully Alpher recalls, with admirable candor, the catastrophic ignorance of Western and Israeli intelligence during...

Gaza Beyond the Alibi of Hamas: Genocide as Method, Silence as Accomplice.( From Chris Hedges report )

We are the most informed generation in human history—and perhaps the least disturbed by what we know. From the first missiles that struck Gaza’s residential blocks to the slow starvation that followed, everything was visible. Every destroyed home. Every burned hospital. Every child pulled from rubble. And yet, the global emotional temperature barely rose. In an age of total visibility, feeling itself has become scarce. Watching has replaced witnessing. Knowing has replaced responsibility. This moral numbness is not accidental. It is cultivated . And at the center of this cultivation stands a single word, endlessly repeated, ritually invoked, and strategically deployed: Hamas . Hamas has functioned not as an explanation, but as an alibi. The Choice Was Announcedk From Day One From the earliest days of Israel’s assault, the policy was articulated with chilling clarity: Gaza’s population would be given two options— stay and starve, or leave . This was not the language of counte...

Our Genocide: When Silence Becomes Complicity

The world watches. The bombs fall. And a human tragedy of unfathomable scale unfolds. On July 28, 2025, B’Tselem , Israel’s foremost human rights organization, issued a report titled Our Genocide — a document that shatters decades of euphemism and denial. For the first time, a major Israeli human rights group did not merely describe violence in Gaza as disproportionate or unlawful — it named it for what it is: genocide . “ A coordinated attack to destroy Palestinian society” B’Tselem did not arrive at this conclusion lightly. The report painstakingly documents the consequences of nearly 22 months of war — cities erased, families obliterated, a society made into rubble. “An examination of Israel’s policy in the Gaza Strip and its horrific outcomes, together with statements by senior Israeli politicians and military commanders about the goals of the attack, leads us to the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian societ...