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  Two years of blood and rubble in Gaza, and still Netanyahu beats his war drums like a desperate street performer who knows that if he stops banging, the crowd might finally walk away. Only here, the “crowd” is not admirers—it’s corpses, refugees, and a world staring at Israel’s moral collapse in real time. The irony is so sharp you could cut glass with it: Israel has “conquered” Gaza for the second time in as many years, yet still has no plan for what comes after. No governance strategy, no recovery strategy—just endless rubble and a permanent funeral procession. A Super Sparta , Netanyahu boasts, as if economic isolation and cultural boycotts were badges of honor. But perhaps the most bitter lesson is this: while Europe slowly peels away from Israel, while campuses in America explode with protest, the Sunni Arab capitals sit quietly polishing their Abraham Accord handshakes. Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Rabat—nodding along as if Gaza were just an unfortunate weather report from a neigh...

To the beloved people of Italy, At a time when Gaza bleeds and so much of the world turns its face away, you have lifted your voices with courage and humanity. From Rome to Milan, from Florence to Naples, your streets have echoed with chants of justice, proving once more that the Italian heart cannot remain silent in the face of cruelty. Your land has always given the world voices that stand against tyranny—Dante, who gave language to the struggle of the soul; Gramsci, who taught us that silence before injustice is betrayal; Primo Levi, who bore witness so the horrors of oppression would never be forgotten; Pasolini, who dared to speak uncomfortable truths. Today, your students, workers, priests, artists, and writers carry forward this sacred tradition. Italy’s culture has always married beauty with conscience. The paintings of your masters, the soaring notes of Verdi, the fire of your poetry—all remind us that art is not only for the eye and ear, but for the defense of the human ...

  Trump, Gaza, and the Sword of Bolívar: Gustavo Petro’s Bold Indictment at the UN “ Trump is an accomplice to genocide . This forum is a mute witness to a genocide . ” — Gustavo Petro, President of Colombia, UN General Assembly 2025 Colombian President Gustavo Petro did what few leaders of the so-called “international community” have dared: he broke the suffocating silence. From the UN podium, his words tore through the sterile language of “conflict management” and “peace processes,” stripping away the diplomatic varnish to name what is unfolding in Gaza with unmistakable clarity — genocide. Petro did not stop there. He declared that diplomacy had failed, words were no longer enough , and called for the creation of an international armed force of nations “that do not accept genocide.” Unlike the traditional UN peacekeeping missions paralyzed by Security Council vetoes, Petro’s proposal was radical: a moral coalition prepared to act where global institutions have collapsed i...

  They said nothing could be done . They said the siege was unbreakable , that governments had chosen their side , that the people of Gaza must endure their death in silence. And then, Italy stood still . Across Rome, Milan, Naples, Genoa, Turin — trains halted, schools emptied, ports locked, streets filled. Workers, students, teachers, transport staff, and dockers rose together in a nationwide strike for Palestine . Their message thundered through the squares: “ We are not accomplices. Not in genocide. Not in starvation. Not in silence.” At the same time, out on the Mediterranean, another act of defiance cut through the waves. The Sumud Flotilla sailed against Israel’s blockade, carrying not only aid but an unyielding truth : Gaza will not be erased, its people will not be starved into surrender, and the world will not stand by forever. A Global Convergence of Courage These are not separate stories. They are two fronts of the same struggle . In Italy, dockers refused t...

So we’ve reached this moment: Keir Starmer’s UK “ recognises the State of Palestine. ” Applause lines up. Speeches made. Headlines dazzled. But behind the pomp, the guns, the exports, the intelligence, the training — history rings out in mocking laughter. Because Britain has been complicit since day one. This recognition is not redemption . It’s theatre. 1. The Original Sin: Balfour Declaration Let’s go back. Because if you don’t know your history, you’ll be fooled by the future. On 2 November 1917 , Arthur James Balfour (Britain’s Foreign Secretary) wrote to Lord Rothschild, and officially declared: “His Majesty’s Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object , it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine , or the rights and political sta...

  Let’s talk numbers. Not the kind that anesthetize , but the kind that sear . The kind that, when faced honestly, strip away the rhetoric and lay bare the machinery of destruction. The Source This is not rumor. This is not speculation. On July 12, 2024 , Martin Griffiths —the UN’s Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs —stood before the Security Council and said the words in cold, diplomatic tone: “According to our colleagues at UNOSAT, Israel’s military operations have rained down 100,000 tonnes of explosives on Gaza in the first six months of the war.” One. Hundred. Thousand. Tonnes. A number so monstrous it dissolves into abstraction —unless we force it into meaning. What 100,000 Tonnes Looks Like Per Person: 43.5 kg of explosives for every man, woman, and child in Gaza. A family of five? A 200 kg package of death — two full-grown gorillas made of TNT—delivered to their doorstep . Per City Block: 455 tonnes per square kilometer. Imagine you...

  Delivering the Dead: How the World Watches Gaza Bleed “ I delivered a beheaded woman who was nine months pregnant. ” That’s not a horror-film script. That’s not medieval history. That is the testimony of an Australian medic standing in a Gaza hospital in 2025, describing what it means to “ practice medicine ” under Israeli bombardment. A nine-months-pregnant woman , decapitated , her body torn open so that the child she carried could be pulled out lifeless — and somehow this is still not enough to shake the comfortable democracies of the West into anything resembling a conscience. We should probably give the Nobel Prize for Creative Euphemism to the politicians who still call this “self-defense.” After all, there’s nothing quite as defensive as severing the head of an expectant mother and forcing foreign doctors to deliver her dead child in the rubble of what used to be a hospital . Bravo, civilization . The tragedy is not just the atrocity itself. It’s the smug perfo...

Bernie Sanders ’ words landed like a thunderclap : “ The intent is clear. The conclusion is inescapable: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. ” Those tenacious, terrible words —published on September 17, 2025 —are not a rhetorical flourish . They are the alarm bell of a democracy’s conscience, sounding in the face of overwhelming evidence and unbearable human suffering.^1 We must start by refusing the 900 numbness that lets statistics pass as background noise. Out of a population of roughly 2.2 million people, tens of thousands are dead, many more wounded , and whole neighborhoods have been flattened. ^2 Children who once ran through alleys and sat in schoolrooms are now counted among the nameless dead. Hospitals, schools, water and sanitation systems — the scaffolding of daily life — lie in ruin . These are not the accidental byproducts of war; they are the very conditions that, by law and by conscience, define an effort to destroy a people’s ability to survive.^3 San...

  In March 2024, Haaretz published chilling testimonies from Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) snipers who openly admitted their role in Gaza’s slaughter. One sniper confessed: “I killed men and children in front of the aid distribution points in Gaza. I don’t know how many. But they were many.” Another spoke of targeting anyone who “moved in the designated zone” — civilians desperate for food, water, and survival. These are not isolated incidents. They are windows into a machinery of extermination, executed with precision scopes and military orders, and defended in the language of “security.” But while the killers speak in the cold arithmetic of body counts, the voices from Gaza tremble with loss, dignity, and despair. A UN report documented a mother in Rafah, clutching the blood-soaked dress of her daughter, whispering: “She was only six. We stood in line for flour. The sniper’s bullet went through her head. She only wanted bread.” From Khan Younis, a displaced teacher told Al ...

  When history writes the record of our times, it will ask: Who stood up while children were slaughtered, and who looked away? In Spain, that answer will bear one clear name — Ione Belarra , the former Minister of Social Rights, a woman who dared to call Israel what few in power have had the courage to say: “a planned genocide.” Belarra is not a career diplomat rehearsing sterile phrases. She is a psychologist, a parliamentarian, and until November 2023, a minister in Pedro Sánchez’s cabinet. More importantly, she has been the conscience of a Europe that has largely drowned in cowardice. When governments mumbled about “humanitarian corridors” as bombs flattened hospitals and starved civilians, Belarra raised her voice with defiance: “Do not make us complicit in genocide. Act. Not in our name.” Her words cut through the hypocrisy of Western capitals that lecture the world about human rights while arming Israel to the teeth. Belarra did not mince her demands. She called for Spa...

  The New York Times wants you to believe it’s breaking news: Israel is annexing the West Bank . As if settlers with Uzis terrorizing farmers, torching cars, and mowing down Palestinians were just a quirky frontier hobby until now. The reality? The “ slow-motion theft ” has simply shifted into fast-forward . Netanyahu and Smotrich don’t even bother whispering anymore — they say it on live TV: No Palestinian state . This land is ours . They sign documents to prove it, announce E1 like it’s a shopping mall opening, and proudly bury the two-state solution that Washington kept embalmed in its freezer for thirty years . And America? Don’t worry — Marco Rubio is on the job . The “Secretary of State” flew in, grinned for the cameras, and shrugged annexation off as “not a final thing.” Translation: burn the West Bank, it’s fine, just leave the ashes neat . Mike Huckabee, the ambassador who apparently skipped Diplomatic School for Bible Study, confirmed what we already knew: the U.S....

  “I do not rule out renewed strikes on terrorists in foreign countries. This is what advanced democracies do.” — Sounds noble, until one stops laughing (or cries). Look, there’s something deeply unsettling in the polished logic of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s latest sermon to the world: terrorists deserve no sanctuary, so countries that host them must either cough them up or be targets themselves. Because when one wields power, there’s no higher law than “might makes right.” What he calls “what advanced democracies do,” let’s unpack that. Democracy, in many people’s hearts, promises justice, due process, limits on power—not a carte blanche for extraterritorial strikes. Yet here we have an argument that sovereignty should yield not to diplomacy, not to negotiation, but to the drone-strike, the missile, the secretive kill-mission conducted beyond public scrutiny. Because that, apparently, is the hallmark of maturity: to threaten and act across borders whenever, wherever....