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, ...