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When Violence Becomes the Language of the State Israel’s Internal Crisis and the Brutality Long Normalized in the West Bank

  The image of prosecutor Salah Khalil Na’ameh’s battered face shocked many Israelis because it shattered a dangerous illusion: that state violence lmk can remain confined to Palestinians indefinitely without eventually consuming Israeli society itself. For Palestinians, especially in the occupied West Bank, such scenes are tragically familiar. A man beaten bloody by armed forces. Masked officers storming homes. Security forces accused of fabricating narratives later contradicted by video evidence. Citizens pleading for protection while police either stand aside or participate. What shocked many Israelis was not merely the brutality itself — but the identity of the victim. Na’ameh was not a villager from Hebron or a shepherd from Masafer Yatta. He was an Arab citizen of Israel. A state prosecutor. A man who worked within the Israeli legal system itself. And even he allegedly found himself helpless before a police force critics increasingly describe as politicized, radicaliz...

From Karachi to the Palestine Book Awards: The Journey of The Livestreamed Genocide.

Honored to share that my latest work, The Livestreamed Genocide: A Civilization That Watched and Scrorrlled, has officially been submitted for consideration for the 2026 . 🇵🇸📚 Today, the physical manuscripts of the five-volume series were formally dispatched from Karachi to the distinguished judging panel in London and the United States as part of the awards review process. This project was written as both a historical chronicle and a moral inquiry into the age of digital witnessing — an era in which atrocities are no longer hidden from the world, yet are consumed in real time through screens, timelines, and livestreams. Grounded in documented evidence, authenticated sources, and extensive independent research, the series examines the relationship between modern media, public consciousness, political silence, and the normalization of suffering in the digital age. This work was researched, written, compiled, edited, and prepared independently over countless long days and nights....

When Humanity Becomes Illegal The kidnapping of conscience on the high seas

  History will remember many crimes of this age. It will remember the bombs . It will remember the starvation . It will remember children pulled from rubble in pieces small enough to fit in their fathers’ hands. But history will also remember something colder, uglier, and perhaps more damning: It will remember how compassion itself was hunted down. Not long ago, the language of the West was filled with grand declarations: rule of law, human rights, international order, civilized values. Today those words hang like burnt banners over a moral wasteland. In international waters near Crete, a humanitarian flotilla carrying activists attempting to challenge the siege of Gaza was intercepted. More than 170 activists were detained. Most were released. But two men — Thiago Avila and Saif Abu Keshek — were taken away into Israeli custody, accused of aiding “the enemy,” while governments in Spain and Brazil demanded their release. Read that again. Not arms traffickers. N...

Empire at the Edge: War, Denial, and the Dangerous Decline of American Power

  There are moments in history when empires do not collapse from a single blow. Not invasion. Not military defeat. Not the sudden fall of a capital city. They collapse from something slower — and more tragic: The slow exposure of their contradictions. Economic contradictions. Political contradictions. Moral contradictions. A great power, long accustomed to commanding history, suddenly finds itself unable to command reality. That is where America now stands. The war on Iran is being sold, as so many wars before it, as a demonstration of strength — another spectacle of missiles, threats, patriotic slogans, and televised triumphalism. Yet beneath the fireworks lies a harsher truth: This war is not proving American power. It is exposing American decline. As warned in conversation with : “We are living through the end of empire — and that end has been accelerated by everything going on in the Middle East.” That sentence should shake every capital on earth. Because t...