Palestine’s future
In the run-up to a special session of the UN General Assembly at which at least seven Western states have announced their intention to extend diplomatic recognition to the State…
Palestine muted
As world leaders are preparing to gather in New York for the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in September, one nation will not have any representatives:…
Palestine: To be or not to be
“Courage is a heavy gift to carry, Francisca Albanese UN Special Repertoire says, “but not as heavy as 13,000 small coffins weighing on our conscience”. Do the colonizers with settler-colonial…
Israel, Palestine, the endgame
Before I tackle the article I seek permission to reproduce a joke that I read in the Reader’s Digest, Circa 1964: “A water stream flows in a parched desert in…
Global Palestine versus global Israel—III
Schizophrenic fascist population – Francs. Herbert. Bradley says “Where everything is bad/it must be good/to know the worst. In Minima Moralia Adorno states, “A humanity is secretly emerging, which hungers…
Palestine conflict
THANKS to social media, a lot of information has been provided to the world regarding the background, causes, and the terrible casualties in the Israeli war on Hamas, which has…
Marx, Judaism and Palestine
During the Trojan War proverbially fought for the beauty of Helen though the monopoly of the commercial routes was the dominant motive, Laocoon, the priest who warned the Trojans not…
Victims of geopolitics: Palestine and Kashmir
The recent tragic developments in and around Gaza are a painful reminder of the deep and festering wound inflicted upon the Palestinian body politic by Western colonialism in connivance with…
Fake news, Palestine, and local response
The situation in Palestine is horrifying. But at home there is considerable confusion about precisely what is happening and what should be said or done. In the first place our…
Palestine exposes a vacuum in Pakistan
The crisis in the Middle East is going to further expose the helpless, rudderless, and purposeless nature of Pakistani leadership. Today’s Pakistani social contract is defined, more than anything else,…
