Palestinians’ right to live
THIS is not the first time the people in Gaza have suffered Israeli brutality that has caused death and devastation. Yet the kind of ferocious and incessant bombardment carried out…
Most hated country in the world
WHATEVER the Americans may have said on record, the past few weeks of the war in Gaza have proved to be quite trying for them. Central among their concerns is…
Crisis of humanity
THE world watched in horror when Israeli forces attacked Al Shifa hospital in Gaza in another atrocity committed by a barbaric occupying power. Backed by tanks, the ground assault rained down terror…
Distant echoes
ISRAEL prides itself, not unreasonably, on its intelligence-gathering capabilities. This applies internationally, with Israeli apps offering the go-to spying software to a range of reprehensible regimes. But within Israel and…
A predictable tragedy
THE eruption of the Israel-Palestinian conflict and war in Gaza was a crisis waiting to happen. The conditions for this tragic turn of events were created by Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine for over…
Israel bent on genocide
Only the naïve could have imagined that Israel would continue the truce that allowed the exchange of some of the Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners. As soon as the week-long…
An unfolding tragedy
The Israeli occupation, repression, disruption, discrimination, property confiscation or home demolition are a decades-long daily affair. Likewise, racist and violent provocations by Israeli fanatics are common practice in the occupied…
After the carnage?
As Israel continues to relentlessly bomb Palestinian homes for the second week across the nominally independent Gaza strip, the immediate fallout from the ongoing carnage hardly matters. Israel’s Prime Minister…
Israel’s war on Gaza
Israel’s brutal war on Gaza has left over 1,000 Palestinians dead and more than 6,000 wounded with the death toll still rising. Hospitals, schools, mosques, homes, apartment blocks and even…
Is Trump the answer?
GIVEN his past record, it was surprising to see endorsements for candidate Trump by Muslim Americans, including influential imams, in the swing state of Michigan and the Pakistani-American Public Affairs Committee (PAKPAC).…
