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Items by Sayid Marcos Tenorio
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When the coloniser calls resistance terrorism
Throughout history, almost every national liberation struggle has been labelled “terrorism” by the powers exercising colonial rule or foreign occupation. This strategy is nothing new. The British Empire branded IRA fighters in Ireland and EOKA guerrillas in Cyprus as terrorists. France portrayed Algeria’s National Liberation Front (FLN) as a criminal…
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Trump says Hamas has agreed to disarm. The negotiations tell a different story
US President Donald Trump declared that Hamas had agreed to lay down its arms, and much of the international media echoed the announcement as though a final agreement had already been reached. The statement suggested that the Palestinian resistance had finally accepted Israeli and American terms. The negotiations themselves tell…
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Settler violence and the new Nakba in the West Bank
The events unfolding in the occupied West Bank can no longer be understood merely as a succession of settler attacks or isolated outbreaks of violence. What is taking shape is a systematic pattern of territorial domination that combines settlement expansion, increasing militarisation, the forced displacement of Palestinian communities and the…
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Khalil al-Hayya’s election reveals the Hamas of the post-war era
The election of Dr Khalil al-Hayya as head of Hamas’s Political Bureau represents far more than a change of leadership. It signals the movement’s entry into a new political phase, shaped by the war on Gaza, the systematic assassination of its leaders and the struggle over who will shape Palestine’s…
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After Gaza, who represents Palestine?
More than a thousand days of war on Gaza have destroyed far more than cities, hospitals and refugee camps. They have also exposed the exhaustion of a political framework built more than three decades ago under the Oslo Accords. As the Palestinian people endure perhaps the most dramatic moment in…
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Hamas is leaving government, not the resistance
Hamas’s decision to dissolve the Government Emergency Committee in the Gaza Strip and transfer civilian administration to the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza marks a significant strategic shift. To interpret it as capitulation or defeat is to misunderstand the current stage of the Palestinian national liberation struggle. The…
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Ali Khamenei and Palestine as the enduring axis of the Islamic revolution
For Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei, the defence of Palestine was never a circumstantial matter of foreign policy. Rather, it constituted the enduring axis of his political, diplomatic and strategic vision throughout nearly four decades as Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the Palestinian cause…
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One thousand days of war: Why Israel failed to defeat Palestine
July 3 marks one thousand days since the beginning of the genocidal war in Gaza. It also compels us to acknowledge an undeniable reality: despite overwhelming military superiority, Israel has failed to achieve its principal political objective. The destruction has been immense. The humanitarian catastrophe has reached unprecedented levels, and…
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FIFA could not hide Gaza
The Palestinian national team did not qualify for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Yet Palestine became one of the tournament’s defining presence, not through goals or victories, but through the constant display of Palestinian flags in the stands, expressions of solidarity with Gaza, and chants that echoed across stadiums, host…
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FIFA’s double standard in global geopolitics
The 2026 FIFA World Cup began surrounded by a contradiction that extends far beyond the boundaries of the football pitch. While FIFA insists on presenting football as a neutral space capable of uniting peoples and nations above political disputes, the tournament hosted by the United States, Canada and Mexico has…
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The Iran-US Agreement and the limits of American hegemony
After nearly half a century of hostility, sanctions, military threats and indirect confrontations, the announcement of a memorandum of understanding between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States may represent one of the most significant geopolitical developments in the Middle East since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. More than…
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Naksa at 59: The colonial war against Palestine never ended
June 2026 marks the 59th anniversary of the Naksa, the Arabic term meaning “setback” or “defeat”, used by Palestinians to describe the events of June 1967. More than a war between states, the Naksa represented a new stage in a colonial process that had begun decades earlier and continues to…
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Beijing does not obey the empire, Tehran resists
Donald Trump returns from his visit to China without the display of strength he had hoped to project to the world. No meaningful public concessions, no visible strategic alignment from Beijing against Tehran, and no image of a leader capable of forcibly reshaping the global geopolitical chessboard. That alone would…
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78 years since the Nakba and the collapse of the Zionist project
For decades, the Zionist project sold the world a carefully constructed image: that of a modern democracy, militarily invincible, morally superior, and destined for historical permanence. Today, that narrative is collapsing before the eyes of the world. But this crisis did not begin yesterday. As the 78th anniversary of the…
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Iran, the crisis of US power and the end of the imperial narrative
War is also won in the realm of perception. And it is precisely on this terrain that Iran has achieved its most decisive victory. By confronting both the United States and Israel without capitulating, Iran has transformed resistance, endurance, and its capacity to exert pressure into regional political capital. This…
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Indefinite ceasefire is a strategic defeat for the US in the face of Iran
The decision by Donald Trump to unilaterally announce an indefinite extension of the ceasefire with Iran, without any request from Tehran, reveals more than an attempt at mediation. It exposes the failure of Washington’s military approach and the difficulty the United States faces in sustaining escalation against an adversary that…
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The language of media as a weapon of war
The language of hegemonic media does not merely describe the world. It organizes it, hierarchises it and, above all, disciplines it. Within the dominant vocabulary of international relations, certain terms are systematically deployed to legitimise allies and delegitimise adversaries. This is not a semantic detail, but a central mechanism in…
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Antisemitism as a weapon to silence critics of Israel
The accusation of antisemitism has increasingly been instrumentalised as a political weapon to silence criticism of Israel and its policies against the Palestinian people. This is not an occasional distortion, but a recurring strategy aimed at constraining, intimidating and punishing journalists, academics, activists and movements that denounce practices such as…
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The politics of death in “Israel’s” prisons
The approval by the Knesset of a law instituting the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners marks a historic rupture in Israeli penal policy—and a dangerous escalation in the institutionalization of state violence. For the first time in decades, the Zionist state has formalized execution as a regular instrument of punishment,…
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The collapse of the myth of Israel’s invincibility
The current situation in the Middle East cannot be understood as a mere military escalation or a sequence of isolated confrontations. It represents a historical turning point, revealing the exhaustion of a regional domination model sustained by Israel’s military supremacy and the strategic backing of the United States. For decades,…
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Jerusalem at the epicentre of the Middle East crisis
Every year, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, millions of people around the world mobilise to mark the International Day of Al-Quds, the Arabic name for the city of Jerusalem. Established in 1979 by the leader of the Iranian Islamic Revolution, Imam Ruhollah Khomeini, the day…
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Mojtaba Khamenei and the continuity of the Islamic Revolution
The election of Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Hosseini Khamenei as the new Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran represents far more than a simple institutional succession. Coming amid an open regional conflict and following the martyrdom of Iran’s long-time leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the decision by the Assembly of…
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The martyrdom of Imam Khamenei and the revolution that no empire will be able to destroy
The martyrdom of Imam Seyyed Ali Khamenei does not represent the end of an era, but the transformation of the Islamic Revolution into an even deeper, politically and spiritually irreversible movement. By being assassinated in an attack by the United States and “Israel”, the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic…
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Iran in the face of the armed diplomacy of imperialism
The ongoing negotiations between the United States and Iran, mediated by Oman and recently held in Geneva, have been presented by Western diplomacy as a technical effort to contain nuclear risks. This version is a carefully constructed farce. What is at stake is not the so-called “non-proliferation”, but a direct…