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Items by Sayid Marcos Tenorio
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Will there be 'lasting peace' between Israel and Palestine?
Clashes between Israelis and Palestinians are nothing new. These episodes have been happening since the Zionist militias started the Nakba in 1948 with the violent expulsion of more than 750,000 Palestinians and the destruction of more than 140 towns and villages. This ethnic cleansing campaign made way for the...
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Qasem Soleimani, the great martyr of Jerusalem
The date of 3 January invites us, on the one hand, to reflect on the fight against terrorism and, on the other, to continue fighting for justice, freedom and sovereignty. That’s because, on this date in 2020, a direct order from US President Donald Trump materialised in a terrorist...
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On relations between the Palestinian resistance and Iran
We have witnessed a debate about the reasons that have led the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) to draw closer to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and vice versa, despite differences in some aspects of the resistance struggle in the Middle East and on related issues to regional geopolitics. I think...
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Israel-Palestine: What sort of conflict is this?
The conflict in Palestine has nothing to do with the perceptions of common sense and public opinion, which aim to reduce its dimension of libertarian struggle to a supposed “religious war” or “terrorism”. Those are the justifications used to refer to the effort of the Palestinian resistance to get...
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The unfair and illegal partition of Palestine turns 74
On 29 November, 1947, the newly-created United Nations (UN) approved the Palestine Partition Plan and started the Nakba process. Nakba, meaning “catastrophe”, is an Arabic word used to describe the tragedy that followed, and is still ongoing. The infamous partition made Palestine the only state destroyed with the support...
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Martyrs: A source of inspiration and hope
Martyrs occupy a special place in the hearts and minds of Palestinians. In the Palestinian Declaration of Independence, written by Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish and proclaimed by Yasser Arafat on 15 November 1988, an oath was taken of unrelenting struggle before and in honour of the sacrifice of thousands...
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Israel's terrorism against human rights NGOs
Since its founding in 1948, the “State of Israel” has promoted an intense campaign to erase Palestinian history, culture and resistance on all its fronts. Human rights organisations such as the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS) and activists around the world are the constant targets of this onslaught. Recently,...
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The Balfour Declaration: 104 years since the start of the Palestinian tragedy
The date of 2 November marks an event directly linked to the root of the conflict in Palestine and the suffering, deterritorialisation and apartheid experienced by its people. On this date in 1917, British Foreign Secretary James Balfour wrote a letter, known as the Balfour Declaration, to the leader...
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Palestinian resistance poetry by Mahmoud Darwish
Mahmoud Darwish is the most internationally-renowned Palestinian poet and writer, although still little-known in Brazil. He is the author of 30 poetry books and eight prose books, translated into more than 40 languages, and winner of the Cultural Freedom Prize, the Lannan Foundation (US), the Lenin Peace Prize (former...
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Palestine forever
"As long as this oppression persists, the Palestinian people have no choice but to resist aggression..."...
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Israel’s terror against Gaza’s children on Netflix
The celebration of Children’s Day on 12 October made me remember and rewatch the documentary Born in Gaza (2014) on Netflix by Italian-Argentinian war correspondent, writer and filmmaker Hernán Zin. The documentary was shot during the 2014 offensive on the Gaza Strip and portrays the daily lives of ten...
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Lies and fears in the Israeli premier’s speech at the UN
Bennett’s speech was a demonstration of the failure of the Jewish state’s colonial project in Palestine, which intended to conquer the entire territory of historical Palestine and advance towards the conquest of the entire Middle East...