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Items by Jamal Kanj
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Food aid or firing squads: How the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation became Gaza Assassination Trap
In Gaza today, hunger has a price—and for far too many civilians, that price has been death. The Israeli Newspaper, Haaretz described the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) distribution centers as “Killing Field” where Israeli soldiers ordered to shoot at civilians queuing for the meager aid. Mothers, fathers, children, and elders—unarmed…
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Ceasefire not peace: How Netanyahu and AIPAC outsourced Israel’s war to Trump?
Unlike Russia’s quarrel with Kyiv or China’s claim to Taiwan, Washington’s war with Iran is not rooted in a national dispute with the US It is a project subcontracted by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his lobby group, American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC). Donald Trump—a president addicted to…
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Netanyahu’s new Holocaust: From livestream genocide in Gaza to the war on Iran
The Orwellian G7 statement described Israel’s military attacks on Iran as “self-defence. By twisting language to fit political ends, the communiqué normalizes aggression and offers diplomatic cover for Israel’s serial violations of international law. Rather than condemning the Israeli escalation, the G7 resorts to vague calls for “de-escalation,” effectively endorsing…
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A preemptive strike on diplomacy: Israel’s attack and the precipice of a wider American war
Israel’s latest strike on Iran had nothing to do with dismantling the Iranian (civilian) nuclear program. Despite Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s assertion that “the timing was fixed back in November 2024,” the real zero hour was designated only to undercut possible diplomatic framework that could have legitimized Iran’s nuclear development…
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Israeli lies and western complicity: How deceit became a weapon of war
Throughout its long history of ethnic cleansing and occupation, Israel has remained consistent in its tactics: lie, deny, and distort the truth—often with the backing, or at least the indulgence, of Western powers. Lying has become an Israeli art form, refined over decades, practiced with impunity, and amplified by a…
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Minimal aid, maximum harm: A smokescreen to shield Israeli war crimes
Israel’s decision to allow only minimal food into Gaza is a small reprieve—not a solution. It does nothing to reverse the widespread malnutrition ravaging Gaza’s children or the irreversible health collapse among its elderly. This is not charity. It is an attempt to normalize starvation as a weapon of war.…
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Forgive Me, Gaza…
I write forgive me, not forgive us, because this guilt is deeply personal. It’s a burden I carry in the comfort of my home, sipping clean water while the children of Gaza drink from brine water wells mixed in sewage—their small bodies wracked with dehydration and disease—if they even find…
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If you cherish democratic values, you have to stand up to the rogue state of Israel
In yet another brazen, heinous war crime, the Israeli army has murdered eight medics, six civil defence responders and a UN employee. Their bodies were buried in the sand, and rescuers were prevented from reaching the site for a week in an unscrupulous attempt to obstruct efforts to save and…
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Trump’s hypocrisy: Peacemaker in Ukraine, genocide enabler in Gaza
Earlier this month I wrote that Benjamin Netanyahu’s resumption of the war of genocide in Gaza was never a matter of “if”, but “when.” The early morning massacre of over 1,000 killed and wounded civilians on 18 and 19 March was described as an Israeli “tactic to force” the Palestinian…
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Syria: Dangling between the past, present and the future
Following the collapse of the Assad regime, I ended my article in December with the following paragraph: “The new government must represent all Syrians, regardless of religion or ethnicity, ensuring justice and equality for all, while upholding Syria’s historic role at the forefront of resistance against Israel and its local…
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Israel’s ethnic cleansing in the West Bank continues as the PA slips into irrelevance
The ongoing Israeli military assault on Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank is part of a larger ethnic cleansing of the occupied territory, a systematic effort to forcibly displace Palestinians from their homes and erase their historical and national identity. As the world watches in silence, the relentless incursions…
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Why the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire negotiations is failing
The three-phase ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement, while offering a fleeting glimmer of hope for ending the occupation state’s genocidal assault on Gaza, was never likely to succeed. Benjamin Netanyahu’s decision to break the ceasefire terms by blocking food and medical aid from entering Gaza…
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Trump’s hyperbolic rhetoric is not out of the box thinking, it’s out of touch with reality
We saw the King of Jordan twitching his eyes nervously as Donald Trump unveiled his outrageous plan to take over Gaza. Yet, when asked to comment, King Abdullah remained conspicuously equivocal or evasive. His failure to speak out was emblematic of an Arab despot installed by colonial and post-colonial powers.…
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Does Trump see Gaza as a business opportunity or a dispossession project?
A friend texted to ask if I had watched the joint press conference held by Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu. “Fortunately, I did not watch it live,” I wrote back. It took me nearly 24 hours to be in the right state of mind to endure watching two narcissists standing…
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The people of Gaza deserve justice, not ethnic cleansing
Nearly eight years ago, Donald Trump and his Zionist son-in-law Jared Kushner unveiled the so-called “Deal of the Century”. This was described aptly by Palestinians as the “Steal of the Century”. The so-called peace proposal sought to normalise illegal colonies for Jews only in the West Bank, and deny Palestinians…
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Palestine Through the Lens: A Visual Chronicle of a Vibrant Society (1898-1946)
This is a review of an exceptional photo book, Images of Palestine (1898-1946). The book is a collection of photographs that spans nearly five decades, captured in the period leading up to the Palestine Nakba. Together, these black-and-white images chronicle a vibrant and diverse Palestinian society, highlighting its connection to…
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Contrasting reality: Treatment of Israeli and Palestinian prisoners
The release of three Israeli women held captive in Gaza on Sunday attracted significant global media attention. However, there was comparatively limited coverage of the freed Palestinian women, who had been kidnapped and detained by Israel without charge. This disparity reflects the normalisation of the dehumanisation of Palestinians, perpetuating a…
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Israel’s attacks on hospitals are war crimes; the world must respond
The recent Israeli attack on Kamal Adwan Hospital, the only partially-operating hospital in northern Gaza, was the latest phase of Israel’s egregious disregard for international humanitarian law and the sanctity of medical facilities. This audacious act highlighted the alarming impunity with which Israel conducts its genocidal war in Gaza, and…
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Is the Palestinian Authority protecting the ‘Homeland’ or Zionist Bantustans?
Israel has invaded Jenin refugee camp numerous times since the 1993 Oslo Accords. The city of Jenin and the nearby camp are in what is considered as Area A of the Accords. This area is made up of approximately 18 per cent of the West Bank, or 18 per cent…
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Netanyahu’s diabolical undeclared war objectives in Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel’s war on Gaza will continue until achieving what he terms “total victory”. Instead of examining Netanyahu’s vague and open-ended objectives critically, much of the Western media and many governments frame the onslaught as “self-defence”, and some even normalise the genocide as…
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Israel engineered chaos and looting in Gaza
Last March, I wrote Gaza: Genocide by Starvation, analyzing Israel’s strategy to divert attention from the starvation caused by its blockade by shifting the narrative to food distribution and internal security. In support of this strategy, the Biden administration implemented a flawed plan, squandering more than $320 million of US…
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The ‘General’s Plan’ in Gaza: A genocide by starvation
George Orwell’s dystopian foresight could easily find new expressions in the ongoing Israeli wars of genocide in Gaza and Lebanon. Much like “war is peace”, the Biden administration and the European Union have contributed to creating phrases such as “aggression is self-defence,” “murder is collateral damage”, “safe areas are death…
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Biden’s bias toward Israel transcends his humanity
What did the White House National Security Communications Advisor John Kirby say after the 1 April Israeli murder of seven aid workers in Gaza, six of them foreigners? “We were outraged to learn of an IDF strike that killed a number of civilian humanitarian workers yesterday from the World Central…
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Rafah is Netanyahu’s last fig leaf
Rafah is not a military base, nor does it have any geopolitical significance. It is, however, Netanyahu’s last chance for political survival and exoneration from criminal charges. Rafah’s only symbolic importance is being a potential gateway to forcibly exile Palestinians from Gaza. Thus, Netanyahu’s vision of “total victory” entails the…