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Items by Sayid Marcos Tenorio
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Hamas and the legitimate right of defence
The events that broke out in Gaza on 7 October brought a flood of biased concepts, versions and fake news regarding the legitimacy of the operations unleashed by the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas and other Palestinian resistance forces. As usual, the media trumpeted the mantra of “Israel’s right to defend…
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Jenin, Palestine: An ongoing catastrophe
Once again, the world has witnessed the escalation of violence, bombing, destruction and deaths perpetrated by the terrorist state of Israel in the occupied Palestinian territories. This time it was against Jenin, one of the oldest Palestinian cities and one which is mentioned in the Old Testament. One of the…
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Brazil: elections, Lula and the Palestinian cause
Brazil’s presidential election on 2 October was inconclusive, so a run-off between incumbent President Jair Bolsonaro and former President Lula da Silva will be held at the end of this month. Lula came through the first vote with a six million vote advantage. However, the eventual result is not a…
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Israel and the silent genocide of Palestinian children
It seems commonplace to say that Palestinian children are the preferred target of the genocide and ethnic cleansing policies carried out by Israel throughout the 74 years of colonial occupation in Palestine. Palestinian children are permanent victims of rape, arrest and murder, whether they are away from home enjoying everyday…
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The Malê Revolt: The Black revolt in Brazil during Ramadan of 1835
Tuesday 25 January marked the 187th anniversary of the revolution that shook the Brazilian city of Salvador. It took place at dawn on the last day of the holy month of Ramadan in 1835 and was led by the enslaved Black people of Haussá, Fulani, Yorubá, Aio Quija and Nagô…
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Israel is not a normal ‘state’
The Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas adopted a new programme in May 2017, in which it declares itself a Palestinian national, Islamic, liberation and resistance movement that aims to liberate Palestine and confront the Zionist colonial project of the so-called “Jewish State”. According to the movement’s programmatic definition, Palestine is the…
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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 Ashkenazi,…
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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 attack…
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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 rid…
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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 of…
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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 of…
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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 of…
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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 the…
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Palestine forever
“Land of divine messages revealed to humanity, Palestine is the home country of the Palestinian Arab people. They have grown, developed and expanded there. Their national and human existence was asserted there in an uninterrupted and unaltered organic relationship between the people, their land and their history.” This excerpt expresses…
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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 children…
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Lies and fears in the Israeli premier’s speech at the UN
On 27 September, the world watched as the war criminal and Prime Minister of Israel, Naftali Bennett, before the General Assembly of the United Nations gave a speech full of lies and which configured an unmistakable demonstration of fear concerning the future of the Zionist colonial occupation in Palestine. For…