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Items by Wan Naim Wan Mansor
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Trump’s US-Israel war on Iran is denounced abroad, unconstitutional at home
While President Trump cast the opening salvo against Iran as an act of defence—insisting the strikes were necessary “to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime”—the scale of what followed shattered any claim of limited protection. The world awoke not only to the martyrdom of…
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Huckabee’s Zionist dogma set to destroy the Middle East
When a sitting United States ambassador declares that it would be “fine if they took it all,” diplomacy does not merely slip — it crosses a threshold. Mike Huckabee’s endorsement of full Israeli control over occupied Palestinian territory, delivered on The Tucker Carlson Show, was not an offhand remark. It…
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The “Zionist tint” to the Maduro abduction, if not operational, then normative
When Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez condemned the 3 January abduction of her president as bearing a “Zionist tint,” Western commentary dismissed the phrase as rhetorical overreach. That reflex evades the substance. The question is not who flew the helicopters. It is who legitimised the act—and what that legitimisation does…
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Israel fears a confident Muslim power—and that’s exactly what the region needs
What happens when a nuclear-armed state bombs a non-nuclear one—and the world shrugs? Israel’s June 2025 strike on Iran was not just another Middle East flashpoint. It was a strategic broadside against the very idea of Muslim deterrent power. By assassinating top Iranian scientists and targeting its nuclear infrastructure, Israel…