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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Bharat Dogra |Gideon Polya |Fedaa al-Qedra |Maryam Sakeenah
While several threats and apprehensions remain for the people of Gaza, there is reason enough now for some precious moments of cheer and celebration. Yes, this too is necessary, the human spirit needs this. When people have suffered so much for such a long time, the moments of relief and some joy must be clinched when they appear after a long time and must be celebrated.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Gideon Polya |Fedaa al-Qedra |Maryam Sakeenah |Ramzy Baroud
For Indigenous Australians and anti-racist non-Indigenous Australians 26 January is Invasion Day marking the British invasion of Australia on 26 January 1788 and the commencement of the horrific Australian Aboriginal Genocide. However for thoughtless and racist Mainstream Australians 26 January is Australia Day that celebrates the creation of European Australia. Gaza Genocide-complicit, US lackey and Zionist-perverted Mainstream Australia is committed to genocidal racism and egregious lying.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Fedaa al-Qedra |Maryam Sakeenah |Ramzy Baroud |Rima Najjar
When Israeli troops withdrew from Rafah – marking the start of the ceasefire agreement earlier this month – they left behind a trail of destruction in Gaza’s southernmost city. An estimated 1.3 million people had sought refuge in Rafah after being displaced from other areas of Gaza during the genocidal war. All have gone through harrowing experiences.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Maryam Sakeenah |Ramzy Baroud |Rima Najjar |Countercurrents Collective
Bern (Quds News Network)- Palestinian-American journalist Ali Abunimah has confirmed that Swiss authorities released and deported him after detaining him for three days over his advocacy for Palestinian rights. Abunimah, the executive director of the Electronic Intifada publication, suggested in a social media post on Monday that Switzerland detained him because of his advocacy for Palestinian rights. “My ‘crime’?
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Maryam Sakeenah |Ramzy Baroud |Rima Najjar |Countercurrents Collective
Palestinian Territory – United States President Donald Trump announced his plan to expel the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip from their homes there, and has called on neighbouring nations to accept the Palestinians into their countries. These remarks, which were made after Israel egregiously violated international law by committing genocide against the Palestinian people in the Strip for over 15 months—including by destroying all essential necessities for life in the enclave—are deeply concerning.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Maryam Sakeenah |Ramzy Baroud |Rima Najjar |Countercurrents Collective
While the bombs have gone silent in Gaza, there is something that has fundamentally changed about the world as we know it, and about ourselves. The fragile assumptions on which most of us had constructed our worldview have fallen apart. So many things we took for given have been rendered questionable and uncertain. So much about our own selves has been laid bare before the mirror that Gaza holds up to us.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
hibamagazine.com | Maryam Sakeenah
At a feminist discussion forum I attended, participants found it quite unsettling that the Quran establishes men as the Qawwam of their families. This is because the term is often misconstrued to imply domination, power, and control. Certainly, misunderstanding the role of the Qawwam as a ‘master’ takes us down a slippery slope into the patriarchal subjugation of women. Conceptual terms in the Quran cannot be understood in isolation.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
hibamagazine.com | Maryam Sakeenah
Maryam Sakeenah – Hiba Magazine Team WriterA cursory look at the history of the implantation of the Zionist state in the heart of Palestine and the events that ensued make it absolutely clear that Palestinians have been subjected to systematic oppression and injustice. When October 7th, 2023 happened, it was evident for anyone with a very basic understanding of the history of the region that this was an inevitable reaction to over 70 years of brutal subjugation and state sponsored violence.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Samaa Abu Sharar |Jon Rainwater |Maryam Sakeenah
Why are many amongst us still tiptoeing around language when it comes to the horrific Israeli genocide in Gaza? Layers of censorship imposed on Palestinian and pro-Palestinian voices in corporate and social media seem to have blurred the judgment of some. They continue to speak of a ‘conflict’, calling on ‘both sides’ to use ‘restraint’ and, partly, blaming the Palestinian Resistance for the ongoing Israeli massacres.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
countercurrents.org | Samaa Abu Sharar |Jon Rainwater |Maryam Sakeenah |Jay Janson
Monsters of Histroy Defy Truth, Justice, Sanctity of Life and EarthHorrors of insanity and Israeli war continued to plague the entire Arab region and people of Gaza and Palestine are being subjected to planned crimes against humanity and genocide without any global challenge to the catastrophic atrocities. Since May, the bogus Three-Phase so called Israeli formula for a ceasefire remains a puzzle to rational understanding.
