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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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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Ramzy Baroud |Rima Najjar |Countercurrents Collective |George Capaccio
The problem with political analysis is that it often lacks historical perspective and is mostly limited to recent events. The current analysis of the Israeli war on Gaza falls victim to this narrow thinking. The ceasefire agreement, signed between Palestinian groups and Israel under Egyptian, Qatari, and US mediation in Doha on January 15, is one example. Some analysts, including many from the region, insist on framing the outcome of the war as a direct result of Israel’s political dynamics.
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2 months ago | 
countercurrents.org | Rima Najjar |Countercurrents Collective |George Capaccio |Ellen Isaacs
Caption: “Palestinian journalist (Ali Abunimah) detained in Switzerland ahead of speaking event for his ongoing press tour, as Swiss authorities attempt to suppress pro-Palestine speech.” – Palestinian Youth Movement The issue, as a circulating petition on social media for the release of Ali Abunimah states, is this: “Award-winning Palestinian-American journalist and human rights defender Ali Abunimah, executive director of the media platform ‘Electronic Intifada,’ was violently and forcibly...
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Jan 22, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Andre Damon |Vijay Prashad |Ranjan Solomon |Rima Najjar
Occupied West Bank (Quds News Network)- At least ten Palestinians have been killed so far as the Israeli occupation army announced the launch of a military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin on Tuesday. What Happened? Local sources said Israeli soldiers stormed the city on Tuesday from the Jalameh military checkpoint, after a special Israeli force infiltrated the al-Jabariyat neighborhood.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Vijay Prashad |Ranjan Solomon |Rima Najjar |Gideon Polya
It is impossible to bottle this sensibility. All of Gaza is a ruin. Millions of Palestinians have braved the winter in makeshift tents or in ruined buildings, their children freezing (a few frozen to death) and their hunger escalating. The smell of Israeli vengeance is everywhere. The sound of the tanks and the terrifying silence of the falling bombs shatter the nerves of even the most hardened fighter.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
globalresearch.ca | Rima Najjar
Gazans have cracked the code of enduring and living life with hope for a better future. They continue to teach us how to die (standing up) and how to live (praising God). The strength and solidarity they exhibit as they resist oppression and as we watch them with awe and terror are truly inspiring. But how in the world do they do it?
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
countercurrents.org | Ranjan Solomon |Rima Najjar |Gideon Polya |Ramzy Baroud
A ceasefire between Hamas and Israel was finally been agreed on. But the uncertainties persisted until the very end. Israeli airstrikes has killed at least 130 people in the war-ravaged territory after the ceasefire was announced. Israel wanted maximum mileage of the extra time before the ceasefire was to come into force. Such is their arrogance and the way they cock a snook with international agreements beginning with International law. Netanyahu had signaled unresolved issues.
