19 June 2024

War on Palestine: A Challenge to Global Humanity’s Peace and Security

[Photo: Gaza woman in the rubble, (Manusco.)]

By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD

The Fallacy of Peace Resolutions and Gaza

 The AIPAC glues the US political thinking hubs to Israeli interests, war on Palestine, and military alliance to the unquestioned support of its security operations. The plan imagines the conquest of the Arab world. The dead-conscious oil-exporting Arab leaders and their 75% NGP investments in the US make no difference in politics and practices. President Biden’s Three-phase Peace Proposal is nothing more than an ambiguous paper chase to be reinterpreted for conflicting aims while the IDF continues the war and killing of civilians across Gaza. The US and Israel are powerful entities to dictate to the Arabs and other actors in the war theatre. The Arab-Muslim leaders (if any) are not part of the Peace Proposal but a robotic puzzle on the chessboard to be used by the US administration. Ironically, a blame game assumes the high agenda item as if Israel is serious about ending the war. Not so, PM Netanyahu plans to continue the war and eradicate the Hamas presence across Gaza. The Israeli leaders and media exhibit hatred toward Arabs and Muslims, degradation, and political vices not seen in any other civilized culture. An aerial view of Jerusalem shows overwhelming Islamic architecture and people’s culture in the streets, not the forgotten legend of  Jewish culture. Despite public evidence of crimes against humanity and ‘genocide’ in Gaza, Arab Muslims have never expressed any hatred, prejudice, or defamation against Jews or Judaism but respect and honor for the followers of Moses and Torah. This appears in sharp contrast to Netanyahu’s Ultra Nationalist partners calling “Death to Arabs” at the Al-Aqsa Holy compound on Flag Day celebration in East Jerusalem. Netanyahu needs conflict to maintain his premiership. Reportedly last week, more than 120,000 Israeli citizens demanded his resignation, the return of hostages, and peace in Palestine. Truth is One but hourly-paid political mythologists of peace and security would camouflage and reinvent the logic as if truth is a hypothetical construct, not a factual reality. After eight months of the continuing insanity of war, the Biden administration took the initiative for varied reasons to plan a draft resolution of a three-phase peace plan in Gaza. 

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26 May 2024

Voices from Gaza’s Rubble Call Out To Global Humanity for Rescue

[Photo: Third mass grave found at al-Shifa hospital site May 8. 2024. Isrsel-Palestine News.]

By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD

Editor's Note
The International Court of Justice has called on Israel to halt invasions into Gaza and to reopen the border at Rafah. The world calls out for an immediate cease-fire and to allow aid to flow freely into Gaza. the US government also backs a cease-fire while claiming that protests against Israel’s continued invasion are “anti-Semitic” and a threat to Jews. Joining the media across the spectrum who have somehow missed the fact that many of the demonstrators are Jewish. AIPAC (American Israeli Public Affairs Committee) is a longstanding lobbying group that advocates pro-Israel policies in the US. They do NOT represent Jews in America, and they do support the continued march to the right in Israel that has brought Israel Netanyahu and his far-right coalition.

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18 May 2024

Poisoning the American Mind: Student Protests in the Age of the New McCarthyism

[Photo:” Students being arrested in the United States for protesting against Israel’s genocide on Palestinians. Photo: X/@ShayoniMitra.
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By: Henry A. Giroux
Source: Counterpunch

We live in an age of increased disasters and encroaching fascism. This is a historical moment marked by a systemic attempt by an emerging authoritarianism to disable language and dissent of any substantive meaning, remove actions from the grammar of moral witnessing, and disassociate power from institutional justice. As all levels of society are hollowed out, notions of democratic community, the social contract, and compassion give way to a politics in which all matters of responsibility are individualized, privatized, and removed from broader systemic considerations. The habits of oligarchy are animated by fear and reproduced through relentless attacks on human possibilities, while “the disorder of real history is replaced by the orderliness of pseudo-history.”[1] In a time of widespread suffering and unrest, higher education is feared for its critical functions, and students are expected to be silent, unresponsive to wider social issues, and ignore the relationship between the dynamics of power, marginality, and knowledge.  Amid the expansion of the military-industrial complex and the carceral state, faculty, and students are expected to look away or inward, unresponsive to the language of imagined futures.

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15 May 2024

Israel Lost the War and America Betrayed Humanity in Gaza

[Photo: Gazans in the rubble, Sinistra In Europa, Nov. 21, 2023.]

By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD

Global Mankind vs. Political Wickedness

Rationality requires objective reasoning and it is not coming for an impending cataclysm of the Israeli onslaught on Rafah and the United States – the complicit friend in making genocide betrayed its history of civility, morality, responsible political governance, equality of human rights, freedom, and justice and a lot more that only future will unfold. Ferocious concepts of good and evil are being implied by the Israeli war agenda challenging the human consciousness of principles of truth, freedom, and honesty.

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21 April 2024

No One Owns the Future

[Photo: Children in the Middle East protect their ears from the noise of bombs. Kathy Kelly

By Robert C. Koehler
Source:  CommonWonders

Editor's Note
There is a discussion that I never hear anymore, and that is the concept of a “just war.” Perhaps it has become so quaint a thought that it is disregarded before utterance. For those who are against war, the answer is basically that there is no such thing as a just war. For those who war, either all wars are “just”, or ethics is not part of the calculation. In a world where war is so common that we rarely know all the conflicts that are going on, war is a given of existence and many nations (especially the US) are militarized.

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