27 December 2024

How Have Arab Leaders Betrayed the Masses?

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

By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD

Western Leaders Are Spectators Watching the Israeli Massacres

President Biden and Secretary Blinken knew and witnessed the ferocious and tragic abnormality of the Israeli planned killing of civilians and genocide in Gaza but their interests and policies were aligned with the unthinking evilmongering in Palestine. Continued occupation, forcible displacement, and daily killings of civilians are the strategic goals, of the Israeli extremist political leadership who were encouraged by the US-hired supporters who envisage plans of a ‘greater Israel’ inclusive of Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and parts of Egypt. The neo-colonial installed puppets – the former tribal agents – now self-made kings, princes, and presidents follow the European and American dictum for their survival. They are immune to logic and advice from Muslim scholarly experts in global affairs. The US and a  few Western European leaders neglecting their history masked their warmongering not knowing the consequences of their viciousness against humanity. When life and human survival face critical challenges, thinking people and global institutions should respond with a collective will to stop the civilian massacres and genocide. Not so, in waiting are the Arab-Muslim leaders to see if anything would happen out of nowhere to stop the Israeli carnage of planned killing and destruction of Gaza and the rest of Palestine. Please see: “America-Israel War on Gaza a Prelude to Conquest of the Arab World“.

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7 December 2024

War on Humanity: Gaza Tells The Horrors of Crimes Against Humanity and Genocide

Israeli Peace Plan

[Graphic: Israeli Peace Plan by Latuff]

By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD

Editor's Note
I think we are rapidly being reprogrammed to a very alarming mindset. It is a dichotomous world with sharp edges and deadly consequences. To some extent, this is the threat of fundamentalism of all kinds. Things are black and white and the consequences of being on the wrong side are swift and harsh. The attraction of fundamentalism is that it is perceived as “simple” and eliminates the complexities of a “modern” world. Fundamentalism also is generally hierarchical and the person (generally male) has tremendous power to make decisions. If there are complexities, it is HIM (or a collectivity of hims) who will make a (wise) choice.

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21 November 2024

‘Text Me You Haven’t Died’ – My Sister was the 166th Doctor to Be Murdered in Gaza

[Photo: Loss and Pain in Gaza.. Palestine Journal, Jan. 8, 2024.]

Ramzy Baroud, PhDs

Editor's Note
I first started publishing the writings of Ramzy Baroud in 2007. We have had many interactions and I consider him a friend. So when he penned the following piece it struck my heart hard and I needed to sit with this pain that has so many ramifications. I wish I could reach across the miles and grasp the hand of my friend, to provide an earthly connection and pour my love and support into his heart. I know that nothing can heal this wound that cuts to the soul.

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5 November 2024

Can We Be Human in Tyranny of a War Culture?

[Photo: Search and rescue in Gaza after Israeli bombing. MEM (Mustafa Hassona/ Anadolu Agency)]

By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD

The Horrors and Pains Inflicted on the People of Gaza

We, the people of conscience, are living in a time when moral and intellectual vigilance is being ruthlessly purged from our very humanity—our very existence: “How can we be human in the tyranny of the US-Israel war culture?” There is no sustainable idealism in human life except as a painted fantasy, for there is both much evil and much good in the world we inhabit. If we claim to be moral beings, we must prove ourselves as such in all our endeavors. The truth is that we have serious problems defining ourselves as moral beings when ongoing wars in Gaza and Ukraine, alongside bombings and the killing of innocent people, are daily occurrences, turning abnormal doses of inhumanity into the new normal of socio-economic and political consumption. These contradictions are covered up by massive political, economic, and inhuman manipulations by a few elite classes that govern global affairs.

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