If we remain dependent on US dictates and cues, we are merely subjects of an empire, discounting our own sense of agency and our own internal dynamics.
Europe now knows that a genocide has been committed. This paradigm shift is unlikely to be reversed, regardless of whether Luxembourg’s bureaucrats manage to delay the inevitable.
To break this paradigm, Palestinians must generate leverage—real leverage. This cannot come from futile negotiations or appeals to long-ignored international law.
Those who purchased and invested time in reading Donald Trump’s ‘The Art of the Deal’ should exercise caution.
Even those who oppose war often do so within a framework shaped by the very systems of power they claim to challenge.
The balance is finally shifting. For the first time in decades, the trajectory of history is no longer bending in Israel’s favor.
Ordinary Americans are no longer passive recipients of power, but active participants in shaping a more morally conscious political reality.
Outside of a small number of dissenting voices, there is no sustained institutional effort to check presidential power. Congress has not mobilized in any meaningful way.
Though the law itself does not explicitly mention children, it does not exclude them either. Knowing Israel’s treatment and legal classification of Palestinian children, this distinction is not minor—it is decisive.
Power is a condition of being. And that old woman of Tehran—who refuses to leave the ‘battlefield empty’—is its most authentic manifestation.
Israel is as dangerous in defeat as it is in victory. Indeed, Lebanon, today, is paying the price of Israel’s strategic failure in Iran.
The coming days and weeks are decisive, for an outcome of this magnitude cannot pass without major geopolitical consequences—regionally and globally.
On Redacted, Baroud presents Before the Flood as a people’s history of Palestine rooted in memory and resistance.
Trump’s attack on Macron reflects a deeper crisis as war contradictions mount and allies become targets of blame.
Standing amid the ruins outside Kamal Adwan Hospital, surrounded by destruction, he walked alone in his white coat toward advancing Israeli armored vehicles.
The US-Israeli war on Iran is a geopolitical catastrophe shaped, in no small part, by the psychology of a leader unwilling to confront the consequences of his own disastrous decisions.
The challenge now is not simply to recognize that change is underway, but to understand its depth and direction, so as not to remain confined to partial readings of the war on Iran.
International law, once seen as a shield, has become little more than a point of departure for conversations about its ineffectiveness and hypocrisy.
Some may argue that Iran is not merely playing chess, but rewriting its rules. That, perhaps, is the most unsettling realization of all.
Why Arab regimes failed Palestine—and why asking the question obscures deeper structures of power, complicity, and regional political alignment.