Category Archives: Palestine

Hamas, Islam and the Conflict with Israel

By Ali Aziz: To the sound of the TAKBIR “Allahu Akbar: God is Greatest,” Hamas fighters with long, thick beards put a naked Israeli female in the back of a pick-up truck with their feet on her while holding machine guns and shouting “Allahu Akbar.” The incident was violent and embodies the full meaning of…

A night vigil with Shaymaa: a poem for Gaza

By Kamal Mirawdeli: Shaymaa is that innocent piece of beating human flesh rescued from her mother’s womb 10 minutes after her murder, through a posthumous Caesarean section. This is her story as reported on Sky News website. Watching the tragic public genocide of Gaza and the West’s reaction to it, I could not sleep for…