Category: Opinion
The latest opinion from those committed to making our region fair, just and democratic.
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Ecolibrium, On Humans, Animals and Nature in Islam
According to the Quran, … humans are not unique as sentient forms of life but are a class of species in the cosmos who can either be a creative or a destructive force in nature. They are responsible for the safekeeping of the intrinsic balance of nature.
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NOT THIS ISRAEL, NOT THIS JEW: A Jewish Voice for Peace
Uncritical support of Israel is destroying the spiritual core of Judaism itself – a dagger in the Jewish heart. Christians had to reckon with their deeds after the Holocaust. Jews need to do that now. Israel may have a right to exist, but not this Israel. It’s counter-intuitive and difficult to digest but conscience can be seduced and obscured: even our own. I promised never again. Never again is now.
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“Depopulating” Palestine: Israel Through the Bifocal Lens of Hitler and Lemkin
As a human rights campaigner and a student of genocides, in my attempts to understand Israel’s physical destruction of Gaza in particular, and its foundational Zionist policies in Palestine, I find most helpful to turn to Raphael Lemkin’s grounded and multi-faceted conception of genocide and Hitler’s “blood-based” ideas of “race-state” and racialized land.
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Israel Defends Itself at the International Court of Justice: From Genocide Victims to Perpetrators
Israel's legal team, a member of which is a Holocaust survivor and the country's ex-Attorney General, will likely frontload the politico-legal mantra of Israel’s right to “self-defence” .
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Moral and Strategic Consequences of S. Africa’s Case against Israel at the World’s Court
The post-apartheid Republic of South Africa, filing a genocide case against Israel is a significant act pregnant with positive moral consequences while handing the Palestinian liberation struggle an unprecedented strategic weapon.
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“Israel Cannot Build Peace on Genocide” says 1976 Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire
Mairead Maguire (79) has a message for Israel and western leaders who finance, arm and protect the worst Zionist government in the history of Israel’s founding since May 1948: “Israel cannot build peace on genocide. We have got to find more humane ways to solve our problems.”
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How Fascism & Nazism influenced Hindu Nationalism
There has always been speculation about connections between European fascism and early Hindu nationalism, but a recent book provides solid evidence for the first time.
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Dr Mahathir on Euro-American Imperialist Crimes and the Countries’ need for Cooperation against the Existential Threat of Climate Change
In his hour-long dialogue on FORSEA YouTube Channel, former two-times Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr Mahathir Mohamad (98) shared his no-hold-barred reflections on the sordid state of the world, still in the grip of the Euro-American powers
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FORSEA to Air Special World’s Genocide Day YouTube Interview with Dr Mahathir
World’s Oldest Statesman Dr Mahathir Mohamad reflects on Western Imperialisms and offers a forward-looking post-United Nations vision of peace for a world threatened by Climate Change.
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Burn in Hell, Mr. Kissinger. Finally, the Evil Incarnate, if glorified in the circles of States, is dead.
Kissinger, the self-perceived "lone cowboy" who thought he was "never wrong", but who was culpable in genocides, destabilised nations, and left a worldwide trail of corpses and destruction, is dead at 100.