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Eighty Years and Counting: Why the Israel we know will not survive the next decade | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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I was born in Laghouat, in a house that had belonged to Ahmed Chatta. He was taken away in 1958 and never seen again. Laghouat itself was stormed in December 1852 and emptied.[1] I have spent thirty years on that massacre. One thing it taught me is that an order convinced of its own permanence never sees the end coming. This text makes a prediction. Within ten years the state now called Israel will no longer exist in a form we would recognize. I do not expect an invasion; nothing in the balance
The Empty Chair, the Criminal, and the Man Who Said the Word | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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Begin with the image, because it says everything before anyone has opened their mouth. At the United Nations General Assembly this week, the Palestinian president addressed the world from a pre-recorded video played on a screen — the United States had denied him a visa, which is an elegant, administrative way of forbidding a people from speaking about their own death. Meanwhile, the man under an International Criminal Court arrest warrant for crimes against humanity walked to that same podium in
Two Empires, One Night - Hàm Nghi in Algeria: A King Without a Kingdom, a Continent Without Justice | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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“They can cut all the flowers, but they cannot keep spring from coming.” — Pablo Neruda There are coincidences that do not coincide. There are encounters that history assembles in silence — without fanfare, without witnesses — and which, once perceived, illuminate in a single instant the entire hidden architecture of a system. Hàm Nghi, last emperor of Vietnam to have raised arms against French colonial rule, died in El Biar, in the heights above Algiers, on January 14, 1944.1 He had lived there
Bab al-Mandab: A Second Hormuz | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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“The sea is not a road. It is a weapon.” — Anonymous Houthi commander, Sana’a, September 11, 2026 “Civilizations do not fall when they are defeated. They fall when they can no longer believe in themselves.” Bab al-Mandab. In Arabic, the name means “Gate of Grief” — or more literally, “Gate of Tears.” The Arab navigators who named it understood something that Western strategists are only now being forced to relearn, at enormous cost: geography does not negotiate. It does not sign memoranda of und
The Only Terrorist State: Why Israel Stands Alone in a Category of Its Own | Countercurrents (opens the original)
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“The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” — George Orwell “If I must die, you must live, to tell my story.” — Refaat Alareer, Gaza, November 2023 “We did not come into this world to ask permission to exist.” — Mahmoud Darwish I write from Laghouat. From the city that France massacred in December 1852 and decorated its officers for. From the ground where, in a single week, an estimated three thousand of my city’s six thousand
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