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Refaat Ibrahim

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I am 25 – wars shaped my consciousness and memory

From childhood to adulthood, Refaat Ibrahim recounts a life marked by repeated war, displacement and loss – a personal testimony of a generation...

20.03.2026 20

Pearls and Irritations

Refaat Ibrahim

Diplomacy as cover – how the road to war with Iran was paved

08.03.2026 30

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Globalisation of occupation: when genocide becomes an international project

22.02.2026 10

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The ceasefire as a weapon: the genocide in Gaza continues in silence

18.02.2026 20

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From international law to loyalty and deals: Trump’s Board of Peace play

25.01.2026 10

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The rules are breaking – and the world is watching

19.01.2026 20

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Best of 2025 - Gaza’s economy has collapsed beyond recognition

17.01.2026 20

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Best of 2025 - Gaza under siege: The continuation of Zionist demographic cleansing policies since the 19th century

13.01.2026 10

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Best of 2025 - Recognition of the Palestinian State without halting the genocide: A meaningless decision

08.01.2026 20

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Best of 2025 - Mamdani’s victory bought hope to Gaza

05.01.2026 9

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Between Identity and Politics: Unpacking the Systematic Conflation of “Antisemitism” and Criticism of Israel

30.12.2025 20

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Gaza and the unravelling of the post-war world

08.12.2025 10

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Selective humanity: Gaza’s donkeys or its children?

01.12.2025 10

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Gaza’s economy has collapsed beyond recognition

26.11.2025 10

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The ceasefire that isn’t: 400 violations in 40 days

24.11.2025 10

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Gaza winter catastrophe repeating in tents that resist neither wind nor rain

17.11.2025 10

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Mamdani’s victory bought hope to Gaza

12.11.2025 10

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108 years since the Balfour Declaration – a promise written in ink, fulfilled in blood

04.11.2025 10

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Gaza under siege: The continuation of Zionist demographic cleansing policies since the 19th century

30.10.2025 10

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After the bombing: The shape of life left by the genocide in Gaza

20.10.2025 10

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Trump-Netanyahu plan: Reproducing occupation under the name of 'peace'

02.10.2025 10

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Recognition of the Palestinian State without halting the genocide: A meaningless decision

25.09.2025 10

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Gaza: Where displacement is slow death

18.09.2025 10

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Israel’s failure: From the claim of 'existential threat' to genocide and global isolation

17.09.2025 10

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Seven hundred days of genocide: Israel attempts to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state and will fail

07.09.2025 10

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Palestinian memory: Between ink and blood

05.09.2025 10

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Re-engineering consciousness in Gaza: How the occupation is turning a structured, educated society into a fragmented and dehumanised one

01.09.2025 10

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Washington and the Gaza war: How the US uses its support for Israel to assert global dominance

28.08.2025 10

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The promised ceasefire and Gaza’s shattered hopes

20.08.2025 10

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From Hiroshima to Gaza: Eighty years of failing to contain violence

08.08.2025 10

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Humanitarian propaganda conceals the real famine in Gaza

31.07.2025 10

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Israel has succeeded in starvation, and the global moral edifice has collapsed sharply

25.07.2025 10

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The world governed from the Black House

19.07.2025 10

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Systematic bias: how Western media reproduces the Israeli narrative

15.07.2025 20

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Genocide in Gaza: History repeats itself

03.07.2025 10

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Flour instead of homeland: manufacturing the crisis and the end of the Palestinian dream

01.07.2025 10

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The generational divide in the West over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: from a culture of loyalty to a culture of justice

27.06.2025 10

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The Israeli-Iranian conflict: geopolitical transformations and the role of Chinese and Russian support

16.06.2025 10

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Why does international justice fail to prosecute war criminals in Gaza?

11.06.2025 10

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When education funds genocide: students raise their voices in defiance

04.06.2025 20

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Gaza’s endless genocide: When killing becomes policy and justice disappears

25.05.2025 10

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The first-ever historic agreement between the US and Hamas – with Netanyahu in a secondary role

14.05.2025 10

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Israeli practices exacerbate the humanitarian crisis in Gaza

03.04.2025 8

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The displacement of Gazans: Between possibility and impossibility

19.02.2025 10

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From moral collapse to genocide: How the Israeli occupation silenced the world before destroying Gaza

08.02.2025 10

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The war didn’t end with a ceasefire

23.01.2025 20

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Gaza: The modern Colosseum of humanity’s dark legacy

11.01.2025 10

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