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In Handala’s Playground: Season 1, Episode 1: Human and Animal, A Game of Truth

S.T. Salah, 08/10/25 Scene: A vast, scorched playground — sand, rubble, and fragments of kites. A single olive tree stands, its shadow shaped like wings. Handala, barefoot and facing away, draws lines in the dust. A boy’s faint footsteps approach. … Continue reading

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Gaza Ceasefire: Others Cease, Israel Fires

Phalapoem editor, 17/10/15 The world calls for peace, yet in Gaza, peace remains an illusion. Despite international appeals and the supposed ceasefire, Israel continues to impose a fascist and suffocating blockade — sealing the borders, throttling the entry of food, … Continue reading

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How Can a Nation Claim Peace While Denying It to Another?

Phalapoem editor , 15/10/25 For more than seventy years, the people of Palestine have lived under occupation, displacement, and constant fear. Yet Israel continues to speak of peace — as if peace can coexist with the daily reality of walls, … Continue reading

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Gaza’s Enduring Resilience After the Ceasefire: Returning to the Rubble of Home

Phalapoem editor, 12/10/25 The ceasefire came like a rumor — soft, uncertain, and almost impossible to believe after so 2 years of Israeli genocide.  In the refugee camps, in the crowded tents along the southern border, people did not cheer … Continue reading

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From Looters to Gatekeepers: How Empire Still Holds the Keys

Phalapoem editor, 26/09/25 For centuries, the great powers of Europe—Britain, France, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and later the United States—swept across Africa, Asia and the Middle East with armies, missionaries and merchants. Behind the banners of “civilisation” … Continue reading

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The World’s Shame: How Global Leaders Chose Silence Over Gaza’s Children

Phalapoem editor, 8/10/25 As of this writing, over 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza. Among them are 1,000 infants — babies who never had a chance to take their first steps or speak their first words. This is not … Continue reading

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In Handala’s Playground: Season 2, Episode 5a: Handala and the Mirror of Silence

S.T. Salah, 08/10/25 Scene: A cracked mirror under a red sky. The faint hum of drones replaces birdsong. A barefoot boy — Handala — stands with his back turned, arms folded, forever ten. Before him stands the reflection of Israeli … Continue reading

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The Death of Empathy: How Israeli Society Turned Away from Genocide in Gaza

Phalapoem editor, 07/10/25 After nearly two years of relentless Israeli bombardment, genocide, siege, and starvation in Gaza, much of Israeli society and media appear trapped in a bubble of selective empathy. News outlets and public discourse remain overwhelmingly focused on … Continue reading

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In Handala’s Playground: Season 2, Episode 4: Meeting in Downing Street

Phalapoem editor, 07/10/25 Handala (the small boy with his back turned, bare feet on cold marble): Two years of children buried in rubble, two years of mothers digging with their hands. Twenty thousand little bodies. And now—only now—you recognise my … Continue reading

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Germany’s Dark Legacy: From Namibia to Gaza, Complicity in Atrocity

Phalapoem editor, 24/09/25 Germany presents itself as a global defender of human rights, a nation that learned the lessons of its bloody past. Yet its actions tell a far different story. From the colonial genocide in Africa, to the Holocaust … Continue reading

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