Category Archives: Palestinian history

The Racist (White Supremacist) Balfour Declaration

Posted on October 9, 2025 by Admin

The ill-fated Balfour Declaration, issued in November 1917, remains a contentious historical document that significantly impacted the Middle East. Crafted by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, the declaration expressed support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish … Continue reading →

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From Looters to Gatekeepers: How Empire Still Holds the Keys

Posted on October 8, 2025 by Admin

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

Posted on October 8, 2025 by Admin

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

Posted on October 8, 2025 by Admin

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

Posted on October 7, 2025 by Admin

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

Posted on October 7, 2025 by Admin

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

Posted on October 7, 2025 by Admin

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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Israeli Occupation: The Serial Animal Killer 

Posted on October 6, 2025 by Admin

The zoo, part of the Al-Bisan recreational park in Jabalya, was hit multiple times during Israeli airstrikes. The three monkeys were some of the few lucky animals to survive the blitz in Gaza as many were killed in explosions or … Continue reading →

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Deir Yassin Massacre: A Brutal Legacy 

Posted on October 3, 2025 by Admin

Background The Deir Yassin massacre took place on April 9, 1948, when around 130 fighters from the Zionist paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi killed at least 107 Palestinian Palestinian villagers, including women and children, in Deir Yassin, a village of roughly … Continue reading →

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Israeli Apartheid Held Hostage: How Netanyahu and the Far Right Have Turned a Nation into Their Property

Posted on October 2, 2025 by Admin

Phalapoem editor, 21/09/25 For decades, Israeli apartheid has been a country of sharp political divisions, and has always been captured by a radical majority . Under the iron grip of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition of ultra-nationalist, religious-right … Continue reading →

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246 Journalists Murdered by Israeli Occupational Forces During the War on Gaza 

Posted on October 1, 2025 by Admin

Background Journalism is in the process of being eradicated in the Gaza Strip as a result of Israel’s refusal to heed calls to protect media personnel. The situation is dire for Palestinian journalists trapped in the enclave, where ten have been … Continue reading →

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The Butcher of Gaza

Posted on September 30, 2025 by Admin

Born in ’49, with a heritage profound,A history etched, in israeli ground.In Eldridge town, where tales are spun,A leader rose, Netanyahu by name, begun. In 2014, a grim toll was paid,Gaza’s anguish, where thousands laid.Indictments followed, charges of trust,Bribery and … Continue reading →

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Israeli Genocide  in Gaza and International Inaction

Posted on September 27, 2025 by Admin

See slides below Phalapoem editor, 27/09/25 Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and B’Tselem, have concluded that Israel’s system of governance in the occupied Palestinian territories meets the international legal definition of apartheid—a term derived from the 1973 U.N. Convention on … Continue reading →

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