Tag Archives: Palestine

Letter 4 to the Olive Tree: The Seeds of Tomorrow

Posted on November 30, 2025 by Admin

Phalapoem editor, 30/11/25 Dear Olive Tree, This morning, I watched a child plant a sapling beside your roots. His small hands pressed the soil with care, his face shining with a quiet pride he could not yet name. The air … Continue reading →

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Living Under Occupation: What My Heart Has Learned to Feel

Posted on November 29, 2025 by Admin

Phalapoem editor, 29/11/25 People often ask me what it feels like to live under Israeli occupation. They ask whether it’s possible to feel anything other than hatred toward those who punish us collectively, humiliate us at checkpoints on daily basis, … Continue reading →

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In Handala’s Playground: Season 1, Episode 11: The Children Who Never Had a Chance: Handala at Al-Basma IVF Centre

Posted on November 25, 2025 by Admin

Phalapoem editor, 25/11/25 December 2023 — Gaza. Night hung low over the city, trembling with distant explosions. Hospitals glowed in the dark like last surviving stars — fragile, flickering — and then, one by one, they began to go out. … Continue reading →

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A People Under Siege: The Moral Collapse of a 21st-Century Occupation

Posted on November 22, 2025 by Admin

Phalapoem editor, 22/11/25 In the 21st century—an age that celebrates progress, law, and human dignity—it should be impossible for an occupying power to imprison an entire population of six million people behind walls, checkpoints, and fascist policies designed to break … Continue reading →

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Letter 3 to the Olive Tree: The Hands That Harvest

Posted on November 22, 2025 by Admin

Phalapoem editor, 22/11/25 Dear Olive Tree, When the autumn sun begins to soften over the hills of Palestine, your branches grow heavy with blessings. The valleys of Jenin, the terraces of Nablus, the slopes of Hebron, all come alive with … Continue reading →

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Who Should Be Condemned and Punished: The Occupier with Apartheid Policies or the People Living Under Brutal, Illegal Occupation?

Posted on November 21, 2025 by Admin

Phalapoem 21/11/25 In every chapter of modern history, one fundamental principle has guided the international community’s moral compass: an oppressed people’s struggle for dignity cannot be equated with the deliberate machinery of oppression itself. When we ask, “Who should be … Continue reading →

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Different rules’: special policies keep US supplying weapons to Israel despite alleged abuses

Posted on November 18, 2025 by Admin

Revealed: review of internal state department documents shows special mechanisms have been used to shield Israel from US human rights laws Stephanie Kirchgaessner in Washington Thu 18 Jan 2024 06.00 EST Source Top US officials quietly reviewed more than a dozen incidents … Continue reading →

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Smotrich: The  Terrorist Settler

Posted on November 17, 2025 by Admin

Phalapoem editor, 17/11/15 Bezalel Smotrich, a far-right Israeli terrorist minister, has become one of the most controversial figures in Israeli politics — and a symbol of an increasingly aggressive and terrorist settler ideology. His rhetoric and policies pose a serious … Continue reading →

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How Much Longer Can the World Ignore Palestinian Suffering?The Consequences of Israel’s Unstoppable Crimes  — and the West’s Complicity

Posted on November 16, 2025 by Admin

Phalapoem editor 16/11/25 For more than seven decades, Palestinians have lived under fascist policies of ethnic cleansing, brutal occupation, dispossession, and recurring military assaults. Yet the devastation unleashed on Gaza in the past two years has pushed the crisis into … Continue reading →

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In Handala’s Playground: Season 2, Episode 6: Conscience Under the Rubble

Posted on November 15, 2025 by Admin

Phalapoem editor, 15/11/25 *[Scene: A grey, bombed-out landscape. Rubble and silence. Handala stands with his back turned, barefoot as always, facing the ruins of Gaza. Piers Morgan appears, looking weary, holding a microphone that no longer broadcasts lies but trembles … Continue reading →

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