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With a Ceasefire on the Cards, A Future of Peace Rests With Gaza’s Children

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Hamas targeted Gaza’s children long ago; now Israel must answer with education, healing, and integration. The news that Hamas has indicated to Egyptian and Qatari mediators that it is willing to accept a ceasefire proposal has been greeted with cautious optimism. For Israel , the return of hostages must remain the immediate priority, and no agreement can overlook their suffering. Yet even if every hostage were returned safely, a ceasefire alone would not guarantee peace. At best it would pause the fighting, but without deeper change the seeds of the next conflict will already be growing. If the world truly wants to end this cycle, the focus must turn toward Gaza’s children , because it is in their hands that the future of peace rests. Hamas itself understood this long ago. Its leaders invested heavily in shaping the minds of children, ensuring that propaganda reached them in classrooms, summer camps, television shows, and even playtime. Children have been taught that Jews are thei...
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October 7 Was Genocide

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Legal Argument: October 7 and Genocide 1. The Legal Framework The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide  ( UN, 1948 ) defines genocide in  Article II  as: Actus Reus  (the act) – killings, harm, destruction, etc. Mens Rea  (special intent) – the intent to destroy the group, in whole or in part. 2. Application to  October 7, 2023 a. Protected group The victims were overwhelmingly  Jewish Israelis  — a protected group under the Convention as both a national and religious group. b. Killing members of the group (Art. II (a)) Over 1,200 people were murdered on October 7, including babies, children, and the elderly. They were targeted not for military reasons but because they were Jews/Israelis. c. Causing serious bodily or mental harm (Art. II (b)) Survivors, hostages, and families of victims experienced severe trauma through torture, rape, mutilation, and psychological terror. The hostage ordeal caused ongoing mental har...
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Why I Struggle to Accept the Claim of Genocide Against Israel

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Why Israel ’s actions, however tragic in their consequences, do not meet the legal or moral definition of genocide. Accusations of genocide are among the gravest charges that can be made against a nation. To level such a claim is to place a country alongside the Holocaust , Rwanda , or Srebrenica , where entire peoples were deliberately targeted for extermination. That is why I find it difficult to accept the charge of genocide against Israel. Not because the suffering in Gaza is not real, nor because civilian deaths are not tragic, but because the situation is far more complex and involves multiple factors that make the word genocide misleading. Like the International Court of Justice , I acknowledge that some arguments require investigation, but I also see how loosely the term is being used in public discourse, and how that overuse risks stripping the word of its true meaning. The first point is the ICJ itself. Despite endless headlines and protest slogans claiming Israel is guilt...
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From 9/11 to October 7: The Same Lie, The Same Playbook

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Terrorists deny their own crimes, accuse their victims of genocide, and hide behind the language of human rights. The tragedy is how often the world believes them. One of the most striking features of modern terrorism is not only the violence itself but the way propaganda quickly follows. Time and again, Islamist groups have committed atrocities and then sought to erase their responsibility by planting doubt, redirecting anger, and shifting blame. The attack itself may last hours, but the narrative battle begins almost immediately and often outlives the tragedy itself. The September 11 attacks provide the clearest example of this pattern. Al-Qaeda hijackers killed nearly three thousand people in New York and Washington, yet within days conspiracy theories were racing around the globe. Everyone watched on their televisions as the planes crashed into the Twin Towers. The truth was right there in front of them, yet almost immediately the conspiracies began claiming it was an “inside jo...
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