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Samer Badawi has been a contributor to +972 Magazine since 2014.
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Even without a UN veto, Gaza remains hostage to American power
The downplaying of the Security Council’s ceasefire resolution shows why the world can no longer look to Washington as the arbiter of a rules-based order.
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April 2, 2024
‘Armchair humanitarianism’: The problem with Gaza’s maritime aid corridor
While aid is desperately needed, critics warn the U.S.-led plan evades the fundamental cause of Gaza’s starvation: Israel’s total control of the Strip.
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March 16, 2024
Laying the groundwork for Gaza’s permanent exodus
With Egypt reportedly preparing for an influx of refugees and UNRWA on the brink of collapse, Israel’s second Nakba fantasies could soon become reality.
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Samer Badawi
February 19, 2024
Is Israel preparing another Nakba for Gaza?
Forcing Palestinians out of the besieged strip seemed unthinkable weeks ago. But Israel’s war suggests that efforts may be underway to see it through.
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Samer Badawi
October 19, 2023
No dispossessions left to count
It is the Palestinian refugee who reminds us, as we reckon with our altered reality, that yearning for what we once knew is hardly an act of obstinacy. It is what sustains us. And for many, the cost of abandoning this self-consolation is just too high.
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Samer Badawi
December 29, 2020
In isolation and exile, Ramadan still brings its blessings
Though I could not share an iftar with my Palestinian mother due to the pandemic, she made sure we could savor its pleasures, even from a distance.
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Samer Badawi
May 20, 2020
In Gaza’s Return March, echoes of an Apartheid-era massacre
The Sharpeville Massacre, in which South African police gunned down 250 black protesters, marked a turning point in the struggle against Apartheid. But it would take another 34 years until democracy finally came to South Africa. A cautionary tale for Palestinians. His art lies scattered across an unkept room, amid tarps and spent cans of paint. In…
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Samer Badawi
March 31, 2019
Hamas didn’t start this fight, but it won’t win it either
If Hamas allows Israel to drag it into another lopsided fight, it will not only cost the lives of countless innocent civilians in Gaza, it will also distract from ongoing mass resistance to the siege. Israel’s killing of Hamas commander Nour Baraka on Sunday and the predictable response from the Islamist movement have sparked fears…
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Samer Badawi
November 12, 2018
In my Palestinian grandfather’s story, I find reasons to endure
Like all refugees, Ahmad Badawi Mustafa Ayoub left the world unmoored, his memories rent from the land that made them. But his story, like Palestine’s itself, will matter well beyond the next negotiation. No empire, no flag, or sovereign can change that. The Government of Palestine’s Directorate of Education, from its Samaria branch in Nablus, informed Ahmad…
By
Samer Badawi
November 11, 2018
Palestinian Authority, Hamas use torture to silence dissent, report finds
A new report by Human Rights Watch documents dozens of cases whereby the Palestinian authorities in both the West Bank and Gaza use arbitrary arrest and torture to repress critics. A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) investigation published Tuesday draws on 86 cases of arbitrary arrest, abuse, and torture by Fatah and Hamas authorities in the West Bank…
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Samer Badawi
October 23, 2018
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