Molly Charles-Reflections

  Terrorism is the most powerful concept; it has been manipulated to evolve selectively as to silence critical thought that jar with the frame created by influential elite and institutions they govern. It is powerful, because it is diverse, vague and at times selectively used as per convenience and what is conducive to the present body of knowledge. This in itself creates a situation where it is evidently a force used to ensure, sovereignty is not a right or a given for any country but something that US may not hinder, if their President’s ego is pampered enough. The role of US government in deciding the scope for sovereignty of another nation is not recent, but the passion with which the current President Trump breaks all domestic and international laws in the name of ill-conceived fallacies, and the ferocity of his right to impunity that exists far more within his mind than in reality, is new. What increases the scale of this madness is that it is business model of governance, co...

  Yesterday, Israel bombed and killed five individuals in Beirut and injured 28 individuals, Israel justified it as targeted killing, as it killed Hezbollah leader. Israel called it a Precision strike. Interestingly, DW news calls the bombing and killing of Lebanese in South Lebanon as “Israel has carried out a strike in Lebanon”. This is one small instance on how Western media facilitates Genocidal Impunity of Israel and Israelis. A strike as per dictionary means “hit forcibly and deliberately with one’s hand or a weapon or other implement. Yes, strike is used as military term when there is a war, and it means a sudden attack typically a military one. But Israel has a ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah and Lebanon since November 2024. There is no war happening between Israel and Lebanon. But the West and UN seemed to have sanctioned Israel the Genocidal state the right to kill all members of any resistance of armed group it disagrees with in the region. It seems all this is pa...