From one to another Nobel Open Letter from Adolfo Pérez Esquivel to María Corina Machado

Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, Página12, 13/10 /2025
Translated by Tlaxcala

 

I send you the greeting of Peace and Good, so greatly needed by humanity and by peoples living amid poverty, conflict, war, and hunger.
This open letter is meant to express and share a few reflections.

I was surprised by your designation as Nobel Peace Prize laureate, awarded by the Nobel Committee. It brought back memories of the struggles against dictatorships across our continent and in my own country — the military dictatorships we endured from 1976 to 1983. We resisted prisons, torture, and exile, with thousands of disappeared persons, abducted children, and the death flights, of which I am a survivor.

In 1980, the Nobel Committee awarded me the Nobel Peace Prize. Forty-five years have passed, and we continue working in service of the poorest, alongside the peoples of Latin America. In their name, I accepted that high distinction — not for the prize itself, but for the commitment shared with the peoples who struggle and hope to build a new dawn.
Peace is built day by day, and we must be consistent between what we say and what we do.

At 94, I remain a student of life, and your social and political stances concern me. Therefore, I send you these reflections.

The Venezuelan government is a democracy with its lights and shadows. Hugo Chávez charted the path of freedom and sovereignty for his people and fought for continental unity — a reawakening of the Great Homeland. The United States attacked him constantly: it cannot allow any country in the Americas to escape its orbit and colonial dependence. It still views Latin America as its “backyard.”
The U.S. blockade against Cuba, lasting over 60 years, is an attack on freedom and the rights of peoples. The Cuban people’s resistance stands as a lesson in dignity and strength.

I am astonished by how tightly you cling to the United States: you must know that it has no allies or friends — only interests.
The dictatorships imposed in Latin America were orchestrated to serve its aims of domination, destroying the social, cultural, and political life of peoples striving for freedom and self-determination.
We, the peoples, resist and fight for our right to be free and sovereign, and not colonies of the United States.

The government of Nicolás Maduro lives under the constant threat of the United States and its blockade — one need only recall the U.S. naval forces stationed in the Caribbean and the danger of invasion.
You have not uttered a word, nor condemned this interference by a great power against Venezuela. Yet the Venezuelan people are ready to face the threat.

Corina, I ask you: why did you call on the United States to invade Venezuela?
Upon learning of your Nobel Peace Prize, you dedicated it to Trump — the aggressor of your own country, the man who lies and accuses Venezuela of being a narco-state, a falsehood akin to George Bush’s claim that Saddam Hussein possessed “weapons of mass destruction.”
That was the pretext to invade Iraq, plunder it, and cause thousands of deaths among women and children.
I was in Baghdad at the end of the war, in a children’s hospital, and saw with my own eyes the destruction and death caused by those who proclaim themselves defenders of freedom.
The worst form of violence is the lie.

Do not forget, Corina, that Panama was invaded by the United States, causing death and destruction to capture a former ally, General Noriega.
The invasion left 1,200 dead in Los Chorrillos.
Today, the U.S. once again seeks to reclaim control of the Panama Canal.
It is a long list of U.S. interventions and suffering inflicted upon Latin America and the world.
The veins of Latin America remain open, as Eduardo Galeano once wrote.

I am troubled that you dedicated your Nobel not to your people, but to the aggressor of Venezuela.
I believe, Corina, you must reflect and understand where you stand — whether you are merely another piece in the U.S. colonial system, submissive to its interests of domination, which can never serve the good of your people.
As an opponent of the Maduro government, your stances and choices create much uncertainty, especially when you call for a foreign invasion of your homeland.

Remember that building peace requires great strength and courage for the good of your people — a people I know and deeply love.
Where once there were shantytowns clinging to the hills, surviving in poverty and destitution, there are now decent homes, healthcare, education, and culture.
The dignity of a people cannot be bought or sold.

Corina, as the poet* says:

“Traveler, there is no path; the path is made by walking.”

You now have the chance to work for your people and build peace, not provoke greater violence.
One evil cannot be cured by a greater evil: we would have two evils and never a solution.

Open your mind and your heart to dialogue, to meeting your people.
Empty the jug of violence and build peace and unity among your people, so that the light of freedom and equality may finally enter.

*Another Machado, named Antonio (no relation to Mrs. María Corina) [Transl. n.]

Rejection of the Nobel Committee’s Decision to Award the Peace Prize to María Corina Machado

We, the undersigned, reject the decision of the Nobel Committee to award the Peace Prize to María Corina Machado, and we consider this decision an act that promotes war in Latin America and encourages terrorism.

We believe it is no coincidence that this decision was made at a time when a U.S. fleet stationed in the Caribbean threatens Venezuela. The decision to exalt a figure such as María Corina Machado is part of the media offensive preparing world public opinion to bring war to Latin America.

Those who made this decision are neither innocent nor confused. They are promoting a figure who has been involved in every attempted coup d’état, in terrorist activities, who has openly called for military aggression against Venezuela, and who represents the worst of the Venezuelan right — directly linked to international Zionism, having explicitly supported the genocide against the Palestinian people, and to the warlike wing of the Trump administration, led by Marco Rubio.

Five hundred years after the invasion of the Americas, European governments and institutions such as the Nobel Committee reaffirm through such acts their colonialist and racist practices.

We, the undersigned — who have upheld the Bolivarian Revolution and, in recent years, have held differing opinions regarding the Maduro government — today reaffirm our support for its decision to mobilize and arm the people in the face of imperialist aggression.

For us, there is no other stance than to support the Venezuelan people’s decision to rise up and defend their sovereignty and their government.

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Over 30 Human Rights Experts Demand UEFA Expel Israeli Soccer Teams

European soccer’s governing body reportedly paused a vote on suspending Israel after Trump released his 20-point 'peace plan' for Gaza.

Prem Thakker, Zeteo, 3/10/2025

 

Celtic fans unveil an anti-Israel banner in the stands during the UEFA Europa League match at Celtic Park, Glasgow. Photo by Andrew Milligan/PA Images via Getty Images

More than 30 international human rights experts have submitted a letter to the president of European soccer’s governing body on Thursday, demanding that the league move forward to expel Israeli soccer teams from competition until “justice and accountability” are achieved for Palestinians.

“UEFA must not be complicit in sports washing such flagrant breaches of international law, including but not limited to the act of genocide,” the rights experts write in the letter, which was shared exclusively with Zeteo.

The letter is signed by leading human rights lawyers, academics, and former UN officials, including Richard Falk, the former UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories; John Dugard, also a former UN special rapporteur on Palestine and a former member of the International Law Commission; and Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, executive director of the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention.

It adds to a similar letter that Amnesty International sent to FIFA and UEFA on Wednesday, calling on the leagues to suspend the Israeli Football Association from competition.

UEFA reportedly paused a vote on suspending Israel from competition after President Donald Trump, alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, announced a 20-point “peace plan” to end the war, which appears to have included no official input from Palestinians. The US, which is co-hosting the World Cup next year, has previously said it will “absolutely work to fully stop any effort to attempt to ban Israel’s national soccer team from the World Cup.”

Banning Israel from soccer competition is imperative despite Trump’s announcement, “because, while the plan purports to offer a pathway to peace, in reality it undermines international law, Palestinian sovereignty, and the principles of self-determination,” the letter argues.

The human rights experts add that Trump’s plan “does not impose any obligations” on Israel as the occupying power in Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem.

Pro-Palestinian activists call on UEFA and FIFA to ban Israel outside of Wembley Stadium on Oct. 2, 2025, in London. Photo by Mark Kerrison/In Pictures via Getty Images

Craig Mokhiber, who signed the letter, told Zeteo the group is aware of mass support within UEFA and European soccer at large for suspending Israel, and is wary of Trump’s plan being used as cover to curb the momentum.

“All of it comes packaged in this threat from Donald Trump, who said, ‘either you accept this or we’re going to let Israel continue and complete its genocide in Gaza.’ That’s not negotiation. It’s gunboat diplomacy,” said Mokhiber, who is the former director of the New York office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.

“So we need to make sure that they’re not using this as an excuse not to do what they are morally obliged to do, and potentially legally obliged.”

https://www.gameoverisrael.com/en

The letter was organized by the #GameOverIsrael campaign, which is calling on soccer federations to boycott Israel’s national and club teams in order to effectively force FIFA and UEFA to suspend the country from competition, as was done with Russia after its invasion of Ukraine.

UEFA did not respond to a request for comment. FIFA Vice President Victor Montagliani has previously said the decision to suspend Israel lies with UEFA “first and foremost.”

The human rights experts’ letter is the latest in the growing calls to ban Israel from soccer competition. Alongside the #GameOverIsrael campaign, Turkey last month became the first member of UEFA to publicly call for Israel to be suspended. Spain’s prime minister has called on Israeli teams to be banned from international sports competition. Meanwhile, teams and associations in Ireland and Italy have also called for UEFA and FIFA to suspend Israel from global competition.

Israeli forces have killed more than 66,000 people in the past two years, though the number is feared to be much higher. This reportedly includes roughly 800 athletes in Gaza, with more than 400 soccer players killed. Israel has also destroyed or damaged the vast majority of sports infrastructure, including stadiums, gyms, and soccer clubs, in the enclave.

Read the full letter:

Dear President Čeferin,

We, the undersigned, are writing you to urge the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the Executive Committee and all UEFA members to fulfil their legal and moral obligations to uphold international law, and move forward with an immediate and complete ban of Israeli football, including banning their national teams, club teams and players, from participating in UEFA competitions until justice and accountability is achieved for Palestine and all Palestinians. We join UN experts in reminding UEFA that they are bound by international human rights law in accordance with the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights.

A ban is imperative in response to the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry’s report, released on September 16, 2025, which provides irrefutable evidence that Israeli authorities have committed genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, all in violation of peremptory norms of international law.

Since October 7, 2023, Israeli occupying forces have killed at least 421 Palestinian footballers while systematically destroying Gaza’s football infrastructure, including stadiums and the headquarters of the Palestinian Football Association. These acts have decimated an entire generation of athletes, eroding the fabric of Palestinian sport. The failure of the Israel Football Association (IFA) to challenge these violations implicates it in this system of oppression, rendering its participation in UEFA competitions untenable.

Banning the IFA aligns with precedents set by UEFA against nations committing similar grave breaches, ensuring the integrity of international sport.

UEFA must not be complicit in sports washing such flagrant breaches of international law, including but not limited to the act of genocide. The UN Commission of Inquiry’s findings, alongside the International Court of Justice’s advisory opinion of July 19, 2024, which declared Israel’s occupation since 1967 unlawful and a violation of fundamental principles of international law, underscore the systematic nature of Israel’s violations.

International human rights laws and UEFA’s obligations continue to apply despite the recent announcement by President Donald J. Trump’s of a 20-point plan for Gaza. This is because, while the plan purports to offer a pathway to peace, in reality it undermines international law, Palestinian sovereignty, and the principles of self-determination. It does not impose any obligations on the State of Israel, as the occupying power in Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. It also fails to address the legal consequences of the genocide in Gaza or make any demands of Israel to provide reparations to the Palestinians. Peace cannot be achieved without justice and accountability.

A UEFA ban on the IFA remains necessary and urgent, and is required to ensure legal compliance. By continuing to host Israeli teams, UEFA risks becoming complicit in the normalisation of war crimes. We urge you to uphold the integrity of the sport and immediately suspend the IFA and all affiliated teams from UEFA competitions until Israel ends the genocide and its unlawful occupation, and fully complies with its obligations under international law.

Let football stand for justice, not impunity. UEFA can act now by imposing a sports ban on Israel’s national team, local clubs and players.

Sincerely,

Professor William Schabas, Professor of international law, Middlesex University, London, UK

Professor John Dugard, Advocate of the High Court of South Africa, Emeritus Professor of International Law, Leiden University and University of the Witwatersrand, former member of the International Law Commission, member of the Institut de droit international, and former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (2001-2008).

Professor Richard Falk, Albert G. Milbank Professor of International Law and Practice, Emeritus at Princeton University, US and former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (2008-2014).

Professor Michael Lynk, Professor Emeritus, Faculty of Law, Western University, London, Canada and former UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 (2016 – 2022).

Professor Guy Goodwin-Gill, Emeritus Fellow and Professor of International Refugee Law All Souls College, Oxford University, UK.

Professor Alex Neve, Visiting and Adjunct Professor, Faculties of Law and Social Sciences, University of Ottawa and Dalhousie University, Canada.

Craig Mokhiber, Former Director of the New York Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights at the United Nations. An international lawyer and a specialist in human rights law, policy and methodology.

Daniel Machover, Solicitor, co-founder of lawyers for Palestine.

Professor Susan M. Akram, Clinical Professor and Director, International Human Rights Clinic, Boston University, School of Law, Boston, US.

Professor Ardi Imseis, Associate Professor of International Law, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, Canada. Member, UN Commission of Inquiry on Yemen.

Professor Lynn Welchman, College of Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. Commissioner, UN Human Rights Council Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic.

Professor Audrey Macklin, Professor of Law and Rebecca Cook Chair in Human Rights, Jackman Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada.

Professor Mohammad Fadel, Professor of Law, Jackman Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, Canada.

Professor Ilias Bantekas, Professor of Law, College of Law, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar.

Professor Andrew Dahdal, Associate Professor, Associate Dean, College of Law, Qatar University.

Dr. Elobaid Ahmed Elobaid, International Human Rights and Justice Expert, Adjunct Professor, Georgetown University, former UN Staff.

Dr. Lex Takkenberg, international lawyer and former senior executive of UNRWA.

Diana Buttu, lawyer, Palestine.

Dr. Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, Executive Director of the Lemkin Institution for Genocide Prevention.

Dr. Mandy Turner, Senior Researcher at Security in Context, Visiting Senior Fellow, International State Crime Initiative, Queen Mary, University of London, London, UK.

Dr. Trita Parsi, Executive Vice President, Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, US.

Dr. Nimer Sultany, Reader in Public Law, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.

Dr. Mazen Masri, Senior Lecturer in Law, City St. George’s, University of London, London, UK.

Professor Craig Martin Scott, Professor of Law, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada.

Professor Hengameh Saberi, Associate Professor, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Toronto, Canada.

Professor Faisal Bhabha, Associate Professor, Academic Director of the Anti-Discrimination Intensive Program, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Canada.

Professor Faisal Kutty, Associate Professor of Law Emeritus at Valparaiso University and affiliate faculty at the Rutgers University Center for Security, Race and Rights.

Professor Jillian Rogin, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, Windsor University, Canada.

Professor Nicola Pratt, Professor of the International Politics of the Middle East, University of Warwick, UK.

Dr. Emilio Dabed, Governance Director, Legal Center for Palestine, Toronto, Canada.

Dr. Lena El-Malak, independent lawyer, London, UK.

Guevara ha muerto Guevara est mort Guevara died جيفارا مات

 

 1967

1959

كيف حولت زيارة غيفارا لفلسطين القضية للعالمية؟
El Che Guevara en Gaza: Palestina se convierte en causa mundial 
Che Guevara in Gaza: Palestine Becomes a Global Cause
Grâce à la visite de Che Guevara à Gaza la Palestine devient une cause mondiale

The People Without a Map: Diaspora, Conscience, and Palestinian Recognition

Two years after the onset of the Gaza genocide, the State has vanished, but the people remain. Across the world, the Palestinian diaspora embodies a conscience that refuses erasure.

François Vadrot, Oct. 7, 2025                           

Silhouette of Gaza, void at the heart of a sky saturated with stars. Around the darkness, the light — that of the living dispersed.

On October 7, 2023, what was first presented as a new “war” between Israel and Hamas marked instead one of the most violent episodes in a process that began in 1947: the progressive destruction of the Palestinian people. Two years later, the military fiction has collapsed. It was not a war, but an annihilation.

And yet, beyond the ruins, Palestine endures through its diaspora — a people without a map, but not without memory. This recognition, the acknowledgment of the Palestinian People on the same moral level as the Jewish People, now defines the century’s deepest moral fault line.

Gaza, Destruction, and the Return of the Real

Two years after October 7, 2023, the truth can no longer be evaded: Gaza did not endure a war but a genocide. The report of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry, published on September 16, 2025, formally concludes that Israel has committed, and continues to commit, acts constituting genocide as defined by the 1948 Convention. The experts document, with evidence, the four legal criteria: “killing members of the group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about its destruction, imposing measures to prevent births,” with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, the Palestinian people of Gaza.

The report dismantles the fiction of a “war”: these are not “disproportionate operations,” but a systematic campaign of destruction. Civilians were the target — bombings on evacuation zones, executions inside shelters, hospitals and schools razed, water and power infrastructures annihilated, the deliberate use of starvation as a weapon (the blockade of infant formula, fuel, and water). The report details the targeting of children — “including toddlers shot in the head and chest” —, the destruction of Gaza’s only in-vitro fertilization clinic, and the repeated use of sexual violence as a tool of domination. Even symbols of continuity — mosques, churches, cemeteries, universities — were deliberately obliterated.

The numbers defy language: over 50,000 dead, 83% civilians, 200,000 homes destroyed, and 1.5 million people displaced in a strip rendered uninhabitable. A military expert cited by the UN notes that Israel “dropped in one week more bombs than the United States did in an entire year in Afghanistan.” The report concludes: “There was no military necessity to justify this pattern of conduct. The people of Gaza, as a whole, were the target.”

What has been destroyed is not merely life, but the very condition of living. What collapses under the ruins is not a political entity — it is the possibility of inhabiting the world.

Yet precisely in this total negation appears the trace of survival: where the land is destroyed, memory expands.

A Global Diaspora, Mirror of Erasure

TIGRILLO L. ANUDOThe Flotillas That Are Kidnapped Every Day

Tigrillo L. Anudo, October 6, 2025
Translated by Tlaxcala

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The world changes little. Historical patterns repeat themselves. The past never left. The objectification of human beings continues. Colonization is the order of the day. Piracy in international waters is revived with other actors (who finally kept the aid and belongings of the occupants of the humanitarian flotilla bound for Gaza?). Those who undertake actions in favor of justice are labeled “terrorists.”

The hijacking of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was carrying humanitarian aid to the tormented people of Gaza, is what happens every day in many countries. It is happening right now in Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, where neoliberal policies subject the population to hunger, lack of healthcare, education, housing, employment — to a slow death.

The difference is that these are not flotillas traveling by sea. They are flotillas of social investment, which remain kidnapped in plutocratic and corrupt Congresses and Assemblies. The difference lies in the fact that this practice of global capitalism becomes more visible in a nation invaded, massacred, and humiliated by Zionist ideology, the conception of a supremacist State that carries out ethnic cleansing against those it considers “inferior” and “terrorists.”

In the countries mentioned, the human rights of other ethnic groups (indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants, peasants, mestizo workers) are kidnapped; repressive and anti-democratic dictatorial regimes operate there. They do not kill with bomber planes and artificial intelligence, but with the denial of human dignity — an ignominy made invisible by corporate media and educational apparatuses that program political illiterates.

Everything is interconnected. Daniel Noboa (President of Ecuador), Dina Boluarte (President of Peru), and Javier Milei (President of Argentina) are allies of the Zionist government of Netanyahu. Like them, Donald Trump (President of the United States) and other presidents of European nations have business interests and defend the Israeli regime. Although some European governments verbally rejected the terrorist actions of the Israeli State in Palestine (among them Italy and Spain), they ended up bowing their heads before the genocide. There is no integrity in their rejection. They are afraid to assume upright positions; they do not want to leave the Club of the world’s powerful accomplices.

The United States government follows Zionist ideology; it is its point of reference. It is the natural ally of those who embody the most characteristic features of capitalism 2.0: usury, control of banking and the financial system, management of the most lucrative industries, production of weapons and surveillance technologies, espionage services and techniques for combating “internal enemies,” developments in artificial intelligence that increase labor exploitation and unemployment. Capitalism 2.0 advances technology and diminishes humanity.

Israel teaches the United States how to do business, involving it as a partner in an ambitious hotel project on Palestinian territory. Neither International Law nor Human Rights stop the rate of profit. The elitist political world continues, for the most part, to be very permissive toward the genocide in Gaza. It suits them. Invisible threads of commercial and diplomatic interests predominate in the agenda of foreign policy. Political economy prevails, not ethics nor international solidarity.

Not even the dystopian novels of the 20th century foresaw the negative utopia the world lives in today. A small country with a powerful army, backed by the U.S. empire, “defends” its right to commit genocide. Furthermore, it considers the act of bringing food, water, medicine, and other humanitarian aid to a besieged people as terrorist acts financed by Hamas. It grants itself permission to impose a maritime blockade on the Gaza Strip (for 17 years), subjecting it to thirst, hunger, and lack of medicine. It also allows itself to violate the right to the sea by boarding vessels in international waters.
Who cares about Palestine?

How to confront the danger posed by Israel’s State terrorism? Marches and humanitarian flotillas are more symbolic than effective. However, they are valuable and must continue because they make visible the infamous offensive of a machine that kills children and women. There are also boycott campaigns against companies that finance the terrorism of the Zionist army. Their reach is limited, but they add to the cry for peace. President Petro proposed an Army of Salvation of Humanity, but there was no timely response to make it a reality. President Trump announced a recolonizing “Peace Plan” to stop the “war” (he does not say genocide) and administer the Gaza Strip with Tony Blair (killer of Asians). A deception and mockery of the world. They cancel the self-determination of peoples with a stroke of the pen; they decide for Palestine.

Ahmed Rahma, Türkiye

Everything indicates that the disorder that destroys International Law can only be compensated by the use of force by new and daring actors. The Houthis of Yemen, a poor country devastated by war, have dared to launch drones and missiles at Israel; they do so out of solidarity with Palestine, to make themselves felt as a neglected and beaten nation, for historical-religious motives, for strategy, political calculation, and because they have the dignity and courage that rich nations lack. These actions, along with the supersonic missile responses from Iran that shattered Israel’s Iron Dome, are encouraging other countries to intervene to stop the massacres committed daily with impunity by the fanatical soldiers led by Netanyahu. Israel is not so invulnerable; it has already been demonstrated. And a tiny country like Yemen understands that it can play a role by controlling the Red Sea, through which navigates a large part of the fuel and goods of international trade. In a world where the rules of coexistence and respect between nations are violated, the continuation of such violations by other interested parties is authorized. Israel is risking being erased from the map because of its persistent defiance of peace and international morality.

If the Israeli army arrogates to itself the right to kidnap ships in international waters, it is validating the Houthis attacking ships carrying weapons, goods, or fuel through the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, the southern entrance to the Red Sea, through which pass ships loaded with oil that supply not only Israel but also Europe and the United States. The ships of this last country will also suffer. Oil prices may rise. The world economy could be affected. The law of the jungle is expanding across the planet; an uncertain future could mark international relations.

The dispute over markets and global trade routes is a chessboard for Russia, China, Europe, and the United States. None of them cares about the fate of Palestine. They are concerned with how they position themselves against their rivals. Each time a new war front opens for the U.S., Russians and Chinese take advantage of it. They are interested in seeing the U.S. exhausted by helping its Israeli partners. Hence, bears and dragons do not enter energetically to defend Palestine. That is how political economy works. Small countries like Yemen and Lebanon (Hezbollah) do more for Gazans than the great powers. Arab governments also fail to agree on how to support their Palestinian brothers or how to confront the Zionist challenge.

Only the peoples save the peoples. Other initiatives will be indispensable to halt the genocide. There is no military power that saves lives in Gaza. No government dares to intercede for the massacred Palestinians. None wants to “get into trouble”; each one looks to its own interest. So far, only Indonesia has offered 20,000 soldiers for an improbable army of salvation. No one believes in armies of salvation.

Gaza is alone. Its inhabitants continue to fall under the murderous bullets of Netanyahu. After Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Palestinian genocide is the greatest failure of humanity.
The Zionist leadership is determined to exterminate the people of Gaza. It has been doing so since 1947, when its British partners deliberately settled them in Palestinian territory.
Their hatred and fear (lack of love) have led them to consider all Palestinians as terrorists.
They say the same about those who try to bring them aid.
Fascism is reigning, and we have not realized it.

JORGE MAJFUDThe Peace Agreements of the Addicted White Man

Jorge Majfud for La Pluma y Tlaxcala, Oct. 5, 2025

Translated by Tlaxcala

On September 29, 2025, The New York Times reported on the meeting at the White House between President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu. under this headline with a clarifying subtitle:

Cease-fire…It is not that history rhymes—it repeats itself.
Since the fifteenth century, all the treaties signed by the European empires have been made at gunpoint and systematically ignored once they stopped serving their purposes or when they managed to push forward their lines of fire.
Destruction and dispossession were always seasoned with some noble cause: civilization, freedom, democracy, and the invader’s right to defend himself.

For centuries, it was the same story repeated in the diplomacy between Indigenous peoples and white settlers—no different from the most recent case of the “Peace Agreement” proposed and imposed under threat by Washington and Tel Aviv on Palestine.
It is the same history of the violation of every peace treaty signed with the Native Nations on either side of the Appalachians, before and after 1776.
Later, what historians call the “Louisiana Purchase” (1803) was not a purchase at all, but a brutal dispossession of the Indigenous nations who were the ancestral owners of that territory, as large as the entire rising Anglo country in America.
No Native person was invited to the negotiating table in Paris, far from those being dispossessed.
And when one of these agreements included some “representative” of the attacked peoples—as in the 1835 Cherokee Treaty—the representative was false, a Guaidó invented by the white settlers.

The same occurred with the transfer of Spain’s last colonies (Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines, Guam) to the United States.
While hundreds of Sioux dyed the snows of Dakota red demanding payment according to the treaty that had forced them to sell their lands, in Paris a new peace agreement was being signed over tropical peoples.
No representative of the dispossessed was invited to negotiate the accord that supposedly made their “liberation” possible.

For Theodore Roosevelt, “the most righteous of all wars is the war against savages… the only good Indians are dead Indians.”
Further south, he wrote and published that “Negroes are a stupid race.”
According to Roosevelt, democracy had been invented for the benefit of the white race, the only one capable of civilization and beauty.

During those years, the Anglo-Saxon ethnicity needed a justification for its brutality and its habit of stealing and then washing its crimes away with peace agreements imposed by force.
Since in the second half of the nineteenth century the epistemological paradigm of science had replaced religion, that justification became racial superiority.

Europe kept most of the world subjugated through its fanaticism and its addiction to gunpowder.
Theories about the superiority of the white man went hand in hand with his victimization: Blacks, Browns, Reds and Yellows took advantage of his generosity while threatening the minority of the superior race with replacement by the majority of inferior ones.
Sound familiar?

Because those biologicist theories were not sufficiently grounded, history was invoked instead.
At the end of the nineteenth century, Europe was teeming with linguistic and later anthropological theories about the pure origin of the noble race (Aryan, Iran), the white race derived from the Hindu Vedas.
These far-fetched stories—and Hindu symbols such as the Nazi swastika and what is now known as the Star of David (used by different cultures centuries earlier but originally from India)—became popular as racial symbols in print.

It is no coincidence that it was precisely at that moment that supremacist theories and Zionism were founded and articulated within their historical concepts in the white, racist, imperialist Europe of the North.
Even the founder of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, understood that Jews belonged to the superior “Aryan race.”

Until the Second World War, these supremacisms coexisted with certain frictions but not enough to prevent them from forming agreements, such as the Haavara Agreement between Nazis and Zionists, which for years transferred tens of thousands of white Jews (of “good genetic material”) to Palestine.
The first anti-Zionists were not the Palestinians who received them, but the European Jews who resisted that ethnic-cleansing agreement.
At the same time that the Palestinians were colonized and stripped of their lands, Judaism itself was colonized and stripped of its tradition.

When the Soviets crushed Hitler’s Nazis, being a supremacist became a disgrace.
Suddenly, Winston Churchill and the USAmerican millionaires stopped boasting of being Nazis.
Earlier, the 1917 Balfour-Rothschild Declaration had been an agreement among whites to divide and occupy a territory of “inferior races.”
As the racist and genocidal Churchill—then Minister of War—said:

“I am strongly in favor of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes.” [and he used it in Iraq, Transl. n.]

But the brutal irrationality of the Second World War also ended the Modern Era, founded on the paradigms of reason and progress.
Science and critical thought gave way to the irrationality of consumerism and religion.

Thus, today’s Zionists no longer insist before the UN or the White House on their Aryan racial superiority, but rather on their special rights as God’s chosen Semites.
Netanyahu and his evangelical escorts quote the biblical sacredness of Israel a thousand times, as if he and King David were the same person and as if that dark-skinned Semitic people of three thousand years ago were the same Khazars of the Caucasus who adopted Judaism in medieval Europe.

The Washington agreement between Trump and Netanyahu, to be accepted by the Palestinians, is illegitimate from the start.
It does not matter how many times the word peace is repeated—just as it does not matter how many times the word love is repeated while a woman is being raped.
It will always be a violation, just as Israel’s occupation and apartheid over Palestine are.

On Tuesday, September 30, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth gathered his generals and quoted George Washington:

“He who desires peace must prepare for war,”
not because Washington “wanted war, but because it loved peace.”
President Trump concluded: it would be an insult to the United States if he were not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

In 1933, in his speech before the Reichstag, the Nobel Peace Prize candidate Adolf Hitler declared that Germany sought only peace.
Three years later, after remilitarizing Rhineland, he insisted that Germany was a pacifist nation seeking its security.

Even if the new agreement between Washington and Tel Aviv is accepted by Hamas (one of Netanyahu’s own creations), sooner or later it will be violated by Tel Aviv.
For the superior race—for the chosen peoples—there are no agreements with inferior beings, only strategies of plunder and annihilation: strategies of demonizing the slave and the colonized, and of victimizing the poor white man, that addict to gunpowder—now to white powder.

NETHIE JOHANA OCHOAColombia 2026: Power to the Women!

Nethie Johana Ochoa, La Pluma/Tlaxcala, 26/9/2025
Translated by Tlaxcala

“ ‘Anon’ was often a woman.” 

– Virginia Woolf

In Colombia’s history and political participation, it is men’s discourse, voices, and faces that stand out. The portraits, names, and texts we learn in school mostly belong to men. As if they alone had built the country. Yet, when looking at towns, neighborhoods, and villages, another reality emerges: a country sustained by the silent, persistent labor of women whose contribution is not acknowledged in history.

How is it possible that millions of women are at the forefront of social and community work, yet have so little representation in the highest decision-making posts?

In this article, I aim to critically analyze the causes of this great contradiction and highlight that it is time to transform the role of women in the country’s history.

The contrast between women’s broad participation in grassroots social leadership and their scarce presence in political power positions is striking. In municipalities like Bello, nearly 80% of Community Action Board presidencies are held by women, many with decades of voluntary work. Yet, this participation collapses when it comes to formal politics: in municipal councils it reaches only 15–20%.

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President Gustavo Petro orders the expulsion of Israel’s diplomatic delegation and the termination of the Free Trade Agreement

Information from the Presidency of the Republic, Bogotá, October 1, 2025 

President Gustavo Petro Urrego announced this Wednesday, through his social networks, a series of measures in response to the detention, in international waters, of two Colombian citizens who were carrying out humanitarian solidarity activities for the Palestinian population in Gaza, on board the Global Sumud Flotilla.

The Head of State ordered the immediate expulsion of the entire Israeli diplomatic delegation in Colombia, considering that the continuation of its functions is incompatible with the principles of international law and with respect for the dignity of the Colombian people. Likewise, he announced the immediate denunciation of the Free Trade Agreement between Colombia and Israel, which will cease to be in effect.

The president warned that this constitutes a new international crime carried out by the Israeli government of Benjamin Netanyahu. In the face of this situation, decisions were made to protect all Colombians, affirm national sovereignty, and reject the violation of human rights.

TIGRILLO L. ANUDO The UN decertified by the peoples

 

Tigrillo L. Anudo, 30/9/2025
Translated by Tlaxcala

The world is a madhouse. So many unleashed beasts will not be controlled even by a Salvation Army of Humanity. A theatre of cruelty is needed just to stifle the assault on reason that has seized human societies. Performative disruptions, massive paralysis, the breaking of normality, widespread cries for truth and freedom, bold actions, challenges to the powers. Until common sense reappears each morning with the rising sun.

The United Nations — the UN — is a theatre of simulation and lies. Nothing meaningful for the tranquillity of living beings springs from this instrument of the corporate elites that oppress the human family. An entity without authority before military and economic powers. An entity without a soul, without rooted peoples, without representation of the oppressed. The voices of life, of water, of the sacred, of the ancestral, of peace, of childhood, of the migrant, have no place there.

Diplomacy failed once again, as Petro said in the streets of New York. For two years, the parade of words across the UN carpets has been unable to stem the rivers of blood in the deserts of Gaza. Since its founding 80 years ago, it has prevented almost no wars. The conflicts that broke out ended largely because of the deterrence caused by the very weapons themselves. The UN is so ineffective that countries place more trust in the deterrent capacity of nuclear weapons or in strategic alliances. That is why they worry about developing them. A country that does not want to succumb to the rapacity of aggressive powers shows its atomic and supersonic weapons.

BAHMAN KALBASIIn its statements, the US State Department is applying Israel’s positions Interview with Shahid Qureshi, fired for non-compliance

Bahman Kalbasi, BBC Persian, 17/9/2025

Bahman Kalbasi is the BBC Persian’s  correspondent at the United Nations in New York.

Translated by Tlaxcala

(Since Qureshi’s remarks in English were simultaneously translated into Farsi for broadcast, we have retranslated them into English from the Farsi version.)

 

Shahid Qureshi worked in the Bureau of Global Public Affairs of the US State Department and was recently dismissed from his job. Mr. Qureshi tells Bahman Kalbasi in a special interview program: Condolences to the families of Palestinian journalists killed by the Israeli army in Gaza and emphasizing USA’s opposition to ethnic cleansing in Gaza were positions that he intended to include in State Department statements according to the usual procedure, and this is why he was dismissed. In his first interview with a Persian-language media outlet after his dismissal from the US State Department, Mr. Qureshi talks about what happened and his experience working in different US administrations.

Bahman Kalbasi: In the months following Donald Trump’s return to the White House, pressure has increased on a number of activists and students opposed to Israel’s war in Gaza; from the administration’s efforts to deport some who were not U.S. citizens to firing others from their jobs. Shahid Qureshi worked in the public relations department of the U.S. State Department and was recently dismissed from his job. He had tried to include, based on the usual procedure, condolences to the families of Palestinian journalists killed by the Israeli military and opposition to ethnic cleansing in Gaza in the State Department’s statements. He says this is precisely why he was fired. This is his first interview with a Persian-language media outlet since his dismissal from the U.S. State Department, in which he talks about his experience in both the previous and current administrations, as well as what happened. I am Bahman Kalbasi , and I am speaking with this former U.S. State Department employee in a Special Dialogue.

 

Shahid Qureshi, thank you for the opportunity you’ve given BBC Persian. Before we get into the matter, could you talk a bit about yourself? Where were you born? Where did you grow up?

 

Shahid Qureshi: Yes, I was born in Seattle in 1991. For university, I studied International Relations at the University of Washington. My parents are from the city of Saveh in Iran and came to America around the time of the revolution. After getting my bachelor’s degree, I went to Washington D.C. and got my master’s degree in the same field, International Relations.

 

Bahman Kalbasi: How did you end up working for the U.S. State Department?

 

Shahid Qureshi: From a young age, and after the U.S. invasion of Iraq, I became sensitive to the endless wars the United States had become involved in. I felt that the image of Iraq formed in American public opinion before the invasion helped justify that operation. When we traveled to Iran to visit family and returned to America, seeing a similar negative image being formed about Iran worried me that what happened in Iraq could be repeated for Iran. 

That’s why I became very active in civil society organizations working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and prevent its repetition in Iran. At the same time, working at the State Department was appealing to me as a diplomat, both to understand the forces that lead a country to war and to help find diplomatic paths for resolving disputes instead of war. I am very happy I was able to work there for a while.

 

Bahman Kalbasi : When you joined the U.S. State Department, what exactly did you do in your role in public relations? What were your duties?