By Binod Ghimire in The Kathmandu Post, October 9, 2023Ten Nepali students have been killed while four others were injured in armed attacks by the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Israel on Saturday. …. As per the Nepali embassy in Tel Aviv, one student is still missing. While the attack spread terror across the country, 17 Nepali students in Kibbutz Alumim, an area near the Gaza Strip, came under direct attack by the militants. Of…
Myth and reality of strategic defiance
Dr Moonis Ahmar in The Express Tribune, November 7th, 2023.The writer is former Dean Faculty of Social Science, University of KarachiThe myth of strategic defiance in the aftermath of the Israeli retaliation to Hamas’s attacks of October 7 was exposed when no Arab-Muslim state came into the forefront to salvage the beleaguered Palestinian population of Gaza and West Bank. Strategic defiance against the Israeli occupation and attacks was periodically asserted by the so-called allies of…