Widely termed abrupt, the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan on August 30, 2021 after more than two decades of occupation brought an abundance of hope, not to say chimera, to the Afghan men, women and children. However, as the clock was ticking by, things started to take a different tack.
July the eighth is reminiscent of the 50th martyrdom anniversary of a Palestinian resistance icon, activist and novelist who was brutally assassinated in the Lebanese capital of Beirut with a bomb planted in his car by Israel's Mossad spy agency.