Operation Cast Lead, an Israeli aerial assault and massacre of Gazans begun on December 27, 2008, lasted for 22 days. The Israeli military deployed its navy, air force and army against the people living in Gaza, using U.S.-supplied weapons and killing 1,383 Palestinians, of whom 333 were children. I remember a doctor at the Al […]
We are won over by “words that work” from an Israeli training manual. Hasbara has become a dirty word, thanks to it’s dirt practitioners and the dirty job they are trained to do. It’s Hebrew for Israel’s sophisticated public relations machinery that’s set up to cynically justify the Jewish entity’s crimes and to create for […]
Defense budgets, nation states, and congressional mugshots + this day in history w/the sinking of the USS Indianaoplis and our song of the day by Clutch on your Morning Monarchy for July 30, 2018.
Defense budgets, nation states, and congressional mugshots + this day in history w/the sinking of the USS Indianaoplis and our song of the day by Clutch on your Morning Monarchy for July 30, 2018.
If Corbyn shouldn’t have referred to Hezbollah as his ‘friend’; and if one attaches equal value to each human life; and if war crimes are war crimes regardless of the address from which they originate—in other words, if facts rather than demagoguery serve as the basis of one’s moral calculus, wasn’t the Tory embrace of Israel incalculably worse?
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A friend recently expressed his confusion about the outrage over the death of Ali Dawabsheh, the 18-month-old Palestinian toddler who was killed last month when Jewish settlers firebombed his home in the occupied West Bank.1 (The child’s father was also badly burned in the attack, and eight days later died from his injuries.) An attack that kills a sleeping toddler is surely horrific.
Image: Yonatan Shapira, former Israeli Air Force pilot, now solidarity activist, speaks to seminarians in Oslo, Norway, September 23, 2014. (courtesy The Electronic Intifada)
Norman Finkelstein triumphs in debate at Cambridge University on “Israel" as a rogue stateMarch, 2015 — In front of a large, cheering student audience, Dr. Finkelstein nails the long record of Israeli massacres of Arabs:“If Jews are allowed to talk about six million, six million, six million, we can talk about the number of Palestinians killed.” -Norman FinkelsteinIn the last 72 hours of the Israeli war in Lebanon in 2006, Israelis “dropped four million cluster munitions on south Lebanon…saturating entire villages, population centers…” -Norman Finkelstein_______________
IPS — Israel and its supporters abroad have parried accusations of indiscriminate destruction and mass killing of civilians in Gaza by arguing that they were consequences of strikes aimed at protecting Israeli civilians from rockets that were being launched from very near civilian structures.
That defence has already found its way into domestic U.S. politics. A possible contender for the Democratic nomination for president, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, defended her vote for more military aid for Israel during the Israeli assault on Gaza by citing the rocket launch defence.
Muhammad Qdeih recounts how Israeli forces stormed his home in Khuzaa, where some sixty members of his extended family were sheltering in the basement on 25 July, and forced them to act as human shields.
