Israel’s problem is not that people are being propagandized into hating it, it’s that enough people are not being successfully propagandized into supporting it.
Caitlin Johnstone: Israel’s Problem Is Not TikTok
Advanced Technologies, Biden Administration, Commentary, Human Rights, Israel, Militarism, Palestine, Surveillance, U.S., War Crimes
Chris Hedges: Israel Shutting Down Gaza Human Lab
Israeli weapons and surveillance technologies are cementing a supranational corporate totalitarianism, enslaving populations in ways past totalitarian regimes could only imagine.
Biden Administration, Climate Change, Commentary, Israel, Palestine, U.N. General Assembly, U.N. Security Council, United Nations
US & Israel Dead-Last in Following UN Charter
At the head of a multilateralism ranking is Barbados, with a voting record that Jeffrey Sachs and Guillaume Lafortune commend as a global model. War, climate, sanctions and the Cuban blockade put the U.S. in last place.
Biden Administration, Commentary, Human Rights, Israel, Legal, Palestine, U.S., United Kingdon, United Nations, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Craig Murray: Activating the Genocide Convention
There is no room to doubt that Israel’s bombing of Palestinian civilians and depriving them of food, water and other necessities of life are grounds to invoke the 1948 Genocide Convention.
No Room at the Inn for Roger Waters
The rocker’s Buenos Aires and Montevideo hotel rooms were canceled because he opposes genocide in Gaza, so he must fly in from Brazil each night for his concerts, he told Pagina/12.
Biden Administration, Column, Commentary, Israel, Nuclear Weapons, Palestine, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
SCOTT RITTER: The 2-State Solution’s Nuclear Option
A new Palestinian state could never be free as long as its neighbor, Israel, possesses nuclear weapons.
Colonialism, History, Intelligence, Israel, Middle East, Nuclear Weapons, Palestine, Pentagon, South Africa
When Israel Would Give Up Its Nukes
There is just one scenario in which Israel would relinquish its nuclear weapons and it seems further from reality than ever, wrote Joe Lauria on May 4, 2015.
The War Machine Wants You to Condemn Hamas
The act of condemnation has been cynically weaponised, writes Jonathan Cook. The aim is not to show solidarity with Israelis. It’s to fan the flames of hatred to rationalise crimes against Palestinians.
LEFT WITH NO DEFENSE, McBRIDE PLEADS GUILTY
After a bid for a public interest defense and classified documents needed for his defense were both denied him, whistleblower David McBride pled guilty to three reduced charges on Friday. Joe Lauria reports.
McBride Trial: Appeal Bid Rejected; Public Interest Still Denied
The Supreme Court’s chief justice denied whistleblower David McBride’s attempt to appeal the trial judge’s decision to deprive him of a public interest defense, reports Joe Lauria.
An Egyptian-Led ‘Conscience Convoy’ to Rafah
Journalists and activists from around the world are gathering in Cairo before heading to the only border crossing into Gaza not controlled by Israel, reports Mahmoud Hashem.
Caitlin Johnstone: Policing Opposition to Genocide
The whole objective is to grind the conversation down into insignificant quibbling about manners and decorum so people stop drawing attention to the blood-spattered elephant in the room.
Biden Administration, Commentary, Human Rights, Israel, Militarism, Palestine, Propaganda, U.S., Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
Israeli Deceit & the Ongoing Battle of Shifa Hospital
Gareth Porter says the claim that the largest medical center in the Gaza Strip provides cover for Hamas is the longest running theme in Israeli war propaganda, dating back nearly 15 years.
Chris Hedges: Pinnacle of Horror
Joe Biden will go down in history as an accomplice to genocide. May the ghosts of the thousands of children he has participated in murdering haunt him for the rest of his life.
McBride Trial: Defeat — ‘It Looks Like I’m Going to Jail’
Judge rules that he will instruct the jury that there is no aspect of duty that allows the accused to act in the public interest contrary to a lawful military order, reports Joe Lauria.
Column, Commentary, Israel, Palestine, Propaganda, Protest, Social Media, Until This Day--Historical Perspectives on the News
PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Banality of Propaganda
The annals of the awful art — Hitler’s, Mussolini’s, Japan’s and America’s during World War II — show that it does not have to be sophisticated. The Israeli president’s display of Mein Kampf just proved that again.
McBride Trial: A Soldier’s Duty
On day two of the David McBride trial, the central question remains: whom does a soldier serve? Joe Lauria reports.
Chris Hedges: The War According to Hamas
The Palestinian resistance understands its enemy. It has learned through experience how to fight it. This is not good news for Israel.
Biden Administration, Column, Commentary, Gulf States, Israel, Middle East, Saudi Arabia, U.S., United Arab Emirates
AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Gulf Arab Regimes’ Fake Outrage Over Gaza
This may be a new Arab era. The distance between rulers and public has never been wider. The Arab people, under strict conditions of repression, took to social media and the streets to make their rage known to the world.
McBride Trial: Defense Argues Duty to Nation Supersedes Military Law
Whistleblower David McBride’s lawyers argued on Day One of his trial that a soldier’s duty is not just to follow his superior’s orders, but to serve the entire nation. Joe Lauria reports.