Mick Hall covers the latest skirmish as part of a push by politicians and media to amplify condemnations of the Palestinian resistance and ignore Israel’s escalating and genocidal violence in West Asia.
Australian officials are rushing to denounce expressions of support for the Hezbollah resistance group as a violation of a new counter-terrorism law, writes Caitlin Johnstone.
As it continues its genocidal campaign in Gaza and the occupied West Bank, Israel is demonstrating its capacity to commit war crimes in Lebanon as well, writes Marjorie Cohn.
Israel keeps attacking Al Jazeera, assassinating journalists and bombing press offices for the same reason the mafia kills witnesses. They want to commit their crimes in the dark.
Israel plans to humiliate Iran and its allies to an extent that a full-on regional war, in which the United States will fight alongside them, becomes inevitable.