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Tag: Palestinian genocide
Patrick Lawrence: Exit the Man from Scranton
When a president has failed as miserably as Joe Biden, you had to change the subject. You had to distract the public.
Starmer’s Support for Gaza Ceasefire Riddled With Lies
Estimates are that it will take 80 years to rebuild Gaza, writes Jonathan Cook. How is a “sovereign and viable Palestinian state,” or a “better future,” going to emerge out of ruins on that scale?
Craig Murray: Ceasefire Not an End
What may be drawing to a close is merely a particularly intense phase in the genocide. The author saw Israel break the ceasefire in Lebanon every day, and expects the same in Gaza.
Blinken Says Israel’s Assault Helped Create as Many Hamas Members as It Killed
Speaking before the ceasefire was announced, Blinken effectively said Israel hadn’t made any advancements in its stated mission of defeating Hamas in more than 15 months of the Israeli military’s genocide in Gaza, writes Sharon Zhang.
Genocidal President, Genocidal Politics
Acclimatizing the U.S. to the Gaza genocide was most crucially abetted by Biden and his loyalists, who pretended he wasn’t doing what he was really doing, says Norman Solomon.
RAY McGOVERN: Biden Cancels Trip; Pope Off the Hook
The cancellation has made it easier for the pope to duck the moral imperative to condemn outright the enabling of genocide in Gaza by “practicing Catholic” Joe Biden.
Caitlin Johnstone: US Says It’s Genocide … in Sudan
While indirectly backing the genocidal atrocities it now denounces in Sudan, the Biden administration pushes through an $8 billion weapons shipment to Israel as a blood-soaked punctuation mark on the U.S. president’s far-too-long political career.
NYT Rejects Quakers’ Ad Calling Gaza a ‘Genocide’
“An outrageous attempt to sidestep the truth” — that’s how an American Friends Service Committee spokesperson responded to the paper’s refusal to run paid digital ads that call for an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Chris Hedges: Genocide — The New Normal
This will be a Hobbesian world where nations that have the most advanced industrial weapons make the rules. Those who are poor and vulnerable will kneel in subjugation.