Israel has seized 70 percent of Gaza and an Israeli official says the plan is to control 100 percent. Meanwhile the “Board of Peace” is planning to herd refugees into an area outside the destroyed cite of Rafah.
Western societies are not led by individuals. Rather, they are shaped by structural forces that reward the super rich and operate like laws of nature — though there is nothing natural about them.
It seems now light years away from when Israel worried about the international reaction to killing Gazan civilians, as Joe Lauria reported in this interview with an ex-Israel Navy commander and Shin Bet chief in 2012.
To stand up to Israel has a political cost few, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., are willing to pay. But if you do stand up, it singles you out as someone who puts principles before expediency.
A secret dossier prepared by Shin Bet failed to link the six organizations directly or indirectly to any violent activity, writes Marjorie Cohn.
