"From sabotaging Oslo, to funneling Qatari cash into Gaza, Bibi has spent his career bolstering Hamas to help perpetuate the conflict, even after Oct 7/23, argues historian Adam Raz, he's still advancing the same strategy."
and "In this conversation, Frank Barat and Gabor Mate delve into the complexities of trauma, guilt & the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Palestine. They explore the psychological impact of witnessing atrocities, the historical roots of violence and oppression & - the emotional responses that arise in the face of such horror. Dr. Mate emphasizes the importance of acknowledging guilt and rage, while also recognizing the helplessness felt by those who wish to help.The important discussion also touches on the normalization of violence and the implications for the future of Gaza and global society."
Finally note that Nutjobyahu, has tried to denounce the International Criminal Court charges against him as 'antisemitic' but one of the lawyers who reviewed and approved of the charges was Theodor Meron a highly respected jurist, Holocaust survivor & past Israeli legal advisor, who that ^ last article, is all about!!
Note that "Prof.Omer Bartov is one of the world's pre-eminent experts on genocide. This is a devastating interview; one which explains why now he's changed his view & believes Israel is committing Genocide"!
As ... "Naomi and Mehdi discuss how, as with the Oslo peace process, the never-ending Gaza ceasefire negotiations simply allow Israel to prolong the war and ‘put facts on the ground.'"
Re. notion of "Villa In The Jungle", please note the reference to that propagandist, racist & supremacist phrase; here at 9 minutes, in this very revealing interview about Israeli society!!
and note: "Ronen Bergman is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, based in Tel Aviv. His latest book is “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations” published by Random House, via the New York Times".
NB "The Grayzone has obtained slides from a confidential Israel lobby presentation based on data from Republican pollster, Frank Luntz. They contain talking points for politicians and public figures seeking to justify Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip."
The information above incl. the final video, has to be seen in the round & in the context of ISR's political divisions but seen in totality they form a picture of who knew what n' when! These videos are important!
How can anybody really have a true opinion on events in Gaza 12 months ago ... without recourse to the information in these videos above, given the very deeply partisan nature of U$A's Main Stream Media?!! Finally & very importantly indeed, please try to carefully consider the consequences of the following info:
WHICH ... "One article describing the Israeli Prime Minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These stunning military “successes,” its author Barak Ravid notes, include the bombing of Yemen, the assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and the pager attack against Lebanon.
"The same author recently went viral for an article that claimed that Israeli attacks against Hezbollah are “not intended to lead to war, but are an attempt to reach ‘de-escalation through escalation.'” Many users on social media mocked Ravid for this bizarre, Orwellian reasoning - but what almost everybody missed is that Barak Ravid is an Israeli spy or at least he was until recently.Ravid is a former analyst with Israeli spying agency Unit 8200 & as recently as last year, was still a reservist with the IDF.
"Unit 8200, is Israel’s largest & perhaps most controversial spying organization. It has been responsible for many high-profile espionage & terror operations, including recent pager attack that injured thousands of Lebanese civilians. As this investigation will reveal, Ravid is far from the only Israeli ex-spook working at top US media outlets, working hard to manufacture Western support for his country’s actions." WTF?!
& - https://youtu.be/fs34Mos1wsE - as "Prof. John Mearsheimer reacts to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s description of the cease fire status & determines that he is “not telling a true story”!!
And note "Israeli scholar Maya Wind’s new book - 'Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom'.. documents how Israeli universities directly constrain Palestinian rights by supporting & even developing the policies of occupation and apartheid used by the Israeli state.“In the West, Israeli universities are considered bastions of pluralism and democracy. But in fact … they are a central pillar of the Israeli regime's of oppression against Palestinians,” says Wind. She also discusses Israel’s “scholasticide", in Gaza - the "intentional destruction of Palestinian education” & the movement of conscientious objectors to Israel’s mandatory conscription, in which she took part when she refused to enlist in the army at age 18 and served 40 days in a military prison."
Further via same source: "“Resist the Normalization of Evil”: Israeli Reporter Amira Hass"; https://youtu.be/DIILcoPSNQs (42m)
As poor Professor Steven Pinker says he's in a "state of agonized ambivalence" about Israel starving 2 million Palestinians and burning hospital patients to death. "Venomous" students protesting this outside his Ivory Tower leave him "stunned" & so the solution is he says, that they all need to be re-educated!!!
Note how "Israel enjoys bipartisan support from the Democratic and Republican Parties in Washington, as it brutally bombs Gaza; invades Lebanon; and attacks Iran, Syria, and Yemen. Ben Norton - shows how Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, JD Vance, Tim Walz .. and other US politicians facilitate Israel's war crimes, which are being investigated by the International Court of Justice." Also consider ...
as "To understand the genocide that Israel is carrying out in Gaza with the support of North America and Europe, it is crucial to recognize Zionism’s roots in Western colonialism."
Note "As the war on Gaza spans a second year, we continue our conversation with the acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. His new book, The Message - is based in part on his own visit last year to Israel and the occupied West Bank, where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States. "It was revelatory," says Coates and. "I don't think the average American has a real sense of what we’re doing over there — and I emphasize 'what we are doing' because it's not possible without American support."
"I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be." Also importantly, please try to carefully consider:
"A historian who exposed the New England Journal of Medicine's silence on Nazi atrocities - confronted the journal’s treatment of Gaza during a Harvard symposium." Further, and ONLY IF you dare, consider:
also - "The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7"!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMNV0Csj46Q [29m] and note that this^is a Totally Devastating Reprise, by Jeremy Cahill and Ryan Grim and DemocracyNow!'s Amy Goodman - of Israel's 'rape' claims and requires urgent attention of all true journalists worldwide!!!
Further "What Really Happened on Oct 7?!!"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mxfnya3ZRc a clear, concise & clinical deconstruction of the events from 12 months ago and a precis of this video:
while noting "The rise to prominence of Itamar Ben-Gvir and other extremists has placed a radical ideology at the heart of political power in Israel." - And now as a post script ... by Jessica Buxbaum:
As: "Decades after Kach's founding & Rabbi Meir Kahane's death, the radical Jewish supremacist movement may be even more influential today than during its inception"!!! Finally, 1 year on, note:
Noting: "When two young American Jews raised to support Israel unconditionally witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, it changes their lives. They join a movement of young American Jews - campaigning to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel and .. reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity. "Israelism" has sparked huge debate on American campuses even before the events of October 7, 2023."
Also note that the: "Contributors suggest the narrative that young American Jews are fed almost entirely erases the existence of the Palestinians through education and advocacy .. sometimes involving groups that organise free trips to Israel partially funded by the Israeli government."
And that: "This film describes how influential this narrative is in shaping attitudes to Israel, not just in the United States but across the world."
As mass murder, mayhem, massacres and maniacal madness - was unleashed upon Lebanon and civilians, women and children were being butchered with US made, paid for and supplied battlefield munitions, please try to closely consider this, in the dark light of the past, present and future events regarding Israel ...
from which, this .. "The political philosopher Hannah Arendt actively engaged in the problem of a Jewish homeland and the politics of Zionism, in the years from 1941-1948. She advocated a Binational solution to Palestine - a single political commonwealth with two national identities, Jewish and Arab, integrated in a federation with the other countries in the region.In the crucial period leading up to the establishment of the State of Israel, Arendt became increasingly disillusioned with the Jewish Agency and with the Zionist movement at large for failing to organize a Jewish response to Nazism; a Jewish Army, and rejecting the Palestinian right to a homeland." Now finally please try to note this interview, with Ha'aretz' Gideon Levy:
It is 2024 now and the solution proposed many years ago--namely breaking up the media--is no longer adequate. There are simply too many billionaires now who could buy up all the pieces. The purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk makes this clear. 140314
"The deep historical forces that explain Trump’s win"
"Our research shows that political breakdown, from the Roman Empire to the Russian revolution, follows a clear pattern: workers’ wages stagnate, while elites multiply"
"To get a better understanding of these concepts and how they are influencing American politics in 2024, we need to travel back in time to the 1930s, when an unwritten social contract came into being in the form of Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal. This contract balanced the interests of workers, businesses and the state in a way similar to the more formal agreements we see in Nordic countries. For two generations, this implicit pact delivered an unprecedented growth in wellbeing across a broad swath of the country. At the same time, a “Great Compression” of incomes and wealth dramatically reduced economic inequality. For roughly 50 years the interests of workers and the interests of owners were kept in balance, and overall income inequality remained remarkably low."
"That social contract began to break down in the late 1970s. The power of unions was undermined, and taxes on the wealthy cut back. Typical workers’ wages, which had previously increased in tandem with overall economic growth, started to lag behind. Inflation-adjusted wages stagnated and at times decreased. The result was a decline in many aspects of quality of life for the majority of Americans. One shocking way this became evident was in changes to the average life expectancy, which stalled and even went into reverse (and this started well before the Covid pandemic). That’s what we term “popular immiseration”.
"With the incomes of workers effectively stuck, the fruits of economic growth were reaped by the elites instead.A perverse “wealth pump” came into being, siphoning money from the poor and channelling it to the rich...."
Every now and then The Guardian has a great, sweeping article that explains our current situation. This is one of them. Worth a read, especially as we watch history repeat itself.
I wish I could remember how to directly post jpegs here on the OWS Forum. I think I remember doing that several years ago but at 78 I can't be certain. Oh well ...
OMG & well, Well, WELL! The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Bendyermind Nutjobyahoo & his ex-Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant! So now what? Are ISR's US/UK guardians going to protect Benjamin Netanyahu's hate filled, fascistic murdering extreme nationalist ass - once again?!!
If he gets away with his Scorched Earth, Collective Punishment, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocidal Apartheid War of Annihilation, then please try to consider that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-L_hJAobAY !
Bernie Sanders: "I am holding a vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate to block the sale of offensive arms to Israel.
"The extremist Netanyahu government is breaking U.S. and international law. Every Senator who believes in the rule of law should vote for these resolutions."
The conservative/states rights movement started with John C. Calhoun in the 1820s. As the Confederacy they lost the Civil War but have never given up the fight to destroy the Federal Government and subvert the Party of Lincoln. Trump's cabinet picks advance that movement.
[-] 1 points by agkaiser (2553) from Fredericksburg, TX 23 hours ago
I know nothing of the will of god and am merely amused by the believers` cognitive dissonance.
[-] 0 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 day ago
At some point, The PR/opaganda Function of Israel - has to be analysed!
"Zionist influencers and ‘hasbara’ online | The Listening Post"...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03KASmLbDM4 (9m 45s) & now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPkUfZJFQhY 13m from May24!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p68fbA0EgJY 1hr, w/Abby Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AstZREKPkHs [25m] Anat Mater
Also note https://www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-netanyahu-propped-up-hamas-now-its-blown-up-in-our-faces/ by Tal Shneider from the day after Oct 7th 2023 - and an important info source!
& https://www.972mag.com/netanyahu-hamas-october-7-adam-raz/ and from which, try to note:
"From sabotaging Oslo, to funneling Qatari cash into Gaza, Bibi has spent his career bolstering Hamas to help perpetuate the conflict, even after Oct 7/23, argues historian Adam Raz, he's still advancing the same strategy."
e tenebris - lux?!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 day ago
"Dr. Gabor Mate: Zionism will be looked upon as one of the greatest disasters in Jewish history"!
and "In this conversation, Frank Barat and Gabor Mate delve into the complexities of trauma, guilt & the ongoing genocide in Gaza and Palestine. They explore the psychological impact of witnessing atrocities, the historical roots of violence and oppression & - the emotional responses that arise in the face of such horror. Dr. Mate emphasizes the importance of acknowledging guilt and rage, while also recognizing the helplessness felt by those who wish to help.The important discussion also touches on the normalization of violence and the implications for the future of Gaza and global society."
Also: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/VZupDJ37sww 100% Truth & further consider this video:
Gaza; this morning and shame on us: https://x.com/Bernadotte22/status/1858448901550039060
NB "Israel’s Crimes Against Humanity in Gaza": https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/11/14/israels-crimes-against-humanity-gaza &, also consider this info:
"The Man Who Tried to Save Israel From Itself" ... https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/06/04/israel-settlements-occupation-theodor-meron-gaza-netanyahu/ by Gershon Gorenberg (Israeli journalist and historian.)
Finally note that Nutjobyahu, has tried to denounce the International Criminal Court charges against him as 'antisemitic' but one of the lawyers who reviewed and approved of the charges was Theodor Meron a highly respected jurist, Holocaust survivor & past Israeli legal advisor, who that ^ last article, is all about!!
PS: Consider - "Israel 'Ethnic Cleansing' Gaza ADMITS Ex-Army Chief and Netanyahu Ally"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pe-tlc3AKA [9m 11s]
PPS NB .. https://mondoweiss.net/2024/12/israels-genocide-in-gaza-is-fully-intentional-and-other-takeaways-from-the-amnesty-international-report/ by Jonathan Ofir
e tenebris, lux?!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 day ago
Never forget "Everybody Wants Gaza's Gas"! by Rachel Donald:
"The $500 billion windfall shoring up EU supplies" and please also try to see ...
https://twitter.com/HistoryInPics/status/1723051649722130862 (4m 30s video)
and also closely consider this https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-genocide
Now try to please consider: "Gaza War: Creating Facts for the Ben-Gurion Canal?!!!" https://www.theinteldrop.org/2023/11/15/gaza-war-creating-facts-for-the-ben-gurion-canal/
Further note "Industrial Killing of Civilians in Gaza Won’t Defeat the Armed Insurgency"!! https://theintercept.com/2023/12/20/gaza-israel-biden-netanyahu-war-strategy/ - Jeremy Scahill
Also, consider this - "'Pure evil' – Dr. Mads Gilbert on Israel’s attacks on Gaza’s hospitals"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLDnZ1OYR9w&t=1262s {Almost unbelievably horrific details}
PS: https://twitter.com/CensoredMen/status/1736461692970688675 [Very Relevant Short Video!]
& PPS: https://truthout.org/articles/over-200-unrwa-workers-have-been-killed-in-israels-genocide/
Meanwhile re "Nordstream": https://www.thomasfazi.com/p/rising-anger-in-germany-in-response
Also consider .. "Israeli Holocaust Scholar: Why Gaza Is Genocide - w/Prof. Omer Bartov"!!! w/Owen Jones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDePmAFle4A (51m)
Note that "Prof.Omer Bartov is one of the world's pre-eminent experts on genocide. This is a devastating interview; one which explains why now he's changed his view & believes Israel is committing Genocide"!
As ... "Naomi and Mehdi discuss how, as with the Oslo peace process, the never-ending Gaza ceasefire negotiations simply allow Israel to prolong the war and ‘put facts on the ground.'"
et ergo - cui bono?!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 days ago
Re.'Nukes for Nakba' & as per the OP try to closely consider
the info in these 2 videos from 11 months ago, is still relevant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6sQTqzfu48 [11m]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5CTbGAdjnk [9m]
&, try to consider this site: https://ifamericansknew.org/
Further note this https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/
Also it's noted how you have nothing to say re. my prior^reply!
And 'What role do US tech giants play in powering Israel?'
ESPECIALLY in the dark light of recent pager & phone attacks!!
Further try to note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba_Day and
https://www.afcfp.org/2024-joint-nakba-remembrance-ceremony
Finally per the OP, Daniel Ellesberg RiP & Julian Assange, note:
https://www.the-berliner.com/politics/daniel-ellsberg-wikileaks/
ad iudicium?
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 days ago
Re. notion of "Villa In The Jungle", please note the reference to that propagandist, racist & supremacist phrase; here at 9 minutes, in this very revealing interview about Israeli society!!
"Israeli Youth Targeted Over ‘Gaza Fights For Freedom’ (a doc film) Screening" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6huCGHTtsI (41m) Gaia Dan w/ Abby Martin & ..
"Gaza Fights For Freedom (2019) | Full Documentary | Directed by Abby Martin" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZSaKYmP2s (1 hour 24 miutes)
"Israelism: The Awakening of young American Jews" Important Documentary!": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq6J7Q6L0yw (1 hour 20 minutes)
et veritas vos liberabit ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 days ago
Et Ergo, Deus Vult?! Please try to be wary if invoking "God"!!
Lest an alledgedly God believing man, speaks Truth to Power!
Who says: "No one hates Americans more than America"!!!
And - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqmKmCIvSZU [5m]
Plus: "How a new Christian right is changing US politics"!!
Also from 2 years ago: "Christian Nationalism On The Rise"!
And "The Military’s Problem With Extremism in the Ranks"!
et fiat lux!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 days ago
Happy Birthday Noam Chomsky! And so many thanx for all the wisdom and compassion for us all!!!
"Noam Chomsky at 96 - The linguist, educator, philosopher and public thinker has had a massive intellectual and moral influence"! https://theconversation.com/noam-chomsky-at-96-the-linguist-educator-philosopher-and-public-thinker-has-had-a-massive-intellectual-and-moral-influence-232698
Alas he's very ill: https://apnews.com/article/noam-chomsky-hospitalized-stroke-recovery-brazil-4fb6782abf6a7b6d0bbb30cefa05cede
His last major interview in 2023: "Noam Chomsky on The Collapse of American Empire with Matt Kennard"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRLLRzmbk6g (53m 26s)
Finally "Here's a compilation of him exposing Western media class "journalists" for the depraved propagandists they are"! .. https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1865392443715105071 [a 7m video]
ecce homo ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 days ago
14 months on, note - "Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan Over a Year Ago: The New York Times"!
https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2023/12/01/israel-knew-hamass-attack-plan-over-a-year-ago-the-new-york-times/ by Ronen Bergman (Text and video)
https://youtu.be/vu4Txxw9bOo (a 11m stand alone video link)
and note: "Ronen Bergman is a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, based in Tel Aviv. His latest book is “Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations” published by Random House, via the New York Times".
Also "Documents expose Israeli conspiracy to facilitate October 7 attack"!! https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2023/12/02/klox-d02.html - by Andre Damon & now, consider:
that from some perspectives: "Israel Is Losing this War"!!! Tony Karon & Daniel Levy: https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-gaza-war/ ...
as "Despite the violence it has unleashed on Palestinians, Israel is failing to achieve its political goals!"
Further "This Is Not a War Against Hamas"! https://theintercept.com/2023/12/11/israel-hamas-war-civilians-biden/ by Jeremy Scahill
and note "Leaked Israel lobby presentation urges US officials to justify war on Gaza with ‘Hamas Rape’ claims"!! https://thegrayzone.com/2024/03/06/leaked-israel-lobby-officials-war-gaza-mass-rape/ by Max Blumenthal and ...
NB "The Grayzone has obtained slides from a confidential Israel lobby presentation based on data from Republican pollster, Frank Luntz. They contain talking points for politicians and public figures seeking to justify Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip."
Further consider this tweet ... https://x.com/zei_squirrel/status/1799119035491295443
And now in keeping the 1st^2 links "Reckoning: Israel and Gaza"!!! with Ben Swann https://x.com/Truth_InMedia/status/1798006776211677634 [an essential 14m 25s vid]
Also NB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1i0UbAyrpk 30m of important infomation
& NOW per OP consider this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miV355h7nFQ [20m]
The information above incl. the final video, has to be seen in the round & in the context of ISR's political divisions but seen in totality they form a picture of who knew what n' when! These videos are important!
respice, adspice et e tenebris lux?
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 3 days ago
One year on "Investigating war crimes in Gaza - Al Jazeera Investigations" ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPE6vbKix6A (81m) Very Important Doc.
"October 7: Al Jazeera Investigations" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0atzea-mPY (1 hr)
&, "What Really Happened on Oct 7?!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mxfnya3ZRc (16m) and a precis of the 1hr video immediately above.
Further this - https://x.com/Truth_InMedia/status/1798006776211677634 & embedded 14m video
How can anybody really have a true opinion on events in Gaza 12 months ago ... without recourse to the information in these videos above, given the very deeply partisan nature of U$A's Main Stream Media?!! Finally & very importantly indeed, please try to carefully consider the consequences of the following info:
WHICH ... "One article describing the Israeli Prime Minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These stunning military “successes,” its author Barak Ravid notes, include the bombing of Yemen, the assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and the pager attack against Lebanon.
"The same author recently went viral for an article that claimed that Israeli attacks against Hezbollah are “not intended to lead to war, but are an attempt to reach ‘de-escalation through escalation.'” Many users on social media mocked Ravid for this bizarre, Orwellian reasoning - but what almost everybody missed is that Barak Ravid is an Israeli spy or at least he was until recently.Ravid is a former analyst with Israeli spying agency Unit 8200 & as recently as last year, was still a reservist with the IDF.
"Unit 8200, is Israel’s largest & perhaps most controversial spying organization. It has been responsible for many high-profile espionage & terror operations, including recent pager attack that injured thousands of Lebanese civilians. As this investigation will reveal, Ravid is far from the only Israeli ex-spook working at top US media outlets, working hard to manufacture Western support for his country’s actions." WTF?!
Finally: "Francesca Albanese perfectly deconstructs the bad faith question “does Israel have the right to exist?” https://x.com/AbbyMartin/status/1857915326790512796 (1m ESSENTIAL VIDEO)
& https://x.com/FranceskAlbs to follow the words and info from one of the clearest PAL defenders
And "Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza"! - https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-international-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/
e tenebris, lux?!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago
Try to consider "To those who are afraid - reflect on the roots of your fear"! by Jacob Engelberg:
https://vashtimedia.com/palestine-protest-solidarity-diaspora-zionism-amsterdam/ "Zionism depends on a terrified diaspora. But a Jewish ethnostate that subjugates Palestinians in our name does not make anyone safe"!!!
Further try to consider: https://tomdispatch.com/the-military-industrial-complex-is-killing-us-all/
Also ... https://truthout.org/video/a-former-israeli-peace-negotiator-dissects-the-new-ceasefire-proposal/ DemocracyNow!'s Amy Goodman with ex-Israeli negotiator Daniel Levy (19m video)
& - https://youtu.be/fs34Mos1wsE - as "Prof. John Mearsheimer reacts to Secretary of State Anthony Blinken’s description of the cease fire status & determines that he is “not telling a true story”!!
& https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2024/06/14/why-the-senate-must-reject-the-dangerous-antisemitism-awareness-act/15/ - by Richard Eskow
Further: "Exclusive: Israeli documents show expansive government effort to shape US discourse around Gaza war"! https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/24/israel-fund-us-university-protest-gaza-antisemitism - by Lee Fang and Jack Poulson
Also please try to note: "Israeli historian produces vast database of war crimes in Gaza"! by Nadav Rapaport in Tel Aviv, Israel and Oscar Rickett in London: https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israeli-historian-produces-vast-database-war-crimes-gaza
And "Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza"! - https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-international-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/
respice; adspice; prospice ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago
"Towers of Ivory & Steel" Jewish Scholar Says Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom"!
And note "Israeli scholar Maya Wind’s new book - 'Towers of Ivory and Steel: How Israeli Universities Deny Palestinian Freedom'.. documents how Israeli universities directly constrain Palestinian rights by supporting & even developing the policies of occupation and apartheid used by the Israeli state.“In the West, Israeli universities are considered bastions of pluralism and democracy. But in fact … they are a central pillar of the Israeli regime's of oppression against Palestinians,” says Wind. She also discusses Israel’s “scholasticide", in Gaza - the "intentional destruction of Palestinian education” & the movement of conscientious objectors to Israel’s mandatory conscription, in which she took part when she refused to enlist in the army at age 18 and served 40 days in a military prison."
Further via same source: "“Resist the Normalization of Evil”: Israeli Reporter Amira Hass"; https://youtu.be/DIILcoPSNQs (42m)
Also - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/tax-dollars-need-not-genocide-israeli-bond-buying-sparks-backlash
And please note .. "We Volunteered at a Gaza Hospital. What We Saw Was Unspeakable"! https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/07/19/gaza-hospitals-surgeons-00167697 - and
IF you can bear it? https://x.com/caitoz/status/1814648205126349272 [3m audio & transcript]
Further "The decimation of Gaza’s academia is ‘impossible to quantify’" by Ibtisam Mahdi https://www.972mag.com/gaza-academia-destruction-universities/
Again and wearily, also consider: https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-07-10/ty-article-timeline/.premium/how-netanyahu-has-systematically-foiled-talks-to-release-hostages-from-hamas-captivity/00000190-9b91-d591-a7ff-fff341120000 - by Michael Hauser Tov
And NB https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/how-us-universities-are-trying-to-muzzle-pro-palestine-protests-before-begin - by Azad Essa and Umar A Farooq
& - "'Campus Has Become Unrecognizable': Columbia Prof. Franke Faces Firing After DN Interview on Gaza"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8FZXNbz_h4 (10m) Very Revealing!!
Now finally - "How I wish Harvard taught students to talk about Israel"!!! ... by Prof. Steven Pinker: https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/10/07/opinion/steven-pinker-harvard-students-israel-protests-october-7/
As poor Professor Steven Pinker says he's in a "state of agonized ambivalence" about Israel starving 2 million Palestinians and burning hospital patients to death. "Venomous" students protesting this outside his Ivory Tower leave him "stunned" & so the solution is he says, that they all need to be re-educated!!!
et veritas vos liberabit?!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago
"US support for Israel's war crimes is bipartisan - Trump, Kamala Harris, Biden, JD Vance, Tim Walz"!!!
Note how "Israel enjoys bipartisan support from the Democratic and Republican Parties in Washington, as it brutally bombs Gaza; invades Lebanon; and attacks Iran, Syria, and Yemen. Ben Norton - shows how Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, Joe Biden, JD Vance, Tim Walz .. and other US politicians facilitate Israel's war crimes, which are being investigated by the International Court of Justice." Also consider ...
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-extermination-israel-netanyahu-finishing-job-world-watches by David Hearst
Also "“Ethnic Cleansing”: Israeli Group B’Tselem Calls for World to Stop Israel’s Siege of Northern Gaza"! https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/24/gaza_sarit_michaeli (16m video)
"Naomi Klein: Israel Has Weaponized October 7 Trauma to Justify Its Genocide in Gaza"! https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/22/naomi_klein_october_7_weaponized_trauma (10m) and consider ...
"“We've Lost All Credibility”: Hala Rharrit on Quitting State Dept. & Ending US Complicity in Gaza"! https://www.democracynow.org/2024/10/23/hala_rharrit_gaza_us_policy (23m 30s) &
& further consider: "Israel’s roots in European colonialism explain its genocidal ideology"! https://geopoliticaleconomy.com/2024/10/15/israel-western-colonialism-genocide-ideology/ ... by Ben Norton
as "To understand the genocide that Israel is carrying out in Gaza with the support of North America and Europe, it is crucial to recognize Zionism’s roots in Western colonialism."
Please try to note this: "Inside Meta’s Palestine Censorship"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12btf2Oq820 (27m 42s)
and: "'Genocide as Colonial Erasure': U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Israel's 'Intent to Destroy" Gaza'"!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDeOUFPQf3o (26m)
respice; adspice; prospece et spero meliora!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 4 days ago
"Ta-Nehisi Coates - I Was Told Palestine Was Complicated ... Visiting Revealed a Simple, Brutal Truth"!!!
Note "As the war on Gaza spans a second year, we continue our conversation with the acclaimed writer Ta-Nehisi Coates. His new book, The Message - is based in part on his own visit last year to Israel and the occupied West Bank, where he says he saw a system of segregation and oppression reminiscent of Jim Crow in the United States. "It was revelatory," says Coates and. "I don't think the average American has a real sense of what we’re doing over there — and I emphasize 'what we are doing' because it's not possible without American support."
multum in parvo!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 6 days ago
So "HOW DOES AIPAC SHAPE WASHINGTON? WE TRACKED EVERY DOLLAR"! - by Akela Lacy
"The Intercept followed AIPAC’s money trail to reveal how its political spending impacts the balance of power in Congress"!
& re. "The Lobby", consider: "Chris Hedges & John Mearsheimer: Israel is in Deep Trouble" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHPje4dmJrQ (12m 48s)
And "Amnesty International investigation concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza"! - https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/12/amnesty-international-concludes-israel-is-committing-genocide-against-palestinians-in-gaza/
& With The Entire Report Here - https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde15/8668/2024/en/
& Amnesty Int. "THIS IS GENOCIDE" : https://x.com/amnestyusa/status/1864467562060284043
e tenebris - lux?
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 6 days ago
"No propaganda on earth can hide the wound that's Palestine: Arundhati Roy's PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech"!
https://thewire.in/rights/palestine-israel-apartheid-arundhati-roy-pen-pinter-prize + 22/66m video:
'The PEN Pinter Prize 2024 Arundhati Roy' - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIWzyotJKFQ
"I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be." Also importantly, please try to carefully consider:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/gaza-israel-war-wants-finish-job-washington-started-after-911 - by Jonathan Cook & further, re. "The Lobby" note:
https://x.com/afshinrattansi/status/1843956908375293979 [3m 30s] & further - carefully consider
https://truthout.org/articles/israels-blockade-bars-wfp-from-distributing-food-in-any-form-in-north-gaza/ - by Sharon Zhang
and finally note: "SHE EXPOSED A PRESTIGIOUS MEDICAL JOURNAL’S SILENCE ON THE HOLOCAUST. NOW SHE’S ASKING ABOUT GAZA"! https://theintercept.com/2024/10/17/new-england-journal-medicine-israel-gaza-hospitals/ - by John Valdez, as ...
"A historian who exposed the New England Journal of Medicine's silence on Nazi atrocities - confronted the journal’s treatment of Gaza during a Harvard symposium." Further, and ONLY IF you dare, consider:
"'Israel’s Antisemitism Cyber Monitoring System by 'If Americans Knew'" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erICS5Z5BJQ (8m) 6 years old and now even more relevant!
Finally, "Understanding Ireland's solidarity with Palestine": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBpu3tfE2Pc (25m)
fiat lux et pax nunc!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 6 days ago
See how "New Film Examines American Jews’ Growing Rejection of Israel’s Occupation"!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuBnzzGmH7c (19m 30s) via+with: DemocracyNow!
Also - "NETANYAHU’S WAR ON TRUTH"! by Jeremy Scahill: https://theintercept.com/2024/02/07/gaza-israel-netanyahu-propaganda-lies-palestinians/
"Israel’s Ruthless Propaganda Campaign to Dehumanize Palestinians" Also consider these vids:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/7/israel_propaganda_gaza 17m DemocracyNow!
& https://www.democracynow.org/2024/2/7/israel_hamas_negotiations_daniel_levy [24m]
also - "The Intercept: New York Times Exposé Lacks Evidence to Claim Hamas Weaponized Sexual Violence Oct. 7"!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMNV0Csj46Q [29m] and note that this^is a Totally Devastating Reprise, by Jeremy Cahill and Ryan Grim and DemocracyNow!'s Amy Goodman - of Israel's 'rape' claims and requires urgent attention of all true journalists worldwide!!!
Further "What Really Happened on Oct 7?!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mxfnya3ZRc a clear, concise & clinical deconstruction of the events from 12 months ago and a precis of this video:
"October 7 - Al Jazeera Investigations" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0atzea-mPY
Now note: 'What will happen When the Holocaust No Longer Prevents the World from Seeing Israel as It Is?' https://informationclearinghouse.blog/2024/05/16/what-will-happen-when-the-holocaust-no-longer-prevents-the-world-from-seeing-israel-as-it-is/13/ Hagai Elad
Further; "Itamar Ben-Gvir and Israel's Pandora's box of violent extremism"! by Philippe Pernot: https://www.newarab.com/analysis/israels-pandoras-box-violent-extremism - and ...
while noting "The rise to prominence of Itamar Ben-Gvir and other extremists has placed a radical ideology at the heart of political power in Israel." - And now as a post script ... by Jessica Buxbaum:
As: "Decades after Kach's founding & Rabbi Meir Kahane's death, the radical Jewish supremacist movement may be even more influential today than during its inception"!!! Finally, 1 year on, note:
"Israeli soldiers ‘tiktoked’ war crimes: filmmaker Richard Sanders on new Al Jaz. film" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI1qz2QtNG0 (36m) and VERY IMPORTANT VIEWING!
FINALLY and per OP above, NB .. "Israelism: The awakening of young American Jews"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq6J7Q6L0yw (80m) -AN ESSENTIAL DOCUMENTARY!
e tenebris, lux?!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
Please consider "Israelism: The awakening of young American Jews | A Featured Documentary"!
Noting: "When two young American Jews raised to support Israel unconditionally witness the way Israel treats Palestinians, it changes their lives. They join a movement of young American Jews - campaigning to redefine Judaism’s relationship with Israel and .. reveal a deepening generational divide over modern Jewish identity. "Israelism" has sparked huge debate on American campuses even before the events of October 7, 2023."
Also note that the: "Contributors suggest the narrative that young American Jews are fed almost entirely erases the existence of the Palestinians through education and advocacy .. sometimes involving groups that organise free trips to Israel partially funded by the Israeli government."
And that: "This film describes how influential this narrative is in shaping attitudes to Israel, not just in the United States but across the world."
bellum se ipsum alet!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 1 week ago
As mass murder, mayhem, massacres and maniacal madness - was unleashed upon Lebanon and civilians, women and children were being butchered with US made, paid for and supplied battlefield munitions, please try to closely consider this, in the dark light of the past, present and future events regarding Israel ...
"Why did Hannah Arendt Reject the Partition of Palestine?" by Eric Jacobson https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14797585.2013.768472 and,
with the full paper here ... https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/144821493.pdf
from which, this .. "The political philosopher Hannah Arendt actively engaged in the problem of a Jewish homeland and the politics of Zionism, in the years from 1941-1948. She advocated a Binational solution to Palestine - a single political commonwealth with two national identities, Jewish and Arab, integrated in a federation with the other countries in the region.In the crucial period leading up to the establishment of the State of Israel, Arendt became increasingly disillusioned with the Jewish Agency and with the Zionist movement at large for failing to organize a Jewish response to Nazism; a Jewish Army, and rejecting the Palestinian right to a homeland." Now finally please try to note this interview, with Ha'aretz' Gideon Levy:
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/30/israel_assassinates_hezbollah_leader_nasrallah and
note "'Genocide as Colonial Erasure': U.N. Expert Francesca Albanese on Israel's 'Intent to Destroy" Gaza'"! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDeOUFPQf3o (26m)
respice, adspice, prospice!
[-] 1 points by 99time (95) 1 week ago
It is 2024 now and the solution proposed many years ago--namely breaking up the media--is no longer adequate. There are simply too many billionaires now who could buy up all the pieces. The purchase of Twitter by Elon Musk makes this clear. 140314
[-] 2 points by beautifulworld (23824) 1 week ago
"The deep historical forces that explain Trump’s win"
"Our research shows that political breakdown, from the Roman Empire to the Russian revolution, follows a clear pattern: workers’ wages stagnate, while elites multiply"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/nov/30/the-deep-historical-forces-that-explain-trumps-win
"To get a better understanding of these concepts and how they are influencing American politics in 2024, we need to travel back in time to the 1930s, when an unwritten social contract came into being in the form of Franklin D Roosevelt’s New Deal. This contract balanced the interests of workers, businesses and the state in a way similar to the more formal agreements we see in Nordic countries. For two generations, this implicit pact delivered an unprecedented growth in wellbeing across a broad swath of the country. At the same time, a “Great Compression” of incomes and wealth dramatically reduced economic inequality. For roughly 50 years the interests of workers and the interests of owners were kept in balance, and overall income inequality remained remarkably low."
"That social contract began to break down in the late 1970s. The power of unions was undermined, and taxes on the wealthy cut back. Typical workers’ wages, which had previously increased in tandem with overall economic growth, started to lag behind. Inflation-adjusted wages stagnated and at times decreased. The result was a decline in many aspects of quality of life for the majority of Americans. One shocking way this became evident was in changes to the average life expectancy, which stalled and even went into reverse (and this started well before the Covid pandemic). That’s what we term “popular immiseration”.
"With the incomes of workers effectively stuck, the fruits of economic growth were reaped by the elites instead.A perverse “wealth pump” came into being, siphoning money from the poor and channelling it to the rich...."
Every now and then The Guardian has a great, sweeping article that explains our current situation. This is one of them. Worth a read, especially as we watch history repeat itself.
[-] 1 points by agkaiser (2553) from Fredericksburg, TX 2 weeks ago
I wish I could remember how to directly post jpegs here on the OWS Forum. I think I remember doing that several years ago but at 78 I can't be certain. Oh well ...
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 weeks ago
OMG & well, Well, WELL! The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for Bendyermind Nutjobyahoo & his ex-Defence Minister, Yoav Gallant! So now what? Are ISR's US/UK guardians going to protect Benjamin Netanyahu's hate filled, fascistic murdering extreme nationalist ass - once again?!!
If he gets away with his Scorched Earth, Collective Punishment, Ethnic Cleansing, Genocidal Apartheid War of Annihilation, then please try to consider that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-L_hJAobAY !
fiat justitia - ruat caelum!
[-] 1 points by ImNotMe (1488) 2 weeks ago
Bernie Sanders: "I am holding a vote on the floor of the U.S. Senate to block the sale of offensive arms to Israel.
"The extremist Netanyahu government is breaking U.S. and international law. Every Senator who believes in the rule of law should vote for these resolutions."
from: https://x.com/SenSanders/status/1859343647939944572 and this as:
the "US vetoes UN security council push to call for ceasefire in Gaza"! https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/nov/20/un-gaza-vote-veto .. AND -
as "UN security council voted 14-1 in favor of resolution but it was not adopted because of the US veto"!
e tenebris - tenebris!
[-] 3 points by agkaiser (2553) from Fredericksburg, TX 3 weeks ago
The conservative/states rights movement started with John C. Calhoun in the 1820s. As the Confederacy they lost the Civil War but have never given up the fight to destroy the Federal Government and subvert the Party of Lincoln. Trump's cabinet picks advance that movement.