Western corporate media outlets, without exception, acquiesced to Israeli directives barring reporters from entering Gaza. Journalists embedded with the Israeli army report only what Israel permits them to observe, creating a one-sided, heavily filtered narrative.
As U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee will likely go further in advocating for the destruction of Palestine, stepping up the holocaust in Gaza and pushing for the annexation of Gaza and the West Bank.
Is this the fate of the MAGA cult? Israelism has a gripping social psychological effect on its devotees one hard to break. There is nothing rational about it and leaves no room for sceptics
The phrase “Don’t drink the Kool-Aid” became a cultural symbol of being brainwashed.
British arms exports are continuing to support Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza because Labour has not implemented a complete embargo, writes John McEvoy.
McQueen – whom this masthead attempted to contact for comment – was last reported partying at the weekend at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, where she and her current employer, Gina Rinehart, had celebrated the host’s US presidential election win.
While international Forums can often seem like insipid gestures marked by ineffectual chatter, they are increasingly bulking a file that is making Israel more isolated than ever. And this is not an isolation of virtue or admiration At the very least, resolutions such as those passed on November 14 provide some record of resistance, however seemingly remote, against the historical amnesia that governs Israeli Palestinian relations.
The Heritage Foundation strategy named after the biblical Jewish queen offers insights into the persecution those who oppose Zionism and white-supremacy will likely face in Trump’s America.
The most powerful levers of control in the United States government are found in the six positions where intelligence-gathering and brute force overlap — the Secretary of Defense, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Secretary of Homeland Security, Attorney General, Director of the CIA, and Director of National Intelligence.
These six constitute the raw muscle of the federal government, where information about the nation’s security is gathered and force is wielded.
Trump could turn America into a police state by putting people into these positions who are more loyal to him than they are to America and the U.S. Constitution.
I take Gideon Levy’s point and my respect for him as a courageous voice in Zionist Israel remains undiminished. But there is an illusion at the core of this thinking. Trump’s people could well assist in making a mess of Israel and, worst outcome, the rest of West Asia. But where does he think previous American administrations, all without exception, have long been headed? Where does he think some alternative to Trump II would take things? “The new people … are friends of apartheid, occupation, the settlements and war”? And “the old people” were something other? Nothing in this distinguishes Trump’s crew other than their bold-faced exuberance for the project, and so the pace with which they propose to proceed.
To put his point another way, Israel is well on its way to disaster, just as Levy foresees. It is one of its own making. The time between now and the end will be brutal however things proceed. Quickly and bloodily, or gradually and bloodily: It is a question only of how long it takes for Israel to get there. And however swiftly the Zionist state meets its destiny, the pace of America’s decline will match it.
Despite relentless Israeli attempts to misrepresent and dismantle Hezbollah, the organization has endured. A look at the group’s history and goals explains its enduring power and shows how much of what’s said in Western media is not true.
support for Israel in Europe is ultimately about shoring up a far-right political project at home. We must not let the story of the unrest in Amsterdam be retold so as to reinforce the far-right’s long-standing Islamophobia and escalating anti-migrant project.
On May 10, 2024, the UN General Assembly passed overwhelmingly, with only nine negative votes (Argentina, Czechia, Hungary, Israel, Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea and the United States) a resolution which “Determines that the State of Palestine is qualified for membership in the United Nations and should therefore be admitted to membership in the United Nations” and “Accordingly recommends that the Security Council reconsider the matter favorably.”
Beyond revealing the utterly authoritarian and censorious climate of Israel, Loffredo’s detention and treatment by the IDF and Israeli police also expose the U.S. government’s corrupt devotion to the Jewish State, and how it abandons its purported democratic values when they interfere with the goals of their most “reliable partner” in the Middle East. When an Israeli social worker was sent by the American embassy to do a “wellness check” on Loffredo while he was in solitary confinement, the journalist hoped she would get him food and water, which he had been deprived of for days. Instead, she berated Loffredo because he “hurt Israel” and told him that he’d likely remain in prison for a long time. “That is the only help that the American Embassy afforded me… was giving me this Zionist social worker to berate me because of my reporting and give me no help at all,” Loffredo recounts.
One might have hoped that a good liberal education would have inculcated most citizens with the ability to recognize and resist this flaw in media and political chatter, but this was not to be. The job of education has always included turning out loyal citizens and not independent thinkers. And now, even what liberal education does take place, is dying out.
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