Israel

Shining the Light on Gaza – CounterPunch.org

What has happened in Gaza since October 7 has exposed the brutal realities of occupation under which the Palestinian people have long suffered. Even before October 7, a record number of murders of Palestinians had already taken place on the West Bank in 2023, while settlers backed by the far right Israeli government were on a rampage of land theft. The Al Aqsa Mosque, third most sacred site in Islam, was being regularly invaded by settlers, aiming to demolish it to build a new temple. The world was ignoring all this. Now it cannot.

If there is any way out of this darkness, it is to shine the light.

Source: Shining the Light on Gaza – CounterPunch.org

Israel

UN Human Rights Commission: Israel’s is among most Criminal Armis in the World, Clear intention of forcible Dislocation

Source: UN Human Rights Commission: Israel’s is among most Criminal Armis in the World, Clear intention of forcible Dislocation

Israel

‘Visible Signs of Wasting’: Heat, Forced Malnutrition Strangle People of Gaza | Common Dreams

A Palestinian child suffering from malnutrition

“Nothing changed,” said journalist Bisan Owda. “The Israeli army is still committing the same massacres using starvation in the north and the south.”

Source: ‘Visible Signs of Wasting’: Heat, Forced Malnutrition Strangle People of Gaza | Common Dreams

Israel, Israel Crimes

Protecting our citizens from complicity in Israel’s war crimes – Pearls and Irritations

Military man posing in front of Israel flag

Israel’s claims to being a “civilised democracy” and having “the most moral army in the world” have come under severe scrutiny by the international community since its disproportionate and dysregulated reaction to the horrific events of 7 October 2023. Whilst the flaming flags of “civilisation versus barbarism” are still being waved in Israel’s favour by some corners of the Albanese government, opposition parties and the media, such advocacy cannot be allowed to undermine Australia’s rule of law responsibility to protect its citizens from complicity in war crimes by foreign military forces, but also to show that the law applies to all, and that it is not antisemitic to state that to be the case.

Source: Protecting our citizens from complicity in Israel’s war crimes – Pearls and Irritations

Israel

Former Official: Biden State Dept. Bending US Law to Send Israel Weapons – ScheerPost

The Biden administration is in “non-compliance” with a U.S. law regarding foreign military assistance in allowing Israeli forces to dodge scrutiny over their brutality against Palestinians and otherwise, according to a new, scathing analysis by a former top State Department official.

Source: Former Official: Biden State Dept. Bending US Law to Send Israel Weapons – ScheerPost

Israel

The Jewish community raise their voice to call out extremists – Pearls and Irritations

Concept illustration of a Palestine flag which is stinged by the israel star as a symbol of the occupation of territories and the harm to the Palestinian people. This concept represents the conflict between the two countries.

 

The Jewish Council of Australia (JCA), appears to be a similar body in Australia. The JCA was only recently formed, and is said to be comprised of human rights experts. The JCA has expressed concern over another Australian Jewish organisation, in this case the AJA – the Australian Jewish Association – which the JCA sees as advancing an extremist position of superiority of Jews over and above Arab peoples.

Source: The Jewish community raise their voice to call out extremists – Pearls and Irritations

Israel

Israel Threatens all-out War against Lebanon’s Hezbollah: Curve-ball for US Presidential Campaign?

Israel says that Hezbollah – the Lebanese political party and militant group – has pushed it close to an all-out war after the organisation posted a nine-minute video of drone footage, showing military and civilian areas in several locations including the Israeli port of Haifa. Israel has now publicly stated that it has approved military plans to move to a war footing against Hezbollah. Lebanon is on Israel’s border and the two countries have a long history of conflict and tension, which has been intensifying in recent months.

Israel’s escalation would be a significant blow to Biden ahead of the US presidential election. The Israel-Palestine conflict is already eroding Democrat support and Biden has repeatedly been accused from all sides of mishandling the situation. If further violence ramps up in the region, this will put even greater pressure on Biden, in ways he doesn’t need, just before the US goes to the ballot box.

Source: Israel Threatens all-out War against Lebanon’s Hezbollah: Curve-ball for US Presidential Campaign?

Uncategorized

Why Egypt Is Complicit in the Genocide in Gaza

Meanwhile Israel calls Egypt and enemy

Throughout Israel’s brutal campaign in Gaza, Egypt has presented itself as a friend of the Palestinians. In reality the Egyptian government, against the will of its citizens, continues to enforce the blockade of Gaza and offer tacit support to Israel.

Source: Why Egypt Is Complicit in the Genocide in Gaza

Israel

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Australian Futures: Bringing AUKUS Out of Stealth Mode – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Multinational defence companies have lined up to fund advertisements which demonstrated their patriotic commitment to AUKUS with the support of the South Australia Government.

Each of the defence companies listed maintains a profitable involvement in both military and civilian projects. The KBR engineering company of Houston emphasizes a benign involvement in Australian civilian engineering projects like the Snowy Mountains upgrade and the Adelaide to Darwin Railway. This company is more deeply involved in the military sector globally.

Source: Australian Futures: Bringing AUKUS Out of Stealth Mode – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Comment

Dutton’s Detailed Plan… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Now I know what some of you are thinking. How can they just decide that old power stations are the appropriate place without a lot of expert analysis into their suitability? Well, the answer to that is simple: It doesn’t really matter because they’ll never got the ban overturned unless there’s a really massive change in the Senate and so paying the owners of coal fired power stations for their land is something that keeps everyone happy because the owners can use the money and the subsidies to keep the coal burning and we won’t have to worry about little things like uranium processing or finding some company with a shack on Kangaroo Island to be the ones to organise the build or waste or being blamed when the whole thing runs into more delays than Snowy 2.0?

Source: Dutton’s Detailed Plan… – » The Australian Independent Media Network

LNP

Dutton’s nuclear lights are out and no one’s home

APART from frequently changing leaders, nothing has changed about the Liberal-National Party Opposition for a very long time, certainly not since the Abbott/Turnbull/Morrison retrograde regime.

Source: Dutton’s nuclear lights are out and no one’s home

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After Netanyahu Video, Sanders Says US Should Halt ‘All Offensive Military Aid’ | Common Dreams

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

“It is absurd that Netanyahu has been invited to address Congress,” said Sen. Bernie Sanders. “We should not be honoring people who use the starvation of children as a weapon of war.”

Source: After Netanyahu Video, Sanders Says US Should Halt ‘All Offensive Military Aid’ | Common Dreams

Media

Chris Hedge’s Promise
Israel

The kibbutzniks blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza – Mondoweiss

Members of the "Kaplan Force" at an anti-government protest in Tel Aviv, June 24, 2024. Members of the Kaplan force have since been blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza during the ongoing genocide. (Photo: © Abir Sultan/EFE via ZUMA Press/APA Images)

The Israeli kibbutzniks, often held up by liberal Democrats as the best of Israeli society, are no different from “Tzav 9” when it comes to blocking life-saving aid to Palestinians in Gaza. And their words and deeds reveal just how genocidal Israeli society is as a whole.

Source: The kibbutzniks blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza – Mondoweiss

Israel

Intercepted: War Clouds Over Lebanon as Hezbollah and Israel Clash

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Crossfire between Israel and Hezbollah intensified last week, with the Lebanese militia calling for a Gaza ceasefire.

Source: Intercepted: War Clouds Over Lebanon as Hezbollah and Israel Clash

American Politics

To Become NATO Chief, Mark Rutte Denied Israeli War Crimes

Long-standing Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte is set to be NATO’s next secretary general. To win the role, he had to prove his alignment with Washington — and he did so by repeatedly misleading the public about Israel’s crimes.

Source: To Become NATO Chief, Mark Rutte Denied Israeli War Crimes

Israel

The more moderate voices making decisions about the Israel-Gaza war are now gone – ABC News

A large crowd of people holding signs in Hebrew. Some are also waving Israeli flags.

The only opposition to the current Netanyahu government is on the street calling for an election and the release of the hostages

After Gantz’s resignation, Netanyahu shut down the war cabinet, leaving only the far-right voices of the most right-wing government in Israel’s history to make the day-to-day decisions regarding the war.

Two of those extremists are Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich, who will now have even more influence given their role in the security cabinet, which is expected to take on more prominence in war-time decisions.

With the absence of moderate voices within an emergency wartime government, the far right is seizing the chance to promote a second war.

Source: The more moderate voices making decisions about the Israel-Gaza war are now gone – ABC News

Israel

Australian media stretches the truth on pro-Palestine movement

None of that amounts to evidence of a successful, systemic infiltration by Hizb ut-Tahrir into Australian pro-Palestinian activism. All that journalist and documentary maker Nick McKenzie can demonstrate is that they have been there, hanging around.

Why did they not consult Australian Muslim community groups to find out about the years of tireless work undertaken counteracting the influence of groups like Hizb ut-Tahrir within their community?

McKenzie didn’t bother. He only spoke to counter-terrorism figures.

Because the aim of this coverage appears purely counter-terrorist — meaning to promote criminalisation.

Activist communities can and must police who we let man the barricades with us, but anyone who thinks this “investigation” is for us is a fool.

Source: Australian media stretches the truth on pro-Palestine movement

Israel

The US List of Countries Allegedly Sponsors of Terrorism: Another Imperialistic Scam – CounterPunch.org

Unilateral Coercive Measures

Reality of Terrorist States

The examples of Israeli state-sponsored terrorism include the 1954 Lavon Affair, an unsuccessful bomb plot in Egypt that led to the resignation of the Israeli minister of defence.[15] In the 1970s and 80s Israel was a major supplier of arms to dictatorial regimes in South America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Asia.  In Indonesia, as reported by Noam Chomsky, Israel served as a proxy of the United States, providing aircraft used by Indonesia to massacre the Timorese[16]. More recently Israel has been accused of sponsoring and supporting several terrorist groups in its proxy wars against Iran, Lebanon and Syria.

Source: The US List of Countries Allegedly Sponsors of Terrorism: Another Imperialistic Scam – CounterPunch.org

Peter Dutton

Dutton’s nuclear nightmare a blatant attempt to keep burning coal and gas – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Source: Dutton’s nuclear nightmare a blatant attempt to keep burning coal and gas – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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The New Generation of Palestinian Solidarity is More Impressive Than It Realizes – CounterPunch.org

Israel is desperate to “Kill the Children” their Education and their Culture. Ethnic Cleansing is an Israeli Zionist necessity.

Dialectics are at work, and all the desperate attempts to stop the passage of time into truth will fail. All we need is our integrity.

Stay strong. Keep your vision. From the River to the Sea – PALESTINE is getting so very close to free. The US has basically abdicated it’s global leading role to defend this racist state. It has finished off the impotent UN, with all of the massive danger that this represents, a no-longer unipolar order soon will no longer contain a Jewish supremacist state.

Source: The New Generation of Palestinian Solidarity is More Impressive Than It Realizes – CounterPunch.org

Israel

Fractious Arenas: Netanyahu Dissolves the War Cabinet – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Both men, who have urged on even greater slaughter in Gazaand the eviction of Palestinians living there, remain members of the broader security cabinet. And they have made no secret about their mixture of delight and loathing at Gantz’s departure. “There is no less stately act than resigning from a government in time of war,” Smotrich haughtily declared.

Source: Fractious Arenas: Netanyahu Dissolves the War Cabinet – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Israel

Is the ICC warrant against Netanyahu heralding real change in international justice? – Michael West

Children in the Gaza rubble

It took 12 years for the ICC to finally agree that its jurisdiction holds in Palestine, while Israel continued to act with absolute impunity in Gaza. Vineet Thakur and Peter Vale from the Universities of Pretoria and Leiden argue that may finally be about to change.

Source: Is the ICC warrant against Netanyahu heralding real change in international justice? – Michael West

Israel

Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Spreads in Military

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“I don’t want to be working on something that can turn around and be used to slaughter innocent people.”

Source: Air Force Engineer Resigns as Dissent Against Gaza War Spreads in Military

Israel

Columbia Task Force Finally Weighs In: Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism

NEW YORK, NEW YORK - MAY 23: People with signs demonstrate near Columbia University on May 23, 2024 in New York City. Demonstrators gathered to protest against New York Mayor Eric Adams’s association with wealthy business owners and investors calling for they city's student protest encampments to be disbanded. Several of New York's prominent business owners reportedly offered political donations to Mayor Adams in an effort to influence public opinion towards Israel, while others suggested payments for private investigators to aid the NYPD in handling the student protesters, according to a Washington Post investigation of conversations made via on-line chats. According to City Hall, the NYPD did not use any donations in their handling of the protesters. (Photo by John Lamparski/Getty Images)

The plan was not announced in any direct communications from the university. Rather, it was reported by Israeli newspaper Haaretz.

The Israel Lobby in America and AIPAC do their work behind closed doors to shut down America’s brightest minds. The threat of losing $$ talks and has the tail wag the dog.

Numerous participants in the antisemitism task force, including its three co-chairs — Columbia faculty members, many of whom are outspoken Israel supporters — openly discussed the not-yet published report with the newspaper before any such information was shared with the university’s community, or even their colleagues.

Source: Columbia Task Force Finally Weighs In: Yes, Anti-Zionism Is Antisemitism

Israel

Australia must recognise Palestine to promote peace – Pearls and Irritations

22nd October 2023, Melbourne, Victoria, Australian. The Palestinian Flag and the blurred faces of Supporters of the Pro Palestine Rally, Credit: Contributor: P.j.Hickox / Alamy Stock Photo

If we don’t recognize Palestine we don’t recognize that Israel has killed and wounded over 120,000 people and has continued to illegally occupy seize and settle land disposed of the people living there. Basically, we are washing our hands of the matter like Pontius Pilate. Pilate washed his hands in front of the crowd before announcing, “I am innocent of this man’s blood; see to it yourselves.” The Jewish people shouted in response, “His blood be on us and our children.” It’s a passage that would be used for millennia to persecute the Jewish people.

In opposition, our prime minister and the Labor Party were fierce champions of Palestine and passionate voices for justice. I ask that we summon that spirit of old and do the same in power. Let historians write of us that we were on the right side of history, that we boldly reinforced international law, and that we were a shining beacon and voice for freedom.

It is time to recognise Palestine.

Source: Australia must recognise Palestine to promote peace – Pearls and Irritations

India

India’s Motive in Prosecuting Arundhati Roy

This year, Modi and his team fought the elections on the back of Hindu majoritarianism and national populism and expected a landslide win, a mandate that would have made it powerful enough to rewrite the Constitution of India and put India on the path of absolute rule. 

That didn’t happen. And now this has.

Source: India’s Motive in Prosecuting Arundhati Roy

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Israel

Nero’s guests: Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war – Pearls and Irritations

Israeli and Palestinian flags on a brick wall with blood splatters.

Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war. It has been morally bankrupted by the sanctification of victimhood, which it uses to justify an occupation that is even more savage than that of apartheid South Africa. Its ‘democracy’ — which was always exclusively for Jews — has been hijacked by extremists who are pushing the country towards fascism.

Source: Nero’s guests: Israel has been poisoned by the psychosis of permanent war – Pearls and Irritations

Israel

Colombia’s Coal Embargo on Israel Is a Model to Follow

France has banned Israel from participating in its biggest Arms Fair and bravo Colombia . Now that’s BDS

Colombia was the biggest coal exporter to Israel — but last Saturday, president Gustavo Petro announced he would cut off the supply. The Colombian mobilization against the genocide in Gaza has shown the world how to put material pressure on Israel.

Source: Colombia’s Coal Embargo on Israel Is a Model to Follow

Israel

Netanyahu Plots More Illegal West Bank Colonies

Top Israeli officials on Sunday discussed plans to expand illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank as an act of retaliation against countries that recently joined the majority of the international community in recognizing Palestinian statehood.

Source: Netanyahu Plots More Illegal West Bank Colonies

Israel

Jewish peace group blames Zionists, Christian Zionists, Neo-Nazis for antisemitism – Michael West

Jewish Council of Australia

Progressive Jewish group The Jewish Council of Australia has blamed “extremist” right-wing Zionist lobbyists such as the Executive Council of Australian Jewry for ‘weaponising antisemitism’ and therefore giving rise to antisemitism in Australia.

Source: Jewish peace group blames Zionists, Christian Zionists, Neo-Nazis for antisemitism – Michael West

Israel, Israel Crimes

Opinion | Biden’s Middle East Policy Is Horrific. Trump’s Would Be Even Worse | Common Dreams

Trump and Netanhayu

Since the 1980’s Israel’s biggest fear was the development of a pan-Islamic state military coalition. Libya, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran and Yemen. With the help of America bringing down Gadaffi, invading Iraq twice they set themselves on a course of civil war invasion and any means to not let that happen. They have used the kingdoms and dictators to help that end. An Israeli psychosis has always been present. To say they were surprised by Oct 7th belies the reality that they with the blessing of America they actually encouraged the Hamas foray to capture hostages and gain both a bargaining chip and world attention. After all America warned them of what was coming down the pipeline and they claimed “We knew nothing” Their second most important export is SECURITY

If reelected in November, Trump is likely to renew his unqualified support for Israeli expansionism, not only when it comes to annexing the West Bank and resettling Gaza but also for a broader regional conflict that could unleash Israel against Iran and its allies in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen.

Source: Opinion | Biden’s Middle East Policy Is Horrific. Trump’s Would Be Even Worse | Common Dreams

America

Future of Warfare: Pentagon Building Kamikaze AI Drones

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UAVs continually kill civilians, but the U.S. military wants to expand its arsenal with an army of new, mass-produced kamikaze AI drones.

Source: Future of Warfare: Pentagon Building Kamikaze AI Drones

Israel, Israel Crimes

Hunger is rapidly getting worse in Gaza | The Electronic Intifada

An especially bizarre example of propaganda has been published by the Israeli military over the past few days.

Despite how it is perpetrating a genocide in Gaza, the army boasted of conducting “humanitarian aid efforts” throughout the current war.

Palestinians have not witnessed any work by Israel that could accurately be categorized as “humanitarian.”

Source: Hunger is rapidly getting worse in Gaza | The Electronic Intifada

Israel

Gaza: Weaponizing Aid beyond Starvation

Israel’s raid on the Nuseirat refugee camp killed 274 Palestinians and wounded 700 more in order to free four healthy-looking Israeli hostages. The discrepancy was stark. However, what stands out in the murderous Israeli operation is the weaponising of aid to provide cover for the massacre. Denied by both the US and Israel, reports of the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) using the American-built “humanitarian” floating pier and an aid truck to kill more Palestinians under the guise of rescuing the Israeli hostages must be exposed in the genocidal narrative that the occupation state continues to weave daily.

Source: Gaza: Weaponizing Aid beyond Starvation

Israel, Israel Crimes

Why has the Australian Parliament failed to debate the tragedy of Gaza? – Pearls and Irritations

Parliament House 2 Landscape panorama

Australian parliamentarians are responsible for the wellbeing of Australia’s multicultural society but in the last eight months the majority have failed to understand the reaction of those citizens who have experienced colonisation, occupation and war. These Australians are more likely to identify with oppressed people, so they expect their parliamentarians to articulate commitment to international humanitarian law. And of course, as we know many Australians are opposed to militarism as a means to resolve conflict. It is important to recognise those few political representatives who have tried to initiate difficult debate about how Australia should respond when a hitherto trusted ally ignores international law to engage in ethnic cleansing? Australians want to see their representatives and senators engage in informed consideration of complex issues that require sensitivity and courage. Time is running out for many parliamentarians to fulfil their obligations and Australians are watching and waiting for greater responsibility .

Source: Why has the Australian Parliament failed to debate the tragedy of Gaza? – Pearls and Irritations

Australian Politics

Is It Easier to Buy a Politician Than to Buy a House? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

1. Cap Donations: Implement strict caps on political donations to reduce undue influence.
2. Enhance Transparency: Improve transparency in political donations and lobbying activities.
3. Adopt Ethical Standards: Encourage the adoption of Tony Fitzgerald’s code of ethics to promote integrity and accountability.

Source: Is It Easier to Buy a Politician Than to Buy a House? – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Peter Dutton

Dutton’s petrostate and the global far right – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Dutton and Rinehart on a plane.

Dutton has given up dogwhistles for bullhorns on the subject of immigration. His announcement of a fossil fuel-crafted energy policy is equally consonant with the global right.

The danger for the rest of us is that this forges a feedback loop. The right, fossil fuel-funded and connected, will increase the impact of the climate crisis. That rolling catastrophe provokes price pain and more displacement, which meat the right can feed upon.

The fact-based world needs to work out how we prevent the apocalypse the right is creating.

Source: Dutton’s petrostate and the global far right – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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Israeli Politician Quotes Hitler to Argue for Resettlement of Gaza | Common Dreams

Moshe Feiglin.

“We are not guests in our country, this is our country, all of it…” Feiglin said, adding, “As Hitler said, ‘I cannot live if one Jew is left.’ We can’t live here if one ‘Islamo-Nazi’ remains in Gaza.”

Source: Israeli Politician Quotes Hitler to Argue for Resettlement of Gaza | Common Dreams

Israel, Israel Crimes

Netanyahu opposed to Israeli military ‘tactical pauses’ for Gaza aid | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Gaza

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is opposed to plans announced by the military to hold daily tactical pauses in fighting along one of the main roads into the besieged and bombarded Gaza Strip to facilitate aid delivery into the Palestinian enclave.

Source: Netanyahu opposed to Israeli military ‘tactical pauses’ for Gaza aid | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Israel

Israel, Defying UNSC Ceasefire Order, “Completely Dehumanizes” Palestinians (MSF), Shooting Fish in a Barrel

The children of Gaza have lost a school year. If they lose two more, studies suggest that they will never get back on track. Palestinians are the most educated people in the Middle East, but Israel is depriving those in Gaza of a basic education. Those who suffer malnutrition will suffer permanent cognitive losses as well as emotional problems. Others have PTSD and are traumatized, and may never be right in the head again.

Source: Israel, Defying UNSC Ceasefire Order, “Completely Dehumanizes” Palestinians (MSF), Shooting Fish in a Barrel

Israel, Israel Crimes

EuroMed: “Israel Escalates Attacks Against Palestinian Journalists In Gaza” | – IMEMC News

Under UN Security Council Resolutions 2015/2222 and 2006/1738, which denounce international attacks on journalists and media workers in times of armed conflict, targeting journalists is considered to be a war crime and a violation of international law. Additionally, the 1977 Geneva Conventions’ Additional Appendix (Protocol) I, Article 79, emphasises the need to safeguard journalists who work in areas of armed conflict by treating them as civilians.

Source: EuroMed: “Israel Escalates Attacks Against Palestinian Journalists In Gaza” | – IMEMC News

Israel

Who can make the call on anti-semitism? – Pearls and Irritations

Jews can no longer stand by while distortions of antisemitism are invoked in our name. The refrain of Never Again must return to its true meaning.

Source: Who can make the call on anti-semitism? – Pearls and Irritations

Trump

The Old Man with a Spray Tan – » The Australian Independent Media Network

We may learn more on June 27 when the two meet at a debate in Atlanta to be aired on CNN. Trump is likely to sound like the drunk pushing an empty grocery cart through your neighborhood and there is a chance President Biden could have a Mitch McConnell moment, and freeze, uncertain of where he is and what he was just saying. Trump can be expected to slur words, insult minorities, and, as he already did, even denigrate the city where his party plans to nominate him as its candidate for president. There will be no hiding for either man. Microphones will be muted when it is not their turn to talk and there will be no audience to applaud or defy moderators who order them to be quiet at all times. This will be two men, too old, in many ways, to be president of the United States. President Biden has been a good president and is a good man, but the electorate clearly has doubts about whether he is up to the job for another term. Trump, of course, is an angry, divisive, convicted felon, and nothing more. What are we left with if both of these men falter on the debate stage and prove neither is right for the job?

Go ahead, pray for America. Or wish. Or hope. Or yearn. Just do something that helps.

 

Source: The Old Man with a Spray Tan – » The Australian Independent Media Network

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