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The United States is already at war | Israel attacks Lebanon | Al Jazeera”
Of course, not once has it occurred to the Biden administration to meticulously thwart Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, where officially more than 41,000 people have been killed in less than a year although the true death toll is without a doubt exorbitantly higher. Nor has the oh-so-skilled US military deemed it necessary to interfere in the wanton butchery currently going down in Lebanon, where Israel just killed more than 700 people in less than a week.
In killing Nasrallah, Israel chose to open the gates of hell. We’ll all pay the price
Hezbollah has confirmed that its longtime leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was among the hundreds of Lebanese killed in Israel’s massive bombardment of a suburb of Beirut last night.
Israel’s action will achieve nothing apart from teaching his successor, and leaders of other groups and countries labelled as terrorist by western governments, several lessons:
- That Israel, and the West standing squarely behind it, do not play by any known rules of engagement, and that their opponents must do likewise. The current restraint from Hezbollah that has been so baffling western pundits will become a thing of the past.
- That Israel is not interested in compromise, only escalation, and that this is a fight to death — not just against Israel but against the West that sponsors Israel.
- That Israel’s ideological extremism — its Jewish supremacism, and its endless craving for Lebensraum — must be met with even greater Shia-inspired extremism.
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The BBC is weaponising its Lebanon reporting to help disguise Israel’s crimes | Middle East Eye
The more Israel expands its war across the Middle East, the more the western media intensifies its war on our minds.
Establishment media outlets like the BBC are weaponising the language of their reporting against audiences no less effectively than Israel weaponised primitive pieces of technology against the people of Lebanon.
BBC Bias EXPOSED Live On Air By Jeffrey Sachs
Novara Media
Speaking to Prof. Richard Falk – Emeritus Professor : On Palestine, Israel & International Law& human rights.
Palestine Chronicle TV
Israel’s Pager Bombs Have No Place in a Just War
The exploding pagers and walkie-talkies targeting members of Hezbollah in Lebanon were certainly an espionage and technological coup.
Few people on the spot or reading about them from far away could fail to be amazed.
But the explosions on Tuesday and Wednesday were also very likely war crimes — terrorist attacks by a state that has consistently condemned terrorist attacks on its own citizens.
Are restrictions on pro-Palestine speech ‘the new McCarthyism?’
From The Bottom Line – 8 Sep 2024 | Updated a day ago
Is there an attempt to chill debate on Palestine and Israel on both sides of the Atlantic?
The United States, and the West in general, are in a “dire period” of repression of speech on Palestinian freedom or criticism of Israel, argues Dima Khalidi, founder of Palestine Legal.
Khalidi tells host Steve Clemons that despite strong constitutional protections for free expression, “there seems to be this exception when it comes to Palestine”, as witnessed by the wave of censorship, intimidation, firings and restrictions on activism in the wake of Israel’s war on Gaza.
At what point are we permitted to…?
Five questions, and a sixth
JONATHAN COOK – SEP 9
- At what point does it become irresponsible not to compare Israel’s slaughter of the Palestinian people with the genocide westerners know best: the Nazi Holocaust?
- At what point does shielding Israel from the revulsion its actions naturally inspire not turn into complicity?
- At what point should western publics be offered proper historical context to make sense of Israel’s genocide: one that lets them understand how the Zionist movement was [ideologically shaped] by its exposure to ugly, century-old European ethnic nationalisms that culminated in Nazism, and how the Zionists chose to those supremacist ideologies rather than reject them?
David Cameron sat on advice that there was breach of law in Gaza, officials say
David Cameron, the former foreign secretary, sat on advice from Foreign Office officials in Israel and London that there was clear evidence of breaches of international humanitarian law in Gaza for which the UK risked being complicit, a former Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) adviser said.
The source, who contributed to the drafting of the advice, was speaking after the Labour government banned 30 of about 350 arms export licences due to a clear risk cited in a government memorandum published on Monday that they might be used in serious breaches of international humanitarian law.
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