gaza

Western narcissism and support for genocidal Israel go hand in hand

It takes a special kind of narcissism for a world leader to declare himself a 50-year-long adherent to a white supremacist ideology that excuses apartheid, settler-colonialism, and genocide and then to turn to the greatness of the US and all its “possibilities”, as if the US has only been sprinkling pixie dust around the world and not intervening with brutal military and economic power over the past 130 years.

(https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/11/western-narcissism-and-support-for-genocidal-israel-go-hand-in-hand)

CNN’s Israel bias has been laid bare. But CNN is the norm, not the exception

Western media can never truly report the extent of Israel’s criminality because to do so would be to expose their long-running complicity in those crimes

“Ultimately, CNN’s coverage of the Israel-Gaza war amounts to journalistic malpractice,” one staffer told an investigation by the Guardian newspaper.
According to staff accounts, CNN’s pro-Israel directives come from the very top – Mark Thompson, a TV executive who was hired from the BBC.  https://bit.ly/3HT1cjZ

‘We Are Not Very Far From an Explosion’

‘We Are Not Very Far From an Explosion’

One recent morning in Huwara, a Palestinian man maneuvered a front-end loader back and forth, clearing rocks and rubble that Israel Defense Forces soldiers had piled into a roadblock. Four young soldiers looked on, fingers tensed on triggers, as the machine’s claws heaved shattered masonry from clutching mud. A crowd of approving Palestinian onlookers gathered.

The barrier, put in place to prevent access to a main street that has been a battleground over the past year, has infuriated the 7,000 inhabitants of this town in the northern West Bank, who are now accustomed to eking out survival as Israeli forces close stores and control their every movement.

Defies logic’

Biden blathers about the “horror of the Shoah” whilst enabling genocide in Gaza…

“My dad taught us about the horror of the Shoah,” Biden explained last month at a Hanukkah celebration, repeating a well-worn tale. “It awakened in me and my brothers and sisters and our children a sense … that this can happen again.”
On other occasions, Biden said his father – a
“righteous Christian” – instilled in him the importance of Israel as a bulwark against threats to the Jewish people.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/longform/2024/1/30/defies-logic-the-makings-of-joe-bidens-blank-cheque-to-israel