It is no longer possible to categorise the nihilistic violence of the Israeli state. It appears to have no objective other than violence and an urge for desolation.
In 24 hours Israel has murdered the man with whom it would need to negotiate hostage release in the short term and political settlement in the long term, and a key figure in its most dangerous potential military enemy which has refrained from full-on war.
In doing so it has violated the territory, indeed the capitals, of two crucial regional states.
Israel has also taken a policy decision that the mass rape of detainees by soldiers – and, somewhat strangely, homosexual rape in particular – is acceptable in war and not to be punished.
Ironically Israel has also underlined its genocidal intent in Gaza by proving that it has the technical ability to carry out targeted attacks, and that the flattening of entire cities with 2,000lb bombs and the massacre of tens of thousands of innocents has been a policy choice.
The western media appears paralysed by this. I have seen virtually no serious comment or analysis. Nor has anybody pointed out the contrast between Israel’s lies about mass rape on October 7 and Israel’s now-admitted policy of tolerating rape of detainees.
The political class seems even more paralysed than the media class. Caught in their commitment to Zionism – basically bought and paid for – they have nothing to say about these incredible events more sensible than Kamala Harris’s zombie-like incantation of “Israel’s right to self-defence”.
The British Foreign Office has failed to produce its promised considered reaction to the ICJ Opinion on the illegality of Israeli occupation, let alone responded sensibly to Israel’s crazed paroxysm of destruction this week.
For me it is now axiomatic that there is no two state solution and that apartheid Israel must be completely dismantled as an entity. I believe that more and more people around the entire globe believe that now.
And if we have to dismantle our own political and media classes to get there, so be it.
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“The western media appears paralysed […] no serious comment or analysis […] lies about mass rape […] Israel’s now-admitted policy of tolerating rape […] political class seems even more paralysed”
What you are observing is mental and emotional illness on display.
“Psychopathic behavior is usually very distinctive – it is characterized by impulsiveness, stupidity, and errors due to an attention span limited by emotional disorder.”
(Source: ‘The Investigation’, by Stanislaw Lem [translated by Adele Milch])
Psychopathy is a compound word – it describes a pathological condition that is primarily psychological, but it does not specify the condition, and so it covers a wide range of behaviors. For this reason it is more often used as an insult than as a description, but what we are observing, regardless, is mental and emotional illness, emanating from people who cannot control themselves.
Politicians don’t want to call it what it is because it sounds like an insult, not an actual description of the problem that can be used to develop a solution, and also because “psychopathy” applies to most of their behavior as well – they are all united on this, discussing psychopathology with the rubes is bad for their business.
More info: https://salanave-runyon.org/herbie.html – if it’s too long, try searching for “ISO 9000”, “kidnapping”, or “murder”.
I see that Lem’s sci fi was 1958, which makes sense of your quote because that was in the aftermath of the military-minded American psychiatrist Cleckley recharacterising the umbrella concept of psychopathy as basically fecklessness. Before the Canadian psychologist Hare got out of his depth in prisons and made up his little research checklist, which he then recklessly allowed to be used beyond its validity.
And as you say the term itself is way too broad for that usage, being technically a synonym for ‘mentally ill’.
A lot of this is due to not understanding/accepting what all humans are, complete with deceptive hierarchical psychology. Instead trying to locate the darker power stuff in some types of people. Your link seems to be trying to trace it fundamentally to Talmudic Jews, culture.
“Psychopathy” used to be the term used by official psychiatrists in the USA for what they now call a “personality disorder”, and, in particular, for what they call “anti-social personality disorder”. So – classified differently from “psychosis”. Then they booted the term out of their crib book. I’m just saying this because some people may find it interesting. But to hell with any understanding that’s based on OFFICIAL DEFINITIONS used by cops and authoritarian figures. There’s obviously a huge amount of mental illness in capitalist society, to which by and large it’s FUNCTIONAL.
It’s also GROWING. Capitalism’s two big advances on this front in recent years have been a) the normalisation of several hours per day of smartphone use (beginning in childhood), and b) what they achieved during the Covid years, some of which involved saying black is white, right in front of people’s faces. In one part of the world, there’s also been the trans crap. The very same regimes that preach “diversity” and “identity rights” are whipping up inter-ethnic antagonism and prejudice and hatred and xenophobia like no-one’s business, leaving much of what used to be the left adrift because the regimes aren’t SAYING that they’re doing it.
Misleading because they replaced it with precisely the term you mention, Antisocial PD, while noting that psychopathy is sometimes used instead.
Apparently Israel took out the leader of al-Qassam (army fraction of Hamas) some weeks back
Mohammed Deif, the chief of the group’s military wing, was eliminated in a strike in Khan Yunis last month, the IDF has claimed
https://swentr.site/news/601997-israel-kills-hamas-commander/
Drones and satellites seems to be the way to wage war these days, Hamas/Iran/Hezbollah should take notice.
“Drones and satellites seems to be the way to wage war these days, Hamas/Iran/Hezbollah should take notice.”
That’s rather a surprising warning, after the Iranian drone and missile reprisal on Israel the other week after the strike on the Iranian consulate, which showed perfect mastery of the current techniques, and really frightened Israel.
Laguerre
Iran sending missiles towards Israel did/do not generate anything that is why Israel in turn felt embolden to take out Haniyeh in Iran, that is why I said drones and satellite surveillance is far more powerful method, especially facing a greater enemy as Israel. Same is obvious in Ukraine/Russia war where Ukraine manage with small means as using drones and focus on intelligence gathering managing to take out warships, strategic bombers on Russia meanwhile when Ukraine sending missiles towards Crimea they get shot down almost every each of them. Thus, Iran/Hamas/Hezbollah should take notice from the ukrainian, more modern, warfare strategy.
It generated fear, which is why Israel felt the need to strike out, in order to protect its highly cherished (by themselves) reputation of deterring all attacks on Israel. It’s a failure, as Iran demonstrated. They wisely did not destroy much in that attack, just showed that they could. As they don’t want to provoke an American attack on themselves unless forced by an existential threat.
You are evidently a great believer in the Western narrative, from what you say about Ukraine. Drone pinpricks are not going to win the war for Ukraine. It was the Iranian mass attack that showed what can be done.
Laguerre
If Iran managed to penetrate the Iron Dome killing israelis israelis would sure stop their provocations against Iran, but they know they are military superior to Iran and thus keep waging war against it because they know they have the upper hand. That is unfortunate, but that is also a fact. It is not about using someones narrative, it is about judging and analysing the is situation based on the facts on the ground.
Like, Israel anticipate Iran to send missiles now again, so they are already prepared for that, instead Iran should utilize far more calculated measures, surprsing acts of measures. They need to penetrate and surprise the israelis just like the ukrainians managed to penetrate and surprise the russians when they, most likely, took out the strategic bomber the other day with a drone:
Ukraine Strikes Russian Long-Range Strategic Bomber: Report
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-tupolev-arctic-1931057
“If Iran managed to penetrate the Iron Dome ”
They did penetrate it, it is well known. Your belief in Israeli omnipotence is unjustified. They’ve been seriously weakened recently, but are trying to pretend nothing’s changed. How long it will take for the system to break is uncertain, but there’s no way back. Israeli military strategy has no successful outcome in view; they need to negotiate, but they won’t. In any case it’s probably too late.
Israel is no doubt one of the strongest military powers on earth; why is that controversial to say even though we all here despise this regime? 20 years ago you had EU & US actually criticising them when they stepped over the line. You had the Arab league protesting. Today Israel have free hands to do whatever they want. Exactly what is it that’s about to break?
Israel used to be one of the strongest military powers, when war was done in post-WW2 style against Arab nationalist states, whose armies did not want to fight. The religion-based militias are different, and it turns out Israel doesn’t have the techniques to win against them.
Also they have to win in two weeks, as the reservists need to get back to work. Nine months now, and Israeli businesses are bleeding.
Israel have already “won”, whole of Gaza is destroyed, the population is enduring acts of genocide. Israel pushed through regardless of what ICJ, ICC said, the perception of Israel in the west is almost as it was pre 7th of october where Israel still enjoy considerable support amongst westerners. On top of it they have become more embolden by not only attacking Hezbollah and even Iran. That do not really tell us of a state that is about to crumble any minute.
How many israelis have been killed past year by palestinian attacks post 7th october? How many cities have been leveled by palestinians? Israel control the trajectory of the war to full extent because it is not a war but a onesided grand massacre.
Jack
I entirely disagree with that. Israel is far from “winning”, and furthermore has no path to the apocalyptic victory they now aim for (ending by war all threats from Palestinians and other neighbours). It is unachievable. How can a country whose only major airport has been closed for days, because of threats, and five major western airlines now refuse to fly to, be seen as a clear victor as you say.
The big change since October 7th has been that before Israel was seen as pursuing its future successfully; now it is seen as an alien colony whose territory will one day be liberated we don’t know quite when. There’s no going back.
That Israel succeeds in murdering large numbers of defenceless civilians is not a sign of victory; the Germans did that in Auschwitz in 1944, while losing the war at the front. Bombing defenceless civilians is also not a victory-winning tactic, as the British bombing of Germany showed.
Judge Napolitano asks Aaron Maté at TC 10:00 why IDF killed the most friendly negotiator among Palestinians:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtmYsMc4PBw
What Maté misses to stress: This is the very reason why they kill him. It has been standard Israeli procedure decade after decade to block any peaceful conduct with their alleged enemies – they actually had to make them into their enemies first – because peace was considered the biggest of all threats.
This is one of the truest of all crimes which are forbidden to be articulated in our part of the world.
The Israeli state wants no peace. And Maté needs to say that.
(I assume it would be up to Max Blumenthal to do that.)
If for the US is true what George Kennen said:
“(…)
Were the Soviet Union to sink tomorrow under the waters of the ocean, the American military-industrial establishment would have to go on, substantially unchanged, until some other adversary could be invented. Anything else would be an unacceptable shock to the American economy.
(…)”
There is no reason to assume it would be less suitable for Israel.
Maté in the same conversation makes clear that nothing will change the US position.
Highly recommended despite my above critique.
See also John Mearsheimer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4opzJiXAz0
He might not be be entirely your cup of tea, but …
It could be that they had a window in which they knew Haniyeh’s location.
Or it could be that a deal was about to be signed, or effectuated, and they decided to kill people on the other side in a surprise attack (possibly not a big surprise) in order to scupper the deal. They’ve done that several times before, in various countries.
It could be both.
The bottom should completely have fallen out of the Fatah position decades ago. George Habash and the PFLP and those who opposed the Oslo accords were right. It doesn’t matter particularly what one feels about this or that. Objectively they were right. The Zionists were lying when they said they’d cooperate to use a “roadmap” to make progress towards peace. They’ve always been lying about that.
The IRM too (Hamas) are taking a bullshit line when they say they’d stop the military struggle if the Zionists were to cede the land they took in 1967 and allow a viable Palestinian state – although the first point to make about that statement is that that would mean the closure of the supremacist towns (“settlements”) and of course an Israeli withdrawal from East Jerusalem, neither of which will occur except by force.
Israel is of course very strong (even if not necessarily as strong as they like to make out). What is needed as well as a continuation of the military struggle is sanctions. Everyone can do their bit. I would hope that most people reading this are already boycotting Marks and Spencer’s for example. Tell friends and family why. Or if you buy fruit or vegetables from a market stall, ask the stallholder where the produce is from, and if it’s from Israel say you won’t buy it but have they got some from somewhere else, and let everyone hear you. Mention blood and genocide. Do everything to break the isolation of the Palestinians.
We should also, wherever possible, boycott American products and services. Without American backing, Israel wouldn’t act with such impunity.
“Or it could be that a deal was about to be signed”
Yes.
That´s exactly what had happened 2012. Israel had agreed to carry out a deal. And then just when the US elections were taking place in Nov. and all eyes were on Washington they killed the Palestinian negotiator Ahmad Jaabari. And the deal was off.
“Assassinating The Chance For Calm”
“Gershon Baskin was trying to negotiate a long-term ceasefire with Ahmad Jaabari when the Hamas leader was killed by Israel.”
by Gershon Baskin
https://archive.ph/NJq8L
Shortly after IDF got the casus belli they had wanted which led to “Pillar of Defense” (Who comes up with these names…?)
There is no question that Haniyeh lived in Qatar for the last 7 years – public information, Israel knew this and had all the time, if they want to take him out.
As for the location of the assassination, this was probably a deliberate provocation against Iran, some reckless powermove by Israel, and also because Israel did not want to infuriate the arab world by commiting the murder on arab soil they picked Iran.
AG
Good point, Israel have always struck down every peaceful solution that have been on the horizon, in the 80s the israeli called the moderation and peace-seeking efforts by PLO a “peace offensive”.
Norman Finkelstein have written quite alot about just this:
Come 1981, as pressure builds on Israel to reach a diplomatic settlement in the Israel-Palestine conflict, they decide to invade Lebanon in order to crush the P.L.O., because the P.L.O. was on record supporting a two-state settlement. As Dr. Ben-Ami’s colleague, Avner Yaniv, put it in a very excellent book, Dilemmas of Security, he said, “The main problem for Israel was,” and now I’m quoting him, “the P.L.O.’s peace offensive. They wanted a two-state settlement. Israel did not.” And so Israel decides to crush the P.L.O. in Lebanon. It successfully did so. The P.L.O. goes into exile.
https://www.democracynow.org/2006/2/14/fmr_israeli_foreign_minister_shlomo_ben
Also good article: “Foiling Another Palestinian Peace Offensive”:
https://wespac.org/2009/02/05/norman-finkelstein/
thx!
What is so unsettling: From the historical POV Oct.7th has washed away everything that had happened before. Even less people will now learn that there was a gruesome preface to Oct. 7th stretching over decades. A history totally sidelined in our academic sphere in the past. And now I assume eventually overwritten by the present. Like those crimes never happened.
AG
Yes good point, it is like Israel/Palestine conflict started just last year according to the western political class, media.
Only during 2023 up until 7th of october, some 227 palestinians were killed by Israel:
Timeline of Israel-Palestine fatalities prior 7th of october
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Timeline_of_Israel-Palestine_fatalities_2008-2023.png
In 2022 Israel, in effect, kidnapped over 800 palestinians and put them in jail without having to charge them for any crime:
n 2022, Israel imprisoned 820 Palestinians under “administrative detention.”
This allows them to hold Palestinians indefinitely on “secret evidence” with prisoners unaware of the charges against them.
https://x.com/AJEnglish/status/1653398938290987012
How often did western media report on that? How much condemnation was directed towards Israel by the western political class? Not.a.single.time! And then the western media/politicians wonder why incidents like 7th of october happend…sigh.
There was a time that a code of war was not to assassinate the leader of the other side, if you won, you exiled him abroad to live out his last years isolated and humiliated..
That was when men roamed the Earth (pardon my political incorrectness). Today, we only have children!
Certainly a strange way to undertake peace negotiations. Kind of hard to take one side as acting in good faith, when they take every opportunity to kill their counterparts in that negotiation.
Why are the UK’s armed forces so heavily involved in ‘defending’ Israel? George Galloway was asking on his show if the UK had a secret defense treaty with Israel. It does look like it, seeing recent events.
Israel is destroying itself. I have never seen anything like it. Scott Horton in an interview talked about an atrocity committed recently. The Israelis allegedly set six german shepherd dogs on a Palestinian boy who had down’s syndrome resulting in him bleeding out from his (untreated) wounds.
The prisoner rape thing is just another example of how they have completely lost it… if they ever had it.
What we are witnessing is evil, there is no other word for it. I am learning a lot about the people around me.
Things are going to get a lot worse before they get better.
Israel has become a very fearful country.
If you had been told over the decades that your country was invincible and could keep the Arab world in check by fear of destruction and then before your very eyes this ‘invincibility’ was being shown to be a lie, then the fear accumulates into anti-human behaviour.
The conduct of War is kill or be killed, but politicians have to conduct policies that reinforce that fear on either side.
The truth is that the Gazans and Palestinians in general, due to their treatment over the years by Israel and The West, and the leaders of the Arab world have nothing to lose. Those against them over the years have an enormous amount to lose. They have literally dug their own grave.
Israel is, yes. Also the countries facilitating Israel. Primarily the US, Germany and Britain.
They are pure evil. They are death. They are darkness. And they will always be remembered as such.
David Cameron, Panama Papers, Arms Dealer, recent Foreign Secretary, Jewish on his mother’s side. The purging of antisemitism in Labour is exceptionalism in the hierarchy of racism, and makes it difficult to hold a position which satisfactorily challenges war crimes and flagrant abuses of human rights by Israel. We are dug in on the side of the war criminals and safely extracting the country from this mire of corruption and arms trader greed will not be easy.
Having said that it would be good to have a deterrent in the Middle East, though I fear that ship has sailed and we are in a highly charged pickle. A hundred thousand Gazan women and children will not be forgotten. How to change the direction of travel? Minorities are facing new challenges too, here
Israel has a long history of staging events when they are under pressure. So a major scandal erupted around the abuse and rape of prisoners which was receiving international attention. A few days later, the headlines are wiped in favour of the assassinations Israel carried out. In addition to deliberately manipulating the news cycle, a very old tried and tested technique they use, it had the additional bonus of wiping out one man who may have played a major part in any ceasefire negotiations. A third objective is to provoke Iran and Hezbollah into retaliations which will then be used to justify more carpet bombing and murders, with the long-held ambition of dragging the US into the conflagration Netanyahu prefers to his jailing. They are psychotic, propped up by the US arms industry. Imagine if they didn’t have access to the US arsenal they use to avoid settling with their neighbours. They could have had a working peace and strategic partnerships decades ago, alongside a thriving Palestine. But instead they prefer mass violence, death and victimhood.
They will bring us all down alongside them if they are allowed to carry on.
From https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/a-genocide-foretold
This lie — that Western civilization is predicated on “values” such as respect for human rights and the rule of law — is one the Palestinians, and all those in the Global South, as well as Native Americans and Black and Brown Americans have known for centuries. But, with the Gaza genocide live streamed, this lie is impossible to sustain.
We do not halt Israel’s genocide because we are Israel, infected with white supremacy and intoxicated by our domination of the globe’s wealth and the power to obliterate others with our industrial weapons. Remember The New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman telling Charlie Rose on the eve of the war in Iraq that American soldiers should go house to house from Basra to Baghdad and say to Iraqis “suck on this?” That is the real credo of the U.S. empire.
The world outside of the industrialized fortresses in the Global North is acutely aware that the fate of the Palestinians is their fate. As climate change imperils survival, as resources become scarce, as migration becomes an imperative for millions, as agricultural yields decline, as costal areas are flooded, as droughts and wild fires proliferate, as states fail, as armed resistance movements rise to battle their oppressors along with their proxies, genocide will not be an anomaly. It will be the norm. The earth’s vulnerable and poor, those Frantz Fanon called “the wretched of the earth,” will be the next Palestinians.
9/10.
Fascist regimes, AKA The West, are the only thing that imperils our survival. Everything else is propaganda.
So, just what is the interests of the university? Well, it has links to counter-terrorism course via degrees – degrees that are overseen by the RAF – and RAND analysts have held positions at the university.
Quite a few notable names have attended the university – including a one-time Head of Mi6, John Sawers.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/University_of_St._Andrews
“ST ANDREWS University has been accused of “political censorship” after rector Stella Maris was removed from the institution’s governing body for accusing Israel of genocide.
Maris – who has criticised the move – has also lost her position as a trustee after she sent an email to all students in November calling for an immediate ceasefire.
An investigation was launched by Morag Ross KC following the email which concluded on Thursday that it would be “disproportionate” to dismiss Maris.
But the university court – St Andrews’ governing body – said it had acted because Maris repeatedly declined to accept Ross’s conclusions which suggested she had made some students “fear for their safety”.
Ross also described Maris’s statement as being “unwise and ill-judged in respect of some its content,” suggesting she did not act “in the interests of the university”.”
https://archive.is/mKrW6
“Stella Maris” is a heckuva name. For anyone who has read Shea and Wilson’s “Illuminatus” trilogy anyway. Maybe her parents were fans.
‘Stella Maris’ (Latin for ‘Star of the Sea’) is a Catholic title for the Virgin Mary. It’s also the name of an international Catholic charity providing welfare services to seafarers in port, previously the Apostleship of the Sea. So possibly the rector’s parents were Catholic, or had some maritime connections.
Looking, as ever, for more sinister, conspiratorial associations … I’ve never read the Illuminatus trilogy, but I do recall Luciana Berger’s stunning revelation of the depths of Jeremy Corbyn’s long-concealed antisemitism, when she publicised his remark, several years previously, to ‘Mear One’, painter of The Mural, depicting.six notorious plutocrats playing Monopoly on a massive board supported on the bowed backs of slaves. The Jewish Community furiously denounced the mural as blatantly antisemitic, although only two of the six men
… only two of the six men were identifiably Jewish. Mear One himself insisted that the mural was aimed at the Illuminati, and Freemasonry, whom he apparently believes to have dominated the world for several thousand years, and pointed out that it prominently shows the Eye in the Pyramid, but there is no depiction of the Star of David or any other Jewish symbol.
Brian Red.
Here is the woman in question – and her version of events.
https://archive.is/gaJUQ
” For anyone who has read Shea and Wilson’s “Illuminatus” trilogy anyway.”
It struck me as a parody of outlandish conspiracy theories when I read it decades ago. It featured the ‘Justified Ancients of Mu’, a conspiracy which started in the Mu civilization which sank below the waves of the Pacific about the same time as Atlantis.
I wonder what Luciana Berger would make of it.
I wonder why the “Did Trump take a $10m bung from Egyptian leader El-Sisi?” story is breaking NOW.
(Washington Post: https://archive.is/QFuhC )
“Did Trump take a $10m bung from Egyptian leader El-Sisi?”
As any educated journalist or reader should know,
“Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no”.
– Betteridge’s Law
Thank you Craig. I have followed you for many years and have checked this webite for your view on major geopolitical issues. I have always valued your opinion. This piece “The Israeli Nihilist State” is, for me, a perfect description of the problem. I agree with your root cause analysis. Let’s get on with it!. I’m in …
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Ah, wonderful. Dismantle, dismantle. Just the word we’ve been looking for. Exactly what we should be planning.
For the record, long time ago, Cato the Elder already said “Delenda est Carthago” to the same effect. And today, we’re facing the Carthage of modern times. Same disease, same remedy.
Israel right to abuse protests explained
https://www.aljazeera.com/program/newsfeed/2024/8/2/israels-right-to-abuse-protests-explained
This will be memory holed one day.
member of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party, speaking Monday at a meeting of lawmakers, justified the rape and abuse of Palestinian prisoners, shouting angrily at colleagues questioning the alleged behavior that anything was legitimate to do to “terrorists” in custody.
Lawmaker Hanoch Milwidsky was asked as he defended the alleged abuse whether it was legitimate, “to insert a stick into a person’s rectum?”
“Yes!” he shouted in reply to his fellow parliamentarian. “If he is a Nukhba [Hamas militant], everything is legitimate to do! Everything!”
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-hamas-war-idf-palestinian-prisoner-alleged-rape-sde-teinman-abuse-protest/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/woman-accuses-would-be-likud-mk-of-sexually-assaulting-her-8-years-ago/
(2022, so 2014)
“The woman said the assault finally ceased after she threatened to bite his neck, and told him he would be forced to explain the resulting mark to his wife.”
Another article, incidently by CBS, touch upon another nasty occurance in Israel.
How Jewish American pedophiles hide from justice in Israel
A CBS News investigation has found that many accused American pedophiles flee to Israel, and bringing them to justice can be difficult.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-jewish-american-pedophiles-hide-from-justice-in-israel/
But this proves also what kind of racist regime this is, if you have the “right” etnicity, you could go to Israel and do not have to be afraid of being jailed for your crimes. They believe they stand above the law because they are the supreme race…
The Israel regime does not want the hostages back, because the hostages will tell truth about October 7th attacks. The Hannibal directive and the killing of their own soldiers and citizens.
Came across this eye-opening article earlier linked to in an article reposted on JVL. It’s pretty long but well worth checking out:
The Rise of October 7th Tourism
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-rise-of-october-7th-tourism
The article isn’t just about the fact that it’s happening, but also the reasons WHY it’s happening.
“And if we have to dismantle our own political and media classes to get there, so be it.” Bravo, and the sooner the better!
Craig,
Who are the wealthy patrons of Israel who pay for the lobbying and blackmail of foreign leaders to the point that they don’t dare lift a finger to stop an ongoing genocide?
What geopolitical value does Israel have that outweighs risking a regional or even world war rather than reining them in?
Mr. Murray, where are the serious analyses and commentaries in the Arab and Islamic media about the violence and terrorism of Hamas? Their oppression of the Palestinians, their own people?
Mr. Murray, where is the serious analysis and commentary in the Arab and Islamic media (or even in the Western media) about the violence and terrorism of Hamas? Their oppression of the Palestinians, their own people? Their violence and terror against the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip?