This is all part of the politics of grief (keeping us from feeling it). The truth is that what Israel is doing in Gaza isn’t war at all, it’s extermmination, genocide. ‘Outrageous’: NYT Rejects Paid Ad From Quakers That Calls Israeli Attack on Gaza ‘Genocide’ “Palestinians and allies have been silenced and marginalized in…
From Jacobin: “With elections looming and the Democratic base overwhelmingly opposed to Israel’s brutal war on Gaza, Joe Biden seems at times to be feeling the heat and talking peace. On May 31, he claimed that Israel had agreed to a “permanent cease-fire.” But Biden was immediately rebuffed when Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu…
There seems to be no limit to Israeli land hunger. [Don] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIv6x8ElT4o&t=306s
Avi Shlaim, now an Oxford historian, is full of fascinating stories that shed light on the early years of the state of Israel, as well as on the Zionist project, which he calls “cruel Zionism.” Here he is interviewed by Muhammad Jalal (AKA “The Thinking Muslim“). The very structure of this dialog, and especially…