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Inconvenient Truths: The Shia Salah al-Din and 10/7
Salah El Din – Salah El Din El Ayoubi – Saladin and Richard the Lionheart Jerusalem’s hard-fought liberation, now in process, is a recapitulation of the Christian Crusades of the 11th-13th centuries, this time, not by the knight on a white horse of legend, but through the long march of guerilla warfare by the much […]
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Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran
Photo credit: CODEPINK On October 1, Iran fired about 180 missiles at Israel in response to Israel’s recent assassinations of leaders of its Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), Hezbollah, and Hamas. There are conflicting reports about how many of the missiles struck their targets and if there were any deaths. But Israel is now considering a counterattack that could propel it […]
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The Longest Day: Israel’s Victim Mindset
Next month will see the commemoration in Israel of the tragic events of October 7, 2023. For Israelis, that day has taken on a degree of sanctity. It is seen as an event that was unprecedented, unforeseen and unconnected to all that came before. To look for causes, beyond antisemitism and military and political culpability […]
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A Moral Imperative for the 2024 US Elections
Is it acceptable for Israel to wipe Palestine and Palestinians off the map? On 5 November 2024, Americans have an opportunity to signal whether genocide is anathema for the majority of its citizens. So, how can Americans signal their abhorrence for genocide? Americans have been locked in a pattern of voting for the political duopoly: […]
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Jewish Chronicle Scandal: Why Was There No Uproar over Its Long Record of Pro-Israel Fake News?
Britain’s best-known Jewish newspaper has found itself thrust into the centre of an embarrassing and long-overdue storm over its involvement with the shadowy manoeuvrings of the pro-Israel lobby. It raises questions about the degree to which parts of the British media are – inadvertently or otherwise – colluding in Israeli disinformation. The 180-year-old Jewish Chronicle, […]
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Time to Face Truth: Canada’s Terrorist List Enables Terrorism
Justin Trudeau justified the brutal killing of the leader of a Lebanese political party on the grounds Canada lists his organization as “terrorist”. On Friday Israel leveled six large apartment buildings in the Dahiyeh suburb of Beirut with some 80 bombs weighing 2,000 to 4,000 pounds each. Dropped by US-made F-15 fighter jets, the US-made BLU-109 […]
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Can You Be a Man with Two Faces in America?
Serendipity, picking Viet Thanh Nyugen’s memoir, A Man with Two Faces as the main book for the memoir writing class I am teaching. Last time it was Liar’s Club and Wild and other things to haunt the student with other writers’ haunting memoirs. Mary Karr and Cheryl Strayed, and the students learned about all sorts […]
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Hezbollah Military Leadership Nearly Wiped out – Israel
Officials in West Jerusalem shared a list of more than a dozen top commanders who have been killed in recent weeks. © X / @IsraelMFA Nearly all of Hezbollah’s military leaders have been eliminated in recent Israeli strikes, officials in West Jerusalem have claimed, after the group’s leader, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in a bombardment […]
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Killing Hassan Nasrallah
The ongoing Israeli operation against Hezbollah, the Iranian-backed militia group so dominant in Lebanon, is following a standard pattern. Ignore base causes. Ignore context. Target leaders, and target personnel. See matters in conventional terms of civilisational warrior against barbarian despot. Israel, the valiant and bold, fighting the forces of darkness. The entire blood woven tapestry […]
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Where was Amnesty International during the Genocide in Gaza?
Israel is genociding the Palestinians one neighborhood at the time, one hospital at the time, one school at the time, one refugee camp at the time, one ‘safe zone’ at the time– Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt,10 August 2024 One would expect that human rights organisations would spring into action during an impending or […]
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