The Israeli government under Netanyahu has become a perpetrator of genocide and ethnic cleansing. There is no sugar coating it. The rise of Trump has given them carte blanche to remove the Arab population and seize Gaza. Truly crimes against humanity.
Particularly with Israel’s war against Gazan non-combatants young and old, heavily corporatized Western mainstream news-media have been, to put it mildly, editorially emasculated thus negligent. Though it may be due to orders from ownership headquarters and therefore beyond their control, our (Canada's) news-media are serious offenders.
It’s the ethical/moral duty of Western journalists and editors to publicly expose the compromised news-media product and therefor its facilitator(s). By doing so, such brave journalists can at least then also proclaim they will no longer participate in its creation and/or dissemination.
Quite frankly, journalists/editors with genuine integrity should and would tender their resignations and even publicly proclaim they can no longer help propagate their employer’s media product, whether it involves self-censored/missing coverage of an ongoing mass-murderous ethnic-cleansing, a brutally lopsided foreign war, or that of great corporate misconduct that will harm the populace.
Over decades, I’ve heard of too many cases of employees not standing up and doing what is necessary for the public and/or human(e) good, instead excusing themselves with something like: ‘I need this job — I have a family to support’. I’m afraid that — unless, of course, they were actually forced into coupling, copulating and procreating however many years before — such familial obligation status does not actually ethically or morally justify their willing involvement.
Most if not all of Bibi's Cabinet are calling for Palestinian population transfers and occupation by Israelis, i.e., annexation of the Gaza Strip. And after they succeed in Gaza, all attention will be concentrated on the West Bank for the "final solution" to the "Palestinian problem". Ben Gvir, Smotrich, IDF generals, and the "settlers" have being saying this for years, so listen to them, people, they mean exactly what they say.
They are not waiting. Intense efforts to relocate tens of thousands of Palestinians from their villages in the West Bank began when as soon as the ceasefire in Gaza went into effect.
With clear similarities to the Cheney-Bush U.S. administration's mass-slaughter misconduct (Cheney having wielded the real power from behind his deceitful curtain) after 9/11, the 10/7 Hamas attack conveniently enabled the Israeli Netanyahu government to justify extreme emergency war measures, then force through his/its ‘democratic reforms’ and do who-knows-what-more to Palestine — including cleansing, food-starving and mass slaughtering its long-time Palestinian residents.
One has to wonder whether the 10/7 ‘surprise’ attack on Israel was truly unexpected, albeit it may have been deadlier than the (hypothetical) Israeli insiders had anticipated.
Even so, such evil men like Netanyahu (which is not his real name) may still consider those Israeli lives lost as a 'good investment' (i.e. the future annexation of Palestinian land and natural resources). And who's going to be able to stop the Israel Defence Forces and immorally opportunistic prime minister Netanyahu, especially with their state-of-the-art American-taxpayer-supplied weaponry?
It seems a bit convenient for Israeli power interests — notably, western world governments and especially our mainstream news-media (especially the extreme-Right outlets, like Canada's The National Post metro-daily newspaper) basically all fell into line and have since towed it.
Also, not widely publicized is that there are considerable fossil fuel reserves beneath long-held Palestinian land that are a plausible motivator for war. Plus, Netanyahu's military-officer brother was killed during an attack against Palestinian and German hostage-takers in 1976. He may want more blood for that. Most people are not aware of that historical fact and likely motivator, with the mainstream news-media apparently deeming that bit of quite-relevant info un-fit to print.
Thanks for this Joe. I have been going to congress monthly since January with Doctors Against Genocide, DAG, and in Mach with J St. Our next Hill Day is 5/21 - people can join us - sign u on the website. We also have nurses and mental health professionals. Yesterday DAG had a powerful press conference nd we wrote a letter to embassies which I hand delivered to many in DC. DAG is an amazing group, check their website and press conference. -https://coronawise.substack.com/p/12-edt-today-emergency-briefing-let
Seemingly still-growing Western indifference towards the continuing mass suffering via starvation and slaughter inflicted upon helpless Palestinian non-combatants — mostly consisting of Palestinian children — will only have further inflamed long-held Middle Eastern anger towards the West.
The actual provision, mostly by the U.S., of highly effective weapons used in Israel’s ongoing bombing raids will likely have turned that anger into lasting hatred seeking eye-for-an-eye redress. Perhaps even another attack on the scale of 9/11 — all of which renders the pro-Palestinian graffiti painted onto Donald Trump's golf-course signage in Scotland in early April quite insignificant.
What's the apt expression? "God damn America"?
Quite seriously, human beings are being perceived and treated as though they are literally disposable and, by extension, their great suffering and numerous deaths are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic, relatively civilized and supposedly Christian nations. It’s easier for a conscience to do when one considers another an innately lower lifeform.
A somewhat similar reprehensible inhuman(e) devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in prolongedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken regions. In other words, the worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news.
It’s an immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’.
With each news report of the daily death toll, I feel a slightly greater desensitization and resignation. I’ve noticed this disturbing effect with basically all major protracted conflicts internationally since I began regularly consuming news products in the late 1980s.
(1) “Humanitarian crisis,” certainly. But also a moral and legal one. International law is dead. (2) Democrats and humanitarian aid: this is what being cowed looks like. Israel has always controlled how many calories Gazans get to consume each day. Complaining now, amid the pulverization of a place, about aid is gesture politics that obscures the real and decade-old issue: Israel’s subjugation of a people. (3) Maxwell is right. The object has always been ALL the land, including the Occupied Territories. Now that right-wingers’ views have been normalized and tactics that bring to mind those of 90 years ago legitimized, forced population transfers are inevitable. The two-state solution — the only legitimate solution — has been a fraud for decades. Israel’s policy has been explicit: No independent Palestinian state west of the Jordan — ever. (4) Trump’s a problem, though hardly the only one. Biden made the destruction possible. And before him? Every president bleated about the need for peace, yet never dared do the one thing necessary to get it: compel Israel, the occupying power, to give up the occupation. And let’s net forget every European leader over the course of decades — Merkel, in particular — who pretended helplessness when dealing with Israeli leaders. To assuage their guilt, they threw money at the Palestinians but never bothered to address, let alone push to resolve, the bigger issue.
The Israeli government under Netanyahu has become a perpetrator of genocide and ethnic cleansing. There is no sugar coating it. The rise of Trump has given them carte blanche to remove the Arab population and seize Gaza. Truly crimes against humanity.
Particularly with Israel’s war against Gazan non-combatants young and old, heavily corporatized Western mainstream news-media have been, to put it mildly, editorially emasculated thus negligent. Though it may be due to orders from ownership headquarters and therefore beyond their control, our (Canada's) news-media are serious offenders.
It’s the ethical/moral duty of Western journalists and editors to publicly expose the compromised news-media product and therefor its facilitator(s). By doing so, such brave journalists can at least then also proclaim they will no longer participate in its creation and/or dissemination.
Quite frankly, journalists/editors with genuine integrity should and would tender their resignations and even publicly proclaim they can no longer help propagate their employer’s media product, whether it involves self-censored/missing coverage of an ongoing mass-murderous ethnic-cleansing, a brutally lopsided foreign war, or that of great corporate misconduct that will harm the populace.
Over decades, I’ve heard of too many cases of employees not standing up and doing what is necessary for the public and/or human(e) good, instead excusing themselves with something like: ‘I need this job — I have a family to support’. I’m afraid that — unless, of course, they were actually forced into coupling, copulating and procreating however many years before — such familial obligation status does not actually ethically or morally justify their willing involvement.
Most if not all of Bibi's Cabinet are calling for Palestinian population transfers and occupation by Israelis, i.e., annexation of the Gaza Strip. And after they succeed in Gaza, all attention will be concentrated on the West Bank for the "final solution" to the "Palestinian problem". Ben Gvir, Smotrich, IDF generals, and the "settlers" have being saying this for years, so listen to them, people, they mean exactly what they say.
They are not waiting. Intense efforts to relocate tens of thousands of Palestinians from their villages in the West Bank began when as soon as the ceasefire in Gaza went into effect.
With clear similarities to the Cheney-Bush U.S. administration's mass-slaughter misconduct (Cheney having wielded the real power from behind his deceitful curtain) after 9/11, the 10/7 Hamas attack conveniently enabled the Israeli Netanyahu government to justify extreme emergency war measures, then force through his/its ‘democratic reforms’ and do who-knows-what-more to Palestine — including cleansing, food-starving and mass slaughtering its long-time Palestinian residents.
One has to wonder whether the 10/7 ‘surprise’ attack on Israel was truly unexpected, albeit it may have been deadlier than the (hypothetical) Israeli insiders had anticipated.
Even so, such evil men like Netanyahu (which is not his real name) may still consider those Israeli lives lost as a 'good investment' (i.e. the future annexation of Palestinian land and natural resources). And who's going to be able to stop the Israel Defence Forces and immorally opportunistic prime minister Netanyahu, especially with their state-of-the-art American-taxpayer-supplied weaponry?
It seems a bit convenient for Israeli power interests — notably, western world governments and especially our mainstream news-media (especially the extreme-Right outlets, like Canada's The National Post metro-daily newspaper) basically all fell into line and have since towed it.
Also, not widely publicized is that there are considerable fossil fuel reserves beneath long-held Palestinian land that are a plausible motivator for war. Plus, Netanyahu's military-officer brother was killed during an attack against Palestinian and German hostage-takers in 1976. He may want more blood for that. Most people are not aware of that historical fact and likely motivator, with the mainstream news-media apparently deeming that bit of quite-relevant info un-fit to print.
Thanks for this Joe. I have been going to congress monthly since January with Doctors Against Genocide, DAG, and in Mach with J St. Our next Hill Day is 5/21 - people can join us - sign u on the website. We also have nurses and mental health professionals. Yesterday DAG had a powerful press conference nd we wrote a letter to embassies which I hand delivered to many in DC. DAG is an amazing group, check their website and press conference. -https://coronawise.substack.com/p/12-edt-today-emergency-briefing-let
Seemingly still-growing Western indifference towards the continuing mass suffering via starvation and slaughter inflicted upon helpless Palestinian non-combatants — mostly consisting of Palestinian children — will only have further inflamed long-held Middle Eastern anger towards the West.
The actual provision, mostly by the U.S., of highly effective weapons used in Israel’s ongoing bombing raids will likely have turned that anger into lasting hatred seeking eye-for-an-eye redress. Perhaps even another attack on the scale of 9/11 — all of which renders the pro-Palestinian graffiti painted onto Donald Trump's golf-course signage in Scotland in early April quite insignificant.
What's the apt expression? "God damn America"?
Quite seriously, human beings are being perceived and treated as though they are literally disposable and, by extension, their great suffering and numerous deaths are somehow less worthy of external concern, sometimes even by otherwise democratic, relatively civilized and supposedly Christian nations. It’s easier for a conscience to do when one considers another an innately lower lifeform.
A somewhat similar reprehensible inhuman(e) devaluation is observable in external attitudes, albeit perhaps on a subconscious level, toward the daily civilian lives lost in prolongedly devastating war zones and famine-stricken regions. In other words, the worth of such life will be measured by its overabundance and/or the protracted conditions under which it suffers; and those people can eventually receive meagre column inches on the back page of the First World’s daily news.
It’s an immoral consideration of ‘quality of life’.
With each news report of the daily death toll, I feel a slightly greater desensitization and resignation. I’ve noticed this disturbing effect with basically all major protracted conflicts internationally since I began regularly consuming news products in the late 1980s.
(1) “Humanitarian crisis,” certainly. But also a moral and legal one. International law is dead. (2) Democrats and humanitarian aid: this is what being cowed looks like. Israel has always controlled how many calories Gazans get to consume each day. Complaining now, amid the pulverization of a place, about aid is gesture politics that obscures the real and decade-old issue: Israel’s subjugation of a people. (3) Maxwell is right. The object has always been ALL the land, including the Occupied Territories. Now that right-wingers’ views have been normalized and tactics that bring to mind those of 90 years ago legitimized, forced population transfers are inevitable. The two-state solution — the only legitimate solution — has been a fraud for decades. Israel’s policy has been explicit: No independent Palestinian state west of the Jordan — ever. (4) Trump’s a problem, though hardly the only one. Biden made the destruction possible. And before him? Every president bleated about the need for peace, yet never dared do the one thing necessary to get it: compel Israel, the occupying power, to give up the occupation. And let’s net forget every European leader over the course of decades — Merkel, in particular — who pretended helplessness when dealing with Israeli leaders. To assuage their guilt, they threw money at the Palestinians but never bothered to address, let alone push to resolve, the bigger issue.