Racist Israeli singer Lior Narkis serenades Israeli soldiers preparing to invade Gaza. Racism and blatant dehuminasation against Palestinians pervade Israeli culture.
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PATRICE GREANVILLE—Musk’s sudden pilgrimage to Israel to hear Netanyahu’s mendacious and transparently self-serving spiel on the Zionist massacre of Palestinians. Did he really need to do that, considering how overwhelmingly obliging the Western media has been toward the Israeli position? No. But it’s all about public contrition, a la HUAC, photo ops, plain old p.r. Opportunism.
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JONATHAN COOK—After its mass ethnic cleansing operations of 1948 and 1967, Israel tried to manage the remaining Palestinian population through the traditional apartheid model of herding the natives into reservations, as its predecessors did with the remnants of the “locals” who survived their efforts at extermination.
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An overview of the current situation with the Blowback roundtable crew, co-hosted by Ben Toth,
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GARLAND NIXON—Garland argues that Seldowitz, morally repugnant as he is, may be accidentally doing us all a favor as, due to his own arrogance and probably stupidity, and feeling himself backed by the Israeli-Western empire establishment, is showing the true face of the Empire, and why it requires ever increasing amounts of huge lies and coercion to maintain its legitimacy. Now that he’s basically outed himself Seldowitz is no longer of much use to the empire, so he may be relegated to obscurity—but one never knows in a system built on criminality. In a sense, suggests Garland, Seldowitz resembles Trump, also a figure to be distrusted by the ruling elites, due to his loose canon propensity to tell embarrassing truths about the establishment.
