URI AVNERY—So how did we succeed – we, the State of Israel – in turning Gaza into what it is today? In the summer of 2005 the then Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon, decided to cut all ties with the Gaza Strip. “Arik”, a soldier in his heart, decided that the costs of occupying the strip were higher than the benefits. He pulled the army and the settlers out and turned the strip over – to whom? To nobody.
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OPINION: Trump and Netanyahu, the Con Artists Cooking Up Cataclysmic Conflict With Iran
DAVID ROTHKOPF—The problem with all the anti-JCPOA efforts, like most frauds, is that they depend on the victims not really thinking through the consequences of the con. It is called a confidence game because the gullible buy into a premise that is plausible, which has some truth to it. In this case, it is that the JCPOA is actually a flawed deal.
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‘For huge chunks of American Jewish life, Israel has become an idol’ –Rabbi Arthur Waskow
PHILIP WEISS—“When you can’t wrestle with something you think is sacred, when you can’t criticize it, when you can’t call it into account, it’s an idol. And for huge chunks of American Jewish life, but not for all– for huge chunks, Israel has become an idol.”
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The Muslim World Marches Towards an Unthinkable Clash With Reason
MAHBOOB A KHAWAJA—There has never in history been a population as unaware as Americans. The world is amazed that an insouciant people became, if only for a short time, a superpower. The world needs intelligence and leadership in order to avoid catastrophe, but America can provide neither intelligence nor leadership. America is a lost land where nuclear weapons are in the hands of those who are concerned only with their own power. Washington is the enemy of the entire world and encompasses the largest concentration of evil on the planet. Where is the good to rise up against the evil?”
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Matt Lieb tackles the impossible riddle: Love Israel, Hate Jews
Some of the most ferocious Jew haters are now pro-Israel. How can we have certifiable antisemites now defending a Zionist apartheid state? Matt Lieb tackles the contradiction.
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Iran protests: Reply to the WSWS response to my critique
RAMIN MAZAHERI—But supporting the democratic will when it takes a nationalist turn – i.e. Iran looking out for Iran – is not Trotskyism. This is one reason why I am not an apologist for Trotskyism. Nor will I apologise for openly defending the Iranian Islamic Revolution and trying to explain it to non-Iranians in my journalism: Iran has real, not theoretical, work to be done, and I hope my small contributions push that work forward a bit.
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Iran: Tens of Thousands Join Pro-Government Rallies
TELESUR—Rallies were held in the cities of Ahvaz, Kermanshah, Bushehr, Abadan, Gorgan and Qom. State media reported new rallies will be held on Thursday in other towns and cities. A massive rally is expected on Friday, after prayers, in Tehran.
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