RAZ SEGAL—Israel’s campaign to displace Gazans—and potentially expel them altogether into Egypt—is yet another chapter in the Nakba, in which an estimated 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes during the 1948 war that led to the creation of the State of Israel. But the assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide, who has spent many years writing about Israeli mass violence against Palestinians. I have written about settler colonialism and Jewish supremacy in Israel, the distortion of the Holocaust to boost the Israeli arms industry, the weaponization of antisemitism accusations to justify Israeli violence against Palestinians, and the racist regime of Israeli apartheid.
ISRAELI EXCEPTIONALISM
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GEORGE GALLOWAY—In this week’s episode of “Have it Out with Galloway”, George Galloway examines the aftermath of the UN ceasefire resolution and explores the unresolved tensions between Israel and Gaza. Joined by Israeli author & activist Miko Peled, MP and leader of Palestinian National Initiative Dr. Mustafa Barghouti, and a live audience, George delves into what’s next for the conflict.
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The Gaza Genocide as Explicit Policy: Michael Hudson Names All Names
by Pepe Escobar20 minutes readPEPE ESCOBAR—The key question remains: what will happen to Gaza and the Palestinians. Prof. Hudson’s judgement is ominously realistic: “As Alastair Crooke has explained, there now cannot be any two-state solution in Israel. It has to be either all Israeli or all Palestinian. [Or a single state with equal rights for all faiths but without Zionism. As proposed by various Palestinian leaders, Miko Peled, etc.—Ed]And the way it looks now is all-Israeli – the dream from the outset in 1947 of a land without non-Jewish people.
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MICHAEL HUDSON—Well, to prevent this kind of embarrassment, and to prevent the embarrassment of journalists who were doing all this, Seymour Hersh described the [Mai Lai] massacre, and that helped inflame the opposition to Johnson. Well, President Biden, who’s approved Netanyahu’s plan, the first people you have to kill are the journalists. If you’re going to permit genocide, you have to realize that you don’t want the domestic U.S. population or the rest of the world to oppose the U.S. and Israel. You kill the journalists. And for the last, ever since the October 2nd Al-Aqsa event, you’ve had one journalist per week killed in Israel. That’s part of it.
The other people you don’t want, if you’re going to bomb them, you have to start by bombing the hospitals and all of the key centers. That also was part of the idea of the Vietnam War. How do you destroy a population? This was all worked out in the 1970s, when people were trying to use systems analysis to think, how do you work back and see what you need?
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EDITOR—Garland and Laith discuss the facts defining Iran’s carefully calculated (and announced) attack on Israel, an attack not meant to cause maximum suffering and destruction on the civilian population, but merely to serve notice on the Zionist regime and its allies that retribution is certain if its criminal provocations continue.