JEWISH QUESTIONS

CHRIS HEDGES—Israel was founded on lies. The lie that Palestinian land was largely unoccupied. The lie that 750,000 Palestinians fled their homes and villages during their ethnic cleansing by Zionist militias in 1948 because they were told to do so by Arab leaders. The lie that it was Arab armies that started the 1948 war that saw Israel seize 78 percent of historic Palestine. The lie that Israel facedannihilation in 1967, forcing it to invade and occupy the remaining 22 percent of Palestine, as well as land belonging to Egypt and Syria.

GILBERT DOCTOROW—In her ten minutes at the microphone, Margarita Simonyan gave a more detailed answer, saying that indeed many men who left Russia a year ago following the mobilization orders did so because the mobilization was not conducted with uniform professionalism. In some cases, the local mobilization personnel ignored the legal exemptions from service that reservists may have had for reasons of their profession, for reasons of health or family circumstances. As far as the Russian government is concerned, it stood ready to leave in place IT specialists who were more useful to the nation sitting at home by their computers with a latte at their side than if they were sent to the front.

GARLAND NIXON—A wide-ranging discussion about the Israeli debacle and the unraveling of the 500-year-old “settler project” seen across the globe, wherever European colonisers, and especially Germanics (anglos), mostly derived from the British Empire, have been able to plant roots. These nations now comprise the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand,  and, of course, Northern Ireland, Britain’s first colony. In all these lands we see a profound—and cynical—contradiction between the proclaimed values, such as freedom, democracy, human rights, etc. and the reality we observe pointing to a rapid transformation into fascism.  The “settler core” has been able to influence and corrupt the political development of Europeans, turning them into vassals. This has become obvious and undeniable since the start of the Ukraine War.