JEWISH QUESTIONS

PAUL EDWARDS—This is now a trend.  The model for it was the attack on the Towers by Iraqi Arab terrorists, for no reason but hatred of our freedom.  Well, okay, they weren’t Iraqis, they were Saudis, but still… After we enriched their rulers by buying their oil and kept them in power with our military: where was their gratitude?

The most flagrant of unprovoked wars was, of course, Russia’s.  For no reason and without warning, they attacked Ukraine.  Note that in all three cases, the victims were thriving democracies while the attackers were mad terrorists.  These unprovoked madmen (e.g., Putin) must be unequivocally condemned, and their victims empowered.  Justice demands it.

PEPE ESCOBAR—The total blockade of “human animals” (copyright Israeli Defense Ministry) in Gaza, in fact a civilian population of 2.3 million, has been imposed this past Monday. No food, no water, no fuel, no essential commodities. That’s a war crime and a crime against humanity, thrashing the four basic principles of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) – everything duly applauded or at best completely ignored by NATOstan and its assorted oligarch-controlled mainstream media.

JIMMY DORE SHOW—In surveying the situation in Israel following the Hamas attacks of last weekend, former weapons inspector Scott Ritter suggests that the conflict cannot possibly end unless and until one of the opposing parties loses a decisive military defeat and gives up. And there’s no defeat overwhelming enough to cause the Palestinians to give up, he says, so the big loser long term has to be Israel. Jimmy, The Convo Couch’s Craig Jardula and Americans’ Comedian Kurt Metzger discuss Ritter’s assessment as well as his evaluation of the internal conflicts roiling the Israeli political and military establishments.