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RON UNZ—I think that the Israeli leaders have become so arrogant, so insular, and so confident in their complete political control over the enormous power of the U.S. and its media that they don’t have the slightest concern over what the people of the world think. This explains their very public massacre of Gaza’s helpless civilians by bombs, bullets, and starvation.

After all, the Israelis and their Zionist predecessors have been freely committing the worst sort of crimes and atrocities for generations, without ever incurring any penalty. Instead, nearly all of those dark deeds were either successfully concealed by their media allies or have been almost entirely forgotten.

RANIA KHALEK—Israel’s genocide in Gaza has shocked the conscience of the entire world, with an endless flow of videos and images of Palestinian children cut into pieces by American bombs dropped by Israeli warplanes deliberately intended to destroy a civilian population. Despite the explicitly genocidal rhetoric of Israeli officials, Western leaders continue to proclaim their support for Israel’s right to “defend itself.”

But this war on Gaza is different from past wars, not only in the level of Israeli aggression, but in the reaction on the street, from the Middle East to the United States. Israel is losing the narrative war.

ERIC ZUESSE—This is written documentary proof from the U.S. regime’s own archives, which was declassified (but still 60% expurgated) only as recently as 2021, confirming what I wrote in my 10 September 2015 article, “How America Double-Crossed Russia And Shamed The West”, so that now there can be no reasonable doubt whatsoever, that the U.S. regime, in 1990, was lying to the Soviet Union and really DID intend, at that time and straight up till today, to conquer Russia — and that every one of the leaders of the U.S. imperial regime’s colonies or ‘allies’ was likewise keeping the U.S. regime’s intention of global conquest secret from their respective publics.

SAYED HASAN—Norman Finkelstein refuses to accept that the people of Gaza, or Hamas militants themselves, are “legitimate targets” of extermination. “It is so appalling, it’s not just the despiriting, it’s so appalling, the reaction of all of these cowards and careerists and scum who use their microphones called Twitter to just denounce the Hamas attack. Most of the Hamas militants, probably the ones who broke through the fence, it’s their first time out of Gaza because you assume they’re mostly in their 20s. The blockade has gone on now for 18 years. They grew up in a concentration camp. They want to be free…”

EDITOR—“The enemy will carry out tactical, qualitative operations to assassinate some symbols [of resistance], and all of this is part of psychological warfare,” al-Araj wrote. “Those who have died and those who will die will never affect the resistance’s system and cohesion because the structure and formations of the resistance are not centralized but horizontal and widespread. Their goal is to influence the resistance’s support base and the families of the resistance fighters, as they are the only ones who can affect the men of the resistance.”