EDITOR—Ali Abunimah, Nour Jaghama and Atheer Yacoub React to Israeli genocide. Ali works with the Electronic Intifada (EI), a must-read website staffed by Arabs and Arab-Americans dedicated to the Palestinian struggle. There’s only one site that matches EI in its journalistic quality and integrity, and that is Mondoweiss, ironically, (or perhaps fittingly, since there are many Jews who do not subscribe to Zionism), founded and edited by a Jew, journalist Philip Weiss. A rather coy description says that Mondoweiss “is a news website devoted to covering American foreign policy in the Middle East, chiefly from a progressive Jewish perspective”, although it is much more than that.
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DAN COHEN—Amid Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Gaza, the Netanyahu government is passing legislation to imprison Israeli dissidents and distributing weapons to fascist militias.@dancohen3000 speaks with Israeli member of Knesset Ofer Cassif.
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BLOWBACK—John Steppling and Ian Kummer stop by the Blowback roundtable to discuss the situation in Palestine and other current events. The roundtable examines numerous topics including increasingly overt media duplicity, possible candidates for US president in 2024, and the general incompetence and decline of Western Imperialism. The panel agrees that an urgent issue is the countering and breaking of the capitalist/imperialist semi-monopoly on mass communication access, and the West’s still dominant pop culture power, a fact that permits the West the manufacturing of consent and the circulation of self-serving narratives across the globe.
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PEPE ESCOBAR—Sections of the west applauding the upcoming ethnic cleansing – including Zionists posing as “analysts” saying out loud that the “population transfers” that began in 1948 “must be completed” – believe that with massive weaponry and massive media coverage, they can turn things around in short shrift, annihilate the Palestinian resistance, and leave Hamas allies like Hezbollah and Iran weakened.
Their Ukraine Project has sputtered, leaving not just egg on powerful faces, but entire European economies in ruin. Yet as one door closes, another one opens: Jump from ally Ukraine to ally Israel, and hone your sights on adversary Iran instead of adversary Russia.
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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.
