DON HANK—Already, the reports, videos and photos of reprisals and murders of civilians are coming in from many towns of the Kharkov Oblast – Balaklia, Izium, Kupiansk. These crimes will soon be presented by ukrop nazis and their Western propagandists as having been “committed by Russian and Republican troops”. They lie. Again, a cynical and obvious false flag, just as in Bucha, that will only be believed by the brainwashed and the brainless. It should be clear by now, beyond question to any competent person, which side is committing the war crimes and atrocities and which side is not. One side intentionally targets schools, hospitals and civilian areas with heavy (and even illegal) artillery, the other does not. One side drops illegal “petal” mines and cluster munitions on civilian areas, the other does not. One side tortures and murders P.O.W.’s and makes and publishes videos and photos of themselves doing it, the other does not.
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EDITORS—That US new media are pure propaganda sheets is evidenced by the fact that they routinely call Putin a dictator even though his power comes from free elections, and that they routinely call the Axis of Resistance terrorists even though terrorists and resistors are two entirely different kinds of groups.
After thorough indoctrination for an entire lifetime, it is doubtful that the average news consumer in the west even thinks twice about these deliberate perversions of the truth, accepting them as Gospel.
If we were to be honest with ourselves we would realize that a country that supports Nazis is hardly free of Nazi ideology and a country that supports genocidal murderers is hardly free of the deep-seated will to kill entire ethnic or religious groups.
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DON HANK—Political and demographic trends suggest that the far right in Israel will remain electorally influential, even dominant, for the foreseeable future. [And these Judaic fundamentalists are supported wholeheartedly by American “Christian” Zionists, who in turn support Zionist lawmakers, creating a vicious circle that cannot be broken. Only the multipolar world order led by Russia and China can effectively oppose this]
But many Israelis who are not especially religious are also beginning to subscribe to this increasingly extreme ethnonationalist ideology. Since the October 7 attacks, the Israeli right wing has grown even more radical.
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DON HANK—Thanks to the unconditional support of America’s millions of fundamentalists, the US government can provide military aid to the Israelis and can ignore all of Israel’s human rights abuses, now more and more openly discussed by groups like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, and under investigation by the ICC . Indeed, based on the above-described religious reasoning, since 1948, the US has vetoed all UN resolutions condemning Israel’s crimes, as documented here and here.
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EDITORS—The official death toll in Gaza now stands at just under 40,000, though the true number of casualties is likely far higher with many thousands of the dead unaccounted for. In one of the deadliest attacks of the entire war, Israel on Saturday bombed the al-Tabin school in Gaza City where thousands of Palestinians had sought shelter. Officials in Gaza say over 100 Palestinians were killed in the attack, many of them while they were praying at a mosque inside the school. Many of the dead were dismembered or destroyed beyond recognition, with medics reportedly collecting body parts in plastic bags. CNN has confirmed a U.S.-made GBU-39 small diameter bomb was used in the strike, which resulted in “over 100 pieces of people,” says Palestinian journalist Shrouq Aila in Gaza. “I’m saying ‘pieces’ because nobody was able to recognize the full body of their beloved ones.”
