OLIVER BOYD-BARRETT—An intensification of recent propaganda from Western and Israeli intelligence and media sources includes the lie that Iran is a nuclear threat to Israel (which has hundreds of nuclear weapons); that it is Iran and not Israel (which has massacred at least 40,000 but more likely, 200,000 Palestinians) that is driving the present crisis and that it is Iran that needs to exercise “restraint;” that the Hezbollah leader Fuad Shukr who was assassinated by Israel a few days ago was implicated in the 1983 Beirut barracks bombing of US marines; the atrocious claim that Hezbollah was responsible for a missile attack on Arab children playing football in the Golan Heights; that Iran has been “acting aggressively,” and that the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh was caused by a planted Mossad bomb and not a missile.
ISRAELI EXCEPTIONALISM
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Patrick Lawrence: The Murder of Ismail Haniyeh
15 minutes readPATRICK LAWRENCE—Terrorist Israel is absolutely unserious about peace or a negotiated settlement of any kind with the Palestinian people regardless of who they, the Palestinians, choose to represent them. It is time for the international community to stop pretending otherwise—especially, but not only, by insisting that a two-state solution remains a real-world prospect. It follows that the Zionist regime is in fact, and until it demonstrates otherwise, dedicated to the extermination or expulsion of the Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank alike. Disbelief on this point is no longer excusable—if ever it has been.
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Global South Sees U.S. Congress Hail Israeli Killer of 39,000 of Their People Mostly Women and Kids
by Jay Janson13 minutes readJAY JANSON—Today, Global South lives are still considered less important than the lives of white descendants of the conquering colonialists, who have retained a substantial amount of hegemony over most of the planet largely through powerful international reach media.
This difference in the value and importance of lives is apparent in the Middle East now. For example, the lives of a hundred Israeli hostages certainly are being given much more importance than the lives of 39,000 Arabs and the 90,000 injured, including thousands of amputees, and another thousand buried under the ruble of what was the cities of Gaza.
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PATRICK LAWRENCE—And then the case of Primo Levi, the famous survivor of the camps and author of, among other things, If This Be a Man, his account of his time at Auschwitz. A couple of years into the regime of Menachem Begin, who was not Israel’s first terrorist prime minister and not the last, Levi dismissed the Zionist project altogether. “The center of gravity of the Jewish world must turn back,” he wrote, “must move out of Israel and back into the diaspora.” He later told an American audience, “Israel was a mistake in historical terms.”
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GARLAND NIXON—An in-depth discussion of current conditions in Ukraine and the Middle East with analysts Ritter and Martyanov concluding that both conflicts will end with a huge setback for the US empire, and most shocking to many, with the complete defeat of Ukraine’s Neonazi regime, and the beginning of the dissolution of Israel as an Apartheid state. This discussion is quite probably the most important forecast of what the world will likely see in the near future, barring a nuclear Armageddon triggered by a desperate Empire. The second part (Bonus Feature) is Garland’s conversation with leading analyst Joti Brar, head of Great Britain’s Communist Party, about the US Empire’s rapid unraveling due to over-reach, arrogance and the appalling mediocrity of its leadership (which is, in itself, a huge danger to all of humanity).