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DANNY HAIPHONG—Rapper and journalist Lowkey and Beirut-based journalist Laith Marouf reveal the shocking developments taking place in Israel’s broadening war in West Asia. This video breaks down the depths of Israel’s Lebanon, Gaza, and Iran fronts and how in each, there are kernels of destruction that are rocking both the region and the world and hint, it’s not good for Israel. Lowkey and Laith also discuss the possibly inevitable era of repression to envelope the “collective West”, especially the US, as the ruling class is forced to create a police state with concentration camps to neutralise opposition to the approved criminal and dysfunctional order. The Empire and Israel may be doomed, but they won’t go quietly into the night.

ADAM SCHATZ—I used to call myself a non-Zionist, rather than an anti-Zionist: the latter term seemed to traduce the origins of Zionism, which arose as a response to the existential threat to Jewish life in Europe. ‘Anti-Zionism’ overlooked the richness of the debates within early Zionism. The ‘cultural Zionist’ Ahad Ha’am, for example, supported the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, but not a Jewish state, and castigated ‘territorial’ Zionists for imagining that ‘Palestine is a land almost entirely deserted, an uncultivated desert,’ and that ‘the Arabs are desert savages, a people like donkeys, incapable of seeing and understanding what is happening around them. This is a great mistake.’ One of the founders of bi-nationalism – what’s now envisaged as a single state, accommodating both people’s national aspirations – Ha’am considered himself a Zionist. So did the journalist and activist Uri Avnery, one of the fiercest critics of Israel’s wars and occupation, who died last year, aged 94. But these ‘Zionists’ do not represent actually existing Zionism.

MAX PARRY—What has been downplayed by the yellow press is the specific brand of Islamophobic extremism that was the basis of Tarrant’s attacks. His ideology is revealed in a 73-page manifesto, entitled “The Great Replacement” in reference to the ‘white genocide’ theory held by white nationalist identitarians, which he dispatched less than ten minutes prior to the ambush in emails to several media outlets and Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s office.

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