The mast would be genocide and conquest, likely pre-planned, as per The Dissident, there's good reason to believe the government of Bibi Netanyahu knew at least some basics of the Oct. 7, 2023 attack in advance. It clearly was prepared in advance to invoke the Hannibal Directive.
At the same time, there's been levels of incompetence in this war. The hasbara, on things like the mass rapes claims, has been so bad it's been unofficially withdrawn.
Read The Dissident at Substack for details on much of this.
Two things are my focus.
Tankersley repeats the lies about the mass rapes, about anti-Israel media, and more. Here's the reality of how the US media has propagated these lies, from Mondoweiss.
It ignores (Tankersley is probably ignorant of, or else in denial of) Israel engaging in ethnic cleansing even before the Nakba, and other things.
Beyond that, it's simply laughable to read Tankersley blame postmodernism and other things. And, it's high-grade ignorance, probably self-willed, to claim Salvador Dali is a postmodernist. It's why he's not a secular humanist, and if Ed willingly ran this, he's not so secular humanist as he claims, in my book. As for those rantings, I've read Derrick Bell's "Silent Covenants," a seminal book in critical racial theory.
On the matter at hand?
My comments.
I should not and will not support genocide. Or Zionism like this in general. Or lies. Like the "mass rapes." Even Israel itself has, backhandedly, admitted these are lies. And lies they are. Read The Dissident, here on Substack. I've written about this occasionally, but he covers it in detail. Or read Mondoweiss. Or The Electronic Intifada. Or the lies of alleged anti-Israel media, even as Ellison fils has announced the leader of modern cancel culture, Bari Weiss, will run CBS News. I'll stand by Mondoweiss. And may just unsub from here. No, I'll almost certainly unsub. Ed may have some other good things, but I can't support hasbara lies. But I will share back the suggested reading of Mondoweiss as a website and the likes of Shlomo Sand and Ilan Pappe as authors.
That's the big one. Pappe? "The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine." Sand? "The Invention of the Jewish People." Zionists in Israel know both, though rejecting them. Zionists in the US generally don't even know who they are.
One respondent said they'd be looking to read Pappe for rebuttals. Well, THERE you go on reading with an open mind. He also claimed this wasn't a genocide or ethnic cleansing. Well, beyond Pappe, the UN, and the International Criminal Court, Ken Roth of Human Rights Watch says it is too, as does Phil Weiss of Mondoweiss. He probably claims they're self-hating Jews. And, yes, I've seen that phrase used since Oct. 7, 2023.
Ed himself had been losing me off and on, and the last piece of his own before giving Tankersley the reins pretty much completed the job outside of secular humanism broadly defined.
The second piece, directly refuting one of Tankersley's lies? Not only has CBS/Paramount acquired Bari Weiss' Substack empire, "The Free Press," she will RUN CBS NEWS! Yeah, anti-Israel media my ass. Most the mainstream media has yet to report that the alleged mass rapes were lies. Update: Nepo Baby David Ellison also wants to buy the already wingnut New York Post. The Post's own piece about that also discusses the Free Press acquisition, noting he paid 10x over Free Press earnings. 10x over EARNINGS, not profit.
Is Hamas perfect? Absolutely not. Is it tied to Iranian influence? No shit.
Does that Iranian influence help it maintain the power it does? Absolutely. Should it let go of that, for that reason? Absolutely not.
Did Israel help, if not create, then install, Hamas in Gaza under the old "divida et impera" maxim? Absolutely.
Has the US been hypocritical on Hamas, as far as presidents of both parties, like Dear Leader? Yes.
And, that's part of what irks me on this.
Hamas is the best option for Gazan Palestinians because Israel and the United States made it so, hoping it would be rejected. And, because it wasn't, and because Israeli apartheid made it an open-air prison, eventually something was going to "snap."
And, Israel was ready and willing and waiting for that.
On the Iran angle, this is not to justify Ayatollah Khamenei or the Revolutionary Guards, but why the hell would Iran trust the United States or Israel, let alone give up leverage in the Middle East, even as Turkish President Erdogan is a shit-faced liar playing one side, and half of the other, against the middle?
Otherwise, per Open Democracy? If the Israeli man or woman in the street is worried about security, then boot Netanyahu out.
And, otherwise? Stop lying about the mass rapes. Per the Dissident, linking to thorough refutation of that and a call for freelancers to boycott the New York Times opinion
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