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“Second Nakba; Same Israeli Lies; Same Western Narrative” — by Johnathan Cook

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Gazans outside Indonesian Hospital in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip, on October 9, 2023, following Israeli airstrikes. (Palestinian News & Information Agency. or Wafa, in contract with APAimages, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0). Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing inside Gaza and yet, just as during the first “Nakba,” Israel’s lies and deceptions dominate the West’s media and political narrative, writes Jonathan Cook.
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“India’s Massive Shift in Military Policy” — by M.K. Bhadrakumar

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U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin on the red carpet in New Delhi on Nov. 9. (DoD, Chad J. McNeeley). After the meeting of U.S. and Indian foreign and defence ministers, M.K. Bhadrakumar says Delhi is shedding its strategic ambivalence and joining Washington‘s adversarial stance on China.
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“Israeli Deceit & the Ongoing Battle of Shifa Hospital” — Gareth Porter

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Medic carrying injured Palestinian child into al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City following an Israeli airstrike on Oct. 11. (Atia Darwish, Palestinian News & Information Agency — Wafa — for APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0). This is a breaking story. Please come back for updates.
Biden defends Israel incursion into al-Shifa hospital against Hamas ‘headquarters’ — The Hill. “You have a circumstance where the first war crime is being committed by Hamas by having their headquarters, their military, hidden under a hospital. And that’s a fact, that’s what’s happened,” Biden said on Wednesday.
Nearly 24 hours after hospital raid no command centre, hostages, Hamas fighters nor arsenal is found — POLITICO (AP)
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“PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Banality of Propaganda” — by Patrick Lawerence

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Israeli soldiers in the ruins of Gaza on Oct. 31. (IDF Spokesperson’s Unit, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0). The annals of the awful art — Hitler’s, Mussolini’s, Japan’s and America’s during World War II — show that it does not have to be sophisticated. The Israeli president’s display of Mein Kampf just proved that again.
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“The ‘Genocide Moment’” —by Gareth Porter

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Palestinians in the ruins after an Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza strip on Oct. 8. (Mahmoud Fareed, Palestinian News & Information Agency or Wafa, in contract with APAimages, CC BY-SA 3.0). Gaza’s utter devastation and masses of civilians facing death from bombardment and deliberate starvation already presents the world with a spectacle of mass murder of unspeakable proportions, writes Gareth Porter.
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“A Growing Number of Reports Indicate Israeli Forces Responsible for Israeli Civilian and Military Deaths Following October 7 Attack” — Orinoco Tribune Staff

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Israeli soldiers drive along the border with Gaza near the Southern city of Ofakim, October 11, 2023. Photo: Abir sultan/Efe via Zuma Press/APA images.
Israeli soldiers drive along the border with Gaza near the Southern city of Ofakim, October 11, 2023. Photo: Abir sultan/Efe via Zuma Press/APA images. Many details of what transpired on October 7 continue to be shrouded in mystery, including how the 1,400 Israelis who died were killed. A growing number of reports indicate the Israeli military was responsible for civilian and military deaths.
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“Israeli Targets Journalists, Kills Their Families as Big Tech & Biden Admin Silence Palestinians” — Wyatt Reed

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Palestinian journalist Wael Dahdouh cradles his child, killed by Israel while he was on air, October. With Israeli airstrikes on Gaza killing at least twenty Palestinian journalists—and the Biden administration working to muzzle others—Big Tech is quietly coordinating with Tel Aviv to muzzle Palestinian media outfits.
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“AP erases Israeli Pledge to Attack Gaza like ‘Axis Power’ as Officials Threaten Palestinians with ‘Dresden’ Doctrine” — Jeremy Kuzmarov

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As Israeli officials proudly compare their bombardment of the Gaza Strip to the Allied firebombing of Dresden, the Associated Press has quietly removed a section noting US alarm over the historical comparison.
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