Middle East

“In Lebanon Carnage, Biden Deepens US ‘Obligation’ to Israeli Aggression”” — by Aaron Maté

Israel has killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, emboldening a US-backed war for hegemony in which Arab civilians are an open Israeli target.

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

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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PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Banality of Propaganda

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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“Widening the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Yellow Journalism Stoking Potential War on Iran” — Jeremy Kuzmarov

[Source: timetoast.com]. The Wall Street JournalBlames Iran For Helping to Plot Tribe of Nova Massacre When This is Uncorroborated

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“Hezbollah Defeated Israel in 2006 — Can It Again?” — by John Wright

March 2011: Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz at a military drill by a battalion of the Golani Brigade in northern Israel. (Israel Defense Forces , Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0). The welter of analyses by pro-Israel think tanks across the West on the coming conflict between the Shia resistance movement and the IDF has missed a crucial factor, writes John Wight.

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Source of Dubious ‘Beheaded Babies’ Claim is Israeli Settler Leader Who Incited Riots to ‘Wipe Out’ Palestinian Village — by Max Blumenthal & Alexander Rubinstein

After an Israeli reserve soldier named David Ben Zion told a reporter Palestinian militants “cut [off] heads of babies,” Biden, Netanyahu, and the international media amplified the dubious claim.
The Grayzone has identified Ben Zion as a fanatical settler leader who incited riots by demanding a Palestinian town be “wiped out.”

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“Israeli Propaganda on Muslim Womens’ Rights” — by Ramzy Baroud

Israel’s U.N. Ambassador Gilad Erdan in July, during a Security Council meeting on the Middle East. (UN Photo/Loey Felipe). Tel Aviv and Washington try to hijack the internal social and political struggles of Arab and Muslim societies for their own sinister reasons, writes Ramzy Baroud.

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“UN Committee Releases Exhaustive Study on The Legality of Israel’s Occupation” — by Jeff Wright

Israeli soldiers in the West Bank village of Kafr Dan in Jenin, on January 2, 2023, during an operation to demolish the homes of two Palestinians. (Photo: Ahmed Ibrahim/APA Images)
ISRAELI SOLDIERS IN THE WEST BANK VILLAGE OF KAFR DAN IN JENIN, ON JANUARY 2, 2023, DURING AN OPERATION TO DEMOLISH THE HOMES OF TWO PALESTINIANS. (PHOTO: AHMED IBRAHIM/APA IMAGES). “The study is the most comprehensive and persuasive analysis of why the Israel occupation has now become illegal,” says former UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk. “It will be the intellectual and political touchstone on Palestine and international law for some time.”

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“AS’AD AbuKHALIL: Arab Apathy on Israeli Protests” — by As ‘ ad AbuKhalil

Protesters again judicial reforms block Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv on March 26. (Oren Rozen, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 ). The divide in Israel today is between the right and the far right — those who want to repress the Palestinians and those who want to repress the Palestinians even more. For that reason, Arabs regard the protests as irrelevant to their lives.

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“Secret Pakistan Cable Documents U.S. Pressure To Remove Imran Khan” — by Ryan Grim & Murtaza Hussein

Imran Khan, Pakistan's former prime minister, during an interview in Lahore, Pakistan, on Friday June 2, 2023. Khan said Pakistan's military establishment wanted to stop his opposition party from winning the next election, paving the way for a weak government as the country seeks to stave off a financial crisis. Photographer: Betsy Joles/Bloomberg via Getty Images
Imran Khan, Pakistan’s former prime minister, during an interview in Lahore, Pakistan, on June 2, 2023. Photo: Betsy Joles/Bloomberg via Getty Images

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