Remember how American politicians and the media keep selling the tale that Israel is a democracy that has the right to defend itself and as U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken says, “As long as there is the United States Israel will never be alone”?
Tag: Hamas
UN CHIEF CALLS GAZA DEATH TOLL ‘HEARTBREAKING’ AS NUMBER SURPASSES 25 THOUSAND
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres took the unusual step on Sunday to criticize Israel for the “heartbreaking” death toll in Gaza, stating that the military operations there “have spread mass destruction and killed civilians on a scale unprecedented” during his tenure as head of the world body.
ISRAELI GOVERNMENT CREATED, FUNDED HAMAS TO COUNTER PALESTINIAN AUTHORITY: TOP EUROPEAN DIPLOMAT
Josep Borrell, the European Union’s foreign policy head, said in a speech last week that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been opposed to a two-state solution for 30 years, and it was Israel that created Hamas.
REPORTS ON ALLEGATIONS OF HAMAS RAPES SCRUTINIZED
Max Blumenthal is editor at The Grayzone. Having spent time in Israel and Palestinian-occupied territory, Blumenthal who is Jewish—so he cannot be labeled an anti-Semite by those who support Israel’s wars and stealing Palestinian land in the name of “settlements”—has long been critical of Israeli actions.
HEZBOLLAH HEAD SAYS ISRAEL’S DRONE STRIKE THAT KILLED SENIOR HAMAS LEADER IN BEIRUT WILL NOT GO UNPUNISHED
Hassan Nasrallah, the Hezbollah leader, gave an extensive speech last week after an Israel drone strike killed a top Hamas official in Beirut, Lebanon, and said the attack will not “go unanswered or unpunished.”
HAMAS HIDING IN GRAVES? ISRAELI FORCES RAZE CEMETERIES IN GAZA
Satellite and video images show Israeli forces targeted cemeteries in northern Gaza in recent weeks—in Israel’s latest attempt to punish the civilian population over the 7 October Hamas attack.
WHITE HOUSE BRUSHES OFF BIDEN’S COMMENT ON ISRAEL’S INDISCRIMINATE BOMBING IN GAZA
John Kirby, the spokesman for the White House National Security Council, did his best last week to play down President Joe Biden’s comment that Israel has been conducting “indiscriminate bombing” in Gaza.
ISRAEL POLITICIAN CALLS FOR GENOCIDE: BURY PALESTINIANS ALIVE
Aryeh Yitzhak King, the far-right deputy mayor of Jerusalem who represents the mindset of Israel’s extremist Knesset, posted on X on Friday that the IDF should save itself the trouble and just bury alive hundreds of captured Palestinians.
ISRAEL KEEPS KILLING PALESTINIANS AND UN’S UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS DOCTRINE
Lynn Hastings, the UN’s humanitarian coordinator in the Palestinian territories, marked the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with a somber update about the Israel campaign in Gaza and how things could have been different.
ISRAEL’S WAR OF DECISION
According to Omer Bartov, a strong supporter of Israel and an astute observer of events since October 7, “In brief, Israel seems to have no political plan and a very hazardous military one. It can only blame itself—not least Netanyahu, but also the military leadership—for having arrived at this point.”