Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows he runs the U.S. government no matter which party is in power, but the increased likelihood of a Donald Trump presidency has leaders even less interested in a ceasefire deal with Hamas than before—with Bullshit Biden.
Hezbollah, the Lebanese group locked in a slow-burning war with Israel over the genocide in Gaza, announced Saturday that the IDF’s decision to strike a major port in Yemen over a drone strike in Tel Aviv was an unnecessary escalation and “a signal for the beginning of a new and dangerous phase” of the war expanding.
The extremist Israeli Knesset last week passed a resolution opposing Palestinian statehood despite 145 countries that now identify Palestine as a state.
Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, said last week that while Lebanon is looking to avoid war with Israel, there are suspicions that “some circles in Israel are trying to achieve just that.”
Antonio Guterres, the UN secretary-general last week called the humanitarian crisis in Gaza a “moral stain on us all” and warned that the humanitarian support system in Gaza is about to collapse.
The UN ambassador from Brazil on Wednesday called for an end to weapon shipments into Israel as the Netanyahu government carries out its attempt at ethnic cleansing inside the enclave.
U.S. President Joe Biden was roundly mocked last week after saying in an interview that he has done “more for the Palestinian community than anybody.”
Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, posted a video of violent Israeli land-stealers—known in the U.S. media as “settlers”—brutally beating Palestinians in the West Bank with batons who had been sitting outside their homes.
The International Court of Justice ruled Friday that Israel’s continued occupation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem is a “de facto annexation” enforced through “systemic discrimination, segregation, and apartheid.”
In a recent article discussing how U.S. Treasury Department tax breaks are exploited by groups that raise money in America in support of the Israeli so-called Defense Forces (IDF), I concluded that it does not require any particular brilliance on the part of even a casual observer to realize that both politically and economically Israel and Israelis are not treated like everyone else by governments at various levels in the United States, quite the contrary in many cases.