Richard, that statement about “Jews are running everything” has been said for eons. All I know is that we have to remind people that Hamas committed atrocities to innocent people. They started this war. Unfortunately, the Palestinians are caught in the middle and that isn’t fair. I can’t stand Netanyahu nor the Likud Party. To me, they are as much fascists as the ones we have in our country.
Richard, that statement about “Jews are running everything” has been said for eons. All I know is that we have to remind people that Hamas committed atrocities to innocent people. They started this war. Unfortunately, the Palestinians are caught in the middle and that isn’t fair. I can’t stand Netanyahu nor the Likud Party. To me, they are as much fascists as the ones we have in our country.
Oh yeah I entirely agree, it's crucial to distinguish whatever Netanyahu's self-serving motives are, from the legal case under the Genocide convention that fails against Israel, and HAMAS is unfortunately "popular" amongst Palestinians according to polling data, sure, but we have NO IDEA what some of those same people being polled would say if HAMAS wasn't able to imprison or kill them for stating their opposition, either. There haven't been elections in Gaza since September, 2006 - HAMAS hasn't allowed them! The news coverage does.not.even.make.that.clear. Think about that!
I just heard a farcical line of preposterous bilge (in fact it may still be on the BBC World News overnight broadcast) presided over by "Paul Henley" featuring "Ali" or ("Ollie") "Hayns" (?) or "Haines? Haynes?" - the latter identified only as a "free-lance journalist," a completely one sided line of anti-Israeli propaganda lauding the "symbolic importance" of South Africa being the nation behind the 82 paged "cogently reasoned (sic)" brief charging ISRAEL with "genocide" in Gaza.* There was also a telling snort of derision from Henley vis-a-vis a separate discussion about US "soft power" being promoted via music, "Do you think anyone in MOSCOW cares about that?" (i.e., cares that this or that musician or music originates in the US) - again, as IF Muscovites are free to publicly praise the US! And as IF there is no sub rosa opposition IN MOSCOW to Putin!
I will be investigating who the hell Henley and the other propagandist are over the next days/weeks/months because of course I will.
I'll stop posting links here, there is an entire page (and a huge archive) of devastating rebuttals to BBC, Guardian, Sky News, and Times (of London) obfuscations, non fact-checked reporting, and worse biased reporting errors. I started reading the material on this website's predecessor in 2009-2010, when it mainly focused on the Guardian's "Comment is Free" section and other Guardian articles. The Guardian no longer even features a regular "Comment is Free" section, and I for one can explain that succinctly and accurately: the readership overall, collectively, did such an effective job of refuting the incredible b.s. the Guardian routinely featured in that era that the G just stopped providing a forum for it. Now they allow comments under SOME articles, and like the bad old days, immediately jump in to close down the comments once a trend emerges that exposes one of their hare-brained dogmatic "identity politics" darlings of the moment as full of beans, or there's some similarly obvious and embarrassing slapdown. What must have really bugged them was that some of the most scathing responses were not only deserved, but that they came from solid progressive "left wingers" espousing universal human rights, opposition to global oppression of women, ethnic minorities, and against the forces promoting what amounts to global ecocide. Conservatives or actual right-wingers complaining wouldn't bother them nearly as much, and I admit it's strange to ever find oneself on "the same side" as someone like Netanyahu, but he's simply "doing the right thing by accident, by fortuitous happenstance," what else can he do but respond to assert Israel's self-defense rights, anyway?
Richard, that statement about “Jews are running everything” has been said for eons. All I know is that we have to remind people that Hamas committed atrocities to innocent people. They started this war. Unfortunately, the Palestinians are caught in the middle and that isn’t fair. I can’t stand Netanyahu nor the Likud Party. To me, they are as much fascists as the ones we have in our country.
Oh yeah I entirely agree, it's crucial to distinguish whatever Netanyahu's self-serving motives are, from the legal case under the Genocide convention that fails against Israel, and HAMAS is unfortunately "popular" amongst Palestinians according to polling data, sure, but we have NO IDEA what some of those same people being polled would say if HAMAS wasn't able to imprison or kill them for stating their opposition, either. There haven't been elections in Gaza since September, 2006 - HAMAS hasn't allowed them! The news coverage does.not.even.make.that.clear. Think about that!
I just heard a farcical line of preposterous bilge (in fact it may still be on the BBC World News overnight broadcast) presided over by "Paul Henley" featuring "Ali" or ("Ollie") "Hayns" (?) or "Haines? Haynes?" - the latter identified only as a "free-lance journalist," a completely one sided line of anti-Israeli propaganda lauding the "symbolic importance" of South Africa being the nation behind the 82 paged "cogently reasoned (sic)" brief charging ISRAEL with "genocide" in Gaza.* There was also a telling snort of derision from Henley vis-a-vis a separate discussion about US "soft power" being promoted via music, "Do you think anyone in MOSCOW cares about that?" (i.e., cares that this or that musician or music originates in the US) - again, as IF Muscovites are free to publicly praise the US! And as IF there is no sub rosa opposition IN MOSCOW to Putin!
I will be investigating who the hell Henley and the other propagandist are over the next days/weeks/months because of course I will.
* https://camera-uk.org/2023/12/13/bbcs-paul-adams-amplifies-hamas-propaganda/
https://camera-uk.org/2023/05/09/palestinian-casualties-in-2023-the-facts/
https://camera-uk.org/2024/01/05/bbc-news-reporting-on-saleh-al-arouri-highlights-years-of-omission/
https://camera-uk.org/2024/01/05/weekend-long-read-388/
I'll stop posting links here, there is an entire page (and a huge archive) of devastating rebuttals to BBC, Guardian, Sky News, and Times (of London) obfuscations, non fact-checked reporting, and worse biased reporting errors. I started reading the material on this website's predecessor in 2009-2010, when it mainly focused on the Guardian's "Comment is Free" section and other Guardian articles. The Guardian no longer even features a regular "Comment is Free" section, and I for one can explain that succinctly and accurately: the readership overall, collectively, did such an effective job of refuting the incredible b.s. the Guardian routinely featured in that era that the G just stopped providing a forum for it. Now they allow comments under SOME articles, and like the bad old days, immediately jump in to close down the comments once a trend emerges that exposes one of their hare-brained dogmatic "identity politics" darlings of the moment as full of beans, or there's some similarly obvious and embarrassing slapdown. What must have really bugged them was that some of the most scathing responses were not only deserved, but that they came from solid progressive "left wingers" espousing universal human rights, opposition to global oppression of women, ethnic minorities, and against the forces promoting what amounts to global ecocide. Conservatives or actual right-wingers complaining wouldn't bother them nearly as much, and I admit it's strange to ever find oneself on "the same side" as someone like Netanyahu, but he's simply "doing the right thing by accident, by fortuitous happenstance," what else can he do but respond to assert Israel's self-defense rights, anyway?