On Israel, Hamas, and the Israeli hostages
Was there any mention of releasing the “Sausage’s” but seriously did he [Starmer]? (the Hostages?)
John JewellHave a read, think, question your belief system …
– The United States has given its imprimatur to Israel’s regional hegemony.
– When Trump made plain that he wanted Israel to stop bombing [Iran], Netanyahu had little choice but to acquiesce.
– Israel also appears to be pursuing a long-range plan to weaken, if not to render defenceless, the other states in the region, so that none is in a position to challenge it. The instability and precariousness of such an order are evident to American and European politicians, but they prefer to remain discreet about them for fear of being accused of sympathy for Hamas or antisemitism.
– Israel now has control of the airspace over Iran, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria – almost boundless room for manoeuvre – and has always favoured unilateral military assertion over diplomacy.
– Netanyahu and the Israeli political establishment don’t seem concerned about these diplomatic costs – or about the collapse of the country’s ‘moral reputation’ as a result of the wanton destruction of Gaza. They simply shrug off the criticisms; after all, they say, the world is against us. In fact, Israel still has the governments of the US and most of the West behind it.
– It hasn’t escaped Palestinians’ notice that Israel’s strikes against Gaza have been far less precise than its strikes against Iran and Lebanon: a measure of the contempt in which they are held.
– Measured against the standards of the French army in Algeria, ‘the Israeli army pales.’
– Israel has set itself on a trajectory for which it has no solutions other than a final solution, and final solutions aren’t easy to implement.
– ‘In a world where the right and far right are on the rise everywhere’, Israel has found it easier to evade criticism since it discovered a growing number of admirers in the West, Latin America and India of its model of ethnonationalism, racial discrimination and reliance on brute force.
– The 7 October attack was ‘the most catastrophic miscalculation in the history of anticolonial struggle’. A strong case can be made that it has set back the Palestinian struggle for the foreseeable future.
– The authoritarian, increasingly fascist drift of Israeli politics, which long predates 7 October, is horrifying but not surprising.
– It’s extremely difficult to imagine the dismantling of Israel’s apartheid system, or to imagine a serious challenge to its domination emerging anytime soon. In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier. [a summary from Adam Shatz on LRB, with adaptation]
John Jewell denial. It was not about the hostages, it has never been
Ned Ma Another filthy terrorist and rapist supporter
Robert Windsor is one of the most intelligent people around. He has just stunned me by his higher education skills. He told me that he did International Relations at the London School of Economics and taught by Fred Halliday, who was a prominet scholar of the Middle East and taught at LSE for 18 years. Halliday was Robert's supervisor. Robert's PhD thesis was about 'Rape and Filthy Terrorism'.
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