Imagine if Iran bombed Tel Aviv. The world would denounce it. Washington would offer military aid. Israel would immediately strike Iran over and over again.
Instead, because it's Israel bombing Iran, it's written like this.
The final destruction of Palestinian statehood and identity is upon us, but you would never know that from reading the western press.
It's not just Russia and China. Washington is looking to take on the largest nation in the Middle East as well.
LATEST UPDATE RW FOLDS. Jerusalem Maarch canceled.
Naftali Bennet is poised to replace Benjamin Netanyahu as Prime Minister this week.
Naftali Bennet is as Right Wing as Bibi, maybe worse. True or False? True.
So, WTF is happening? How can there be a meaningful change?
No, I'm not talking about anti-BDS laws. That's veto rights over domestic policy.
Nope. I'm talking about veto power over U.S. foreign policy.
Two weeks ago Benjamin Netanyahu became the first serving Israeli prime minister to go on trial. And yet, this is NOT the most important or interesting thing happening in Israel right now.
I listen to the conversation on truthdig between Robert Scheer and Max Blumenthal and think it is very interesting, as it explains a lot of Max Blumenthal's experiences while grwoing up and living in Washington DC with his parents Sidney and Jaqueline Blumenthal, He was a journalist, an advisor to Bill Clinton and confidant to Hillary Clinton, alos employed to the Clinton Foundation.
If you ever wondered what would happen to the Internet during World War Three, here are two bookend news stories about how information is already being controlled at both ends.
The International Criminal Court has been on the brink of irrelevancy. After all, you can't have justice without occasionally angering the powerful. Until this week the powerful didn't care about the ICC.
Then this happened.
