On the subject of “pro-Israel Propaganda-Lies vs. Reality, just shared here: Pro-Israel Propaganda-Lies vs. Reality
And we know what Roberts and other Republicans have in store for anyone diverging from their Israeli Fascist fanaticism; they’ll crucify them! At least figuratively and politically; just look at the “Squad,” as a standing lesson to Biden, or any other Democrat (no such Republicans out there).
Nobody tops the U.S. NewRight/Right-wing Peaceniks, with Heritage President Kevin Roberts at the top with Ron DeSantis and Donald Trump, with the other Republicans right there with them, as on full display at the RJC event this weekend. But with that, let me nominate Kevin Roberts, so beloved by The American Conservative magazine and Responsible Statecraft, for the very top of that shameful list, as can be seen below:
Being of like mind with right-wing campaign manager Arthur Finkelstein, with his “Six-Party Theory” that one must analyze politics by recognizing the separate and individual factions making up the larger body, or “Party.” Though in vehement disagreement with his right-wing fanaticism manifested in getting Republican and Likud candidates elected. Most prominently Netanyahu and before he was delivered to any hell that should have been reserved for him, Trump, in 2016 (running against a “Trumpette” for the Democrats, as a fellow, but rival, Goldwaterite).
But even when there is not “difference in kind,” there is still usually “difference in degree.” So Biden and the Democrats may not be different in kind from the even more fanatical, warmongering Republicans, but there is a “difference in degree.” I mean, it's the difference between a totally starved, dehydrated, Gaza Palestinian, as Netanyahu and the Republicans demand. And, if one is ‘“lucky,” one who at least gets a taste of the smidgeon of aid allowed into Gaza as Biden asked for. A “difference in degree,” though not in kind. Then, as the self-identified, “Third-Force,” and Right-wing Peaceniks, comes Kevin Roberts of the Heritage Foundation, representing not only a “difference in degree,” but an entirely “difference in kind,” of the sort, given Halloween is tomorrow, that can be analogized to an ordinary human being, compared to an all-out monster, like Dracula, skilled in the same “dark-arts” of diabolical deception for the most evil of reasons. Like here:
And for more context, as he’s President of this hellacious war-worshipping think-tank, here:
and here, with his fellow “Right-wing Peacenik, Chip Roy:
So let’s not have any more “antisemitism” here of the kind that so appalls Right-wing Peacenik Kevin Roberts, and the New Right represented this weekend at the RJC. That is, meaning any dissent from Right-wing Israeli/US genocidal policy against the Palestinians, especially from the "anti-semitic” Jewish Voice for Peace” group:
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@KevinRobertsTX · 2h The appalling antisemitic protests on college campuses since the Oct. 7th Hamas terrorist attacks represent just how rotten the academy is in our country.
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@KevinRobertsTX · 2h Instead of teaching the Judeo-Christian values of true tolerance and respect for life, our young people are being indoctrinated in the terrorists’ genocidal hate towards Jews as the ultimate oppressors in a warped world view informed by Critical Race Theory.
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@KevinRobertsTX · 2h Taxpayer dollars should not be hijacked to fund this kind of hate. Institutions that fail to denounce this malignant offshoot of the terrorist evil that burst out of Gaza and maimed, tortured, took captive, and murdered innocents should have all Federal funding suspended.
It should be needless to say, Roberts is adored at this, now, Straussian infested magazine:
For his zeal for war against China and Iran, and American dissenters, self-evidently, with this sophisticated, high-level, “cognitive operation speech.” And I know “cognitive warfare” when I see it, having experienced it so much at Guantanamo, directed at us defense attorneys.
On Oct 30, 2023, at 5:53 PM, Chas Freeman via Salon <salon@listserve.com> wrote:
Israel-Palestine war: Western powers giving 'warrant for genocide', says prominent Israeli historian
Avi Shlaim told an audience in London that the international community was guilty of 'hypocrisy and ruthless double standards'
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speak at 'The War on Gaza: What's Next for Palestine?' event, hosted by
the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians, on 30 October 2023
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Published date: 30 October 2023
Western powers are giving Israel a "warrant for genocide" in the Gaza Strip, a prominent Israeli historian has warned. Avi Shlaim, a prominent Israeli-British historian and emeritus
professor of international relations at Oxford University, told an
audience in London that US, UK, and European Union support for Israel -
including military support - have made them complicit in "mass
slaughter" in the Gaza Strip. "The Western response to the crisis is the usual hypocrisy and
ruthless double standards, but this time it’s been taken to a new level.
The western love of Israel has always been accompanied, has always
depended on the erasing of Palestinian history and humanity," he said at an event on Monday, hosted by the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP). "Deep concern for Israel’s security is reiterated at all times by
western leaders - but not a thought is given to Palestinian security." The event, 'The War on Gaza: What's Next for Palestine?', also
featured Daniel Levy, a negotiator for the Israeli side during the Oslo
Accords; Wadah Khanfar, president of Al Sharq Forum and former director
general of Al Jazeera; and Yasmine Ahmed, UK Director of Human Rights
Watch; and was chaired by Middle East Eye’s Mohamed Hassan. Shlaim was born in 1945 in Baghdad, to well-connected parents who
were part of Iraq's millennia-old Jewish minority. But at the age of
five, Shlaim was forced to flee with his family, following bombings
targeting Jewish people in the Iraqi capital. As one of the "New Historians" in Israel, he was part of a group that
reassessed the history of the country and often shined a light on the
repression of the Palestinians. Speaking on Monday, Shlaim said that Palestinians' resistance had
been "decontextualised and dehistoricised" and that media and political
coverage of the ongoing violence in Gaza largely ignored the situation
prior to the Hamas operation in southern Israel on 7 October. "The Israel-Hamas conflict did not begin on 7 October. In June 1967,
Israel occupied not just Gaza, but the West Bank and Jerusalem. This is
the most protracted and brutal military occupation of modern times," he
said. "Israeli generals have a phrase – mowing the lawn. It’s a chilling
metaphor, what it means is they have no solution to the problem, but
every few years the IDF moves in with the most advanced weaponry, they
smash up the place, degrade the military capabilities of Hamas...it’s a
mechanical action that you do periodically every few years. "So there’s no end to the bloodshed and the next war is always around the corner."
At least 8,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israeli bombardment
since 7 October, which came as retaliation for an assault by Hamas that
day in which around 1,400 Israelis died and more than 220 were taken captive. Approximately 70 percent of the Palestinians killed are women and children. The chief of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (Unrwa) said
at a Security Council meeting on Monday that Palestinians in the
besieged Gaza Strip are facing forced displacement and collective
punishment. In the same meeting on Monday, Unicef’s executive director Catherine
Russell said over 420 children are killed or injured in Gaza every day. Because of the lack of clean water and safe sanitation, Gaza “is on
the verge of becoming a catastrophe”, she said, adding that people are
at risk of dehydration and water-borne diseases. She added that there is only one desalination plant in Gaza, which is
operating at five percent capacity. All six of Gaza’s water-waste
treatment plants are currently non-operational, she said. Hospitals across Gaza have reached a breaking point and are
dangerously overcrowded. Almost 1.4 million people in Gaza are now
internally displaced, and thousands have taken shelter in hospitals. Since Israel cut off all electricity, fuel and water to the besieged
enclave on 9 October, hospitals have been overwhelmed with a lack of
life-saving resources, a high volume of critically wounded patients, and
thousands of people seeking shelter. The hospitals that are still working are running on generators, which health officials say won't last long. US President Joe Biden has, however, repeatedly resisted calls for a
ceasefire in Gaza, while calling for aid to be allowed into the besieged
enclave. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby also told journalists
on Tuesday that "a ceasefire right now really only benefits Hamas". At the event on Monday, Khanfar - who was born in Jenin in the
occupied West Bank - said he had not been able to return to his homeland
in 30 years, but he hoped that at the end of the current violence,
there could be new opportunities for a long-term resolution. “We need a new imagination where people could live in peace, and
where people could be equal and could have the right to dignity and the
right to be respected as humans in that land,” he said. “Out of this black moment, we could really start thinking about something new.”
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