In the world of patronage, it doesn’t get much worse. The United States is at Israel’s elbow—it is a cobelligerent: In actively sustaining Israel’s armed forces, and running diplomatic interference for its politicians; America is acting as Israel’s “ principal sponsor ,” complicit in war crimes, signaling to the Jewish State that it will let it
Over and above industrial-scale mass murder of individual people—Israel is engaged in the eradication of Gazans as a People. Inarguably, to condemn Israel’s industrial-scale campaign of slaughter and starvation in Gaza ought to be ethically straightforward. Basic really. That Israel is committing the “the crime of all crimes” against the
Why, then, are Israel’s 2023-2024 actions in Gaza genocidal? In a November 14, 2023 essay, “ Bibi Netanyahu May Find Himself In the Dock, In The Hague ,” your columnist explained why, logically at least, Israel has met the threshold for criminal intent, mens rea . “If you know in advance that your actions will cause the deaths of
“Genocide Joe” and the foreign agents knowns as the “ American Israel Public Affairs Committee ( AIPAC ), whose Israel-First focus makes them a fifth column; Trump with Jared Kushner and his better-half: These are America’s 2024 election options. The Biden- AIPAC bloc has begun whispering sweet nothings in the ears of Israel’s Benny Gantz
American foreign policy is a museum of horrors in which Gaza 2023/2024 is the main exhibit. It is my conviction that Gaza is much more than just one more American foreign-policy failure, an event and topic to swill around like mouth wash, spit out and move on, once the usual “ tsk, tsk ” bromides have been disgorged. Uncle Sam’s usual deathly
Israel is engaged in the mother of all performative contradictions: denying genocide, while committing genocide, all the while demanding the right to genocide. The Jewish State is genocidal not because it has been denounced as “genocidal” by ostensible “antisemites” and “terrorist sympathizers,” but by virtue of its actions. Israel is genocidal by
The individual’s natural right to life antedates the state apparatus. Let us not commit the Sin of Abstraction—the sin of escaping into theory, and in so doing, avoiding reality—the reality of Israel’s real sins, real crimes, the crime of all crimes. When Americans reflect on history’s tragedies and travesties, they habitually extol the virtue of
The totem words and adjectives we use to describe Israel, a perverse and pornographically murderous society, fail. One day flows into the next, each indistinguishable in the level of sadistic torture and carnage dreamed up by the IDF Einsatzgruppen . As televised vignettes at July’s end showed, the Israelis, a “bizarre specimen of moral laxity,”
If it is portrayed as a war crime; genocide—the methodical, malicious murder of the many—can be dismissed as incidental to battle; a mere case of, “Oops, bad things happen in war.” You hear the last phrase all the time from Israel’s supporters, as they gush their enthusiasm for the state’s crimes. The genocide-as-a-war-crime conceptualization
As fast as a snake’s thrust, Israel has taken the methods of mass murder used against Gaza’s civilians to the West Bank, to Lebanon and Syria, to Yemen and beyond. It is now launching about for the next country to attack, Iran . This is the bloodiest in Israeli criminal annals. Still, it is the consensus among the best of people , pure-hearted
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