@irgarner@HavryshkoMarta Why would anyone other than a Neo Nazi ideologue/apologist, go as far as threaten someone for pointing out the evidential fact that UAF insignia replicate precisely insignia of the Third Reich's SS, if they did not feel exposed as such.
@Tomthescribe@Jonathan_K_Cook You've just got look at the protagonists beyond the proxies to see the wood from the trees. Take the protests in Daraa, 2011 and Maidan coup in 2014. Israel and Ukraine are both supplicant to the US; parallels go back to perhaps the blueprint for regime change coups, Iran 1953
The BBC’s new blockbuster, three-part documentary on Israel-Palestine 'The Road to 7th October' is a travesty. It presents an all-too-familiar, dissembling story that goes like this:
The Palestinians are divided geographically and ideologically – how or why is never properly grappled with – between the incompetent, corrupt leadership of Fatah under Mahmoud Abbas in the West Bank, and the militant, terrorist leadership of Hamas in Gaza.
Israel tries various peace initiatives under leaders Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert. These failures propel the more hardline Benjamin Netanyahu to power.
The United States is the star of the show, of course. Its officials tell a story of Washington desperately trying to bring together the two parties, Israel and Fatah (the third party, Hamas, is intentionally sidelined), but finds itself constantly hamstrung by bad luck and the intransigence of those involved.
Yes, you read that right. This documentary really does resurrect the Washington as “honest broker” fiction – a myth that was supposed to have been laid to rest a quarter of a century ago, after the Oslo accords collapsed.
The film-makers are so lost to the reality in Israel and Palestine that they imagine they can credibly keep Washington perched on a pedestal even after we have all spent the past 16 months watching, first, President Biden arm Israel’s “plausible” genocide in Gaza, killing many tens of thousands of Palestinians, and then President Trump formulate an illegal plan to ethnically cleanse the enclave of its surviving Palestinian population to develop it as a luxury “waterfront property”.
This documentary excels at offering a detailed examination of tree bark without ever stepping back far enough to see the shape of the forest.
The words “apartheid”, “siege” and “colonialism” – the main lenses through which one can explain what has been happening to the Palestinian people for a century or more – do not figure at all.
There is a single allusion to the events of 1948, when a self-declared Jewish state was violently founded as a colonial project on the ruins of the Palestinians’ homeland.
Or as the documentary delicately puts it: “Millions of their people [the Palestinians] had been made refugees by decades of conflict.”
As ever, when the plight of the Palestinians is discussed, the passive voice is put to sterling use. Millions of Palestinians were accidentally ethnically cleansed, it seems. Who was responsible is a mystery.
In fact, most of Gaza’s population are descended from Palestinian families expelled by the newly declared state of Israel from their homes in 1948. They were penned up in a tiny piece of land by European colonisers in the same manner as earlier generations of European colonisers confined the Native Americans to reservations.
Even when the term “occupation” appears, as it does on the odd occasion, it is presented as some vague, unexamined, security-related problem the US, Israel and the Fatah leadership are engaged in trying to fix.
The settlements are mentioned too, but only as the backdrop to land-for-peace calculations that never come to fruition as the basis for an elusive “peace”.
In other words, this is the reheating of a phoney tale that Israel and the US have been trying to sell to western publics for many decades.
It was holed well below the water line last year by the International Court of Justice, the highest court in the world. It ruled that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem was illegal, that Israeli rule over the Palestinians was a form of apartheid, and that its illegal settlements needed to be dismantled immediately.
That is the forest all the documentary’s furious bark-studying is designed to avoid.
More from my latest article New BBC documentary 'The Road to 7th October' is an utter travesty can be read here: https://t.co/EnsZFnoRIQ
Genuinely amazing that UK military spending is still referred to as the "defence budget".
Even after they just spent £18 million of taxpayers money participating in a genocide.
The 11 political parties banned by the Zelensky regime include the party that came second at the last parliamentary election.
Another fact about Ukraine the media will not tell you.
I am calling for a full, public, independent inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Gaza.
We deserve to know the full scale of our government’s complicity in genocide.
If there is one thing we can thank US President Donald Trump for, it is this: he has decisively stripped away the ridiculous notion, long cultivated by western media, that the United States is a benign global policeman enforcing a "rules-based order".
Washington is better understood as the head of a gangster empire, embracing 800 military bases around the world. Since the end of the Cold War, it has been aggressively seeking "global full-spectrum domination", as the Pentagon doctrine politely terms it.
You either pay fealty to the Don or you get dumped in the river. Last Friday Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was presented with a pair of designer concrete boots at the White House.
The innovation was that it all happened in front of the western press corps, in the Oval Office, rather than in a back room, out of sight. It made for great television, Trump crowed.
Pundits have been quick to reassure us that the shouting match was some kind of weird Trumpian thing. As though being inhospitable to state leaders, and disrespectful to the countries they head, is unique to this administration.
Take just the example of Iraq. The administration of Bill Clinton thought it "worth it" – as his secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, infamously put it – to kill an estimated half a million Iraqi children by imposing draconian sanctions through the 1990s.
Under Clinton’s successor, George W Bush, the US then waged an illegal war in 2003, on entirely phoney grounds, that killed around half a million Iraqis, according to post-war estimates, and made four million homeless.
Those worrying about the White House publicly humiliating Zelensky might be better advised to save their concern for the hundreds of thousands of mostly Ukrainian and Russian men killed or wounded fighting an entirely unnecessary war – one, as we shall see, Washington carefully engineered through Nato over the preceding two decades.
All those casualties served the same goal as they did in Iraq: to remind the world who is boss.
Uniquely, western publics don’t understand this simple point because they live inside a disinformation bubble, created for them by the western establishment media.
Henry Kissinger, the long-time steward of US foreign policy, famously said: "It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal."
Zelensky just found that out the hard way. Gangster empires are just as fickle as the gangsters we know from Hollywood movies.
This is an extract from my latest article Yes, Trump is vulgar. But the US global shakedown is the same one as ever. Read more here:
https://t.co/gReuWX0nbC
No Other Land airs on Channel 4 at 11.15pm, Tuesday 4 March. Please share widely so as many people as possible can witness how Israel steals Palestinian land and destroys homes and lives, shown through the eyes of Basel, a Palestinian filmmaker, and Yuval, an Israeli journalist.
Bafta and Oscar winning : BEST DOCUMENTARY.
Oscar winners call Israel's actions "ethnic cleansing" and "apartheid" – and Hollywood agrees in front of a prime-time US audience.
Many decades too late, and in the midst of a genocide, but progress nonetheless.
Back in 2006, Israel used its blockade of Gaza to secretly put the population on a starvation 'diet', counting the calories allowed in so children there would become permanently hungry and malnourished.
As Susannah O'sullivan explains here, Israel has been using similar 'scientific' calculations – drawn from the same genocide playbook – to maximise the number of Palestinian children whose lives can be sacrificed in the pursuit of a lowly Hamas 'target'.
Read How Palestinian lives are reduced to a series of grotesque calculations here: https://t.co/wp8FNWMDEc
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