THE renowned writer Arthur Koestler warned a decade ago that Israel risked becoming “a nasty little Sparta”. Ten years later Israel, grown rich on US ...
Besides women and children, journalists and media workers have also died in the Gaza war. – REUTERSPICrenowned writer Arthur Koestler warned a decade ago that Israel risked becoming “a nasty little Sparta”. Ten years later Israel, grown rich on US military and financial aid, has become a very nasty big Sparta.
Moderate pro-Israel groups have been marginalised. Those in the media have been sidelined or fired. It is the McCarthyism of the 21st century. As the great Mark Twain said, if you do not read the US media you are uninformed. If you do follow America’s media, you are misinformed. The US, which has been supplying Israel with 2,000lbs bombs and targeting information has resorted to the public relations stunt of air-dropping stale sandwiches to the famine-stricken Palestinian refugees.
We still know next to nothing about the Oct 7 attack on Israelis that triggered this conflict. I will not call it a war since it pits only lightly armed civilians against the mighty, US-supplied and directed Israeli armed forces. The lines of burned-out cars around where the initial Hamas attacks occurred look very much like the result of air attacks. We need to know more.
Israel’s far-right coalition, whom the illustrious journalist Uri Avnery calls “Jewish Nazis”, appears firmly in power. Netanyahu has so far avoided criminal proceedings by stoking the war in Gaza. The US has been waging a medium-intensity war against Iran, which threatened America’s Mideast empire and which I call “the American Raj”.
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