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THE TWO MEN BONDED OVER THEIR RACISM -- DENNY KAY'S BRIEF TERM AS MAYOR WAS NOTABLE ONLY FOR HIS SCAPEGOATING OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
REACHED FOR COMMENT BY THESE REPORTERS, DENNY K ADMITED THAT HE'S BEEN PUBLICLY LABELED A RACIST SINCE 1978 AND "SO WHAT? THAT'S WHAT RACIST JUNIOR AND I BONDED OVER. WELL . . . THAT . . . AND BUKHARI PORN. BUT WHAT DOES IT MATTER NOW THAT THEY'VE FIRED ME?"
REACED FOR COMMENT BY THESE REPORTERS, A VOLUNTEER WITH JUNIOR'S CAMPAIGN TOOK TIME AWAY FROM GOOGLING "HOW DOES A PENIS GET BROKEN" TO TELL US, "DENNIS KUCINICH IS NO LONGER WITH THE CAMPAIGN. WE LIKE ISSUED A PRESS STATEMENT OR SOMETHING. DO PENISES HAVE BONES IN THEM? CAN THE BONES BREAK? IS THAT WHY THEY'RE CALLED BONERS?"
Phyllis Bennis tells LAW AND DISORDER RADIO this morning, "I think what we're dealing with is a systemic level of oppression which has been going on, as you say, for 75 years. Actually, more than that, because colonization of historic Palestine began at the turn of the 20th century -- so even further than the 75 years ago when the state of Israel was created. But from that time, in the war between Israeli settlers and Palestinian indigenous people in 1947, 1948, at the end of that war about 750,000 Palestinians -- a huge percentage of the entire population -- had been expelled from their homes. They had been dispossessed of their homes, they had been driven out at gunpoint or frightened out with the threat of massacres that went on as part of the war. And many, many of the two million people who now live in Gaza are the descendents of those first refugees from what is now the state of Israel." LAW AND DISORDER RADIO will begin airing this week's broadcast on its home station of WBAI this morning at 11:00 am EST -- and it airs on many other radio stations around the country throughout the week.
Apparently Israel. He had a little plan for what Israel should do next.
On the front page of today’s New York Times website there is an editorial leading the Opinion section under the title, “Israel is fighting to defend a society that values human life.” An obvious question arises. What society is that? If you click through to the article itself a different title appears —“Israel Can Defend Itself and Uphold its Values.” Once again, an unintentional irony. But in fairness, you could argue that they are trying to appeal to people inside Israel who can be shamed.
Today’s editorial probably shows that the Times editors are in a panic about just how far Israel will go, and they are trying to rein them in using a method they hope will work — flattery. There are, of course, Israelis who do not wish to commit a second Nakba, but those in charge — well, who wants to bet on that?
In reality, Hamas attacked Israel and massacred 1,300 civilians, and Israel is responding with its own massive war crimes, which have already killed over 1,000 more civilians than Hamas did. And as detailed elsewhere on this site and even in the New York Times, it is committing war crimes. The Times is suggesting that Israel kill fewer people in a piece that whitewashes Israel’s record. You can read the piece for yourself if you have a subscription.
The “war of words” is as important as the battle itself. Propaganda is used to rally the troops, manage public perceptions and garner support. The maxim that “in war, truth is the first casualty,” accurately renders the corporate media’s weighted coverage of the 7 October attack by Hamas against the Israeli occupier.
Israel has firmly embedded the myth that it is a democratic, brave, vulnerable nation into the body politic of the United States. In their current war against the Palestinians, Tel Aviv has made sure to control the narrative and to silence dissenting voices. With the corporate media, they have established who matters, Israel, and who does not, the Palestinians.
The first casualties of the disinformation campaign have been the use of the words “war” and “conflict.” Oxford English Dictionary defines war as “a state of armed conflict between different nations or states or different groups within a nation or state.” Conflict is defined (dictionary.com) as a “struggle or clash between opposing forces.”
It is a distortion to say that what we have witnessed in Palestine is a war or a conflict. Both words imply a battle or struggle between equals or near equals, between two peoples with equal resources and claims.
As Israel conducts its aggression against the Palestinians in Gaza, the media continues to improperly frame the killing of the colonized by the Israeli colonizer as a war and/or conflict. CNN, MSNBC and National Public Radio, for example, have been using the promo, “Israel at War,” to entice viewers and listeners.
Tel Aviv has declared war on a political party, Hamas. The Gaza Strip—about the size of New Jersey— home to 2.3 million Palestinians, is not a nation or a state. It has been under Israeli military occupation and blockade and can best be described as an open-air prison. Until they were able to breach Israel’s high-tech security wall separating Gaza from Israel, Palestinian fighters were trapped behind it, making a land battle with the Israeli army impossible. The sensor-equipped, 20-foot high steel and concrete wall with remote-controlled weapon and radar systems, cameras and underground sensors is an “iron wall” around Gaza.
There is no symmetry between the overwhelming power of the Israeli war machine and Hamas. Hamas has no sizable army (estimates at 40,000 fighters) no air force or navy. It relies on missiles, drones and hand gliders. Israel has the fourth largest army in the world (169,500 active duty and 360,000 reservists), a fleet of U.S.-made F-15, F-16 and F-35 fighter jets, 2,200 tanks, as well as sophisticated missile, drone and surveillance technology able to pinpoint and destroy individual targets.
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