The report was subjected to last-minute edits and script changes by self-avowed “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss, the CBS editor-in-chief who has made sweeping changes at the network since her hiring last fall. The story had been in the works for months, and prior to Weiss joining CBS
The world’s attention is captured by newer wars fought by Israel and the U.S., but not much has changed in the Gaza Strip since the cease-fire was declared in October. Daily life remains a fight for survival and living conditions are deteriorating.
The U.S. alliance with Israel has gone from a bipartisan consensus to a subject of fierce debate among Republicans and Democrats alike. The remaining strong pro-Israel constituency is over-50 Republicans. The House Republican most outspoken against aid to Israel is Thomas Massie – AIPAC’s super PAC & a group affiliated with the Republican Jewish Coalition, funded by megadonor Miriam Adelson, are waging a massive campaign against him
Israel secretly hired Sandler Reiff, a well-known politically connected DC law firm. The Israeli government is secretly funding a number of nonprofit organizations in the U.S. which seem to operate as foreign agents for Israel. Should they really be tax exempt?
News from Gaza, Gaza flotilla ■ More settler, anti-Christian violence ■ Jonathan Pollard ■ Moral injury and faux innocence ■ Latest from Iran, Lebanon ■ More.
Israel’s bombing of Lebanon has killed more than a thousand civilians this year. Israel also drove out more than a half million civilians from southern Lebanon… Past Israeli attacks on Lebanon…Israel has been dragging the US into Lebanese quagmires since the 1980s…
This is a relationship without parallel in which the largest economic & military power the world has known, subordinates itself to a tiny country that would otherwise be almost entirely inconsequential. Not only systematically redistributing its own wealth to that tiny, well-off country, but unconditionally embracing that country’s geopolitical agenda, and taking extreme actions on behalf of that country in a way that causes immense harm to its own interests, while also inflicting death, displacement and despair on millions of innocents.
Gaza’s critical shortages ■ Flotilla activists face death threats; next flotilla group already under attack ■ “We’re killing [Palestinians] like we haven’t since 1967″ – IDF chief ■ Updates on Iran, Lebanon, Syria ■ Palestine and US politics ■ More
An entire street is leveled. Houses and shops are flattened, including a popular cafe. This is what is left of the town of Bint Jbeil, just a couple of miles from the Israeli border, nearly two months after Israel relaunched its ground offensive in southern Lebanon.
Flotilla activists remain in detention, tortured ■ Israel killing of Palestinians continues in Gaza, West Bank ■ Israel poised to spend tens of billions of dollars on new warplanes ■ More.