This is the literal textbook definition of a false flag attack. Nothing about it was real. It was designed, as these things so often are, to create more sympathy for Israel.
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
The Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs is funding Eagles’ Wings in order to prevent churchgoers and priests “from adopting pro-BDS and anti-Israeli positions.” This week, Eagles’ Wings is spearheading a push on Capitol Hill against Israel’s public relations crisis. They don’t disclose their $700,000 Israeli check.
“One in five Gaza families eats only one meal every day” ■ Flotilla update ■ Demolitions in East Jerusalem ■ Latest from Iran, Lebanon, Syria ■ Much more.
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?
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.
Netanyahu tried to smooth over recent Israeli anti-Christian hostility by showing off his token Christian soldiers. Don’t believe the hype.
CEO of parent company Axel Springer (which also owns Business Insider, the Telegraph and other news organizations) said that if journalists do not feel comfortable with the company’s pro-Israel viewpoints they should find work elsewhere
A deep dive into the controversial and high-profile anchor’s approach to journalism, Trump, Israel, and the fallout in the CBS newsroom. His interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates appeared to change the trajectory of Dokoupil’s career, and of CBS News.
Nearly half of Iranians killed by Israel-US were civilians: Iran ■ War criminal Netanyahu declares, “There is no place for violence…against anyone” (LOL) ■ More news and headlines from the region.