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Your 'aid' system will lead to chaos, as desperate, starving people fight for food. That’s great. They look like a swarming mass of the very 'human animals' you were talking about from the start
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The sudden handwringing in western capitals over Gaza is just another bit of stagecraft, little different from the earlier mix of silence and talk about Israel’s “right to defend itself”. And it is to the same purpose: to buy Israel time to “finish the job” – that is, to complete its genocide and ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
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The left and right take the same reality-based view of world affairs but respond to it in different moral terms. Liberals, on the other hand, live in an alternate universe – of pure make-believe.
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The new guard of kleptocrats in charge of Washington are seeking quick deals on Gaza and Ukraine – not because they want peace but because they've found a better way to make themselves even richer.
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Pressured into removing a humanising portrait of Gaza’s children, the BBC offers instead a series on Israel-Palestine that frantically revives the very narrative that made the genocide possible.
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A campaign of lies and disinformation have helped to shred international law over the past year and half. And one of the biggest lies is the pretence that, in slaughtering Gaza’s children, Israel has been acting in the interests of Israelis held captive in the enclave.
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If there is one thing we can thank US President Donald Trump for doing in his confrontation with Ukraine's Zelensky last week, it was this: he 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".
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Walter Salles' new film on the disappearances of regime critics in 1970s Brazil shows an endless supply of compliant officials who impassively, conscientiously carry out the abuse of men, women and children. It is a reminder that plenty of these people live among us – and that they have been doing very little to hide who they are over the past 16 months.
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In reducing Hamas simply to monsters, Israel’s goal was to dehumanise the entire population of Gaza – to justify its genocidal crimes. And yet repeated scenes of Israeli captives demonstrating a human connection to their Hamas captors make that idea harder to sustain.
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During Netanyahu’s visit, President Trump dropped Washington’s sugar coating of Israel’s 15-month genocidal destruction of Gaza. This was always about ethnic cleansing.
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