Do you have a heart that’s open and functioning?
So much of what we’ve been told about Israel and Zionism has been a lie, as this video reveals.
My mother-in-law had a saying: “Have a heart if you’ve got a heart.” So many “leaders” in the U.S. and Israel, including Joe Biden and Donald Trump and of course Bibi Netanyahu, haven’t got hearts, at least when it comes to Palestinians and Gaza.
Meanwhile, from Caitlin Johnstone:
Israel bombed the home of two married doctors in Gaza on Friday, killing nine of their children and critically injuring their sole surviving son. The father of the children was also severely injured in the attack, while their mother, while still working at the nearby hospital, received the charred bodies of her children. They were too badly burned to be recognized.
This one incident, just by itself, is vastly more newsworthy and deserving of attention than two Israeli embassy staff members being killed in Washington. But news coverage hasn’t reflected this, because Palestinians aren’t regarded as human beings in the mainstream western press.
And another worthy snippet from Caitlin Johnstone:
The Guardian has published an opinion piece by Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett titled “As Gaza’s children are bombed and starved, we watch — powerless. What is it doing to us as a society?”, which is noteworthy because it somehow never mentions the word “Israel” or “Israeli” one single time throughout the entire article. It doesn’t even mention Netanyahu.
This is a particularly glaring example of the way the western press have been discussing the Gaza holocaust as some kind of unfortunate tragedy that is just passively happening to the Palestinian people, as though it’s a natural disaster or something. It’s like bombs and siege warfare are just the weather over there. Like “Oh it’s a bit bomby and faminy in Gaza today, and it makes me feel sad!”
This genocide is exposing the mass media like nothing else in my lifetime.
Finally, consider this article by Lisa Savage as she ponders the misuse of Memorial Day as a celebration of militarism in the United States.
Here’s an excerpt:
The U.S. as a whole seems to be suffering from moral injury as we destroy country after country in our lust for imperial spoils. Watching the U.S.-Israel genocide in Gaza starving thousands to death while bombing them drives me to despair. There are now plans for U.S. soldiers to distribute food aid because Israel won’t allow UNRWA to do it as they have for decades. Food has been weaponized and politicized, and the largest shipments being allowed in at the moment don’t even contain calories or medical supplies. They contain shrouds.
Bracing Views 
Just too, too much to muster the fortitude to respond to here, except this from the very beginning of the post:
“So many ‘leaders’ in the U.S. and Israel, including Joe Biden and Donald Trump and of course Bibi Netanyahu, haven’t got hearts, at least when it comes to Palestinians and Gaza.”
Neither have they souls.
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All beyond words. I hope my government (UK) despite past complicity will follow the lead they took with Canada and France recently and now stop all exports to Israel immediately and move further UN resolutions condemning Israel and the United States unless they begin an immediate, permanent and total ceasefire. Stop the bombing.
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On outstanding post.
“But news coverage hasn’t reflected this, because Palestinians aren’t regarded as human beings in the mainstream western press.”
This is so true, and it isn’t because individuals who work in MSM necessarily feel this way, but because power intimidates and the workers are not the owners. We can see power in operation is our own government does all it can to shut down pro-Palestinian protests, the signal cases being the ones who were grabbed off the street for expressing their opinion.
Americans have decades of being presented with nothing but positive impressions of Israel and this propaganda has had an effect. Those at the top, the wealthy, mingle with Zionists who readily deploy their wealth for Israel not only via AIPAC but through social networking. Joe Biden is the perfect example when he said, “We stand with Israel”
Israel has of course exploited this and the present holocaust with US support only shows how accurately Netanyahu judged the power that tiny country possesses here.
Things are shifting, people are finding their courage, the Internet is providing many alternatives to MSM and I am seeing evidence on the street with my vigil.
When I started waving my Palestinian flag, curses and profanity came my way, though even then the approvals outnumbered them. Two days ago, I got one or two fingers but at least 20 people honking or yelling support. One driver deployed a huge Palestinian flag out his window. A woman stood up through the sunroof of a SUV and yelled “Free Palestine”. I am happy to see this but wonder if there will be any Palestinian survivors left given the pace of change at the top in DC.
BTW – Here in Illinois, retiring senator Dick Durbin was put in place by the predecessors to AIPAC. Many are considering running to replace Durbin. One is my city mayor, a Zionist. Another is Rahm Emanual, former Chicago mayor and a Zionist. A third is Governor Pritzker, a Zionist. Zionism says NO to liberty and justice for all. I do not think any Zionists should hold political office in the US and yet so many do without anyone saying nay. I will be saying nay.
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Quite a hand you’ve been dealt with those three Zionist jokers vying to replace Durbin. Billionaire JB Pritzker’s billionaire sister Nancy is on the Harvard Board of Overseers (university board composition these days is a whole different topic for another day), which provides my segue to bring up the media.
I live in Mass., grew up in next town over from Cambridge, the Boston Globe being a part of that experience since then. Harvard has been in the Globe a lot since the campus protests following Oct. 7th and the antisemitism trope erupting then, now Trump using it as a cudgel to extort billions from Harvard. Of course Trump’s partner in the thuggery, though kept in the shadows, is Israel, just a few telltale yet insidious signs of which are billionaire Zionist Miriam Adelson’s – she of the $100 million donation to Trump’s campaign- pet projects such as the Maccabee Task Force, Canary Mission, Campus Watch, Faculty Watch, and several others to surveil, profile, harass, and intimidate students and faculty, and report the international ones, such as Mahmoud Khalil at Columbia and Rumeysa Ozturk at Tufts to DHS, ICE, and State Dept. for illegal arrest, detention, and possible deportation.
Nothing, NOTHING was seen about this in the Boston Globe. I wrote comments to their insipid news articles and editorials, to their “news tips” portal, to their editorial board, to their “letters to the editor,” all with links to authoritative, reliable sources – in other words, I was doing their job for them- and the responses I got were at most the automatic receipt of delivery “thank you contacting us, if don’t hear from us in the next days your entry was not accepted, but please try again in future.” In other words, the now familiar NOTHING.
The following is the text of a reply I gave to an online commenter, Clg3112, who also complained about the Globe’s coverage, this time about the lack of recognition of the 77th anniversary [is that the right word?] of the Nakba:
“Actually, Clg3112 has a point, this was an AP piece, nothing original with the Globe, the
columnists have been AWOL in their commentary, and the Editorial Board has fulfilled
its journalistic obligations to inform the public, speak truth to power, and goodness!
take a moral stance by doing no more than spout repeated tropes and canards on
antisemitism and be complicit in a neutered reality over Israel’s war crimes and crimes
against humanity. A more cowardly, willfully ignorant bunch in the mainstream media
(though that’s not much comforting company) cannot be found.”
We’re not exactly abounding in Edward R. Murrows and Woodwards and Bernsteins, not even wannabes. All scribes for the Empire.
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Billionaire owner of the Globe, John Henry, is not going to allow critical coverage here. Back in the ’80s and ’90s, the Globe had solid coverage of the worst excesses of the military-industrial complex. Now there’s virtually nothing in the Globe on this.
The Globe is yet another corporate pro-billionaire rag. It will mention race, DEI, Harvard, etc., otherwise it is obedient to power.
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Thanks for the reminder about the Globe’s halcyon days, I think that is what forlornly clings in my memory, indeed they did some very good stuff then, astute columnists, sharp investigative reporting. To their credit, their investigative Spotlight Team did top work in laying out the private equity plundering done by Steward Health Care for which they were a finalist for a Pulitzer, so they are capable.
Yet this is what I precisely pointed out in one of my attempts to break through to them, you’ve got a demonstrated investigative unit, why the hell not put them to work on exposing an actual threat to our universities, our government, our country? Couldn’t get that dog to hunt, just sittin’ too fat, dumb, and happy chewin’ on Milk-Bones.
Of course billionaire John Henry and his wife Linda, CEO of Boston Globe Media Partners, I think both have long been carefully Krafting reputations and hence images of philanthropists and civic-minded leaders. Seems to be working, despite latest Red Sox standings are 27-29, 5th place in AL East, 7 1/2 behind Yankees, Lost 3 Streak.
They finished last year at 81-81, third in AL East, missing the playoffs for the third straight year, if anyone cares.
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Oh, I care!
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Ha! Fossilized fan that I am, it’s the ’67 and ’75 Sox seasons that I hold on to, with a touch of the “curse-ending” ’04 year. Plus I think they went from Series winners in ’18 to last place the next year, and really haven’t recovered much since then.
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’75 and ’78, for sure. Also the tragedy of ’86.
Thank the Babe that the Curse finally ended in ’04. And we’ll always have ’07, ’13, and ’18.
The team is now mired in mid-tier mediocrity. Barring a miracle (or impossible dream), it’s another year in 3rd or 4th place, i.e. no playoffs.
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Yeah, ’86 was a major “ouch” year, the sting still comes up at odd occasions now and then… “Mid-tier mediocrity,” that describes it, maybe even slipping below that.
Yet apparently Fenway continues to fill up, whereas I gather not the case at Gillette, with ticket prices softening, but that’s another story altogether…
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I don’t mean to detract from discussion on THE moral issue of our time, only to take a bit of a breather, before returning to deal with it in my own tiny way, with some interplay – emphasis on “-play” – with WJA, to wit this headline in today’s Boston Globe:
“The Red Sox are mediocre, and there may be no way out of it.”
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I know I shouldn’t exaggerate the importance of a single game, but last night’s loss revealed a team that’s going nowhere, a team that finds new ways to lose.
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