Four months of posting on the middle east
A friend asked me for my opinion on the situation in the middle east, specifically on Israel/Palestine. Hoo-boy.
I wrote something like the following, although I’ve enhanced it a bit.
Israel is interested in clearing all of the Palestinians off of that land. They will shoot them if they have to, but starving them into leaving the country is also acceptable. Once they’re finished in Gaza, they’ll finish up in the West Bank, where they’ve already increased the ferocity of the occupation. It’s mostly about plunder, with a soupรงon of racist animus to keep everyone focused.
Israelis will continue to support this for the same reason that Americans support all of their own colonial activities: they are positively stewing in a sea of propaganda that keeps them terrified of largely imaginary or self-inflicted threats. Meanwhile their elites consolidate power and fortune.
I’ve been writing feverishly about it. I was actually quite surprised to see how much I’d written in the last 4 months about this topic.
๐ฅ = includes video interview
๐ = personal favorite because I remember making a particularly brilliant point
- 25.10.2023: Performative condemnation ๐
- 01,11.2023: Losing the plot completely
- 06.11.2023: Some commentators are still MIA
- 10.11.2023: Camps of various kinds
- 10.11.2023: Norman Finkelstein is on a tear ๐ฅ ๐
- 10.11.2023: Amira Hass is on a tear ๐ฅ ๐
- 10.11.2023: None of them ever had the moral high ground
- 13.11.2023: From their mouths to Godโs ear ๐ฅ ๐
- 23.11.2023: Moar unhinged commentary
- 19.11.2023: Osama bin Laden wrote an online rant
- 25.11.2023: Norman Finkelstein is shit-posting tragedy
- 28.11.2023: Indoctrinated citizens of empire can still be innocent ๐
- 10.12.2023: YES OR NO
- 11.12.2023: Gideon Levy is on a tear ๐ฅ ๐
- 12.12.2023: Ilan Pappรฉ is on a tear ๐ฅ
- 28.12.2023: Analyzing Patrick Lawrence
- 26.12.2023: There is no word for โironyโ in German
- 26.12.2023: Notice: Vivek Ramaswamy is just as full of shit as the rest of them
- 29.12.2023: Blowback: Iraq, Israel, and no-nothing know-it-alls ๐
- 30.12.2023: Picking on Israelโs war crimes ๐
- 30.12.2023: Cheerleading for the โฆ whatโs the opposite of underdog? ๐ [1]
- 30.12.2023: Empire decides ๐
- 30.12.2023: Strawman battles: rape is never OK!
- 04.02.2024: Finkelstein and Joy on Plagiarism and Slogans ๐ฅ
- 06.02.2024: Keeping the empire in line
Those are just the actual articles I wrote, mostly extracted from my notes, of which there is a giant post, once per week, that you’re welcome to dig through for even more. But I honestly can’t imagine that anyone could stand it. I write for me.