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. <abstract>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 soupçon 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 <i>stewing</i> in a sea of propaganda that keeps them terrified of largely imaginary or self-inflicted threats. Meanwhile their elites consolidate power and fortune.</abstract> 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. 🎥 = includes video interview 💕 = personal favorite because I remember making a particularly brilliant point <ul> <b>25.10.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4843">Performative condemnation</a> 💕 <b>01,11.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4839">Losing the plot completely</a> <b>06.11.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4846">Some commentators are still MIA</a> <b>10.11.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4852">Camps of various kinds</a> <b>10.11.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4849">Norman Finkelstein is on a tear</a> 🎥 💕 <b>10.11.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4848">Amira Hass is on a tear</a> 🎥 💕 <b>10.11.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4847">None of them ever had the moral high ground</a> <b>13.11.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4866">From their mouths to God’s ear</a> 🎥 💕 <b>23.11.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4833">Moar unhinged commentary</a> <b>19.11.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4867">Osama bin Laden wrote an online rant</a> <b>25.11.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4869">Norman Finkelstein is shit-posting tragedy</a> <b>28.11.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4835">Indoctrinated citizens of empire can still be innocent</a> 💕 <b>10.12.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4892">YES OR NO</a> <b>11.12.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4894">Gideon Levy is on a tear</a> 🎥 💕 <b>12.12.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4896">Ilan Pappé is on a tear</a> 🎥 <b>28.12.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4882">Analyzing Patrick Lawrence</a> <b>26.12.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4912">There is no word for “irony” in German</a> <b>26.12.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4910">Notice: Vivek Ramaswamy is just as full of shit as the rest of them</a> <b>29.12.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4917">Blowback: Iraq, Israel, and no-nothing know-it-alls</a> 💕 <b>30.12.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4904">Picking on Israel’s war crimes</a> 💕 <b>30.12.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4834">Cheerleading for the … what’s the opposite of underdog?</a> 💕 <fn> <b>30.12.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4838">Empire decides</a> 💕 <b>30.12.2023:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4881">Strawman battles: rape is never OK!</a> <b>04.02.2024:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4935">Finkelstein and Joy on Plagiarism and Slogans</a> 🎥 <b>06.02.2024:</b> <a href="{app}view_article.php?id=4939">Keeping the empire in line</a> </ul> Those are just the actual articles I wrote, mostly extracted from my <a href="{app}/view_folder.php?id=44">notes</a>, 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. <hr> <ft>That article I like because it recaps my thoughts from early October, but in late December. I wasn't too far off in my analysis of what was to come.</ft>