Tag: Global War and Violence

A rare warning about Jewish terrorism, and how Israel’s response to ‘NAZA’ drew more attention than the film did

A leading Israeli think tank issued a rare strategic alert on Tuesday warning that Jewish terrorism against Palestinians in the West Bank threatens Israel’s security, international standing and functionality as a state. This is only the second strategic alert that the Institute for National Security Studies has ever issued. The first came in March 2023, seven months before the… Read More A rare warning about Jewish terrorism, and how Israel’s response to ‘NAZA’ drew more attention than the film did

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Gaza Doc ‘NAZA,’ From ‘No Other Land’ Directors, earn record-breaking 24.5 minute Venice Ovation

Ellise Shafer, Nick Vivarelli “NAZA,” the new documentary from Israeli “No Other Land” directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, earned a massive 24.5-minute ovation at its Venice Film Festival premiere on Thursday. This marks the longest-ever standing ovation in Venice — besting the 22 minutes for “The Voice of Hind Rajab” last year — and apparently the longest… Read More Gaza Doc ‘NAZA,’ From ‘No Other Land’ Directors, earn record-breaking 24.5 minute Venice Ovation

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In Gaza, we’ve seen horror unfold with global powers’ support. Is that a blueprint for elsewhere?

For now, it is Palestinians who are being killed & displaced. But ideologies of supremacy and domination threaten us all. Ahdaf Soueif Last week, Itamar Ben-Gvir, Israel’s minister of national security, put out an AI-generated video that showed a conveyor belt of overweight Palestinian prisoners – dreaming of food and education – entering one of his prisons;… Read More In Gaza, we’ve seen horror unfold with global powers’ support. Is that a blueprint for elsewhere?

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9/11: The Saudi Connection – BBC World Service Documentaries

‘FDR’s 1943 proclamation that America would defend Saudi Arabia would be reaffirmed by every American president, most prominently in the 1957 Eisenhower Doctrine and the 1980 Carter Doctrine. In 1944, the United States sent its first military mission to Saudi Arabia, and in 1945 the United States and Saudi Arabia signed a military cooperation agreement… Read More 9/11: The Saudi Connection – BBC World Service Documentaries

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The retired generals sounding the alarm over the West Bank

Katrin Bennhold Good morning, world. Israel’s role as a safe haven for Jewish people after the Holocaust is central to its identity and values as a modern, democratic state. And so it was striking to read, in a recent story by my colleague Azam Ahmed, multiple prominent Israelis, including former military and intelligence officials, using World War… Read More The retired generals sounding the alarm over the West Bank

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The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin review – America can no longer run from its past (2019)

The idea of the frontier in US history has been one of endless promise, but the reality has involved violence, even genocide. As this powerful study argues, its latest incarnation is Trump’s wall Ben Ehrenreich It is hard, as an American, to take much pleasure in the irony that the past appears to be catching… Read More The End of the Myth by Greg Grandin review – America can no longer run from its past (2019)

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Abby Martin Infiltrated the US Military. IT’S WORSE Than You Think (AV)

Abby Martin INFILTRATED the US Military. IT’S WORSE Than You Think THE VIDEO US MILITARY WANT TO BAN Watch Abby Martin’s New Film “Earth’s Greatest Enemy” now: http://www.earthsgreatestenemy.com ++++++++ The CIA: An Imperial History The Ghosts of Kennan: Lessons From the Start of a Cold War. By Fredrik Logevall ‘Truth is one of our rights’: victims of Indonesia’s… Read More Abby Martin Infiltrated the US Military. IT’S WORSE Than You Think (AV)

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Israel ‘seeking Trump’s support for plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza’

Andrew Roth Global affairs correspondent Israel’s defence minister has said his country is seeking Donald Trump’s support to approve plans to expel Palestinians from the Gaza Strip in what has widely been condemned as a potential war crime. Israel Katz said there was “no real solution for Gaza in the end without thismigration” during a conference… Read More Israel ‘seeking Trump’s support for plan to expel Palestinians from Gaza’

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How Vasily Grossman Made Darkness Visible

The Soviet-Jewish writer bore eternal witness to the crimes of totalitarianism by Gary Saul Morson Vasily Grossman, the Russian-Jewish writer best known for the 1959 novel titled Life and Fate, has that book’s protagonist, Viktor Shtrum, express the view that the USSR is remarkably similar to its mortal enemy, Nazi Germany. Both are one-party states; both use… Read More How Vasily Grossman Made Darkness Visible

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