I'm going to place an addendum. Here's a 2-day-old piece on lobbying in the U.S. , specifically by the armaments industry there , as well as by the Israel lobby in Washington, and by lobbies conducted by very conservative-evangelical Christian groups ... all tilting the scales in the Oval Office, State Department and Congress-Senate away…
I'm going to place an addendum. Here's a 2-day-old piece on lobbying in the U.S. , specifically by the armaments industry there , as well as by the Israel lobby in Washington, and by lobbies conducted by very conservative-evangelical Christian groups ... all tilting the scales in the Oval Office, State Department and Congress-Senate away from any sympathy toward demanding ceasefire (though American public opinion is clearly in favor of ceasefire, especially among Democrats), and tilting the scales in favor of funding the continued saturation bombing and effacement of Gaza, in favor of minimizing or ignoring the continued bombing, destruction, obstruction and shooting up of hospitals, in favor of downplaying the massive civilian carnage, in favor of giving blessing to the hellish food-water-fuel-electricity blockade (which is clearly jeopardizing the entire population of Gaza)... This is an on-line piece by American journalist Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer prize winning author, one time Middle East bureau chief for the New York Times. He also does much-followed Substack segments. He's in conversation in this YouTube interview with Jewish-American anti-war activist Medea Benjamin. The conversation touches on Israeli impunity in the face of clearly evident war crimes, and in the face of actions which in any other context would be called out as 'genocide in progress'.
I'm going to place an addendum. Here's a 2-day-old piece on lobbying in the U.S. , specifically by the armaments industry there , as well as by the Israel lobby in Washington, and by lobbies conducted by very conservative-evangelical Christian groups ... all tilting the scales in the Oval Office, State Department and Congress-Senate away from any sympathy toward demanding ceasefire (though American public opinion is clearly in favor of ceasefire, especially among Democrats), and tilting the scales in favor of funding the continued saturation bombing and effacement of Gaza, in favor of minimizing or ignoring the continued bombing, destruction, obstruction and shooting up of hospitals, in favor of downplaying the massive civilian carnage, in favor of giving blessing to the hellish food-water-fuel-electricity blockade (which is clearly jeopardizing the entire population of Gaza)... This is an on-line piece by American journalist Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer prize winning author, one time Middle East bureau chief for the New York Times. He also does much-followed Substack segments. He's in conversation in this YouTube interview with Jewish-American anti-war activist Medea Benjamin. The conversation touches on Israeli impunity in the face of clearly evident war crimes, and in the face of actions which in any other context would be called out as 'genocide in progress'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN5FgiwYGp0