Tag: Gaza Strip
The war inaugurated a terrible new global order in which armed drones kill civilians who are neither named nor counted.
Benjamin Netanyahu likes to translate Israel’s grief into American. At the United Nations last month, he took the dead of October 7 and multiplied them by the ratio of America’s population to Israel’s. The 1,200 Israelis killed that day, he said, were “equal to 40,000 innocent Americans slaughtered in less than 24 hours. That’s 16 times 9/11.”
If we can’t curb the violence of our own governments, what sense does it make to condemn the violent reactions of the states or movements they attack? asks Jean Bricmont.
The European Parliament’s Left group on Wednesday slammed European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen over what it called “glaring double standards,” saying she condemns attacks on civilians in Ukraine while continuing to defend Israel over its war in Gaza.
