by Philip Weiss, Mondoweiss, July 14 https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/weekly-briefing-the-nyt-justifies-israeli-slaughter-of-palestinian-civilians-as-necessary-tactic/
Joe Biden condemned the attack on Donald Trump yesterday, saying, “It’s sick… The idea that there’s political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.” Sadly, there is considerable evidence that Biden is wrong, and there has long been political violence in America. What no one in public life can dispute is that political violence aimed at Palestinians is an enduring condition of Palestinian life. And Israel – an occupying apartheid state <https://mondoweiss.net/2022/05/inside-israeli-apartheid/> committing what most experts call war crimes <https://mondoweiss.net/2024/07/huge-majority-of-m-e-scholars-say-gaza-onslaught-is-akin-to-genocide-but-they-self-censor-their-views/> akin to genocide – is willing to kill endless numbers of civilians to achieve its supposed goals in Palestine. And the *New York Times* will then justify the killings as necessary military tactics. . . . The lack of outrage stands in sharp contrast to the overwhelming condemnation of Russian bombings in the Ukraine, including an attack on a hospital <https://theintercept.com/2024/07/11/russia-ukraine-hospital-israel-gaza-wars/> this week that some said should go to the International Criminal Court. Israel must never be held to any standard. And the world sees it. Abetting the war crimes is the *New York Times*. It ran a long article this week <https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/world/middleeast/how-hamas-is-fighting-in-gaza.html> about how Hamas fights, saying that Hamas hides its “ghost army” among civilians, leaving Israel no alternative but to slaughter civilians. . . . “I was shocked by the story, it is unbelievable,” media critic Donald Johnson writes. “The *Times* wrote this to defend every attack on civilians and civilian infrastructure that Israel has carried out. They couldn’t have done it any different if they handed it over to the Israeli government to write. Every single thing Israel does— it is Hamas’s fault.” Johnson wrote to the *Times* and raised the most obvious analogy, the U.S. massacres of villages in Vietnam. “I am old enough to remember Americans making the same excuses about My Lai. Your reporters are a disgrace, your paper is a disgrace. You might as well have had the IDF write that article.” # # # *So the imperialists have to massacre the indigenous population because the resistance organization lives among the oppressed people. Where would you expect the resistance to be?* dayne -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#31160): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/31160 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/107224316/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: marxmail+ow...@groups.io Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [arch...@mail-archive.com] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
