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After an Israeli reserve soldier named David Ben Zion told a reporter Palestinian militants “cut [off] heads of babies,” Biden, Netanyahu, and the international media amplified the dubious claim. The Grayzone has identified Ben Zion as a fanatical settler leader who incited riots by demanding a Palestinian town be “wiped out.” An international outcry erupted when Israel’s Foreign Ministry announced that Palestinian militants from the besieged Gaza Strip had killed 40 “babies,” and beheaded several of them during an incursion […]

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Americans can imagine themselves there Accounts of the killings and kidnappings from the Israeli border with Gaza are horrific. Especially from the attack on unarmed civilians at a music festival. Americans can easily imagine themselves in a similar situation. Americans were in a similar situation in October six years ago in Las Vegas when a lone gunman murdered 60 concertgoers and wounded over 400. The New York Times has video shot as the attacks began. One striking image from TV accounts shows a destroyed car shot full of holes like Swiss cheese. Israeli retaliatory airstrikes on the Gaza side of the border are killing and wounding unarmed civilians there, don’t forget. With the district locked down and out of power, Palestinian victims’ stories are trickling out more slowly. Their stories will likely never be told. I’m not qualified to do more than react. But this clip of retired United States Navy rear admiral John Kirby of the National Security Council choking up on live television is arresting. It’s a sobering image. Why, given daily events in this country, is hard to express.

With apologies to  J. R. “Bob” Dobbs Donald Trump must be really pissed that the Hamas attack on Israel over the weekend knocked him off the front pages. Of course, The Gray Lady had seen fit the day before to bury on Page A13 news of Trump blabbering U.S. submarine secrets to his Mar-a-Lago guests. Remarkable that this story is buried on Page A13 in today’s New York Times. pic.twitter.com/U0F5Ra33Td — Robert Loerzel (@robertloerzel) October 6, 2023 Digby’s comment on this mental midget is so good you should see it again: We are in the midst of an international crisis and the putative nominee for the Republican nomination is whining about Forbes Magazine, Stormy Daniels and Rosie O’Donnell. That’s the man Republicans want to put back in charge of America’s nuclear arsenal (which he is blabbing about to his Mar-a-Lago customers.) The point can’t be made strongly enough. (See what I did?) Thank heavens, Joe Biden is president at a time like this. Donald “very stable genius” Trump lugs around a visceral fear that somebody, somewhere is laughing at him.

McCarthy declared that he would be happy to serve as Speaker again in order to make sure that Israel aid is funded I’m sure Vladimir Putin will be very happy to hear that. No doubt Ukraine has even less chance of support in the current circumstance: Rep. John Duarte (R-Calif.) said Monday that Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s commitment to Israel makes him ideal to return as speaker of the House even if he was just voted out.  In an interview on “Fox & Friends” Duarte called for the House to reelect fellow Californian McCarthy when it reconvenes this week so it can approve military aid to Israel as soon as possible. Without an elected speaker, the House would not be able to vote on a funding package, he said. “We have one of our strongest allies in the world under attack, and we are dilly-dallying around with a leadership struggle in the House that should have never occurred,” Duarte said, expressing fear that Israel could run short on artillery. McCarthy said later on Monday he would step in again as speaker if he’s wanted after declaring days earlier he would never run again.

Marco Rubiio should not be allowed to spew this horrific eliminationist garbage on television. Jake Tapper: Is there a way for Israel to destroy Hamas without causing massive casualties against the iccocent people of the Gaza strip and roughly a million of them are children? Marco Rubio: I don’t think Israel can be expected to co-exist or find some diplomatic offramp with these savages. These are people, as you’ve been reporting that deliberately targeted teenage girls, women and children and the elderly, not just for rape and murder and then dumping thei bodies off in the streets of Gaza where the crowds can then defile their lifeless bodies. They’re just horrifying things. We don’t know the full extent of it yet. There’s more to come in the days and weeks ahead. You can’t co-exist with that. They have to be eradicated. I feel sick.

A noun, a verb, and the southern border With this, and Ronna Romney McDaniel declaring the attacks a “great opportunity”—and really everything since Benghazi—it could not be clearer that the GOP salivates for barbarism and human calamity when the president is a Democrat. Utterly ghoulish party. https://t.co/HS5MB1FtvZ — Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) October 10, 2023 Note the flat affect when he’s talking about the carnage in Israel. It’s just a lead-in to his renditon of The Snake which he apparently thinks is a good metaphor for the Israel Hamas conflict when in the past it was a metaphor for the border. This is how his addled brain works: That imbecile is going to be the GOP nominee for president. For the third election in a row. Here’s more on his speech yesterday when everyone else was watching the horrific events in the Middle East: In a weekend filled with politicians offering criticisms and condemnations over the state of the world, Donald Trump on Monday had a few. For the Wall Street Journal editorial page (“globalists”), for windmills (“we see whales washing up on shore”); for Florida Gov.

And he certainly “bumped up” the valuations. The man is obsessed with his net worth and it’s never enough! And I’m also sure that Junior and Eric shared them with daddy and came back with his embellishments. There is no way that he just let those two bumblers take the reins.

Twitter/X is now a nightmare of disinformation Twitter/X is a terrible source right now and it’s really not worth looking at if you want information about the Israel Hamas situation. There is so much disinformation floating around and even some people you follow may be disseminating it without realizing it. At times like these, wityh emptions running so high, you really need social media to be well curated and have safety measures in place to ensure that disinformation and misinformation are restrained as much as possiblke. That isn’t happening at all on twitter even though they have very belatedly admitted the problem: The social media platform X, formerly Twitter, declared late Monday that it would limit the spread of misinformation regarding the Israel-Hamas conflict. “A cross-company leadership group has assessed this moment as a crisis requiring the highest level of response,” the Trust and Safety team’s statement read. But according to Wired, the team has no leader following the resignation of Ella Irwin in June.

When Israelis can catch their breath they are going to have to grapple with this reality They are still in the midst of their horrific trauma. But it won’t be long before they are going to be looking at how this massive failure happened. This from Gidi Weitz in Haaretz shines a light on one of the major reasons: How depressing and upsetting it is today to recall Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrogance under interrogation about Case 2000, one of the three corruption cases against the prime minister. “This is classified, don’t let it leak, okay?” he said, flattering the police investigators with the magic lure of security secrets. And then he explained his doctrine regarding Hamas and Hezbollah.

“Bleaching” Black residents from S.C.’s 1st District Bishop William Barber of the Poor People’s Campaign regularly invokes the fusion movement that allowed formerly enslaved citizens (men, anyway) joined by white allies to vote and win public office in the post-Civil War South. Nineteenth-century Supreme Court rulings backing white backlash to fusion politics set the stage, Politico Magazine reports, for “the American slide toward autocracy.” The backlash to Barack Obama’s 2008 election provided the jolt of momentum autocrats needed, particularly in the former Confederate states, for resurrecting the not-yet-cold corpse of Jim Crow. Georgetown University law professor Sheryll Cashin recounts recent history with which Hullabaloo readers are already familiar, plus Alabama’s recent insistence on defying court rulings to preserve white dominance of the state’s congressional delegation: In 2022, a three-judge district court found that the state’s proposed redistricting map diluted minority votes, in violation of the Voting Rights Act.