Israel has bombed three regions in 5 days: Gaza, Lebanon and Syria. Little reporting has been seen on this in the media, but one thing is certain: Western politicians from are cheering on Israel’s actions with an eye on drawing Iran into the conflict. Daniel McAdams and Vanessa Beeley break it down.
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MintPress founder and director Mnar Adley is joined by activist rapper and host of the Watchdog podcast on MintPress Lowkey, and MintPress senior staff writer Alan MacLeod to break down media narratives surrounding the crisis in Gaza and what you need to know.
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Mnar Adley explains the events that led up to the October 7th uprising that shook Gaza, occupied Palestine, and the world.
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Regardless of how many Palestinians Israel kills and will kill, in retaliation, although tragic, it will hardly salvage the tattered image of an undisciplined army, a divided society, and a political leadership that is solely focused on its own survival.
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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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In the Jewish legend, the great warrior Samson ends up, as John Milton famously puts it, “eyeless in Gaza.” He is blinded by the Philistines and harnessed to a huge millstone, forced to drag himself around and around in circles, always moving but unable to go anywhere. Eventually, in the most spectacular of suicides, he gets […]
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It is unclear what direction Netanyahu will choose. But either way, no matter what will happen in the coming days and weeks, Israel has, in many ways, already lost the war.
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