This video from Lindsay Ellis discusses empathy, antisemitism, genocide, and Ms Rachel. It is long, but well worth watching.
The Unforgivable Sin of Ms Rachel (YouTube – Lindsay Ellis)
Tag: Israel
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What Is Israel’s Endgame In Iran?
What I did not imagine was that Israel would act alone, even assuming a “green light” from Washington. Isn’t Iran, even weakened, 10 times Israel’s population and 75 times the landmass; doesn’t it graduate five times the number of engineers a year? With the planet’s fourth largest reserves of oil, has it no staying power? This isn’t Hezbollah.
Bernard AvishaiOpinion | The Endgame of the Iran Attacks Isn’t Clear, Even in Jerusalem (Politico)
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How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza
Authorities in and outside government said the acquiescence to Israel as it prosecuted a brutal war will likely be regarded as one of the most consequential foreign policy decisions of the Biden presidency. They say it undermines America’s ability to influence events in the Middle East while “destroying the entire edifice of international law that was put into place after WWII,” as Omer Bartov, a renowned Israeli-American scholar of genocide, put it. Jeffrey Feltman, the former assistant secretary of the State Department’s Middle East bureau, told me he fears much of the Muslim world now sees the U.S. as “ineffective at best or complicit at worst in the large-scale civilian destruction and death.”
Brett MurphyA Year of Empty Threats and a “Smokescreen” Policy: How the State Department Let Israel Get Away With Horrors in Gaza (ProPublica)
Scott Boehmer 