From 2006 to today, little has changed, thus, Al-Aqsa Flood’s inevitability. In his Al-Mayadeen column, “No Plan ‘B’ for the Gaza Conflict; ‘It Was all For Show,’” Alastair Crooke shows us Team Biden’s duplicity towards all players in the ongoing Gaza Genocide, including the global public, as the War Crimes continue unabated. The ploy was such a quick flash-in-the-pan that many will have missed its happening. Today marks one week since its attempt, meaning it’s well past time to review:
Biden's delusion is a deep-fake fig leaf as per Crooke's essay. I cannot for a moment believe that Israel (in any form of government) would acquiesce to those conditions. Ever. That FJB stated that they did is perhaps another pearl alongside his phoning Kissinger or he's known Putin for 40 years BS, as I think those are more figments of his deteriorating imagination.
Overall I think the US has burned the last vestiges of its credibility across the planet. Some would be able to comprehend the support for Ukraine, I guess, but this unwavering support and scape-goating Israel has plumbed new depths for a global public well used to America's lies and hypocrisy.
A shameful episode that won't change either if DJT gets elected.
To loosely paraphrase the classic line from the movie “The Graduate” - “the future, my boy, in one word…….Pitchforks.”
Power will yield nothing without a fight (or a credible threat to their well being). H. Ross Perot said it nicely, “time to roll up our sleeves and clean out the barn!”
bad faith... there is so much of it here and it is no different then all the other ''peace agreement'' attempts... as many have observed - you can't negotiate with those who are incapable of negotiating and instead adopt a lying and deceitful position.. that basically summarizes the usa-israel approach.. i may as well throw in the uk too, as they were the colonial power that helped give us this sad kettle of fish....
does one follow the details minutely, or opt for a wider angle lens?? i will go with the later..
How one follows the details depends on the degree of one's involvement. Since Crooke's being called upon to provide detailed analysis, he must follow the minutiae.
The serpent Starmer plays the same game in the UK, terrified of losing the large Muslim vote and chunks of the 'left' - by throwing them a weasel-worded 'guarantee' of recognising a Palestinian State. It will fool some no doubt, but it's riddled with so many get-out-of-jail clauses, you would have to be a fool to be taken in.
Wretched people, they should at least be honest about their genocide.
Piece from The Guardian here [both h/t nakedcapitalism - piece now back online.
Why are America’s elite universities so afraid of this scholar’s paper?
The Columbia Law Review website was temporarily shut down after it published a Palestinian human rights lawyer’s article proposing a new way to understand Palestinian life under Israeli rule
More from The Guardian - great to see this story get a few legs in W-MSM
Opinion
Censorship
We watched Ivy League law reviews censor Palestinian scholars firsthand
Erika Lopez and Tascha Shahriari-Parsa
We are editors at Harvard and Columbia journals and saw bureaucracy weaponized to suppress a human-rights lawyer’s writing on Israel
[...]
CLR’s board of directors unilaterally took down the website after the journal’s editorial staff solicited, edited and published Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept, written by the Palestinian human rights lawyer and scholar Rabea Eghbariah. Only after the Guardian, the New York Times and other media outlets reported on the board’s censorial stunt and student editors threatened a work stoppage did the board reinstate the website.
Last November, the Harvard Law Review’s own attempts to censor Eghbariah reached a different outcome. In that case, the president of HLR revoked publication of The Ongoing Nakba, a shorter blog essay by Eghbariah that the journal had solicited, edited and slated for publication. A majority of HLR editors voted to sustain the president’s decision. 25 editors publicly dissented, and two resigned.
[...]
Erika Lopez is a recent graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was an editor and DEI chair of the Columbia Law Review
Tascha Shahriari-Parsa is a recent graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor and online chair of the Harvard Law Review
Biden did a PR move in addition of torpedoing the UNSC Algerian resolution that was scheduled for the next day and which the global South was awaiting as a positive kick for the non-aligned. PR was needed because of his planned (current) visit in France and to avoid big demos just on the weekend of the European elections throughout the continent. Macron did not want to be seen as the friend of Dr Folamour's best friend. What the French UN ambassador said as to the fact his country was going to vote with the Algerian resolution was pure deceit, Macron-style.
Definitely agree with you that this was Biden's attempt to deal with domestic blowback for his policies. I would go further and say he fabricated the proposal out of whole cloth, either that or he brushed off and "tweaked" more to his liking an earlier proposal that Hamas agreed to but Israel rejected. Netanyahu would never in a million years agree to such a proposal, not only because he personally opposes it but because his coalition government would fall if he did, as the far-right elements he depends on abandoned him.
"It remains unclear therefore, whether Biden in his ‘national address’ was more concerned rather to corner the Israeli leadership in broad terms, tweaking the document to resemble an earlier Israeli approved-plan, whilst skimming over its details and obvious holes. "
With all due respect, Karl, 'Biden' is a metaphor; Joe Biden doesn't decide anything with the possible exception of when he eats his omnipotent ice cream.
Israel will settle for nothing less than the total destruction of the State of Israel.
For some of them this means the apocalypse, the coming of God, the elevation of Jews to their sacred status above all. So they welcome it. 'Bring it on.' they scream, in delirious delight.
And for the rest of them, being 'Jews', by genealogy, it's just something they have to go along with.
Biden's delusion is a deep-fake fig leaf as per Crooke's essay. I cannot for a moment believe that Israel (in any form of government) would acquiesce to those conditions. Ever. That FJB stated that they did is perhaps another pearl alongside his phoning Kissinger or he's known Putin for 40 years BS, as I think those are more figments of his deteriorating imagination.
Overall I think the US has burned the last vestiges of its credibility across the planet. Some would be able to comprehend the support for Ukraine, I guess, but this unwavering support and scape-goating Israel has plumbed new depths for a global public well used to America's lies and hypocrisy.
A shameful episode that won't change either if DJT gets elected.
To loosely paraphrase the classic line from the movie “The Graduate” - “the future, my boy, in one word…….Pitchforks.”
Power will yield nothing without a fight (or a credible threat to their well being). H. Ross Perot said it nicely, “time to roll up our sleeves and clean out the barn!”
bad faith... there is so much of it here and it is no different then all the other ''peace agreement'' attempts... as many have observed - you can't negotiate with those who are incapable of negotiating and instead adopt a lying and deceitful position.. that basically summarizes the usa-israel approach.. i may as well throw in the uk too, as they were the colonial power that helped give us this sad kettle of fish....
does one follow the details minutely, or opt for a wider angle lens?? i will go with the later..
How one follows the details depends on the degree of one's involvement. Since Crooke's being called upon to provide detailed analysis, he must follow the minutiae.
yes, i understand.. no criticism of crooke in any of this.. we all have to find a balance..
The serpent Starmer plays the same game in the UK, terrified of losing the large Muslim vote and chunks of the 'left' - by throwing them a weasel-worded 'guarantee' of recognising a Palestinian State. It will fool some no doubt, but it's riddled with so many get-out-of-jail clauses, you would have to be a fool to be taken in.
Wretched people, they should at least be honest about their genocide.
"IMO, the ruse was put forth to quell domestic uproar over Biden’s policy of abetting Genocide."
Precisely. All is now related to Biden's re-election campaign. Period.
One example of the rabid silencing of any discourse critical of Zionism, which of course impacts on election, here:
After publishing an article critical of Israel, Columbia Law Review’s website is shut down by board
https://apnews.com/article/columbia-law-review-israel-article-backlash-da2f924cddec4593b4f17b8baf500969
The paper is here - a substantial piece - free speech in US academia is in tatters ...
TOWARD NAKBA AS A LEGAL CONCEPT
Rabea Eghbariah*
https://static.al2.in/toward-nakba-as-a-legal-concept.pdf
Thanks Don!
Piece from The Guardian here [both h/t nakedcapitalism - piece now back online.
Why are America’s elite universities so afraid of this scholar’s paper?
The Columbia Law Review website was temporarily shut down after it published a Palestinian human rights lawyer’s article proposing a new way to understand Palestinian life under Israeli rule
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jun/09/columbia-law-review-rabea-eghbariah-palestine-censorship-controversy
More from The Guardian - great to see this story get a few legs in W-MSM
Opinion
Censorship
We watched Ivy League law reviews censor Palestinian scholars firsthand
Erika Lopez and Tascha Shahriari-Parsa
We are editors at Harvard and Columbia journals and saw bureaucracy weaponized to suppress a human-rights lawyer’s writing on Israel
[...]
CLR’s board of directors unilaterally took down the website after the journal’s editorial staff solicited, edited and published Toward Nakba as a Legal Concept, written by the Palestinian human rights lawyer and scholar Rabea Eghbariah. Only after the Guardian, the New York Times and other media outlets reported on the board’s censorial stunt and student editors threatened a work stoppage did the board reinstate the website.
Last November, the Harvard Law Review’s own attempts to censor Eghbariah reached a different outcome. In that case, the president of HLR revoked publication of The Ongoing Nakba, a shorter blog essay by Eghbariah that the journal had solicited, edited and slated for publication. A majority of HLR editors voted to sustain the president’s decision. 25 editors publicly dissented, and two resigned.
[...]
Erika Lopez is a recent graduate of Columbia Law School, where she was an editor and DEI chair of the Columbia Law Review
Tascha Shahriari-Parsa is a recent graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was an editor and online chair of the Harvard Law Review
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/11/columbia-harvard-law-review-nakba
A counter summit is planned for June 11. I wouldnt be surprised if China shows up
https://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/50/1201/524842/AlAhram-Weekly/Egypt/Gaza-Future-planning-.aspx
Biden did a PR move in addition of torpedoing the UNSC Algerian resolution that was scheduled for the next day and which the global South was awaiting as a positive kick for the non-aligned. PR was needed because of his planned (current) visit in France and to avoid big demos just on the weekend of the European elections throughout the continent. Macron did not want to be seen as the friend of Dr Folamour's best friend. What the French UN ambassador said as to the fact his country was going to vote with the Algerian resolution was pure deceit, Macron-style.
Definitely agree with you that this was Biden's attempt to deal with domestic blowback for his policies. I would go further and say he fabricated the proposal out of whole cloth, either that or he brushed off and "tweaked" more to his liking an earlier proposal that Hamas agreed to but Israel rejected. Netanyahu would never in a million years agree to such a proposal, not only because he personally opposes it but because his coalition government would fall if he did, as the far-right elements he depends on abandoned him.
I think your article ties quite well with my latest, focussing on the addition of Israel to the UN blacklist of countries harming children in conflict, as well as on the escalating tension between Israel and Hezbollah: https://geopolitiq.substack.com/p/israel-added-to-un-blacklist-of-countries
"It remains unclear therefore, whether Biden in his ‘national address’ was more concerned rather to corner the Israeli leadership in broad terms, tweaking the document to resemble an earlier Israeli approved-plan, whilst skimming over its details and obvious holes. "
With all due respect, Karl, 'Biden' is a metaphor; Joe Biden doesn't decide anything with the possible exception of when he eats his omnipotent ice cream.
Israel will settle for nothing less than the total destruction of the State of Israel.
For some of them this means the apocalypse, the coming of God, the elevation of Jews to their sacred status above all. So they welcome it. 'Bring it on.' they scream, in delirious delight.
And for the rest of them, being 'Jews', by genealogy, it's just something they have to go along with.