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In reply to the discussion: New York Times confirms Israel using dogs to rape. [View all]Beringia
(5,619 posts)109. Seymour Hersh published today about Israel and Palestine

ISRAELS PATH NOT TAKEN
A memoir by the son of an Israeli general who took up the Palestinian cause shows what might have been
https://open.substack.com/pub/seymourhersh/p/israels-path-not-taken?r=5gz1qk&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
PLO leader Yasser Arafat (3rd L) meets three members of the Israeli Peace Commettee, Yarcov Arnon (L), Uri Avnery (2nd L), and Matti Peled (3rd R), along with senior member of the PLO Issam Sartawi (2nd R), member of the executive committee of the PLO Mahmud Abbas (aka Abou Mazen, R), and Imad Chakkour, Arafats press councillor, on January 21, 1983, in Tunisia. / Photo by AFP via Getty Images.
Israels response to its failures on the ground has been to turn to its courts. In late March, the Knesset passed a law that would permit the hanging of Palestinians convicted of fatal attacks, while also excluding similar proceedings against Jewish extremists of similar crimes, which are happening more and more frequently in the embattled West Bank. A few days ago, the New York Times reported that Israel was preparing to prosecute hundreds of Palestinians suspected of crimes committed on October 7. Most of those to be tried have been held without chargea common Israeli legal tacticsince their capture.
Miko Peled is now a full-time advocate for Palestinian rights, via seminars and panel discussions, and operates out of a large office complex a few blocks from the Capitol Building in Washington. He spends much of his time, he told me earlier this weekwe had not spoken in yearstelling Congress about the continuing horrors facing the surviving Gazans amid less and less American media interest in their plight.
Netanyahu is no longer being primarily cast as the man behind the horrors of Gaza. He is now seen as the man behind Donald Trump, who convinced the president to go all-out in the recent Israeli and American Air Force attacks on Iran, largely in the name of the alleged nuclear threat Iran has in its underground supply of partially enriched uranium.
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I've said for years: Israel allows anti-Semitism to be wrapped in policy and politics rather than straight bigotry.
AZLD4Candidate
Tuesday
#29
I think they meant that the existence of Israel lets people be antisemitic
EdmondDantes_
Tuesday
#45
By which they mean that one of their most esteemed journalists, Nicholas Kristof, has written in detail about this story
TheRickles
Tuesday
#43
An Op-Ed opinion column does not equal a NYT confirmation of the truth of the reports. n/t
Coventina
Tuesday
#61
Very true. But it lends a bit more heft to the notion that the story is valid, all things considered.
TheRickles
Tuesday
#65
Turns out there was an asterisk next to the phrase "Never Again*" with regards to Israel.
Crowman2009
Tuesday
#18
That's because a few of the initial storys were debunked (see link), so many believed all that followed was BS
krawhitham
Tuesday
#52
All you have to do is scroll through this entire post and you will see many dismiss what the Palestinians said.
Eko
Wednesday
#96
Well they have been accused of perversion and subversion for well over two thousand years
sarisataka
Tuesday
#62
Wondering how other Islamic nations are going to respond to this. I have no problem with anything they decide to do.
NoMoreRepugs
Tuesday
#41
Even if it's absolutely true, still wouldn't justify an unlimited response
EdmondDantes_
Tuesday
#72
I would view this report with caution. There are conflicting reports. Use discretion when sharing on other sites.
Joinfortmill
Tuesday
#58
So many responses of I will wait for confirmation or some such reminds me of the movie Jaws
Beringia
Tuesday
#88