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Date: April 14, 2024 at 14:52:44
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Establishment voices express fear of a rogue Israel |
URL: https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/weekly-briefing-establishment-voices-express-fear-of-a-rogue-israel/ |
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Weekly Briefing: Establishment voices express fear of a rogue Israel
Israel’s indifference to international law is destabilizing the Middle East, even
establishment voices say. The head of a Democratic Party thinktank, says
Israel is not a democracy.
BY PHILIP WEISS APRIL 14, 2024
A Palestinian carries his belongings as he flees Israel's attack on Al-Shifa
Hospital and heads south toward Deir al-Balah. March 25, 2024. Photo by
Omar Ashtawy apaimages
"Two weeks after Israel attacked the Iranian embassy in Damascus,
assassinating top Iranian commanders, Iran responded with drone strikes last
night, and the world is asking, What will Israel do next?
The question is posed with anxiety. Israel has defied all western appeals to
moderate its conduct in the last six months in Gaza, while the Iranian attack
is seen as restrained and “performative” (per BBC and CNN coverage today).
Indeed, the news behind the news this week is that Israel is approaching the
status of rogue state even in establishment discourse.
A New York Times editorial called for the “pausing of the flow of weapons” to
Israel – at long last – because Israel is destabilizing the region and the U.S. is
“beholden” to an unaccountable leader, in Netanyahu.
The eroding international support for its military campaign has made Israel
more insecure…. Mr. Netanyahu has turned his back on America and its
entreaties, creating a crisis in U.S.-Israeli relations when Israel’s security, and
the stability of the entire region, is at stake.
Jeremy Ben Ami of J Street also concedes that Israel’s onslaught in Gaza is
“a serious setback for the interests and values of the United States.” A
longtime Israel lobbyist, Ben-Ami says that Israel has surely committed
“significant violations of international law”– thereby undermining Israel’s
“legitimacy in the eyes of the rest of the world,” as well as “creating
undoubtedly a new generation of terrorists, not just in the Palestinian
population but throughout the region and around the world.”
(Time was when only the left was accused of delegitimizing Israel…)
H.A. Hellyer of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace echoed Ben-
Ami in an interview with NPR. Israel’s wanton destruction of Gaza has left the
U.S. “incredibly isolated”. He described Israel as in essence a rogue state:
It’s escalation upon escalation. And I think that we in the international
community, particularly in the United States, but also other allies, just need to
recognize, you know, that’s the Israel we’re dealing with, and that’s the Israel
we’re likely to keep on dealing with going forward.
Hellyer pointed out that Israel has “no interest in a two-state solution.” And
the consequence is:
I’m afraid that it looks like a very destabilizing force in the immediate region.
Israel’s contempt for Palestinian rights is a theme echoed by the president of
the Center for American Progress—the leading Democratic Party thinktank –
who told Politico that Israel is not a democracy. Palestinians must have equal
rights, and let’s drop the piety about two states, Patrick Gaspard continued.
We need to talk about whether the two state solution continues to be the
sole pathway to peace
Palestinians — if we are going to solve this problem — need to exist in an
Israel that is inclusive of their full rights.
Israel and its cheering section here deny that it’s possible for Jews and
Palestinians to coexist. “I think that taking out the possibility of coexistence
is, in itself, really cynical and tragic,” Gaspard said.
Even Nancy Pelosi is calling for the US to stop giving Israel bombs. While
Elizabeth Warren at last called the Israeli actions “a genocide.”
And Rand Corporation security analyst Karen Sudkamp, who spent 10 years
in U.S. intelligence agencies, says that Israel is heedlessly repeating mistakes
made by the West in the “war on terror” in its contempt for the hearts and
minds of Palestinians. It thereby undercuts security for all.
The New Yorker echoed Sudkamp in an article saying that Israel is embarked
on a “forever war.” It has no strategy beyond heaping punishment on
Palestinian civilians. And this undermines the United States.
Finally, this week we published an important investigation. Tareq Hajjaj
reported on the massacre of hundreds of Palestinian civil/government
employees at al-Shifa Hospital who were accused of being affiliated with
Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Hajjaj’s sources said these victims were
not military operatives.
The army then brought out a huge number of men from the group of
suspected Hamas and PIJ members and employees, gathering them in the
center of the [hospital] courtyard. It then proceeded to execute them, one
after the other.
The article has gotten wide pickup in media that are supportive of Palestinian
human rights. The U.S. mainstream has so far ignored the massacre,
typically– because Palestinians still don’t count for most editors. “The idea
that Palestinians have a stronger claim to the ‘right to defend themselves’
never enters their minds,” as our commenter Donald Johnson wrote.
Thanks for reading,
Phil Weiss
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Date: April 15, 2024 at 10:17:33
From: Redhart, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Mondoweiss: questionable/propaganda/hate/Misinfo/low cred |
URL: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/mondoweiss/ |
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Overall, we rate Mondoweiss as Left Biased and
Questionable due to the blending of opinion with news,
the promotion of pro-Palestinian and anti-zionist
propaganda, occasional reliance on poor sources, and
hate group designation by third-party pro-Israel
advocates.
Detailed Report
Reasoning: Propaganda, Hate Group, Misinformation
Bias Rating: LEFT
Factual Reporting: MIXED
Country: USA
MBFC’s Country Freedom Rating: MOSTLY FREE
Media Type: Website
Traffic/Popularity: Medium Traffic
MBFC Credibility Rating: LOW CREDIBILITY
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Date: April 15, 2024 at 10:42:42
From: akira, [DNS_Address]
Subject: CJR- redhart's amateur site is prone to bias, inconsistencies |
URL: http://earthboppin.net/talkshop/international/messages/53772.html |
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...and in this case, serious, slanderous error.
Redhart is known for erroneously equating opposition to Israeli policies with
antisemitism, an incredibly destructive yet prevalent in commercial and social
media today. This is the mistake Dave Van Zandt's mediabiasfactcheck.com
makes in this analysis.
Redhart refuses to do any research regarding this problem, and continues to
use a sometimes-right, sometimes-wrong website, without a concern for the
misinformation she is spreading or who she might be harming in the process.
It shows a lack of integrity, intellectual curiosity and worst of all, it
misrepresents organizations and individuals to the level of slander.
from Columbia Journalism Review, regarding Redbot's
mediabiafactcheck.com:
"The armchair academics
Amateur attempts at such tools already exist, and have found plenty of
fans. Google “media bias,” and you’ll find Media Bias/Fact Check, run by
armchair media analyst Dave Van Zandt. The site’s methodology is
simple: Van Zandt and his team rate each outlet from 0 to 10 on the
categories of biased wording and headlines, factuality and sourcing, story
choices (“does the source report news from both sides”), and political
affiliation.
A similar effort is “The Media Bias Chart,” or simply, “The Chart.” Created by
Colorado patent attorney Vanessa Otero, the chart has gone through several
methodological iterations, but currently is based on her evaluation of outlets’
stories on dimensions of veracity, fairness, and expression.
Both efforts suffer from the very problem they’re trying to address: Their
subjective assessments leave room for human biases, or even simple
inconsistencies, to creep in. Compared to Gentzkow and Shapiro, the
five to 20 stories typically judged on these sites represent but a drop of
mainstream news outlets’ production."
see the link from recent example below...
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