The latest U.S. ceasefire proposal used deliberately-ambiguous language intended to give Israel sufficient legal flexibility to continue its aggression. Mike Whitney explains. In other words the U.S. is giving Israel the diplomatic cover it needs to continue its genocidal campaign
Hasn’t Schumer opposed a ceasefire in Gaza from the beginning? Hasn’t Schumer criticized pro-Palestinian activists and their public protests? Hasn’t he campaigned for the Jewish state for more than three decades? Yes, yes and yes. So, why would he suddenly do an about-face and blast Israel’s leader? Mike Whitney explains
As America’s ‘air of invincibility’ continues to erode, and its moral authority collapses (Gaza), Washington will be forced to pull in its horns and ‘play nice’ with its neighbors. Mike Whitney explains
Israel has destroyed the lives of every man, woman and child in Gaza. But when we see video of the wasteland Israel has created – with the rubble extending in all directions– we should remember that the psychological damage they have inflicted is far greater. Mike Whitney explains
What is particularly telling is the way the Western mainstream has given very little time to Palestinian eyewitness accounts of the event, and there are many. While giving as much if not more time to the Israeli version. In effect, the western MSM is providing cover for Israeli crimes
Food trucks are prevented from entering Gaza. Israel is deliberately starving the Palestinians so they will flee their homeland as soon as there is an opening at the border. Egypt is preparing a “desert area with some basic facilities” to receive them
Israel needs a boogieman to justify its operational plan for territorial expansion and the Zionist owned media has helped cast Hamas for the part. That’s why the media don’t dwell on the popular support Hamas retains or the fact that it ordered the ending of suicide bombings before the 2006 elections
Mike Whitney on how what we see happening in Gaza today is the coming to fruition of a scheme that was first envisaged more than half-a-century ago. Called Plan Daley, its aim was ‘disappear’ the native Palestinian population
Mike Whitney explains that Israel plans to make Gaza uninhabitable, using food shortages to disperse the native population through mass emigration. It had hoped to fulfil the Zionist dream of an ethnically pure Jewish state. However, the United Nations relief agency (UNRWA) stood in the way of this happening, which is why it had to be discredited.
Will the U.S. allow itself to seen as caving in to a ragtag militia that has essentially seized control of one of the world’s most critical transit corridors?
The face-off over the Red Sea could have been avoided had the Biden administration chosen to pressure Israel into ending its siege of Gaza and allowing humanitarian aid to reach the Palestinian people. But they chose not to do so.
Mike Whitney presents some key facts pertaining to the ongoing clash with the Houthis that are not being reported by the western MSM. For example, the Houthi attack on shipping in the Red Sea this week was not unprovoked. It was in response to a US helicopter gunship killing ten of the Yemeni fighters as they tried to board a merchant vessel days before