Ro Khanna might actually be amenable to changing course in U.S.-Israel relations.
As for the likes of senators Schiff and Padilla and Nancy Pelosi they are so bought and sold by AIPAC dollars they are a lost cause. They simply need to be replaced. The first step is not supporting nor voting for any candidate that take money from AIPAC, J-street or any part of the Israel lobby.
Maybe call the Mass Media / “legacy media” what it really is:
Corporate Media.
As a usa taxpayer I am, against my will, complicit in every murder anywhere where USA military/military aid is engaged. I’m against violence as it only begets more violence.
The path to a fair world should require face to face (NOT ZOOM) negotiations.
Thank you for your reporting with such unusual level of integrity.
Yes, construction in EI is a clear danger to the possibility of a Palestinian state. Everyone in the States should lobby the Democratic representatives who say they support a two-state solution to express clear opposition to Israeli construction in E!. And I would add to also lobby Republican representatives who want to help President Trump earn that Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, what is needed is equality under the law, and the equal Palestinian and Jewish right to national self-determination (as long as we are divided into nation-states. In September at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York France, the UK, Canada, Australia and other countries will be joining the other 147 countries who already recognize a Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel, definitely a step in the right (left) direction. But construction in EI has to be stopped. As for running in the New York marathon....
The two state solution is Plessey-Ferguson all over again. There is only one solution: one state. Anything else is fantasy. The one state may be as well but a country giving full rights to ALL of its citizens is forced to actually admit their existence sooner than later.
Peter, you are 100% correct. However, the "news" journalists and commentators are not hired to provide honest, reasonable dialogue; they are hired as spokespersons for the media corporations that employ them. These Corporate Boards are in lockstep with the plans of the Zionist government of Israel. All the palaver of a two-state solution is cover to keep from having sticks and stones thrown at them. They work overtime at the veneer, "the Good Guys, hopeful, reasonable. News media have never been honest brokers, any more than the US government has been an honest broker for the past 60 years.
I've basically stopped watching the US "mainstream" media (except for PBS Newshour) and have started watching the BBC news, which is less biased and dives deeper into the issues. For example, it recently broadcast a story about Jewish settlers' attacks on a Christian village in the West Bank. The village's orthodox priest was was adamant--the village has been there for two thousand years and would not be abandoned. Anybody seen any stories like this in the US mainstream media?
I hope to see the day when Biden and Blinken are standing in orange jump suits in front of a tribunal in The Hague. Their role in the atrocity in Gaza should not be overlooked.
I’m just reading a book on Systems Thinking and this line really stood out to me: “Purposes are deduced from behaviour, not from rhetoric or stated goals”. All talk of solutions is meaningless because the behaviour is of dissolution. Just as compromised are all those who state that Israel is just defending itself or only seeks safety while its actions are that of the aggressor, oppressor and antagonist on multiple fronts. We are in a very strange age where words are given more weight than actions, regardless of how absurd or easily disproven.
I applaud Peter for standing on the side of truth and justice. It cannot be easy for him. Courage is in such short supply when it comes to the genocide and ethnic cleansing of a people.
It's SO true that they really do not support a two state solution....But saying they do is like a magic trick that absolves Israeli war crimes. It gives people an appearance of fairness or equality that never really existed.
When not crying or screaming, I often find myself laughing incredulously while thinking some version of "I know you. You can't possibly believe what you just said or reposted. That is literally the goofiest thing I've ever heard."
Friedland's vulnerability and clarity are to be commended and Torres' soulless Chat GPT answers should be sufficient to disqualify him from future public service, or at least set him back aways.
You correctly assert the key question is whether one believes "in the fundamental principle that Israelis and Palestinians should have equality under the law."
Can you point to any articulation of a "two-state solution" where this principle would be honored?
Note: I would add an open-ended secondary question; "what steps will you take to ensure Palestinians experience justice (accountability), full freedom of movement and resettlement (return), and material restoration (reparations)?
Agreed. And I like the way you say "dereliction of duty" there has been so much of that - on the part of the press and the American Representatives. A lot of empty talk.
Thanks, Peter. I am going to send this to politicians like Ro Khanna.
Ro Khanna might actually be amenable to changing course in U.S.-Israel relations.
As for the likes of senators Schiff and Padilla and Nancy Pelosi they are so bought and sold by AIPAC dollars they are a lost cause. They simply need to be replaced. The first step is not supporting nor voting for any candidate that take money from AIPAC, J-street or any part of the Israel lobby.
Clear analysis. Thank you.
Maybe call the Mass Media / “legacy media” what it really is:
Corporate Media.
As a usa taxpayer I am, against my will, complicit in every murder anywhere where USA military/military aid is engaged. I’m against violence as it only begets more violence.
The path to a fair world should require face to face (NOT ZOOM) negotiations.
Thank you for your reporting with such unusual level of integrity.
Thank you so much, Peter, for all you are doing to bring truth and decency to the struggle for peace and equality.
Thank you
Seems that Trump/Netanyahu are scheming again about 100% removal and the redevelopment of the Gazan coast. Criminal colonialism 😡
Yes, construction in EI is a clear danger to the possibility of a Palestinian state. Everyone in the States should lobby the Democratic representatives who say they support a two-state solution to express clear opposition to Israeli construction in E!. And I would add to also lobby Republican representatives who want to help President Trump earn that Nobel Peace Prize. Yes, what is needed is equality under the law, and the equal Palestinian and Jewish right to national self-determination (as long as we are divided into nation-states. In September at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York France, the UK, Canada, Australia and other countries will be joining the other 147 countries who already recognize a Palestinian state alongside the state of Israel, definitely a step in the right (left) direction. But construction in EI has to be stopped. As for running in the New York marathon....
The two state solution is Plessey-Ferguson all over again. There is only one solution: one state. Anything else is fantasy. The one state may be as well but a country giving full rights to ALL of its citizens is forced to actually admit their existence sooner than later.
As always, thank you Peter!
Peter, you are 100% correct. However, the "news" journalists and commentators are not hired to provide honest, reasonable dialogue; they are hired as spokespersons for the media corporations that employ them. These Corporate Boards are in lockstep with the plans of the Zionist government of Israel. All the palaver of a two-state solution is cover to keep from having sticks and stones thrown at them. They work overtime at the veneer, "the Good Guys, hopeful, reasonable. News media have never been honest brokers, any more than the US government has been an honest broker for the past 60 years.
I've basically stopped watching the US "mainstream" media (except for PBS Newshour) and have started watching the BBC news, which is less biased and dives deeper into the issues. For example, it recently broadcast a story about Jewish settlers' attacks on a Christian village in the West Bank. The village's orthodox priest was was adamant--the village has been there for two thousand years and would not be abandoned. Anybody seen any stories like this in the US mainstream media?
I hope to see the day when Biden and Blinken are standing in orange jump suits in front of a tribunal in The Hague. Their role in the atrocity in Gaza should not be overlooked.
Will this zoom call be recorded and viewable later?
I’m just reading a book on Systems Thinking and this line really stood out to me: “Purposes are deduced from behaviour, not from rhetoric or stated goals”. All talk of solutions is meaningless because the behaviour is of dissolution. Just as compromised are all those who state that Israel is just defending itself or only seeks safety while its actions are that of the aggressor, oppressor and antagonist on multiple fronts. We are in a very strange age where words are given more weight than actions, regardless of how absurd or easily disproven.
I applaud Peter for standing on the side of truth and justice. It cannot be easy for him. Courage is in such short supply when it comes to the genocide and ethnic cleansing of a people.
It's SO true that they really do not support a two state solution....But saying they do is like a magic trick that absolves Israeli war crimes. It gives people an appearance of fairness or equality that never really existed.
Thank you. Much of the discourse IS hilarious.
When not crying or screaming, I often find myself laughing incredulously while thinking some version of "I know you. You can't possibly believe what you just said or reposted. That is literally the goofiest thing I've ever heard."
Friedland's vulnerability and clarity are to be commended and Torres' soulless Chat GPT answers should be sufficient to disqualify him from future public service, or at least set him back aways.
You correctly assert the key question is whether one believes "in the fundamental principle that Israelis and Palestinians should have equality under the law."
Can you point to any articulation of a "two-state solution" where this principle would be honored?
Note: I would add an open-ended secondary question; "what steps will you take to ensure Palestinians experience justice (accountability), full freedom of movement and resettlement (return), and material restoration (reparations)?
Agreed. And I like the way you say "dereliction of duty" there has been so much of that - on the part of the press and the American Representatives. A lot of empty talk.