The new, larger case total includes personnel in the CIA, the State Department, the Defense Department, and elsewhere. The cases also involve more locations in which the mysterious incidents reportedly occurred. In addition to reporting incidents in Cuba and China, personnel have now reported bizarre episodes in Europe, Russia, elsewhere in Asia, and even the US.
Russia has been a consistent suspect behind the incidents, which have often been described as attacks. However, the Biden administration has not determined whether they constitute attacks, let alone who might be behind them.
Might amount to nothing, hopefully, but it is enough to make my hackles rise.
There has been a suggestion form the start that this was a shared delusion, but as the cases increase in number and locations, I find it harder and harder to buy that. It did make sense intially, when it seemed isolated to Havana, not o sure now. Of course, I also figure there is much more known about this internally than is being putout for public consumption.
Those who are not Jewish in Israel are either second-class citizens or live under brutal military occupation. Israel is not, and never has been, the exclusive homeland of the Jewish people. From the 7th century until 1948, when Jewish colonial settlers used violence and ethnic cleansing to create the state of Israel, Palestine was overwhelmingly Muslim. It was never empty land. The Jews in Palestine were traditionally a tiny minority. The United States is not an honest broker for peace but has funded, enabled and defended Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people. Israel is not defending the rule of law. Israel is not a democracy. It is an apartheid state.
I’ve never understood the wests lack of compassion with the plight of the palestinians. People could understand the existence of the IRA in ireland. Condemn their terrorism but still understand why they existed. Somehow the same didn’t apply to the PLO and doesn’t to Hamas.
Because a colonial power said so…? Because Europeans wanted to get rid of Jewish people in Europe…? What’s your point. Most of us are probably familiar with Balfour if we’re here arguing about this issue.
Irish American nationalist could. Some of the very same people were okay with racial segregation, though…
It’s also “different” to some people when it’s not “your” people.
I don’t think congress has approved yet. If not, STOP THE SALE.
I held my nose and wrote my (mostly) fake progressive representative Diana DeGette just now to encourage exactly that. I told her (staff) that any politician who facilitates Israel’s apartheid and war crimes cannot be taken seriously when calling out human rights abuses of our enemies. I don’t expect more than a canned response, but if maybe a few thousand Denverites did so, we might get more than silence and complicity.
I’d like to thank the squad for being the only reasonable voices in this non-debate.
Alleged faith healer Cori Bush makes a very important connection here, one that should take hold if all the politicians who claim to care about Black lives are genuine in their concern. I am SO glad she got rid of Lacy Clay!
Cori Bush began by acknowledging Bassem Masri, a Palestinian American activist who was on the ground during the Ferguson protests with Bush and others. She remembered that Palestinian American activists like Masri taught others in Ferguson who were protesting the killing of Mike Brown what to do when police shot rubber bullets at them. “We are anti-war, we are anti-occupation, and we are anti-apartheid, period,” Bush said. She added, “Until all our children are safe, we will continue to fight for our rights in Palestine and in Ferguson. We stand with you in solidarity.
Because it’s the accepted answer to the inevitable bad faith question that everyone who speaks out on this issue is confronted with by Israeli nationalists. The whole thing is a piece of “have you stopped beating your wife” misdirection, that tries to force people into a yes or no answer when the premise of the question is wrong. States don’t actually have rights, people have rights.
It’s also a way to distract from the fact that Palestinians have a right to exist, Palestine has a right to exist, and one country has, in fact, been “wiped off the map”.
Because the right wing always has done the very thing it accuses you of.
