Supporters of Israel rely on numerous questionable assumptions to justify their support for the genocide that has slaughtered 200,000 innocent Palestinians. They assert Israel has an inherent right to exist (no country does), acts solely in self-defense (obviously untrue), ought not to face limits on what it calls retaliation (absurd), commits no war crimes (the ICJ disagrees), and that anti-Zionism is the same as anti-Semitism (there are many anti-Zionist Jews). As the gruesome war against Gaza continues, these once persuasive claims appear increasingly fragile, collapsing like a house of cards. A UN report accused Israel of war crimes in Gaza, citing 8,000 civilian deaths just since the conflict recently escalated after Israel broke the ceasefire. Protests in London recently drew 500,000 people condemning Israeli actions, showing that support for the Jewish state is declining amid growing global scrutiny and shifting public opinion on Israel. The blank check given to Israel in 1948 has been overdrawn.
Give It Up, Israel
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The TMI Show" talk show. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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Israel attacked Iran overnight reportedly hitting uranium enrichment facilities and killing a) top nuclear scientists in their beds (and presumably others in the vicinity) and b) both the country’s top ranking military general and also the head of the IRGC the most prominent and powerful branch of the Iranian military. Any response Iran attempts will be immediately branded as “unprovoked, antisemitic genocide.” There is no word if the next scheduled, Sunday, meeting of US/Iran negotiations (on uranium enrichment) will be held.
Trump claims not to have kown anything about the attack giving the clearest evidence yet, to the willfully blind, that he is either an exceptionally treacherous, murderous liar and/or the most impotent of a long line of “the world’s most powerful leaders” that have valiantly competed for that abysmally dubious distinction.
In domestic news, US Senator Padilla (CA) was forcibly removed from an ICE raid news conference in LA, forced face-first to the ground and handcuffed. The senator is a Democrat and we can, therefore, only expect a “strongly-worded letter” of complaint in response.
Great except for panel 4–because Hamas did win the Gaza election in 2006–not that it’s a reason for Israel to attack.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/jan/26/israel1