Israelis are taught to “never forget” the Holocaust. In the case of Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu and his right wing followers, however, they seem to have taken genocide as something to emulate rather than to avoid.
Never Forget
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 Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. 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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Good and truthful piece, concerning trumpster fire’s blaming of Ukraine for starting the war with Russia, the only goofballs buying that b.s. are His Orangeness, Rall, and His Orangeness’ enablers…………………………………………………..not a good group for inclusion.
No one who has watched thinks the Ukraine started the war with Russia, it was the good old US of A, who knows that it will be very easy to destroy Russia using the Ukraine as proxies, and that will make it much easier to destroy the PRC, and just about everyone agrees that Russia and the PRC must be destroyed to keep the world safe for American and EU ‘democracy’.
Well said, well said. According to Congressional testimony by Victoria Nuland, the US spent at least $5B subsidizing right-wing, anti-Russian Ukrainians to take over the country’s government and change its orientation from neutral to pro-western (which they succeeded at in 2014), even though everybody from Kissinger to Chomsky (and that’s quite a spread) was warning that de-neutralizing Ukraine would be considered an extreme provocation by the Russians. Even so, they didn’t intervene until the people of Donbass, fearing an imminent Ukrainian massacre, asked them to.
Ted, can you clarify, re: one of the comments, who — according to you — started the war between Russia and Ukraine?
As to Israel and Gaza? What can be said that hasn’t already been said?
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Russia started the war. Ukraine provoked it.
Russia invaded. That’s the start.
Ukraine announced its intention to join a hostile military alliance against its powerful, understandably (given history) nervous neighbor.
The Netanyahu quip IS excellent. However, given Trumps’ first term fawning over Netanyahu and the widow Abelson’s reported $100 million Trump’s second-term campaign donation, I don’t see how Trump can be portrayed, as he is in the comic, for a femto-second, as having >0 concern for the existence of “the Holocaust of our times,” much less its victims … nor the currently surviving Palestinians as anything more than a typical, temporary, manageable, BIG real estate obstacles to really yu … uuuge profits.