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Hamas, Israel, and the United States
For obvious reasons, I cannot endorse Hamas’s firing projectiles at residential centers in Israel. But if is wrong to terrorize Israeli noncombatants into changing their government’s outrageous anti-Palestinian policies, then it must also be wrong for Israel and the United States to terrorize noncombatants into changing their rulers’ policies, which those countries routinely do through sanctions and other, explicitly military ways.
One morality–one set of individuals rights–for all!
Discussing Israel-Palestine on Year Zero
I discussed what’s going on in Israel-Palestine on the Year Zero podcast. Have a listen.
Pittsburgh Speech on the Israel-Palestine Crisis
Last Friday night I gave a speech to the Libertarian Party Mises Caucus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania about conflict in Israel-Palestine
More Interviews of Me
Take Human Action Bash 2021 – LP Mises Caucus event
Scott Horton on the LP, Gaza and Vaccine Passports – Lions of Liberty – starts about 20 minutes in
The Continuing Israel/Palestine Conflict w/ Scott Horton – Pete Quinones
Afghanistan: graveyard of empires, pundits and profiteers – Crashing the War Party
The Secret Is Out And it Can No Longer Be Denied
“I don’t think there has been a greater engine of inequality than the Federal Reserve Bank of the United States”. Stan Druckenmiller
“Americans should increasingly question the role of the Fed and its impact on society. It’s not normal, nor should it be, that the economy keeps running from bust to bust to bust and requires ever more debt and intervention to “save it” from the fall out of the asset bubbles the Fed has propagated time and time again. And markets are again, as Druckenmiller has pointed out, in a massive asset bubble as the Fed arrogantly and fanatically insists on continuing the run the biggest QE program in history, despite buybacks at record highs, despite inflations concerns skyrocketing, despite historic valuations, despite the fastest GDP growth in 50 years and despite corporate earnings having fully recovered. If not now, then when? When things slow down? When things suddenly become uncertain again? That’s when the Fed will taper and end QE? Don’t believe a word of it.”
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In World’s View, Palestinians Are The Weaker Side’: Inside Israel’s PR War
Israel is losing the PR war. From The Times Of Israel
A new ‘bridge’
Last Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry’s Public Diplomacy Division created an initiative called Gesher – Bridge in Hebrew – to bring the IDF Spokesperson, Israel Police, Prime Minister’s Office, Strategic Affairs Ministry, and Government Press Office together in the same room.
Gesher is “creating the messages, coordinating the media appearances, coordinating digital activity, and giving answers to our embassies and consulates abroad,” Lior Hayat, Foreign Ministry spokesman, told The Times of Israel.
PMO senior adviser Mark Regev, the former Israeli ambassador to the UK (Tolga AKMEN / POOL / AFP)
This is not the first time an overarching office has been established to coordinate the work of relevant government bodies, but the scale of coordination is unprecedented, said Hayat. The National Information Directorate and the National Hasbara Forum in the Prime Minister’s Office were established after the 2006 Second Lebanon War to coordinate between government bodies.
The National Hasbara Forum is no longer coordinating Israel’s foreign messaging. The Prime Minister’s Office – specifically Arabic-language spokesman Ofir Gendelman and senior adviser Mark Regev – and the Foreign Ministry are the main bodies crafting the messages, Hayat explained.
In Gaza, We Dread The Darkness And Wait For The Next Strike To Land
“When I speak to U.S. officials, I urge them to remember that the billions in unconditional military aid that they approve each year for Israel — aid that the Israeli military uses against my community and my people — means the United States is not a neutral bystander or an impartial peace broker, but effectively fueling the conflict. I tell them that it is long overdue for them to critically examine the root causes of violence and human rights abuses, and America’s own complicity in them.”
Laila Barhoum Oxfam policy officer in Gaza at The Washington Post
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