Perspectives on Israel/Palestine
an incomplete list
I’m sure I’m not the only one conflicted by the amount I’ve read and listened to on Israel/Palestine recently. I sense the futility – my ever more nuanced views will do nothing to improve the situation. And more knowledge has definitely not made me more optimistic. And yet, if I can’t look away, I may at least try to see clearly.
An incomplete list of resources I’ve found insightful:
Videos of Edward Said on YouTube
- ’s podcast (especially the episode with Joshua Landis which is rich in detail about the history with Lebanon)
Ezra Klein’s podcast (especially the recent episode on the history of negotiations)
- ’s commentary (especially this piece on the difference between the Palestinian Cause and than the welfare of the Palestinian people.).
- ’s beautiful laments.
- ’s comments on how language frames our perceptions.
- ’s humane and humanistic perspective both here and on tumblr (and, via John, The Crisis of Therapeutic ‘Decolonization’ by Geoff Shullenberger and an old essay by Ellen Willis1)
This long-view perspective by Shany Mor
eigenrobot’s fun blow-by-blow analyses
Nina Paley’s film Seder-Masochism, a beautifully animated personal reflection on the Jewish faith and monotheism in general
It’s depressing how it could have been written today with barely any updates needed.
Ilhan Omar (D-MN) and Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) have every right to say what they like about Israel and the genocide of Palestinians as elected members of the US House of Representatives; they never took an oath to serve Israel . . .
I voted for Ron Desantis (R-FL) to be governor of Florida, not ambassador to Israel.
The recently ousted Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Congressman Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who took at least a dozen votes to get elected speaker, traveled to Israel immediately upon his election, declaring to the Israeli Knesset that the USA is steadfastly committed to supporting Ukraine in their war against Russia . . .
Was he running for speaker of the Israeli Knesset too?
Following his ouster . . . McCarthy (R-CA) traveled abroad again, this time to England, and expressed his open contempt for the white Republicans who make up the majority of the GOP and praised Democrats for their diversity during a debate at Oxford in the wake of his ouster as House Speaker . . .
Is he now running for the Prime Minister of the U.K.?
Nevertheless, he is free to go on media tours bashing white people and lobbying for Israel, because he has now resigned from the US House of Representatives . . . I can only conclude that the collective RINO butthurt over former Speaker McCarthy is all about the Israelis who have hijacked the American deep state war machine.
It has become so painfully obvious, especially where you have someone like Nikki Haley wagging her finger and shouting down Vivek Ramaswamy in a presidential debate on live national television when the questions of this Ukrainian war against Russia and any mention of Israel are concerned, that the United States government has become a wholly owned subsidiary of the American Israeli Political Action Committee.
https://cwspangle.substack.com/i/138320669/fight-your-own-wars-you-kikesucking-zionist-ass-whores