If you can’t win an argument, make your opponent think he or she is crazy. From Caitlin Johnstone at caitlinjohnstone.com:
They tell you Israel is defending itself when you can see it’s mostly killing women and children. They tell you they’re targeting Hamas when you can see them flattening whole city blocks. They tell you you’re an anti-semite when you know you’re not. All they’ve got is gaslighting.
The Atlantic has a new Israel apologia article out titled “The Decolonization Narrative Is Dangerous and False” — a noticeable change in tone from the outlet’s “Decolonize Russia” sentiments of last year.
The entire article has been picked apart paragraph by paragraph by a commentator named Sana Saeed, but for my purposes here I’d just like to focus on one specific sentence in it about Israel’s ongoing massacre in Gaza:
“The Israeli goal in Gaza — for practical reasons, among others — is to minimize the number of Palestinian civilians killed.”
If you didn’t know that The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg is a former IDF prison guard who in 2002 said that “the coming invasion of Iraq will be remembered as an act of profound morality”, it would astonish you that such a sentence ever went to print.
Caitlin Johnstone is an idiot.