After October 7, Seymour Hersch’s reporting conveyed a belief in the Israel cause and Israel’s eventual victory. Hersch’s point of view has evolved over the course of the slaughter. This essay must have been difficult for him to write, but it is a mark of the great reporter he is that he can change strongly held opinions. From Hersch at seymourhersch.substack.com:
Killings by Israel in Lebanon and Iran risk dragging the US and the Middle East into a regional war
Vice President Kamala Harris and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrive for a meeting in the vice president’s ceremonial office at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in Washington on July 25. / Photo by Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images.
The United States and the Middle East are now enduring a crisis that can in part be traced to the failed foreign policies of President Joe Biden, who will be in office, barring unforeseen events, for six more months. The core issue has been Biden’s inability to understand the recklessness and depravity of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, whose hatred of Palestinians has now brought the Middle East and America to the brink of a war that is neither desired nor necessary. Biden also has failed to seek a negotiated settlement to the war Russia, led by Vladimir Putin, is now in the process of winning against Ukraine.
Biden’s failures will soon fall to Vice President Kamala Harris, who now has a clear path to be nominated by acclaim at the Democratic convention later this month. She has yet to indicate any disagreement with the peril the Biden policies have created, although if ever there was a time for her speaking out this is it.
The fault is not only Biden’s. The majority of Democrats and Republicans in Congress routinely vote to send billions of dollars to support a corrupt and failing government in Ukraine and similarly approve the bombs and tank shells supplied to Israel for use in Gaza. Hamas, which was financed for years by Qatar, at Netanyahu’s behest, is far from defeated and it is now clear that Netanyahu has been the one resisting a ceasefire there, despite pressure—or rather, pleading—from the Biden White House.
The Axis Of Resistance will go asymmetric?
At a time and place of their choosing?
404 isn’t depopulated yet for Heavenly Jerusalem project or the oligarch’s bong delusion.
That HJ video with stripper girl to keep you watching is archived in The Hall of Archives.
The same crew of oligarchs that put player piano Zelensky in power I believe.
We need a good oligarch faction feud!
Breaking from J-Dilla:
Sunbeams (20m Extended Instrumental)
He hates himself.
Breaking-7 in stable condition after assault on US airbase in Iraq.
Interviewed troop didn’t look too happy about it.
On Always Bolshevik Communism (ABC) after coming in from after meal walkabout, not a passing score on spider web trip wire practice in woods, try to duck under or go around and spidey adjusts the placement.
Water box, rain closet, hand wash my Pikey Mickey hat after all of that.