It's not the World Court, non-western states, rights groups and Palestinians who have been using the term genocide 'too lightly'. It's the Guardian that's reached the same conclusion far, far too late
In the past year (2024) Israel has bombed Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and Yemen. All with top shelf American fighter jets and American munitions. Who exactly is the problem child in the Middle East? Who is doing most of killing? Who is enabling it? Israel and the United States.
Thank you. Great article again. Just one thought, do we really think there was any chance Israel ever wanted Palestinians in Gaza to flee to Egypt? Egypt seems to be doing what Israel wants. So if that's what Israel truly wanted, I think that's what Egypt would have done. I think the aim was always to just kill all the people in Gaza. Ever since they moved Jews out of Gaza, after Oslo, I think that was the plan. Moving Jews out, meant that Israel could just bomb the place. And then, I am disturbed by the lack of 'keeping up appearances' from our governments. Even in Bosnia there were UN troops pretending they were there to keep peace and protect civilians. In Gaza, we don't see even that much.
I don't know how a real journalist like Mr. Cook does not go insane experiencing this madness as it slowly plays out. We all know the villains will rewrite history to make themselves look like angels. Thank God we have people like Mr. Cook to annoy them and call them out.
Thank you, Jonathan, and all the other courageous journalists who have been fighting MSM’s duplicity. Mendacious spin is often worse, more insidious, than outright fake news.
And the BBC? when will it admit that Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza? And the UK government? And Biden and his Democrats? When will they stop the flow of arms to Netanyahu? Terminology is not action, when will the governments elected by humans with rage and despair in their hearts at what we are all being forced to witness, actually do something to stop the carnage?
Cancelled my subscription to the Guardian over Viner's spiking of Susan Abulhawa's article and for publishing some stream of semiconciousness by Howard 'Israel is my lifeboat' Jacobson.
BBC radio news has reported tonight that Amsterdam city authorities have 'temporarily' banned protests.
Job done, then. (Since 'temporarily' means...)
BBC News Online is now carrying a report with extensive interviews of Israeli, Dutch & British Jews that its reporter found. There are no quotes (extensive or otherwise) from anyone verbally abused or attacked by Israeli 'ultra' supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv.
The report does note: '...The attacks overnight into Friday followed some tensions between Maccabi fans and people in Amsterdam over previous days, officials said...'
Today's Daily Express front page splash trumpets the alarm: 'PRO-PALESTINE activists plotting to 'swarm' Armistice Day services and bring chaos to UK cities are exposed in the Daily Express today.
'The leaders of Youth Demand are planning a series of "shameful, highly co-ordinated" protests dishonouring our war dead across the country on Monday, November 11...'
Thank you Jonathan, Im quitting today also in the midst of also the horribly biased reporting on the Amsterdam violence. Read that article, then Al Jazeera’s on this issue. I fear this has terrifying implications. tRump is moving at breathtaking speed to implement project 2025, anti Iranian hardliners etc.
Jonathan,what are your thoughts on getting together with other prolific writers here on Substack and having a forum on where we go from here?
Jonathan, Bartov wasn’t ‘slow’ to understand what has been staring him in the face. Ask him what he did during his military service. He damn well knows, like most Israelis. Like many, he operates as an ‘agent’ for Israel. You don’t have to be formally paid for it as a job. In Israel people willingly volunteer to protect the state. As a former Israeli I can tell you that everyone there is brought up to believe that their life’s purpose is to defend Israel.
The Guardian are such cowards. They would not quote a Palestinian calling it genocide, but an Israeli scholar. The fear of being seen to not like Israel is too much for them. I have always had a more privileged voice compared with Palestinians although we were always saying the same thing. This impunity that Israel enjoys, this fear of ‘offending’ it is morally bankrupt, and it has always been deadly to the Palestinian people.
The Guardian has no leg to stand on. As I said in another comment, it is only guardian of its own survival. As a collaborator and enabler of genocide, I hope the Guardian loses a substantial number of subscribers. Better still, I wonder when a large number of Guardian staff would finally find their moral back bone, walk out, and stop implicating themselves in this genocide.
The Guardian, along with establishment media, and our own politicians have been shamelessly buying time for Israel to complete its settler-colonial project. It is hard for me to not see Israel’s influence behind the scenes. I know how Israel and its lobby operate.
What will all these enablers say when six million Palestinians are gone? I think they hope we would all have moved on, and forgotten about it. I sincerely believe that there is no coming back from this for Israel, and for all of its enablers and collaborators.
Thank you for another brilliant and important piece.
The holocaust scholar and the Guardian’s staff have just taken the well known path of denying and ignoring a genocide while is taking place and acknowledging and naming it by his real name once the final stage has been reached and there is no way out. The same way that is easiest to cry over a fair cause once this cause is definitively lost. In spite of everything, Gaza and Palestine are resisting.
In the past year (2024) Israel has bombed Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and Yemen. All with top shelf American fighter jets and American munitions. Who exactly is the problem child in the Middle East? Who is doing most of killing? Who is enabling it? Israel and the United States.
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Thank you. Great article again. Just one thought, do we really think there was any chance Israel ever wanted Palestinians in Gaza to flee to Egypt? Egypt seems to be doing what Israel wants. So if that's what Israel truly wanted, I think that's what Egypt would have done. I think the aim was always to just kill all the people in Gaza. Ever since they moved Jews out of Gaza, after Oslo, I think that was the plan. Moving Jews out, meant that Israel could just bomb the place. And then, I am disturbed by the lack of 'keeping up appearances' from our governments. Even in Bosnia there were UN troops pretending they were there to keep peace and protect civilians. In Gaza, we don't see even that much.
I don't know how a real journalist like Mr. Cook does not go insane experiencing this madness as it slowly plays out. We all know the villains will rewrite history to make themselves look like angels. Thank God we have people like Mr. Cook to annoy them and call them out.
Thank you, Jonathan, and all the other courageous journalists who have been fighting MSM’s duplicity. Mendacious spin is often worse, more insidious, than outright fake news.
Brilliant 👏👏👏
And the BBC? when will it admit that Israel is carrying out a genocide in Gaza? And the UK government? And Biden and his Democrats? When will they stop the flow of arms to Netanyahu? Terminology is not action, when will the governments elected by humans with rage and despair in their hearts at what we are all being forced to witness, actually do something to stop the carnage?
Cancelled my subscription to the Guardian over Viner's spiking of Susan Abulhawa's article and for publishing some stream of semiconciousness by Howard 'Israel is my lifeboat' Jacobson.
BBC radio news has reported tonight that Amsterdam city authorities have 'temporarily' banned protests.
Job done, then. (Since 'temporarily' means...)
BBC News Online is now carrying a report with extensive interviews of Israeli, Dutch & British Jews that its reporter found. There are no quotes (extensive or otherwise) from anyone verbally abused or attacked by Israeli 'ultra' supporters of Maccabi Tel Aviv.
The report does note: '...The attacks overnight into Friday followed some tensions between Maccabi fans and people in Amsterdam over previous days, officials said...'
Today's Daily Express front page splash trumpets the alarm: 'PRO-PALESTINE activists plotting to 'swarm' Armistice Day services and bring chaos to UK cities are exposed in the Daily Express today.
'The leaders of Youth Demand are planning a series of "shameful, highly co-ordinated" protests dishonouring our war dead across the country on Monday, November 11...'
(So, job not yet done in Britain - yet.)
Tin-Tin, intrepid cub reporter for His Majesty's Press & Broadcast Media:
'ANYONE HERE BEEN ATTACKED AND IS JEWISH?'
Fat-finger posting error (not ego, honest).
Oh. The immediately above was repeated, but the repetition has deleted.
On the other hand, all the assorted Tin-Tins will be repeating their cry over & over for...
Thank you Jonathan, Im quitting today also in the midst of also the horribly biased reporting on the Amsterdam violence. Read that article, then Al Jazeera’s on this issue. I fear this has terrifying implications. tRump is moving at breathtaking speed to implement project 2025, anti Iranian hardliners etc.
Jonathan,what are your thoughts on getting together with other prolific writers here on Substack and having a forum on where we go from here?
Jonathan, Bartov wasn’t ‘slow’ to understand what has been staring him in the face. Ask him what he did during his military service. He damn well knows, like most Israelis. Like many, he operates as an ‘agent’ for Israel. You don’t have to be formally paid for it as a job. In Israel people willingly volunteer to protect the state. As a former Israeli I can tell you that everyone there is brought up to believe that their life’s purpose is to defend Israel.
The Guardian are such cowards. They would not quote a Palestinian calling it genocide, but an Israeli scholar. The fear of being seen to not like Israel is too much for them. I have always had a more privileged voice compared with Palestinians although we were always saying the same thing. This impunity that Israel enjoys, this fear of ‘offending’ it is morally bankrupt, and it has always been deadly to the Palestinian people.
The Guardian has no leg to stand on. As I said in another comment, it is only guardian of its own survival. As a collaborator and enabler of genocide, I hope the Guardian loses a substantial number of subscribers. Better still, I wonder when a large number of Guardian staff would finally find their moral back bone, walk out, and stop implicating themselves in this genocide.
The Guardian, along with establishment media, and our own politicians have been shamelessly buying time for Israel to complete its settler-colonial project. It is hard for me to not see Israel’s influence behind the scenes. I know how Israel and its lobby operate.
What will all these enablers say when six million Palestinians are gone? I think they hope we would all have moved on, and forgotten about it. I sincerely believe that there is no coming back from this for Israel, and for all of its enablers and collaborators.
Thank you for another brilliant and important piece.
I recall Edward Said coining the term "permission to narrate" regarding if / when Palestinians are allowed to share their knowledge/ facts/ truths
You are brilliant, sir.
The holocaust scholar and the Guardian’s staff have just taken the well known path of denying and ignoring a genocide while is taking place and acknowledging and naming it by his real name once the final stage has been reached and there is no way out. The same way that is easiest to cry over a fair cause once this cause is definitively lost. In spite of everything, Gaza and Palestine are resisting.
Viner must go. And the Guardian's integrity and journalistic value dead. It's irrelevant.
You are absolutely right Jonathan. More razor-sharp analysis. Many thanks.
Just got round to reading The Guardian's report on Amsterdam 'antisemitic violence'. Much as might be expected
But it included this:
'...Netanyahu also said he had ordered the Mossad spy agency to draw up a plan to prevent unrest at events abroad after the violence in Amsterdam...'
Now, that's interesting, isn't it?