Hasbara and Israeli official myth-history aside, because of Gaza you don’t have to know much history at all to arrive at the truth about Israel. Reality is truth. The reality of genocide gives rise to irrefutable truths. Because of Gazans, the living and the martyred, the truth about Israel ...[MORE]

If we in the West are the most propagandized people in the world; Gazans are the least propagandized. Outwardly captives, Gazans are liberated from the illiberal political propaganda that grips the West ~ilana On ... the malodorous cauldron of death and decadence that is the Israel Defense Forces. Or, perhaps the ...[MORE]

‘A ceasefire is when the Israelis fire and we cease.’ ~ Refaat Al-Areer, RIPThe median elapsed time between an American official opposing anything Israel and then dropping out of history is getting shorter. ~ilanaNobody can quite determine any longer which of the two countries, America or Israel, is the Great Satan ...[MORE]

As that most American of crime writers, Raymond Chandler, counselled, ‘It never pays to let the enemy make all the rules.’ And Israel is the enemy, the enemy of humanity ~ilanaI grew up decades back in the Middle East, when the American Empire was still nascent. Backed by the USSR (...[MORE]

The IDF’s ‘Aktion’ in northern Gaza resembles nothing short of the ‘liquidation’ of the ghettos of East Europe ~ilana  Israelis and their lickspittles pitch a fit when the language of the Nazi Holocaust is applied to the genocide Israel is perpetrating upon the Palestinians. So here goes:The northern ...[MORE]

You don’t negotiate with Charles Manson, John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer… You stop them. ~ilana … Israeli society … is a picture of moral decadence. Israeli sofa tv pundits are as chatty and blasé about 'mowing the lawn' as they are about the sexual rupturing of Palestinian anatomy. Israelis themselves ...[MORE]

Crime is SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for the Israeli army. Yes, do not dub a first-degree felony a 'war crime.' A crime is a crime is a crime. A criminal is a criminal. A serial killer, state or lone actor, must be stopped ~ilanaLike Israel’s genocide in Gaza, ...[MORE]