The Post-Partisan Emporium

The State of Israel as "Cartoonishly Evil"?  Ron Unz Itamar Ben-Gvir, Convicted Terrorist and Current Israeli Minister of National Security Last week I published  an article  on the dramatic events in domestic American politics, including President Joseph Biden’s sudden disappearance from the presidential race and the elevation of Vice President Kamala Harris as the candidate in his place. Nothing like this had ever previously happened in American political history and it came only a couple of weeks after a highly-suspicious assassination attempt had nearly killed former President Donald Trump, the opposing Republican candidate. But although the bulk of my article focused upon those matters, I also included a few paragraphs near the end presenting some shocking new disclosures in the ongoing Israel/Gaza conflict. As I wrote at the time: Politico  is one of America’s leading mainstream media outlets on politics and public affairs and ten days ago it published  a ...

  Another Day, Another Assassination How Israel does foreign policy, and a bit more Avigail Abarbanel Photo by  Mick Haupt  on  Unsplash I find browsing the Israeli media nauseating. It is worse than reading our own media, or rather disturbing in a different way. It is convenient to have a national language that no one else in the world speaks. You can hide so much from outside scrutiny, most importantly you can hide the true nature of your country, and cultivate whatever image you want the world to have of you. A great deal of what is published in the Israeli media is not translated into English, and this is, of course, deliberate. Gideon Levy’s articles are translated because  Ha’aretz  is useful for Israel’s image. ( Ha’aretz  has very small Israeli readership. Whatever you read on  Ha’aretz  in English, is not read by most Israeli Jews).  Ha’aretz  makes Israel look like a bastion of Western democracy, where dissent is not only ...