Gazacaust: Placing the Blame Where It Belongs
Gazacaust: Placing the Blame Where It Belongs Mike Whitney Interview with Ron Unz RON UNZ AND MIKE WHITNEY Audio Player 00:00 00:00 Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. “Israel has Absolutely No Legitimate Case Whatsoever for Its Attacks on Gaza” Question 1: The ICJ Genocide Ruling In your opinion, is the ICJ’s ‘genocide’ ruling convincing or overstated? Ron Unz —From the beginning I’ve been extremely reluctant to characterize the Israeli attack on Gaza as being a “genocide” because use of that term has become so wildly inflated and distorted in recent years, converted by dishonest Western governments and their mainstream media lackeys into a propaganda-weapon used to vilify countries whose governments they seek to undermine. Most people understand “genocide” to mean killing a large fraction of a given population group as part of an effort aimed at total extermination. But in early 2021, the outgoing Trump Administration and incoming Biden officials bo