On July 13, at a political rally in Pennsylvania, a gunman attempted to assassinate Donald Trump.
On that same day, Israel launched one of its deadliest attacks in Gaza.
The slaughter in Al-Mawasi
An Israeli airstrike on the Al-Mawasi area of the Gaza Strip tore to shreds an encampment of displaced Palestinians sheltering in tents. Al-Mawasi had been designated as a ‘safe zone’. Israel’s strike killed 90 and injured 300 persons.
Israel quickly claimed that it targeted Al-Mawasi in an effort to assassinate Hamas military commander, Mohammed Deif. As is typical, Israel produced no evidence that it had killed or injured Deif, or even that Deif was in the area at the time.
Hamas insists that Deif is alive. It alleges that Israel used Deif’s alleged presence in the area to justify yet another massacre of civilians.
The fate of Deif is currently unknown.
Israel’s war on UNRWA schools
Shortly after the massacre in Al-Mawasi, Israel targeted a school operated by the U.N. Relief Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Al-Nuseirat camp. That strike killed and wounded many of the displaced persons sheltering there.
The Al-Nuseirat school was at least the eighth school Israel attacked in ten days.
Israel’s escalation of its attacks on civilians raised a question: was Israel seeking to exploit the West’s preoccupation with Trump’s near-death experience by accelerating the killing in Gaza?
To explore these and other questions – including Joe Biden’s eye-popping claim that political violence is “unheard of” in the United Sates – I spoke this week with geopolitical analyst Laith Marouf. Marouf is based in Beirut, Lebanon. He is the Executive Director of Free Palestine TV.
You can watch and listen to our discussion below. Please note that YouTube age-restricted the video of my discussion with Marouf because the video includes disturbing footage of Israel’s strike on Al-Mawasi.
I loved Laith’s quote; “The left wing and the right wing belongs to the same bird.” The sooner Canadians understand the significance of that metaphor, with the given that people in USA will likely never understand it, the sooner we will get away from our political two party goat-path. And perhaps we will put proportional representation back on the table. We can only hope that some day we get out from under the oxymoron of a “corporate (sponsored and thereby controlled) democracy”. I remember another quote by a prominent American journalist (name ?) who said; “in terms of democracy, Americans still believe in the Tooth Fairy”.
For Canada, the discussion and advice from Laith at the end of the video was, in my opinion, extremely poignant. Essentially that we/Canada needs to prepare for the imploding/downfall of the American economy, especially if BRICS is successful in a bid to get off the American dollar. Hell, at 30 trillion in debt, they are already in the process of implosion. We need to treat that threat as serious as we “should” treat “global warming” which, BTW, has, in my opinion, been sanitized to “climate change” by the media in an attempt to divert the blame to mother nature.
What has this got to do with the plight of the Palestinians??… A great deal since the only recourse we seem to have is to oust our respective genocidal Zionist supporting politicians!!