Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

Israel: It Gets Worse And Worse I'd rather be writing about anything else, but it would irresponsible to do so as mindless or corrupted policy-makers spiral us closer and closer to the black hole of nuclear Armageddon. SO, ANOTHER COMMENTARY ABOUT the current and ongoing ugliness in Palestine... This is the third in a row, and I am as disturbed at the need to stay on this subject as you probably are to see me do so. But the one thing that good people may not do is dither and divert their gaze from evil. Right now, the Israelis are working hard and fast to "change the facts on the ground". At the moment, the dispossessed Palestinians in Gaza are a living, present and visible rebuke, impossible for the world to ignore and still somewhat able to resume life in Gaza. Given a little more time to bomb and kill, the Israelis will soon have erased that fact, rendering Gaza a wasteland incapable of being inhabited, even as the sardine-can prison it has been (and even with the Palestinian population that might resume life there decimated to a fraction of its former numbers), and rendering the handful of survivors invisible in the Egyptian desert or scattered as refugees elsewhere. Calls for an end to the bombing are now made urgent by there being something yet to be preserved. But soon there will be no such urgency, because soon there will be nothing left to preserve. The bombing will then, of course, stop, and the strident calls against Israeli violence will, of course, also stop. A new stasis will take hold in which the dispossession of the Palestinians hitherto confined in Gaza will be yet more complete-- Israelis will take up residence in Gaza as in the greater area of the previously stolen lands of Palestine (and as has been steadily proceeding over recent decades as another "change in the facts on the ground" in the West Bank with constant encroachment by "settlers")-- and begin the exploitation of the estimated $453bn+ in oil and gas reserves found not long ago in that place. Decent people must continue to stand up for for the Palestinian victims of this 75-year crime, who have watched their own children wither in imprisonment, impoverishment and oppression while their oppressors' children thrive on the lands stolen from them. In service to that imperative, it is necessary to counter or debunk the managed narrative and other propaganda spun out in a constant assault on clear-and-forthright thinking which might be inconvenient to the plans of the Israelis and their neo-con and other collaborators in America. Here are a few such counters and debunks: Continued: https://losthorizons.com/N/262.htm#1