Newspaper Reader confronts the reality of ‘Journalism’, as the servant of the various members of the overarching National Security States of ‘The Post War Liberal Order’.

Mr. Rachman opens his essay as if he and his newspaper are not complicit in the Gaza Genocide & forced Famine:

Et tu, Joe? For many months, Benjamin Netanyahu has shrugged off international criticism of Israel, secure in the knowledge that the president of America had offered ironclad support. If you have the White House behind you, who cares about South Africa or the students of Columbia University?

But even the Biden administration has its limits. The Netanyahu government’s determination to press ahead with a full-scale attack on the Gazan town of Rafah has finally prompted the US to halt some of its military aid to Israel.

Followed by this ‘report’ on Netanyahu response

Netanyahu has responded to the US decision with bravado and defiance. Israel looks likely to move forward with its attack on Rafah, using its already formidable arsenal. The Israeli prime minister says that no outside power can prevent his nation from defending itself, as it sees fit. Israel, Netanyahu insists, “will stand alone” if necessary.

Political melodrama infuses this whole essay, Rachman quotes ‘David Horovitz, the founding editor of the Times of Israel’ a propaganda arm of the Israeli State:

But the reality is that many Israelis are shocked and dismayed by Biden’s decision. David Horovitz, the founding editor of the Times of Israel, called it a “devastating announcement”. His description of Israel’s situation is stark: “Already abandoned by most of the international community, Israel . . . has now lost the unstinting public support and full protection of its most essential ally.”

I’ll quote the last paragraphs of this essay, that is still awash in the now shop-worn Israeli Victimhood Narrative, while its Genocide/Famine continues. While Joe Biden faces the fact, that this crime will seal his political fate!

Note also, that I place in bold font: ‘That change became even less likely after the trauma of the savage Hamas attacks of October 7.’ Rachman willfully ignoring the 75 years of murder and oppression against Palestinians!

The Israeli government seems to take an entirely military view of the Palestinian issue. It argues that Israel must eliminate Hamas and “restore deterrence” — and that force is the only true path to Israel’s safety. The Biden administration, by contrast, has always believed that Israel’s future can only ultimately be achieved by a peace settlement that involves the creation of a Palestinian state.

The US knows from its own bitter experience in Afghanistan that you cannot defeat an organisation like Hamas, or the Taliban, simply by killing its leadership and foot soldiers. Without a sustainable political solution, there will always be new recruits. Indeed, mass killing of civilians is likely to be the most effective recruitment tool for the next generation of Hamas fighters.

But facing up to that reality would require profound shifts in the thinking of Netanyahu and much of the Israeli public. That change became even less likely after the trauma of the savage Hamas attacks of October 7. So it may require another external shock — such as the White House decision on weapons — to force the Israelis away from the brutal and self-defeating strategy they have embraced in Gaza. If Biden’s decision helps to kick-start that process, he may yet salvage something from the current horror.

Newspaper Reader