Dear Israel Apologist

June 26, 2025
Caitlin Johnstone
Dear Israel apologist,
There is nothing you can say to me that will make me stop opposing Israel’s western-backed atrocities.

برده‌داری جدید

با ورود دانالد ترامپ به کاخ سفید برای دومین بار، و تقسیم مشاغل دولتی بین هم‌فکرانش، قدرتمند‌ترین کشور دنیا از نظر نظامی و دومین کشور جهان از نظر صنعتی و تکنولوژی، توسط کسانی‌ اداره می‌شود که انسان را به یاد رهبری آلمان در نخستین نیمه قرن بیستم می‌اندازد. این دوست صمیمی‌ دانالد ترامپ، یعنی‌ الون ماسک، که البته ثروتمندترین فرد نیز می‌باشد، علنا افکار نژاد پرستی‌ خود را اعلام کرده بود. گرچه پس از مدت کوتاهی‌ روابط ترامپ با ماسک به تیرگی گرایید، ولی‌ همهٔ اطرافیان ترامپ کسانی‌ هستند که درآمد ماهیانه‌شان از مجموع درآمد‌های پنجاه و پنج درصد پایین مردم آمریکا بیشتر است.ا

Iran Says More Than 600 Killed by Israeli Attacks

The following articles report the Israeli government’s crimes using American weapons in various parts of the Middle East, just in one day:

June 25, 2025

Dave DeCamp

A woman carries her child following the Israeli strikes on Iran, in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2025. Amir Kholousi/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via REUTERS

Calm returns to Qatar following Iran’s attack on Al Udeid airbase

June 24, 2025

Hafsa Adil

Life in the Gulf state has swiftly returned to normality after a night of fear and uncertainty.

 

Global Palestine: Israel, the Palestinians, the Middle East and the World After the American Attack on Iran

June 24, 2025

Jeff Halper

On the evening of June 21st in Washington, the morning of June 22nd here in Jerusalem, the United States attacked Iran’s nuclear facilities, joining Israel’s more widespread assault intended to eliminate a rival for regional hegemony, one that targeted not only Iran’s nuclear facilities and ballistic missile system but civilian infrastructure as well, in the hope of inducing regime change. The meta-aims of the attack were three-fold.

The Illusion of Victory

June 23, 2025

Trump’s so-called “precision” strikes will probably spur the creation of a real bomb and spiral into a regime change-driven war.

 

 U.S. and Israeli flags are projected on the walls of Jerusalem's Old City on June 22, 2025, following the U.S. involvement in the war between Israel and Iran. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean)

Putin tells Iranian FM 'no justification' for US-Israeli war, offers support for Tehran

June 23, 2025

Russia, China, and Pakistan have submitted a draft UNSC resolution for an ‘immediate and unconditional’ ceasefire in Iran

 

The key nuclear allegation that started the war was coaxed from a Palantir counter-intelligence algorithm

June 23, 2025

Trump sided with the Israelis, asserting that Iran was ‘very close’ to having a bomb, and added that he didn’t care what Gabbard thinks.

                                   

Chris Hedges: War With Iran

June 22, 2025

We are opening Pandora's box.

 

 A banner bearing a painting that represents various categories of the Iranian society is deployed against the facade of a building in Tehran, with a message that reads in Farsi: " we are all soldiers of Iran", on June 22, 2025. (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)

Why Trump Bombed Iran: Preserving US and Israeli Nuclear Supremacy in the Middle East

June 22, 2025

Dan Steinbock

As President Trump ordered the US to attack three major Iranian nuclear sites, a misguided concept of Israel’s national security morphed into an even more twisted view of US national security.                                    World Nuclear Forces:

LIVE BLOG: Hormuz Closure Ordered by Iranian Parliament after US Aggression – Day 624

June 22, 2025

• Iran warned it would target Israel’s Dimona reactor and US regional bases if the war expands, as Washington moves B-2 bombers to Guam and secret diplomacy collapses.

• Meanwhile, in Gaza, the death toll rises and the hunger crisis in Gaza deepens amid a relentless Israeli aid blockade.

• Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed 55,959 and injured 131,242 others, the majority of whom are women and children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza.

 

                 Satellite imagery confirms that the United States did directly target the location of Fordow's underground enrichment halls. (Photo: video grab)

Iranians say their hopes of peace have been buried by US bombs

June 22, 2025

Public opinion in Iran is divided between wanting to retaliate to Trump's attack and wishing for the hell of constant bombardment to be over

 

 A man reads a newspaper at a newsstand in Tehran, 22 June (Majid Asgaripour/WANA via Reuters)

Trump Announces ‘Successful’ Attack On Iranian Nuclear Sites

June 21, 2025

Kyle Anzalone

Trump said Iran must quickly make peace or he will authorize larger attacks

 

The Capitol Hill Republicans against US war with Iran

June 21, 2025

Stavroula Pabst

They may be a minority, but these conservatives are bucking the old guard and warning Trump of pending disaster

 

From Gaza to Iran – Israel is fighting to maintain Western empire

June 21, 2025

Yoav Haifawi

The war across the Middle East is part of a desperate effort to preserve Western superiority. All the fighting — whether in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, or Iran — is due to Zionism, and its role of enforcing the crushing force of the West.

 

As Israel starves Gaza, Chicago Jewish activists starve themselves to force leaders to take action

June 20, 2025

Marc Steiner

“What wouldn’t you do to stop the slaughter of two million people?… In the face of atrocity, the lesson I have learned from my people is we cannot do nothing.”

 

Water wars and hydro-hegemony in South Asia

June 21, 2025

Sonia Awale & Qian Sun

China plans to build the world's biggest dam, giving it a chokehold on South Asia's water supplies

 

 A cross-section of the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet. China intends to build a massive dam on this river in the coming years, stirring regional controversy. Maxisheng18, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Another Iraq? Military Expert Warns U.S. Has No Real Plan If It joins Israel’s War on Iran

June 20, 2025

 

‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans

June 20, 2025

Ahmed Ahmed & Ibtisam Mahdi

Near-daily Israeli massacres at food distribution sites have killed over 400 Palestinians in the past month alone. Survivors describe stepping over corpses to get their hands on a bag of flour: ‘What choice do we have?’

 

Thousands of Palestinians walk along Al-Rashid Street carrying bags of flour after aid trucks entered through the Zikim area in northern Gaza City, June 17, 2025. Several of those seeking aid were shot by Israeli forces. (Yousef Zaanoun /Activestills) 

Trump has approved Iran attack plan – WSJ

June 19, 2025

Israel reportedly lacks the means to take out some of Iran’s nuclear sites without US military involvement