Week in Review: 2023, week 41

[Image: a composite of the front page at The Cradle and the graphic for the Klarenberg article as it appears in TorBrowser. Note the inserted ‘menu bar’ and ‘reCaptcha’.]Published: 2023-10-15SourcesYesXorNoHamas v Israel: A Media Narrative, YesXorNo, 2023-10-05AntiwarUkraineGermany Announces $1.1 Billion Arms Package for Ukraine, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-10US/MICA Desperate White House Is Scrambling To Find Money for Arming Ukraine, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2023-10-06Report: Biden Considering Huge $100 Billion Ukraine Spending Package, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-08US Scrambles to Get More Arms to Israel, Ukraine, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-09US Announces $200 Million Arms Package for Ukraine, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-11White House Plans to Request Military Aid for Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-11Ukraine Receives $1.15 Billion in Direct Budgetary Aid from US, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-12Middle EastTurkish Warplanes Strike US-Allied Kurds in Syria, Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, NoneUS, Qatar Agree to Deny Iran Access to $6 Billion of Its Funds, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-12Israeli Airstrikes Cripple Syria's Two Main Airports, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-12NYT: US Intelligence Shows Iranian Leaders Were Surprised by Hamas Attack, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-11Palestine/IsraelOver 1,000 Dead: Israel PM Says 'We Are at War" After Hamas Attacks By 'Land, Air, and Sea', Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2023-10-07Biden Speaks with Netanyahu, Says Israel Has Right to 'Self-Defense', Kyle Anzalone, Antiwar, 2023-10-07Rep. McCaul Says a House Speaker Is Needed to 'Replenish' Israel's Iron Dome, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-08Biden Tells Netanyahu More Military Aid Is on Its Way, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-08Israel Says It Has No Evidence Iran Was Involved in Hamas Attack, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-09US Deploys Aircraft Carrier Strike Group to Support Israel, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-08Israeli Lawmaker Says 'Pogroms' Against Palestinians Provoked Hamas Assault, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-08US Officials Expect Israel to Launch Ground Invasion of Gaza, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-08Israel Announces 'Complete Siege' of Gaza, Says They're Fighting 'Human Animals', Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-09Egypt Says Israel Ignored Warning That 'Something Big' Was Coming, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-09Blinken Deletes Tweet Encouraging Ceasefire Between Israel and Hamas, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-09Sen. Schumer Lectures Xi on China's Response to Israel-Hamas Fighting, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-09Pentagon Offers Israel Support for Extracting Hostages from Gaza, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-10Netanyahu Tells Biden 'We Have to Go' Into Gaza, Rules Out Negotiations, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-10Egypt's Border Crossing With Gaza Closed Off as Palestinians Have Nowhere to Flee, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-10US, Israeli Lawmakers Call for Genocide of Palestinians in Gaza, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-10US Might Send Second Aircraft Carrier to Support Israel, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-10Rep. McCaul Confirms That Egypt Warned Israel Before Hamas Attack, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-11Sen. Graham Says 'We're in a Religious War,' Calls to 'Level' Gaza, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-11Gaza's Only Power Plant Out of Fuel as Israeli Airstrikes Pound Enclave, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-11Poll: Majority of Israelis Blame Government for Hamas Attack, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-12Blinken: 'As long as America Exists,' It Will Support Israel, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-12Israel Says No Humanitarian Aid Into Gaza Until Captives Released, Dave DeCamp, Antiwar, 2023-10-12Other VoicesPalestine/IsraelDear Dove, Mr. Fish, ScheerPost, 2023-10-13A Population With Nothing To Lose, Caitlin Johnston, Caitlin's Newsletter, 2023-10-08They're Repeating The Word "Unprovoked" Again, This Time In Defense Of Israel, Caitlin Johnston, Caitlin's Newsletter, 2023-10-08Israel's Massive Intelligence Failure, Scott Ritter, Consortium News, 2023-10-08Palestinians Speak Israel's Language, Chris Hedges, Consortium News, 2023-10-09A Matter of Justice, Ray McGovern, Consortium News, 2023-10-11Condemnation, Craig Murray, Consortium News, 2023-10-11'A Massive War Crime', Jake Johnson, Consortium News, 2023-10-10Uprooting the Causes of Violence in Gaza - Israel, Phyllis Bennis, Consortium News, 2023-10-10Mansour: Israel's 'License to Kill', PeoplesDispatch, Consortium News, 2023-10-09Lawless in Gaza: Why the West Backs Israel No Matter What, Jonathan Cook, Consortium News, 2023-10-13The Myth That Israel Has 'No Choice', Sam Husseini, Consortium News, 2023-10-14Propaganda Blitz: How Mainstream Media is Pushing Fake Palestine Stories, Alan MacLeod, ScheerPost (originally MintPress News), 2023-10-14The Split In Israel And The War Of Al-Aqsa, b., MoonOfAlabama, 2023-10-13Pro-Israel Propaganda Is Stupid, b., MoonOfAlabama, 2023-10-14The Malevolent Kabuki Theater of Israel’s War with Palestinians, Larry Johnson, Sonar21, 2023-10-13Israel’s intel failure is 'bad for business', Kit Klarenberg, The Cradle, 2023-10-13Fascism in the West to Enable Genocide in Palestine, Craig Murray, Craig Murray, 2023-10-13'Innocent Israelis', Patrick Lawrence, ScheerPost, 2023-10-11The Gaza War is Lost: But Will Netanyahu Concede?, Ramzy Baroud, Antiwar, 2023-10-1010/12/23 Ramzy Baroud on the Hamas Attacks, Horton interviews Baroud, The Scott Horton Show, 2023-10-12* MP3 CrossTalk: No way out, Miko Peled, Scott Ritter, and Triestino Mariniello, CrossTalk, 2023-10-13Extremist Politics in Israel and Ukraine - Alastair Crooke, Alexander Mercouris and Glenn Diesen, Diesen and Mercouris interview Crooke, The Duran, 2023-10-11WATCH: CN Live! ' John Pilger - Ilan Pappé on Palestine, Lauria interviews Pilger and Pappé, Consortium News, 2023-10-09Everything ElseRussia Closing the noose on Ukrainian Troops, Larry Johnson, Sonar21, 2023-10-11Zelensky panics as attention and resources shift to Israel, Alex Christoforou and Alexander Mercouris, The Duran, 2023-10-12Is the Intercept a Deep State Success Story? (w/ John Kiriakou), Ramos and Jones interview Kirakou, ScheerPost, 2023-10-08InsightFrom This Is Exactly What It Looks Like, Caitlin Johnston, Caitlin's Newsletter, 2023-10-11It’s not about hypocrisy. The point of highlighting the contradiction in supporting both Ukraine and Israel is to show that western imperialists do not actually stand for what they claim to stand for, and that their entire framing of where they stand in these conflicts is a lie.Supporting one group that’s fighting a hostile occupation and opposing another that’s doing the same would only be hypocritical if your support really was based on opposing occupiers and supporting people’s right to self-determination. Supporting one group that’s full of neo-Nazis who hate Jews while supporting another in the name of protecting Jewish people would only be hypocritical if your support actually had anything to do with protecting religious minorities.In reality the empire just supports who it supports because that’s where its interests happen to be advanced in each instance. Having Ukraine as a proxy advances US strategic interests against Russia and having Israel as a proxy advances US strategic interests against Iran and Syria. They’re not hypocritical at all; they’re perfectly consistent. They’re grabbing power and control in whatever way’s most convenient, in perfect alignment with their actual values.To be a hypocrite is no great evil in and of itself; we’re all a bit hypocritical in some ways. What absolutely is a great evil is inflicting violence and destruction throughout the world in order to pursue planetary hegemony while lying about your reasons for doing so.That’s why we highlight the contradictions. Not to show that the empire and its supporters are hypocrites, but to show the far greater evils hidden behind those contradictions.CultureG.O.A.T, PolyphiaThanks for reading YesXorNo! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Get full access to YesXorNo at yesxorno.substack.com/subscribe