The November Issue Of JOHNSTONE Is Out Now
The 104-page November edition of JOHNSTONE is dedicated solely to the ongoing genocide in Gaza, because quite frankly that’s all we could think about this month. Each day has served up new and fresh horrors for our eyeballs as the worst massacre of this century dovetailed with social media and we all found ourselves with a front seat to rolling atrocities.
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Contents of the November issue:
Tone Policing Opposition To Genocide … 3
Israelis Keep Hurting Their Own PR Interests By Talking … 7
US Says It’s Powerless To Stop The Genocide That It Is Directly Funding And Supplying … 11
It’s A Little Bit Bomby In Gaza Today … 15
The US Empire’s PR Crisis In Gaza … 16
Israel Apologists Relentlessly Gaslight And Attack Our Sense Of Reality … 21
Biden ‘Countering Islamophobia’ While Incinerating Gaza Is The Most Democrat Thing Ever … 24
We Don’t Think Hard Enough About What Bombs Are And What They Do … 26
The Ten Dumbest Things We’re Being Asked To Believe About Israel’s War On Gaza … 29
There’s Only So Much Propaganda Spin You Can Put On The Murder Of Thousands Of Children … 30
It’s Okay To Admit You Were Wrong About Gaza … 33
Israel Cut Off Gaza’s Communications Because Murderers Don’t Like Witnesses … 34
As The Lights Go Out In Gaza … 37
The Moral Complexities Of Bombing A Concentration Camp Full Of Children … 38
The Insane Idea That Nations Get To Do War Crimes Whenever Something Bad Happens To Them … 42
What Would It Look Like If You Were Standing On The Wrong Side Of History? … 44
Both-Sidesing The Gaza Issue Is A Sign Of Psychological Immaturity … 46
We Keep Our Gaze Fixed On Gaza … 48
On Gaza And Human Consciousness … 50
If Israel Stops Murdering Thousands Of Children, The Bad Guys Might Win … 52
How Much Killing Is Enough Killing? … 56
The Wise And Brilliant Israel Apologist … 58
Getting Called A Nazi For Opposing A Genocide … 60
A True Story About Israel And Palestine … 64
All Israel Apologists Have Are Ad Hominem Attacks … 66
Bombing Kids And Blaming It On Hamas … 69
White House Says Continued Civilian Slaughter … 70
“Is Going To Happen” In Gaza … 70
US Warmongers Keep Pushing The Narrative That Hamas Is To Blame For All Deaths In Gaza … 72
The Mainstream Press Keep Slamming Israel’s Hospital Bombing Story … 74
Israeli Intelligence Suddenly Able To Intercept Hamas Communications … 76
Mass Media Reporters Aren’t Buying Israel’s Hospital Bombing Story … 78
They’re Just Insulting Our Intelligence At This Point … 81
The World Is Being Blinded To What’s Happening In Gaza … 84
Israel Is Just A Nonstop Bombing Campaign With A Flag … 86
The US Is Just As Culpable As Israel For The Atrocities Committed In Gaza … 88
Israeli Intelligence Suddenly Knows Exactly Where Hamas Is … 90
People Have A Serious Case Of 9/11 Brain Right Now, And It’s Scary … 93
It’s Not The ‘Israel-Hamas War’, It’s The Israel-Gaza Massacre … 96
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Michael Hudson has deeply studied the Torah in his role as the world's foremost Economic Historian: Were the Biblical Prophets Anti-Semitic?
By a sleight-of-hand like that of a stage magician trying to distract the audience’s attention from what really is happening, Netanyahu has evoked what he claims to be a Biblical excuse for Israeli genocide. But what he pretends to be a covenant in the tradition of Moses is a vicious demand by the judge and grey eminence Samuel telling Saul, the general whom he hopes to make king: “Now go and smite Amalek [an enemy of Israel], and totally destroy everything that belongs to them. Do not spare them; put to death men and women, children and infants, cattle and sheep, camels and donkeys” (1 Samuel 15:3).
These were not the Lord’s own words, and Samuel was no Moses. And there was no blanket promise to back the Jews regardless of their behavior...
..Today’s modern Zionism is at odds with the Jewish Bible. That is understandable given that its ideology comes from a very secular group despite its recent takeover by self-identified orthodox Jews. The rhetoric used by Netanyahu is a travesty when one notes how the Jewish Bible proclaimed that wealth and property were to be distributed equitably, not concentrated in the hands of an oligarchy. Exodus 23:1 and 9 give the following insight into how aliens – the Palestinians of their day – were to be treated: “Do not follow the crowd in doing wrong,” but “lay down the law of justice and mercy: Do not oppress an alien; you yourselves know how it feels to be aliens, because you were aliens in Egypt.”
Is it justice and mercy to shut off water, food, medicine and fuel to an entire population and level or damage half of its buildings and most of its critical infrastructure including entire swarths of homes? Is it justice and mercy to force hospitals to shut down, bomb ambulances, and drop six 2,000 pound bombs on a refugee camp?
https://michael-hudson.com/2023/11/were-the-biblical-prophets-anti-semitic/
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