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How Australia’s media used to report Israeli atrocities. (with credit to Jose Teixeira) A 1948 account of the Jewish ethnic cleansing of Palestine by Ronald Monson, Daily Telegraph (Sydney) correspondent in Jerusalem. The tone of Monson's reporting was remarkably different to much of the Western media reporting from Palestine and Lebanon today. Monson did not try to downplay Zionist crimes and he humanised the Palestinian victims. Reporting when journalists were carrying through with their mission, to out the truth and did not succumb to pressure from lobbies with $$$ and threats. Report: They massacred Arab babies From RONALD MONSON In Jerusalem Jewish mortar bombs were coming over the Damascus Gate, bursting with shuddering explosions in narrow alleys when I visited the Jacob E. Spofford Memorial Hospital - American institution — close by the Gate today (Wednesday). I had come to visit the Arab orphans from Deir Yassin. I carried no sweets, because their nurse, Miriam Bedrossian, doesn't think sweets are good for year-old babies. Miriam had cared for these 15 babies since they were brought to the refuge a few days after the massacre of their parents last March. There were 16, but one died of wounds - aged nine months….

On his 50th birthday, the wife of Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben Gvir, presented him with a cake depicting a gallows.

Het heeft geen zin om werk te lezen van ‘publieksfilosofen’, want je wordt geen filosoof in de publieke sfeer als je iets anders kunt dan voorgekookte, dertien-in-een-dozijn-deugmeninkjes opdienen met een dun sausje van filosofische quotes. Onwetendheid etaleren met betrekking tot de (zonder ook maar één uitzondering rechtse) tegenstander is een brevet van morele deugdzaamheid in de eigen extreemlinkse sociale kring, en dat is het hele eieren eten van de publieks'filosofie'. Helaas ook van de academische filosofie, want compleet verwoket vakgebied.

An Israeli analyst confirms accounts of Palestinians being raped and sexually assaulted using dogs at Israeli detention sites, citing two guards he spoke with at Sde Teiman torture prison. “One had witnessed it and said it was too awful to describe. The other said he had heard about it from others and believed it was true.” Ben-Ephraim shares documented cases by various human rights groups below. “This happened. This is still happening. The evidence is overwhelming,” he notes.

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room. The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction. The Health guy collects raccoon dicks. It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.