Ross calls it at its most succinct expression:
Were it not for Israel, the U.S. wouldn’t have entered this war.
It’s not even a question for most people, but for those still trying to cloud people’s thoughts, this settles it.
‘As in The Iliad, the adoration of force has become “the true hero, the true subject” of our times.’
www.equator.org/articles/epi...
I think accountability is very important, and also to reflect on what the "peace industry" is and has become.
I spoke at length with Martin Thuer for his investigation. Excerpts here ->
on.orf.at/video/143137...
and here:
on.orf.at/video/143137...
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I have been shocked by recent revelations, mainly regarding Larsen's involvement, but also that of the Institute more broadly, and how it directly served Epstein's pyramid of sexual exploitation.
I have many thoughts on this subject, some which I have shared already on other platforms.
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I had had no knowledge of his involvement with IPI--as the Epstein Papers evidence. I immediately contacted IPI, informed colleagues that I would like to stop my association with IPI and asked them to remove me from their website. It took IPI minutes to cut me off from my emails.
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I worked at IPI from 2011-2016. Full-time at first and then, while I started studying for my PhD, part-time. After that I became a non-resident adviser there.
In 2019, after the death of Jeffrey Epstein, news began to emerge of the close collaboration between him and Terje Larsen.
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Khamenei was not hiding, he had prepared for his departure. The HZ example set the precedent. Nasrallah’s assassination delivered a massive blow to HZ. It is a mistake to apply the same logic to the IR, but Israel is following that template, I.e. the physical destruction of the organization-country
U.S.-Israel attack will strengthen regime support
“— and then we get and are getting slavery.”
The great Tollers imparts wisdom that seems particularly relevant today
“I am not a ‘democrat’, if only because ‘humility’ and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness or humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets a ring of power” pp132-133
This is it succinctly: the post-WWII international order was framed by international law, in the post-Gaza genocide world order the reference is the algorithm
I’d put it somewhat differently, but this basically nails the logical contradiction on the West’s approach towards Israel and why what Carlson is doing is remarkable
I can only imagine what the reaction would be if this were to happen to, say, New York, London or Madrid. This is the last stage of the genocide: the erasure of the erasure
That humanity has reached this point, where a genocide is carried out and then villages and towns are erased to build on top of, literally, human bones such a dystopian urban nightmare is frightening. Palestinians, their history, their social interrelations have simply become disposable.
📚 El jurado del Premio Amistad 2025 de Casa Árabe ha acordado conceder el galardón a Ediciones del Oriente y del Mediterráneo, en reconocimiento a su destacada labor en favor del conocimiento y la difusión de la cultura árabe en España. Mabruk .👉https://tinyurl.com/22zopjml
Not to mention what killing palestinians offers in testing and showcasing for the israeli arms industry. The Gaza Riviera just makes the israeli business sector that much more excited. Who know what is next, perhaps Southern Lebanon? Syria?
This has been the atmosphere for the past decade anyway as they cut deals over stolen land of the West Bank, as they milk every shekel from the Palestinians—the occupation is very profitable, Palestinians are a captive market.
I can only imagine the bubbly atmosphere in the cafes and terraces of central Tel Aviv these days, the smiles everywhere you go, people slapping each other on the back as they unroll maps, splay over urban blueprints at Duvnov 8.
In one case IPI hires an intern at Epstein’s behest, potentially part of the “sexual pyramid scheme”, and exchange banter about practicing sex with her www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
There is an extraordinary amount of material potentially incriminating Terje Larsen and his outfit the International Peace Institute. There are 4,630 references to him in the files
Brilliant, earth-shaking stuff.
"Then came Gaza: an unprecedented shock to scholars’ widespread belief that policymakers shared their values. Worse, instead of speaking out as other disciplines did, the field morally collapsed from within, by remaining overwhelmingly silent in the face of Western-backed mass killing in Gaza."
Egypt mobilises 40,000 troops in Sinai amid Gaza displacement fears, source says - www.middleeasteye.net/news/egypt-mobilises-400...
The extraordinary opposition by Israel (and U.S.) to something as tepid and symbolic as recognizing Palestine is due to the fact that Israel’s objective is complete disappearance of Palestinian nationalism and identity
"In a world of rising authoritarianism and ethnonationalism, where the rule of law has all but crumbled, the brutal, pitiless state run by Netanyahu looks more like a pioneer than an outlier."
@lrb.co.uk
"The question of Palestine now figures almost as prominently in American politics as the Jewish question did when European democracies faced the threat of fascism" [...] "‘The Gaza war offered a chance for clarity, honesty and introspection,’ [...] ‘because it was when everything got out of hand.’"
"No word, in the last few years, has made such an outsized contribution to the attack on academic and intellectual freedom, or to acts of repression, arrests and deportation" [...] "Anti-antisemitism now serves the purpose antisemitism (and anticommunism) once did."
"‘If the US had attacked Iran first, we would have condemned it,’ one told him. ‘But because it’s Israel, it’s much harder’"
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"the inability of Western powers to condemn Israel’s conduct – much less bring it to an end – has made a mockery of the rules-based order that they claim to uphold"
