Quotations

“Cruelty is one of the oldest festive joys of mankind.”  Nietzsche

Journalist at press conference: “Why did the Palestinians initiate this on October 7th?” Max Blumenthal: “Well they didn’t. This war has been going on for 75 years. Israel initiated it in 1948 by ethnically cleansing 750,000 people.”

"Are we still a liberal democracy? My answer is no longer. This did not happen in a dramatic and single event. This is a process in which essential aspects of democracy are under severe attack and democracy is weakening. The protection of human rights, the separation of powers, the rule of law and the judiciary's independence are weakening. Our regime is now a government of one political authority that is effectively controlled by one person, the same person who controls the government and controls the Knesset. This is the prime minister." Israeli former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak addressed demonstrators in Tel Aviv in a video message yesterday.

"We're so collectively desensitized to the US empire that we're not even registering the absurdity: the US - a country where guns are sold at Walmart - has just kidnapped the president of a sovereign nation (and head of the army) to charge him with "possession of machineguns." Arnaud Bertrand today on X.

"In 2006, two academics, John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt, wrote a paper called “The Israel Lobby,” which argued that a loose group of Israel supporters used their connections and financial resources to tilt US foreign policy in Israel’s direction. One of them, Stephen Walt, was academic dean of The Harvard Kennedy School, which put him at the pinnacle of his profession. The savage response to the paper was like nothing academia had ever seen. We can now report that Jeffrey Epstein helped coordinate the counterattack with Alan Dershowitz, while Larry Summers was Harvard president. And Les Wexner was one of the largest donors to the Kennedy School, if not the largest. Epstein controlled Wexner’s money. In other words, a loose group of powerful supporters of Israel used their financial resources and connections behind the scenes to destroy the reputations of two academics who wrote a paper arguing that a loose group of Israel supporters was using their connections and financial resources to shape American foreign policy." From Drop Site News which is a very useful guide to what is known about Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein and Dershowitz ensured the article "The Israel Lobby" was not published in the Atlantic which had commissioned it. The London Review of Books published it instead and the book which the article became was also published by Allen Lane in London not the USA.