Imperialism
Israel
Palestine
Fig. 1. The ruins of a terminal at the Gaza airport. Image by Said Khatib (Agence France-Presse) on September 9, 2018, via the Times of Israel,[1] fair use.
I remember the bullies who tormented me all through junior and senior high school saying to me, “Stop making me hit you!” To them, it was a joke. I offered no resistance, no provocation for their attacks. Saying that was their idea of irony.
When I read the Washington Post story about the devastation of Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital, read of Israel blaming Gazans—they say “Hamas,” but effectively mean Gazans, whether or not involved with Hamas—for the way in which Israel is prosecuting this war,[2] I am reminded of those bullies.
Maegan Vazquez, “Michigan lawmaker says Gaza should be approached ‘like Nagasaki and Hiroshima,’” Washington Post, March 31, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/30/michigan-lawmaker-gaza-hiroshima/
Warren P. Strobel and Nancy A. Youssef, “U.S. and Israel’s ‘Unprecedented’ Intelligence Sharing Draws Criticism,” Wall Street Journal, March 31, 2024, https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/u-s-and-israels-unprecedented-intelligence-sharing-draws-criticism-a85979b4
William Booth and Lorenzo Tugnoli, “Inside the ruins of Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital,” Washington Post, April 1, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/01/gaza-al-shifa-hospital-israel/
Illiberalism
Gilead
Donald Trump
Finances
Fig. 1. Trump International Hotel, Las Vegas, undated image credited to https://www.flickr.com/photos/glynlowe/ [bad link], via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
The [$175 million] bond [needed to delay Leticia James’ moves to seize Donald Trump’s property] was provided by California-based company Knight Insurance. The chair of that company is Don Hankey, who presides over an auto-services empire.[3]
Zach Everson, “Trump Posts $175 Million Bond In New York Civil Fraud Lawsuit,” Forbes, April 1, 2024, https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2024/04/01/trump-posts-175-million-bond-new-york-civil-fraud-lawsuit/
Shayna Jacobs, “Trump posts $175M bond to keep N.Y. authorities from seizing property,” Washington Post, April 1, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/04/01/trump-new-york-bond-175-million/
- [1]Agence France-Presse and Times of Israel, “20 years after its opening, destroyed Gaza airport embodies grounded peace hopes,” Times of Israel, September 12, 2018, https://www.timesofisrael.com/20-years-after-its-opening-destroyed-gaza-airport-embodies-grounded-peace-hopes/↩
- [2]William Booth and Lorenzo Tugnoli, “Inside the ruins of Gaza’s al-Shifa Hospital,” Washington Post, April 1, 2024, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/01/gaza-al-shifa-hospital-israel/↩
- [3]Zach Everson, “Trump Posts $175 Million Bond In New York Civil Fraud Lawsuit,” Forbes, April 1, 2024, https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacheverson/2024/04/01/trump-posts-175-million-bond-new-york-civil-fraud-lawsuit/↩