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How Biden Enabled Israel’s Aggression Toward Gaza—and Iran (long)

David D. Kirkpatrick The New Yorker
Top officials from the previous Administration now express regret over their failure to rein in Netanyahu. Could have been written any time since spring 2024: "we in the U.S. Government do not see a clear military imperative for continued operations

The ICC Scares Trumpworld. Good.

Matt Ford The New Republic
Marco Rubio says the administration will try to “dismantle” the International Criminal Court. Who is he trying to protect?

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What We Saw in Cuba Shocked Us

Pramila Jayapal and Jonathan L. Jackson The New York Times
We spent five days in Cuba in April to better understand the humanitarian impacts of America’s monthslong energy blockade... We came away shocked by the inhumane effects of the policy...until the Cuban people are brought to ruin...

Zionism Didn’t Go Wrong, It Was Always Built This Way

Gideon Levy Haaretz
Zionism, at its base, is the belief in Jewish supremacy between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and just like any other ideology that subscribes to racial, national or religious supremacy, it is illegitimate.

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Book Review: Israel: What Went Wrong?

Paul Buhle Portside
This urgently current volume will be widely discussed in the months ahead, with another important book on the same subject, appearing last Fall: Peter Beinart’s Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza.

Facing up to the Horrors of the Mỹ Lai Massacre

Michael G. Vann Jacobin
Last month, Vietnam marked the 58th anniversary of the Mỹ Lai massacre, when US soldiers killed hundreds of defenseless civilians. US public memory largely ignores the history of atrocities like Mỹ Lai, making it easier to repeat them in the future.
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