Trump equating Israeli bombing of Beirut with Iranian missile fire on Israel ("Each of them had their fun. Israel had its strike, and Iran had its strike. We don't need another one.") is rather significant.
The key question is whether "ask" means "request" or "ask" means "instruct".
www.axios.com/2026/06/07/t...
David Zonsheine, OTOH, living in Israel, has a dimmer view of left-Zionism, faulting it for serving (via the military) the same occupation/apartheid that it says it opposes. www.mekomit.co.il/%d7%aa%d7%92...
Well, at least @haaretzcom.bsky.social's Liza Rozovsky isn't afraid to say it: The Palestinian question "is what underlies Israel's deepening isolation... And the occupation continues to destroy Israeli society and cause it to rot." www.haaretz.co.il/news/politic...
But the 1982 "War of Deceit", as journalists Ze'ev Schiff and Ehud Yaari titled their book, isn't the stuff of history: Its legacy lives on, as it was among the key factors promoting the creation and growth of Hezbollah. www.csis.org/blogs/examin...
Anniversary of Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon/regime change effort was 6/6. These soldiers could be the parents, even grandparents, of today's soldiers. They sang:
"Descend to us, airplane, Take us to Lebanon,
We'll fight for Sharon, And return in a coffin” www.facebook.com/watch/?v=619...
I am significantly less likely to watch *anything* on CBS right now than I was at this time last year.
Walter Ruby offers post-Zionism as a 3rd way. It can, he says, still work with left-Zionism, though they "think [...] differently" about history, post-Zionists believing that Zionism both represented liberation for Jews AND "had within it a fatal flaw". forward.com/opinion/8299...
