Opinion Editorials, February 2017

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Two western governments (England and Israel) has leadership supporting the Trump administration in a partisan way. This is now a "special relationship" not between countries but between the moneyed interests of ultra-right fascist ideologues. The real question is what will the US "Democratic" Party in the US do. Its old strategy of providing a milder version of moneyed interests has failed. You cannot be a "nice corporatist" especially when corporations and moneyed interests got so much more powerful under your administration (8 years of the Obama rule). They got powerful and they do not need you any more. Rule by proxy for billionaires is not necessary when you can rule directly.

The lesson will be that the majority of the people (the 99%) do not have the luxury of playing with the rules of the corporations (dog eat dog world). Their best bet is to challenge the racism, the divisiveness, the moneyed interests. If this lesson is not yet learned from the loss of power by the democratic party and its dwindling support, it should have been learned from the rise of Nazism and Fascism in Italy and Germany in the 1930s, from the rise of Likud and the "Jewish home" parties at the expense of labor Zionism in "Israel", from the rise of Sisi in Egypt after the Muslim Brotherhood made the mistake of maintaining close ties with the US, the rise of right wing populism in several European countries after their center left parties failed to challenge moneyed interests etc. History offer many lessons and few seem to want to learn them. Meanwhile, the first US military operation in Yemen killed a few ISIL members as well as 15 women and children (one eight year old girl) and one US Navy SEAL William Owens.

The pace of killing under Trump looks on pace to be similar to that under Obama. The only difference will be in the racist and Islamophobic rhetoric which is surely to alienate hundreds of millions of Muslims and thus strengthen terrorism. The self-fulfilling Huntington’s “clash of civilization” is forced down our throats. This has always been the Zionist plan and it is the only way the failing Zionist idea can have a few more years (but then end badly). 

Israeli forces raid and ransack Palestinian publishing house: In six months, Israeli forces have raided seven Palestinian-owned publishing houses http://imemc.org/article/israeli-forces-raid-palestinian-owned-publishing-house/

https://www.noor-publishing.com/site/noor-publishing/37 

How Do Israel’s Tech Firms Do Business in Saudi Arabia? Very Quietly:

Good deals (and plausible deniability) make good neighbors https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-02-02/how-do-israel-s-tech-firms-do-business-in-saudi-arabia-very-quietly 

Palestinians sue Trump adviser, Netanyahu for terrorism https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/charlotte-silver/palestinians-sue-trump-adviser-netanyahu-terrorism 

Amona's evacuation is no victory

https://972mag.com/amonas-evacuation-is-no-victory/124961/

[This article is too kind to the Israeli fascist state. A show of evalcuation of a handful of setters was a nice PR stunt done on the same week as Israeli authorities approved thousands of building units for illegal Israeli settlers in addition to giving those thieves evacuated from “Amona” stole land in return for their nice drama theater. And Trump gave that green light to build. In a way I think this is better as this may force those kicking the dead horse of e two state solution (actually long turned into bones).] 

Eye on Trump’s America: Police Raid Standing Rock Camp, Dismantle Tipis and Are Burning What Remains http://alternativemediasyndicate.com/2017/02/02/police-raid-standing-rock-camp-destroy-tipis-burning-remains/

[Trump was a nastly bullying businessman who cared only about money and his actions caused economic and psychological damage to people.

But now that he is president, his actions cause home demolitions, war crimes, and crimes against humanity. Even if we can reduce them to the US drone strike on Yemen that killed an 8 year old girl, that is enough to make him a murderer]

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