The more important parts are in the lower portion of the article which few will read down to.
"In case you don’t like Trump and his government, please don’t be naïve and make a hero out of Goldberg simply because he is giving them some probably minor trouble. For one thing, though posing as a “liberal,” Goldberg is a highly aggressive Zionist. As a young man, he moved from the US to Israel to enter its military forces. He then served as a prison guard in a large camp for Palestinians, about which he has written a self-revealingly egocentric and, in fact, self-incriminating memoir, admitting at least covering up the brutal torture of a defenseless prisoner.
As you would expect, for over two decades Goldberg has consistently used his great media and policy influence to agitate for and embellish American aggression in the Middle East. Clearly, very much in line with what Israeli governments perceive as Israel’s national interest.
In this particular instance, WikiLeaks has rightly asked about Goldberg’s dubious role in this affair: Why, instead of speaking up quickly, did he “sit on” what he must have known to be real, until the attack actually happened? His “claim that he did not know if the group was real until after the bombing is clearly a construction designed to facilitate an ignorance defense under the espionage act,” as WikiLeaks plausibly notes.
Given his politics, there is another obvious reason why Goldberg did not use his scoop before the bombing got going: Disregard the silly cant about “freedom of navigation” and all that, the real reason why the US has started striking Yemen’s people again is that they resist Israel striking Gaza’s people.
Indeed, Yemen’s true “sin” in the eye of Zionists and their US allies is that, with the partial exception of Iran, it is the only country that, under Ansar Allah’s de facto rule, complies with the 1948 UN Genocide Convention by actually resisting Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians. While Yemen does occasionally lob a well-deserved missile at Israel, its main leverage is blocking much of the maritime traffic through the Red Sea. Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East and one of the poorest in the world, is using a geographical choke point to do the ethically and legally obligatory right thing: fight against Israeli genocide as good as it can, while the collective West is on the side of the genociders. As is Jeffrey Goldberg. ---- Compared with the slaughter Israel is inflicting with massive US support on the Palestinians, and its neighbors too, whenever the fancy takes it, these figures may appear small, for now. Yet these Yemeni victims are being killed for the same abject reason: to execute and shield a genocide that the West is co-perpetrating together with Israel. Yet all US mainstream pundits and politicos can get worked up about is a premature leak of some of these crimes and not the crimes themselves. That is yet another sign of just how entirely lost the West is."
[ + ] xmasskull
[ - ] xmasskull 4 points 4 weeksApr 1, 2025 13:10:29 ago (+4/-0)
[ + ] Flanders
[ - ] Flanders 2 points 4 weeksApr 1, 2025 14:35:36 ago (+2/-0)
"In case you don’t like Trump and his government, please don’t be naïve and make a hero out of Goldberg simply because he is giving them some probably minor trouble. For one thing, though posing as a “liberal,” Goldberg is a highly aggressive Zionist. As a young man, he moved from the US to Israel to enter its military forces. He then served as a prison guard in a large camp for Palestinians, about which he has written a self-revealingly egocentric and, in fact, self-incriminating memoir, admitting at least covering up the brutal torture of a defenseless prisoner.
As you would expect, for over two decades Goldberg has consistently used his great media and policy influence to agitate for and embellish American aggression in the Middle East. Clearly, very much in line with what Israeli governments perceive as Israel’s national interest.
In this particular instance, WikiLeaks has rightly asked about Goldberg’s dubious role in this affair: Why, instead of speaking up quickly, did he “sit on” what he must have known to be real, until the attack actually happened? His “claim that he did not know if the group was real until after the bombing is clearly a construction designed to facilitate an ignorance defense under the espionage act,” as WikiLeaks plausibly notes.
Given his politics, there is another obvious reason why Goldberg did not use his scoop before the bombing got going: Disregard the silly cant about “freedom of navigation” and all that, the real reason why the US has started striking Yemen’s people again is that they resist Israel striking Gaza’s people.
Indeed, Yemen’s true “sin” in the eye of Zionists and their US allies is that, with the partial exception of Iran, it is the only country that, under Ansar Allah’s de facto rule, complies with the 1948 UN Genocide Convention by actually resisting Israel’s genocidal attack on the Palestinians. While Yemen does occasionally lob a well-deserved missile at Israel, its main leverage is blocking much of the maritime traffic through the Red Sea. Yemen, the poorest country in the Middle East and one of the poorest in the world, is using a geographical choke point to do the ethically and legally obligatory right thing: fight against Israeli genocide as good as it can, while the collective West is on the side of the genociders. As is Jeffrey Goldberg.
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Compared with the slaughter Israel is inflicting with massive US support on the Palestinians, and its neighbors too, whenever the fancy takes it, these figures may appear small, for now. Yet these Yemeni victims are being killed for the same abject reason: to execute and shield a genocide that the West is co-perpetrating together with Israel. Yet all US mainstream pundits and politicos can get worked up about is a premature leak of some of these crimes and not the crimes themselves. That is yet another sign of just how entirely lost the West is."
[ + ] KosherHiveKicker
[ - ] KosherHiveKicker 3 points 4 weeksApr 1, 2025 11:58:45 ago (+3/-0)
Nothing ever came of those overt war crimes against U.S. citizens.
[ + ] ModernGuilt
[ - ] ModernGuilt 3 points 4 weeksApr 1, 2025 14:31:52 ago (+3/-0)