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Sorry, here is the link
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The Anti Zionist sounds like a fair and balanced publication.
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He summarises the issues well with public media sources.
All of these things have been released publicly over the last few years.
The only difference is that few people pay enough attention because the usual pro-Zionist sources produce prodigious amounts of propaganda for dissemination.
Thats why good old Israel has increased their Hasbara budget to $730m this year.
They are losing the public narrative and are desperate to try to sway it in another direction.
You may have noticed just how entrenched they are in US politics?
I would be very concerned if I was an American because these people are MIGA. They donât give a crap about the US even though they use you (The Iran War is a perfect example of this behavior)
And how they have skewed the US towards extremely authoritarian behavior regarding critcism of Israel and its behavior very recently?
All of that is related. They can do this because they have thoroughly penetrated your legislative and executive branches.
But it has over 300 subscribers!
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I think you need a serious reality check here.
Case in point:
To this day, 1,000 days later, we still do not know exactly what happened, what systems broke down and failed, and who bears which responsibilities for the failure. Painfully, neither do we know exactly how many fatalities were due to friendly fire. The reason we do not know is that the Netanyahu-led government has consistently refused to allow for the appointment of an independent state commission of inquiry. In the interim, several security, intelligence, and military leaders have resigned, taking full responsibility for their roles in the failures that led to October 7. Not one government minister or politician has taken responsibility or accepted any blame for their role in leading to the failure and the accompanying loss of life.
The damages to Israelâs image and standing in the world have been innumerable. Support for Israel in the United States has dropped to the point where 60% of Americans hold a negative or unfavorable view of Israel. Even more alarming is the age divide, where 70% of Americans aged 18-49 hold unfavorable opinions of Israel. This erosion of support has manifested in Congress. Resolutions to restrict or block specific arms sales to Israel have gained a record number of votes in the US Senate in recent months. The forthcoming midterms may result in a Democrat-controlled House or Senate, which would see a corresponding drop in support for Israel.
He may actually be fair and balanced, I really donât know. But with a blog name like that itâs hard to take him seriously.
Though absolutely Isreal has a done a bangup job of losing the court of public opinion the past few years.
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Its fair enough to say the source is small (because clearly it is). Thats reasonable.
There is just quite a lot of very repressive stuff going on in the US and its very much related to Israel.
My concern is that people are being character assassinated when they try to speak out about the very clear misbehavior of Israel and its supporters.
Its almost a fascist-like response at this point as people are being deliberately targeted by pro-Israel organisations.
I have seen some of this in the UK as well, but its nowhere near as bad as the US.
This is what we are up against:
"First reported by The Jerusalem Post, a total of $730m has been allocated to the national public diplomacy directorate, known by its Hebrew name Hasbara, which oversees Israeli propaganda.
"The figure marks a sharp increase from the $150m set aside the previous year, which had already surged to roughly 20 times pre-2023 levels.
âThe scale of the spending points to an intensified effort to improve Israelâs international standing as negative perceptions grow, including in allied countries such as the United States.â
"Alongside the budget increase, Israelâs foreign ministry has expanded its messaging apparatus. Foreign Minister Gideon Saâar has overseen the creation of a dedicated unit tasked with shaping international narratives.
"The government has committed tens of millions of dollars to digital campaigns, including a $50m social media advertising push across major platforms. It has also spent around $40m hosting hundreds of foreign delegations, ranging from politicians and clergy to influencers and university leaders.
âA centralised âmedia war roomâ now tracks coverage across hundreds of outlets and monitors thousands of daily references to Israel.â
âexcerpts from the article.
Again with no link
The reference is in the post.
But here you go:
Holy ChatGPT
What an odd thing to say. There are still decent Jews left in the world who are very much against Zionist fanaticism (Kahanists to be exact).
And this is the key part of it all:
A State Commission of Inquiry, the only body under Israeli law with the power to subpoena military logs, black-box data, and top-secret communications? Blocked for nearly three years by Netanyahuâs coalition.
Problem for Bibi and the rest of them, is that by now the entire planet broadly knows what they have done, so while they may be able to destroy most of the evidence internally, they wonât be able to escape justice externally.
This is also precisely why Israelâs international reputation has effectively been destroyed.
I think basic internet etiquette for posting what is clearly a copy paste from an LLM output should at a minimum include a disclaimer that the contents is from an LLM. And for full transparency should probably also include the prompt that generated the output.
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Not sure where you are going with this.
I have specifically linked the source of the summary.
I think this sort of thing can work âboth waysâ. Take NPR for example . . . I find that their national reporting is very much âfair and balancedâ (perhaps slightly left-leaning in the stories they ultimately choose to âdig intoâ) and I trust and value that source.
But I have found that the local reporting (where I live, there are two sources and both are tied to universities) is very biased and often not very well balanced in its presentation.
So depending on how one come across NPR as a news source can often get an incorrect impression about how reliable that source is if theyâre not performing due diligence around evaluating it.
But did YOU create that summary?
If not, then âwho didâ?
I think that is heart of the question/concern (and likely a separate debate/discussion).
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Wes Bryant, a former senior targeting adviser and policy analyst at the US Pentagon who specialised in civilian harm assessments, said he believed the 850,000 figure was highly concerning.
There were 2.2 million people and 300,000 buildings in Gaza before October 2023, the main theatre of war in the two years following, Bryant said, suggesting that the IDF had at one point or another targeted âup to or over half the entire population and infrastructureâ of the territory.
US congressman got detained by Israeli settlers in the West Bank.