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Every day brings new indictments for Israel. The early accusations of genocide by South Africa are now quickly becoming an accepted legal definition among international bodies and governments alike. The latest indictment came from the United Nations Human Rights Council.
It is interesting how President Donald Trump keeps whining about the 20 alleged Israeli hostages that are reportedly still held by Hamas in Gaza, demanding that they be released immediately, while ignoring the hundreds of unarmed Palestinians that are being murdered daily by Israeli military and armed contractors as well as by deliberate starvation. Also, the thousands of Palestinians who had nothing to do with Hamas or Gaza and are nevertheless being held without charge in Israeli prisons under horrific conditions including torture are of no interest to the US president and his team. Trump is of course profoundly ignorant, demonstrated most recently during his 55 minute rambling speech to the United Nations General Assembly in which he attacked both the UN institutionally as well as nearly every delegate and nation represented in the room, minus the Palestinians, of course, for whom he had blocked the issuance of visas guaranteeing that they would have no voice or presence in New York.
California Governor Gavin Newsom has been touting himself as the Great Green Environmental Anti-Trump.
But it’s an infuriating radioactive lie that demands tangible opposition, especially as it applies to the Diablo Canyon atomic reactors dangerously upwind of Los Angeles, and the California green energy industry, which he has decimated.
Newsom has loudly denounced ABC’s suspension of talk host Jimmy Kimmel. He appeared on Stephen Colbert’s nighttime show in New York as Kimmel was resurfacing in Los Angeles.
Newsom has loudly launched a very high-profile attack wave against Donald Trump. He’s bitterly criticized Trump’s anti-speech assaults on Kimmel and other talk hosts.
But Newsom has also portrayed himself as a green crusader in opposition to Trump’s contempt for climate science.
And here Newsom has hypocritically crossed many lethal lines, especially when it comes to nuclear power and solar energy.