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For DOGE, And All Criminal Actors, There Must Be Consequences and Accountability
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The author, Josh Marshall always stops short of accountability for war crimes. He usually concerns himself --at length-- with what Iran and Hamas are plotting, the nature and use of Hamas tunnels, etc. The focus is always on shadowy others. He claims Oslo itself was the fault here, not Ben Gurion's abuse and violations of it. The Nakba? Evidently no Israeli is to be blamed for that. And the attacks on Palestinians are seen as a recognition of reality from the "realist-minded" Israelis, Josh claims.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-a-two-state-solution-really-no-longer-possible
While he is against netenyahu and bloodthirsty settlers, he is a pro israeli-state pundit, and wont make any call to halt the IDF war on Palestinian civilians. Cheap logic from a partisan hack who cant admit that whats going on is exactly what he wants and supports. He's drinking tea with his pinky in the air, and a handkerchief at his nose so he doesnt have to smell the disgusting odor of the murdered.
He was rabidly against what he called "rhetorical excesses" in campus protests, not bothering to address why people were protesting. Club those students till they are silent, for their "rhetorical excess" eh Josh. What a fine American.
While I agree with Josh that we must all start following our laws, we need to start with the first ammendment protecting political free speech and acknowledging that what Biden did was criminal and violated numerous existing laws implemented for exactly this reason. Biden aided and abeteed war crimes and a massive genocide. And he and congress abridged the publics civil rights, using state violence to silence legitimate and peaceful political dissent, brutalizing students who were concerned about basic human rights. Disagreeing with the way zionists conduct what the world says are war crimes is not antisemitism and it never was. Even if it was antisemitism, it would be protected as political free speech. For many years people openly talked about keeping black skinned people down, even with violence, and it was free speech. But today if you question zioinisms methods at all you are instantly labeled as supporting Hamas. thats unamerican, fascist bullshit and a gross misuse of power by the president and congress-- done during a democratic party administraton no less. Just Shameful.
If we cant be honest about that then our calling out republicans for their own gross lawbreaking falls a little flat. Its always rules for thee and not for me, even within our own party. And then we wonder why the voters lose faith.
While he is certainly well spoken and educated, Josh Marshall is filthy-- he is a disappointment, he is a thug, he is a bad person, and he can suck it.