On the irrelevance of truth

Scene from Caesar's congressional testimony on July 31, 2014. — Scene from Caesar’s congressional testimony on July 31, 2014. Caesar is the man in the blue parka, the costume he wore to protect his identity.

When there is no will to act, truth makes little difference.

This is what we have been talking about for the last four years. This is the proof of the genocidal venture that the Assad regime is still implementing in cooperation with his regional and international backers, especially Iran and Russia. This is what the self-declared champion of resistance against imperialism and Zionism, Bashar Al-Assad, has been doing to his own people for the last four years. And he did it all in the name of fighting an imperialist Zionist conspiracy! The gall and impunity of it all is mind-boggling, and soul-crushing.

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Of Chaos & Wet Dreams

A Palestinian man reacts as flames engulf the fuel tanks of the only power plant supplying electricity to the Gaza Strip after it was hit by overnight Israeli shelling, on July 29, 2014, in the south of Gaza City. The damage of the power plant exacerbated the heavy damage to civilian infrastructure in Gaza already inflicted during the 22 days of the Israeli offensive aimed at stamping out militant rocket fire and destroying attack tunnels. AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMSMAHMUD HAMS/AFP/Getty Images

No amount of chaos in the Middle East can ever help fulfill the wet dreams of some Israeli politicians, namely: to drive the Palestinian population of the West Bank and Gaza into neighboring Jordan and Egypt, respectively. The Palestinians of the West Bank and Gaza are here to stay. There will be no second Nakba.

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Of Syria, Gaza and Genocide – real and imagined

To this date, any attempt at describing Assad’s war against the majority Sunni population in major swaths of the country as genocide is met with such pushback by all sorts of people, even though in certain towns and villages, the massacres did lead to the elimination of the local Sunni population, through massacres that did not spear women and children, and ethnic cleansing. Moreover, eliminating the local Sunni population was clearly the intention here. So, legally speaking, there is a case for the claim that the pro-Assad militias are guilty of “acts of genocide.” ISIS seems intent on perpetrating such acts as well.

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