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Dude In Gaza Footage Casually Lights Cigarette While Everyone Else Hits the Deck
Casual Pepper Spray Guy has met his match, in the form of the dude from MSNBC's Gaza conflict B-roll, which played over Chris Hayes' brief commentary on the newest ceasefire in the most recent Israel-Palestine flareup. While everyone else in this clip is hitting the deck behind ...read more
CNN Lets Ben Shapiro Back On To Lie About Israel Again
The yet-to-go-through-puberty editor at Breitbart and generally annoying douchebag Ben Shapiro is making quite the name for himself working as an unpaid spokeschild of the Israeli government, and CNN is doing its best to help him. After absurdly criticizing CNN (on CNN) for ...read more
Discredited Wingnut Ben Shapiro Slams CNN On CNN For Being Too Pro-Hamas
On Monday's CNN Tonight hosted by Alisyn Camerota, Ben Shapiro of Breitbart"News" launched an outrageous attack on the network's coverage of the the latest flare up in the Israel-Hamas conflict. As wayward as the critique was, there was something weirdly admirable about the ...read more
Glenn Beck's Middle East Conspiracy Theory Is About 1,400 Years Late
Liberals, including myself and Daily Banter editor Michael Luciano, were taken slightly aback last month by a temporary moment of clarity in which Glenn Beck admitted he was wrong about the Iraq war. Don't worry, though. Whatever produced that fleeting epiphany has since ...read more
Jon Stewart Compares Israel To the Tucson Mass Shooter
The Israeli government's assault on Gaza has left the besieged Jewish state even shorter on friends than usual, but when an influential pop culture icon like Jon Stewart is comparing you to the Tucson mass shooter, you know something has gone really wrong. Israel's military ...read more
Watch the Israeli Military Destroy Several Buildings In No Time
As the Israeli military continues its assault on Gaza and those involved and caught up in the conflict prepare for a prolonged campaign, dramatic video purporting to show Israeli airstrikes has surfaced. It shows a complex of buildings in Gaza being virtually leveled to the ...read more
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This Is Something You'd Never See On American Television
Jon Snow of Channel 4 News in Britain recently returned from Gaza, which remains under siege by the Israel Defense Forces. In this latest operation, more than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed, including at least 166 children. And those numbers are increasing by the hour. ...read more
Israeli Official Nut-Punches Brazil With World Cup Insult Over Gaza
Israel has long been sensitive to criticism of its actions with respect to the occupied Palestinian territories, but it may have gone overboard with its response to an official statement from the Brazilian government condemning Israel's "disproportionate use of force" in Gaza. ...read more
It's Never Okay to Use Death Photos to Score Political Points
For quite some time now on The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show, the podcast I host with Chez Pazienza, I've been ranting about social media users who wantonly post death photos on Facebook and Twitter. Specifically: I have a strict zero tolerance policy for anyone who thinks that ...read more
White House: Israel 'Must Take Greater Steps' To Protect Civilians
As the violence in Israel continues to escalate, and the public recoils in horror at report after report of innocent Palestinian children being killed in Israeli military strikes, the White House has carefully danced on a bed of the softest eggshells in urging restraint from ...read more
Attention Joe Scarborough: Reagan Stayed On Vacation Through a Lot More Than a Downed Airliner
Everyone is making fun of Joe Scarborough for being horribly wrong about Ronald Reagan's response to the downing of a South Korean civilian airliner by the Soviets in 1983, but surely he wouldn't have stuck to his schedule in the face of that disaster and a roiling crisis in the ...read more
UPDATE: NBC News Puts Egyptian-American Correspondent Back In Gaza
Just days after abruptly pulling him out, NBC has announced that it's sending correspondent Ayman Mohyeldin back to Gaza. The network removed Mohyeldin after an Israeli strike that killed four young Palestinian boys on a beach in Gaza on Wednesday, replacing him with Richard ...read more
Why Isn't Israel Ever Asked To Recognize Palestine's "Right To Exist"?
On Thursday night, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution by unanimous consent supporting Israel around the same time the Israel Defense Forces launched a major ground offensive into Gaza. The latest flare up in violence has killed 274 Palestinians and one Israeli so far, but it's ...read more
NBC's Pulling Of Gaza Reporter Reeks Of Self-Censorship
Media censorship in America is a little tricky to explain to outsiders, particularly given the U.S. has some of the strongest free speech laws in the world. The press has unusual freedom to report on what it wants, yet when it comes to certain issues, the U.S. media looks like ...read more
Think Israel isn't Colonizing Palestine? Look at This Map
The above image was used as part of an ad campaign on train platforms in New York in 2012. Henry Clifford, the chairman of the area’s local Committee for Peace in Israel andPalestine purchased the billboard space in order to raise awareness of the overt colonization of ...read more
Can We Stop Pretending Israel is Being Attacked?
Weighing in on the Israeli-Palestinian crisis is a sure fire way to alienate lots of your politically minded friends. Like abortion, it's an issue that demands loyalty to one side without concession. If you don't have a particularly strong opinion about both issues either way, ...read more
Bill Maher vs Glenn Greenwald on Danger of Islam
Last Friday, the Guardian's Glenn Greenwald took on Bill Maher over the supposedly 'unique' danger of Islam on Maher's show 'Real Time' on HBO. Maher has long contended that Islam is an inherently violent religion that poses a greater threat than all other religions. ...read more
Thanksgiving? Hamas Leader Thanks Iran For Arms
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From TPM: Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal on Wednesday praised Egypt for its role in brokering a cease-fire with Israel and thanked Iran for supplying his organization's militants with arms during the eight-day conflict. Meshaal asserted ...read more
Quote of the Day: Ignoring Israel's Occupation Ignores Reality
The Huff Post's Ahmed Shihab-Eldin decries the framing of the Israeli assault on Gaza that paints Palestinians as aggressors: To ignore the role of Israel's occupation of Gaza is to ignore the fundamental fact needed to frame the latest escalation in reality rather than rhetoric ...read more
Son of Ariel Sharon Makes Frightening Gaza Comments
Gilad Sharon, son of former Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon, has written a sickening op-ed in the Jerusalem Post expressing a desire to 'flatten' Gaza, and even, it seems, suggest using nuclear weapons against the impoverished refugees: We need to flatten entire ...read more
Clinton in Israel, Cease-Fire Remains Elusive
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From AP: JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel and the Hamas militant group edged closer to a cease-fire Tuesday to end a weeklong Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip, but after a day of furious diplomatic efforts involving the U.S. secretary of state, U.N. ...read more
Imminent Cease-Fire in Israel, Says Hamas
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From AP: JERUSALEM (AP) — A diplomatic push to end Israel's nearly weeklong offensive in the Gaza Strip gained momentum Tuesday, with Egypt's president predicting that airstrikes would end within hours and Israel's prime minister saying his ...read more
Can Obama Stop the Israeli Assault on Gaza?
By Ben Cohen "The goal of the operation is to send Gaza back to the Middle Ages. Only then will Israel be calm for forty years," - Eli Yishai, Israel's Interior Minister The continued Israeli assault on the Gaza strip that now counts 96 Palestinians dead, 50 of them ...read more
Netanyahu's Attack on Gaza is about Re-election, Not Terrorism
By Ben Cohen: The world watches as the deteriorating situation in Gaza unfolds, unable to prevent either side from pulling back from the brink of war. With Israel gearing up for a full out assault on the impoverished area it has been occupying for decades, the chances for a ...read more
Finally, a Balanced Discussion on the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict
The distortions flooding the internet and airwaves regarding the latest Israeli assault on Gaza are familiar and depressing. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) has managed to frame the latest episode in the conflict as Israel 'defending itself' from incessant rocket attacks from ...read more
Rocket Attacks Escalate in Tel Aviv as Gaza Ups the Ante
The Daily Banter Headline Grab. From AP: JERUSALEM -- Palestinian militants barraged Israel with nearly 150 rockets on Thursday, killing three people as Israel pressed a punishing campaign of airstrikes on militant targets across the Gaza Strip. Three rockets struck the ...read more
Shocking Footage of Israeli Targetted Assassination, Hamas Promises Revenge
On Nov. 11, 2012, the IDF targeted Ahmed Jabri, the head of Hamas' military wing, in the Gaza Strip. Jabri was a senior Hamas operative who served in the upper echelon of the Hamas' command. Israel claims he was directly responsible for executing terror attacks against Israel in ...read more