{"id":202078,"date":"2023-12-28T13:05:38","date_gmt":"2023-12-28T17:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=202078"},"modified":"2023-12-28T13:05:38","modified_gmt":"2023-12-28T17:05:38","slug":"why-is-the-corporate-state-media-turning-on-netanyahu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=202078","title":{"rendered":"

Why Is the Corporate State Media Turning on Netanyahu?<\/strong><\/em><\/h2>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Bartee
\nArmageddon Prose<\/p>\n

Over the past several decades, until very recently, you would have been hard-pressed to locate a single word of criticism in the corporate state media leveled at literally anything the Israeli state does. The uniparty\u2019s pawns in elected government \u2014 and, more to the point, the national security state that actually runs foreign policy \u2014 have unanimously, full-throatedly embraced Zionism without reservation.<\/p>\n

The few over the years who have strayed from the company line, like Pat Buchanan, have been met with the full force of the Israel lobby and its media attack dogs at the Anti-Defamation League, which intentionally, disgustingly conflate criticism of Israel with antisemitism<\/a>, a common tactic to silence the Israeli state\u2019s political opponents.<\/p>\n

Via ADL<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cBuchanan makes no attempt to hide his anti-Semitic and anti-Israel views, which have become more virulent in recent years\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Buchanan also turned his attention to Israel in his columns in 2010. In a June 2010 article, \u2018Lift the Siege of Gaza,\u2019 about the Israeli offensive in Gaza, Buchanan wrote that it “\u2019was the inevitable result of Israel doing what it always seems to do: going beyond what is essential to her security, to impose collective punishment upon any and all it regards as hostile to Israel.\u2019 In a May 2010 column, \u2018Poodle Biden Gets Kicked,\u2019 about Vice President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel, Buchanan cited Biden’s comment that \u2018there is no space between the United States and Israel when it comes to Israel’s security.\u2019 Buchanan then claimed that Biden \u2018was played for a fool\u2019<\/strong> when Israel decided it would build new homes in disputed areas. Buchanan called Americans “grovelers” when it comes to dealing with Israel and claimed that the U.S. responded like a \u2018battered spouse to Israel’s \u2019public slap across the face.\u2019<\/strong>\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

Buchanan went on to criticize those who believe his views are anti-Semitic\u2026 \u2018They charge us with anti-Semitism… The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a \u2018passionate attachment’ to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what’s good for Israel is good for America.\u2019\u201c<\/strong><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Where\u2019s the lie, ADL? They present Buchanan\u2019s claims with no rebuttal as if they are self-evidently a.) incorrect and b.) somehow antisemitic even though in all cited examples Buchanan is explicitly discussing U.S. foreign policy vis a vis Israel \u2014 nothing about Jews or Judaism.<\/p>\n

Anyway, in recent weeks, a new phenomenon has unfolded: the knives have come out against the government of Bibi Netanyahu (not the Israeli state per se<\/em>) in the corporate state media \u2014 even in its epicenter, which is Morning Joe and his sidepiece, Mika \u201cDeep State Nepo-Baby\u201d Brzezi\u0144ski. Whatever line Joe and Mika are parroting is, invariably, the current approved narrative; it doesn\u2019t get more establishment.<\/p>\n

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