POLITICS OF USA & EUROPE

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/what-us-policy-israeli-palestinian-conflict

What Is U.S. Policy on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/26/how-the-us-has-used-its-veto-power-at-the-un-in-support-of-israel

The US has used its veto power at least 34 times to block UN Security Council resolutions that were critical of Israel.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/18/america-root-cause-war-israel-gaza-palestine/

America Is a Root Cause of Israel and Palestine’s Latest War

How 30 years of U.S. policy ended in disaster. By Stephen M. Walt

https://today.yougov.com/international/articles/45869-attitudes-israel-palestine-conflict-western-europe

There is support in all countries for a ‘two-state solution’ to the conflict

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/is-the-israel-gaza-war-changing-us-public-attitudes/

https://www.usip.org/publications/2023/01/what-does-israels-new-government-mean-israeli-palestinian-conflict

Nearly 30 years since Oslo, even rhetorical nods to the prospect of a two-state solution may be coming to an end. January 5, 2023 / BY: Lucy Kurtzer-Ellenbogen

https://www.npr.org/2023/10/09/1204662594/europe-condemn-hamas-support-israel-suspend-palestinian-aid

European leaders pledge support for Israel, condemn Hamas and halt Palestinian aid

OCTOBER 9, 2023

https://www.ft.com/content/6bf4f6ed-b705-4e66-ac6f-59b5ef6c0c77

How public opinion on the Israel-Hamas war has shifted

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-generation-gap-in-opinions-toward-israel/

https://www.mei.edu/congressional-briefing-series

https://ecfr.eu/article/how-europeans-should-respond-to-the-hamas-offensive-against-israel/

Europeans should oppose any effort by far-right Israeli politicians to use current events as cover to pursue their Greater Israel agenda, or by settler militias to exact revenge on Palestinians in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/11/23955999/israel-gaza-european-union-germany-spain

The Israel-Hamas war is exposing Europe’s divisions

https://acleddata.com/2023/10/10/fact-sheet-israel-and-palestine-conflict/ Published: 9 October 2023

https://ip-quarterly.com/en/israel-hamas-war-and-new-world-order

Oct 18, 2023

The Israel-Hamas War and the New World Order

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_organizations_designated_by_the_Southern_Poverty_Law_Center_as_hate_groups

List of organizations designated by the Southern Poverty Law Center as hate groups

Democracy - hypocrisy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_hypocrisy#:~:text=Political%20hypocrisy%20or%20hypocrisy%20in,and%20counter%2Daccusations%20of%20hypocrisy.

Political hypocrisy or hypocrisy in policy refers to any discrepancy between what a political party claims and the practices the party is trying to hide.[1] Modern political debate is often characterized by accusations and counter-accusations of hypocrisy.

Political hypocrisy

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/577097-a-pandemic-of-hyper-hypocrisy-is-infecting-american-politics/

BY HARLAN ULLMAN, OPINION CONTRIBUTOR - 10/18/21

A pandemic of hyper-hypocrisy is infecting American politics

https://www.foreignaffairs.com/united-states/upside-western-hypocrisy-global-south-america

By Matias Spektor July 21, 2023

The Upside of Western Hypocrisy

How the Global South Can Push America to Do Better

https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-hypocrisy-of-western-democracy/article67624903.ece

The root cause of Western complicity in Palestinian oppression lies in colonialism and imperialism December 11, 2023

NISSIM MANNATHUKKAREN

The hypocrisy of Western democracy

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/361117-and-when-i-speak-i-don-t-speak-as-a-democrat

I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and ...

Quote by Malcolm X: “And when I speak, I don't speak as a ...

https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/01/14/hypocrisy-democracy-united-states-foreign-policy-capitol-riot/ By Nick Danforth

Democracy at Home and Democracy Promotion Abroad Aren’t the Same

Hypocrisy has long been a component of U.S. foreign policy. The Capitol riot doesn’t change that.

free speech - an illusion

https://news.csu.edu.au/opinion/the-illusions-of-social-media-free-speech-is-just-the-start

8 MARCH 2021

The illusions of social media: ‘free speech’ is just the start

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2006/feb/25/muhammadcartoons.comment

This article is more than 17 years oldJames Harkin

Free speech: is it an illusion?

https://www.rfa.org/english/commentaries/southeastasia-freedom-09242023091117.html

A poll of Southeast Asia shows it’s wrong to assume that it is only autocratic governments that stymie free speech. A commentary by David Hutt
2023.09.24

What to do about ‘freedom from speech?’

https://www.thefire.org/research-learn/freedom-speech

Freedom of speech is one of the fundamental personal freedoms protected by the First Amendment

Freedom of Speech | The Foundation for Individual Rights ...

https://www.independent.co.ug/the-illusion-of-free-speech/

Oct 11, 2022 — Thus, freedom of the press in the West is actually a myth. If the media in the West propagated ideas, interests and values contrary to accepted ...

The illusion of free speech

https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freedom-speech/

by D van Mill · 2002 · Cited by 91 — “The Freedom of Worthless and Harmful Speech,” in Liberalism without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N.

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