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Well, it's certainly deja vu all over again with the Jew bashing from our correspondent. Leaving that issue aside for a moment, along with the complete disregard for facts and research, surely it's time our correspondent acknowledged he's not cut out to be a journalist, despite trying for several decades.

Let's start with "Israel’s blowing up the Iranian embassy in Syria". So many errors in such a short sentence. The Israelis launched a missile at a building adjacent to a consular building in Syria. To date, the Syrians have not claimed the building was part of Iran's consulate, although Iran has made this claim. Israel, and others, dispute this.

The building was targetted because "one of Iran’s favorite generals" was there at the time. That general was accused of planning the October 7 atrocity, and the people he was meeting in that building were his accomplices in numerous acts of terror. He was a legitimate target.

That figure of 34,012 came directly from Hamas, and our correspondent has published it without making the slightest effort to verify the figure.

Israel's strike hit an Iranian airbase. I've seen the photos, which means they are public knowledge. Why claim the strike missed its target?

I notice this time around, there are more people criticising these articles in Asia Sentinel. More people are noticing the dishonesty, the anti-Semitism and the left wing agenda.

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"That Israel had a right to defend itself in the wake of the horrendous October 7 attack on defenseless civilians is a givenis a given".- No it is not a given. The evidence since that well crafted spiel of lies and hyperbole by the Israeli government ignores the reality of the history of massacres since 1948, all 156 of them against Palestinian civilians and the added fact that every able bodied Israeli is a soldier either in reserve on or active duty.

The additional lie advanced by none other than the Prime Minister of Israel himself that 40 babies were "beheaded then placed in ovens" is another lie uncovered through direct interrogation by the media of Israeli spokesmen who contradicted themselves then refused to respond after being caught out tripping on their lies. Nothing is a given. This is War. A war began by Zionist occupation of Palestine in 1948 .

This is War and its violence is a horrendous situation. Of course it is. But if one listens to the Israelis and their propaganda mouthed off by their supporters and apologists abroad, especially in places like the USA, war is only horrendous when Israeli Jews are at the receiving end of a situation of their own making.

The US and their position on Israel's war crimes unfortunately lends credence to theories such as that espoused by books like the protocols of Zion and the well the numerous other writings that suggest that Zionists have and continue to corrupt and hold to ransom the United States and its government.

A change is in the wind. The Holocaust has lost its currency as a defense against gratuitous acts of violence by Jews who see it as a biblical (fiction) right to occupy and to kill with impunity, innocent civilians because they have a powerful USA held in captivity by their vast networks of thugs and weaklings in governments ready to nod in unison with them everytime they kill.

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As your adopted name suggests , you are out of touch by 370 million light years and you represent anger and stubbornness. Good luck with fixing all that .

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This article has been written by someone who appears not to be able to tell the difference between Israel taking out top level Iranian military leaders who were behind the October 7th slaughter, butchery, and kidnap of innocent Israelis (they did not blow up an embassy), and 300 drones and missiles sent by Iran to murder the Israeli public, 20% of whom are Arabic. A 7-year old Bedouin girl was critically injured in the indiscriminate Iranian attack on civilian populations. Even Jordan, which is directly on the border of Israel, both having been part of the Palestinian region under the British mandate, was forced into defense mode since they were in the path of Iran's destructive attack too.

I'm not sure when lazy and disingenuous journalism started taking over but it needs to do better if the world is getting their education from news articles. Bad journalism and uneducated professors is why Americans wete cheering for an attack on the Israeli population and saying Iran has a 'right to defend itself' . Sickening

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Writing that arming the IDF only encourages them to use the weapons is the most back-to-front thinking I have read in a long time . Israel is the one that has been attacked regularly since its foundation - Israel is the one that has had peace proposals constantly rejected -Israel is the one that goes to extreme ends to minimise civilian damage . These truths need to be recognised.

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