Trish Wood

1 week ago | trishwood.substack.com | Trish Wood

Here is the story of the Rather comments after 9/11..shamefull. "On September 17, 2001, less than a week after the 9-11 attacks, Rather went on The Late Show with David Letterman and beat the war drums like a one-man Taiko group. It is understandable that Rather was perhaps swept up in the shock, grief, and anger felt so strongly in the immediate aftermath of September 11. It is not understandable that he should forget the role of a journalist in a democracy.

1 week ago | trishwood.substack.com | Trish Wood

Sorry Trish, but I’m going to have to respectfully disagree with you 100%. I see no parallels between this and the Iraq War. There also is no war yet at this point. It’s just small-scale skirmishes between Israel and Iran. Also, everyone here in the comment section has completely misunderstood the situation. Nobody is saying Iran HAS a nuclear weapon but rather they are trying to DEVELOP one. That is why Israel did this attack in the first place. Operation Rising Lion was the right thing to do.

1 week ago | trishwood.substack.com | Trish Wood

The reverberations back to the Iraq War playbook are very much back at the centre of geopolitics today. It’s like Trump has just given the Neocons the keys and said OK — take our military for another spin. The words “regime change” are flying around Washington. Our friend Scott Horton from Anti-War.com is reporting that America will go in with Israel in the fight against Iran — maybe today.

1 week ago | trishwood.substack.com | Trish Wood

I understand what your saying, Mel. Indeed, you are just as legitimate a member of the Jewish community as any Zionist Jew is. A significant minority of Jews are to be sure, anti-Zionist and I respect their opinion and their feelings. All the commentators or activists you mentioned are not trustworthy or good-faith actors or they are completely misinformed.

1 week ago | trishwood.substack.com | Trish Wood

Pressure mounts from Israel for the United States to step in and save it — a predicted escalation that we should all fear. Meanwhile:For those of you puzzling over why the Gulf States seemingly have withdrawn from anything but a kind of hedging neutrality — from not protecting Palestinians in Gaza to keeping it cool over Israel’s strike on Iran, this piece may shed some light. It’s worth reading so you have a reasonably good base from which to understand what’s unfolding.