About a week after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, Jalali celebrated the massacre and boasted in state-run media that Israel’s “military and intelligence dominance has collapsed and will not be repaired anymore.” Unsurprisingly, it was on his watch that Israel executed an escalating campaign of physical and cybersabotage against Iran’s nuclear program, culminating in the war this month. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, has suggested that the former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad did not use chemical weapons against his own people in 2017 and 2018, despite extensive documentation of the attacks, including by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the previous Trump administration. Yet the substances that make bread fluffy, hold mayonnaise together, and keep the cream in ice cream have, according to the new stance of the United States government, “no culinary use.” These natural and synthetic substances, called emulsifiers, are added to processed foods to give them the textures that Americans have come to love.
Author: Yair Rosenberg
Published at: 2025-06-25 22:39:00
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