Let’s be clear: Israel lies. The Israeli government — backed by the United States — murders Palestinians with genocidal impunity, while at the same time running a sophisticated disinformation apparatus, the sole purpose of which is to cover up its unspeakable atrocities. While the Israeli military rains bombs indiscriminately over Gaza, it simultaneously wages an information war, spewing falsehood after falsehood that defies all logic, all facts on the ground, and demands of us to disbelieve what we see with our very eyes and what we know to be true. This propaganda campaign would not be possible without the U.S. corporate media, which acts as Israel’s mouthpiece, amplifying its lies.
On the evening of Oct. 17 at around 7:00 p.m. local time, a bomb hit Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City. There is no reason to believe the perpetrator behind the attack was anyone other than the Israeli military — the actor behind the genocidal aerial bombardment campaign currently being waged on the Gaza Strip.
Because Al-Ahli was already treating so many civilians who had sustained injuries from Israel’s aerial bombardment campaign, because so many of its patients had been evacuated from other Gaza hospitals already targeted by the IDF, and because the hospital had become a center of refuge for those who had lost their homes due to Israel’s indiscriminate bombing, the death toll was tremendous. The Gaza Health Ministry reported at least 500 dead. The mainstream media, quick to fall into lockstep with the pro-Israel narrative, prefaced this number as coming from the “Hamas-run Health Ministry,” as if to cast doubt on its veracity in readers’ minds. This was done by PBS, Associated Press, LA Times, Yahoo News, EuroNews, Business Insider, among many, many others. Every corporate media outlet has also given credence to the Israeli government’s claims of denial.
Immediately after the massacre, Gaza health officials — perhaps anticipating an uphill battle in order to even be believed — held a press conference among a pile of corpses the attack left behind.
The world stands with Palestine
That the Al-Ahli massacre has the Israeli government scrambling to spin a counter-narrative attests to its fundamental weakness: the regime may have the backing of the U.S. government, but the people of the world stand with Palestine. Israel is losing the information war. When it launched its murderous aerial bombardment campaign on Gaza, Israel did not anticipate the full scale of pushback and international condemnation against its genocidal crimes. Over the last few weeks, millions of protestors — including huge numbers in the United States — have hit the streets all over the world in support of the Palestinian struggle and against Israeli colonization and land theft.
The tide is turning, and the days of the Israeli apartheid regime are numbered.
Reminds me of what one my local march leaders said, “I’m not here to bring to bring you hope, because we already have that.”
Many Jewish people believe the lies of the oppressive regime, because they fear being exiled as they have been many times in the past, throughout Europe. It happened so often that it’s an action in crusader kings. They are in denial, and it’s easy to understand why, they depend on that area as an escape hatch in case history repeats itself. JAO has made a similar promise, however there is still a mistrust because it’s in a nation that has had issues with Jews. Many people let fear guide their actions because they have no hope. I say this not to justify their support but to explain it, because empathy is a super power.
The children of Gaza should not have to loose their parents and siblings because some failsons couldn’t stop a prison break. Hamas has accepted the burden of the deaths of festival goers, though I suspect many of the bullets that struck them down were not from Hamas guns. Hamas does not have tanks, yet tanks were apparently in the destruction of at least one kibbutz. All sides seem to hostages are being held in Gaza, and it’s been deprived of food, water and power for 2 weeks. Are we suppose to believe that Hamas rather than bombs being dropped at a rate of more than one a minute, is killing them?
Holy places are suppose to be free of violence. The current rulers of the holy land don’t seem to believe that. They literally claim Palestine never existed and it was a land without a people, nothing could be further from the truth. Israel didn’t exist before 1948 outside of religious texts. Before the area was designated as Palestine it was Judea. Romans decided to expel the people living there.
Don’t cry for Gaza, we won’t let you die.
If China decided to declare a region like the JAO, I think the state in the holy lands would have a lot less power.
Being stateless is no good. Historically many nations have made Jews stateless. Stateless people are barely allowed to exist. This is why some jewish people look to that government as a security blanket.
Their power comes from fear, ours comes from hope. Those kids in gaza will need our support for a long time no matter what. This is the worst shelling of a civilian population since ww1. I don’t want to believe, I’ve seen footage of great heroics though. The medical staff is truly top notch, how the fuck did they keep all that up? I have beyond respect for those people.
Thinking that their security blanket could be genocidal is absurd to them. It obliviously is but they don’t see that. The JAO is the obvious answer, but USain Jews seem to still think Russia bad. Not worth suggesting Russia has had some bad pogroms. China giving the jewish people a few acres would likely tip a balance of power.
Regardless the bombing has to stop.