“Israel”s Actions in Gaza
This is not about “two sides”, even though disingenuous people, media outlets, soft Zionists and all the people who propagate a range of lies in the service of ethnic cleansing and brutal genocide like to claim this. It is supposed to be a generous concession when they say there are two sides – rather than just resorting to immediately dehumanizing Palestinians and claiming the moral high ground over October 7th.
It should be glaringly apparent to anyone with half a brain, that October 7th is the cover all, mother of all excuses. “Israel” has slaughtered around 64,000 people directly, reduced Gaza to rubble and prevented any aid or food to its population; “Israel” kills a child in Gaza every 45 minutes and is, after demolishing all existing, successfully functioning aid organisations on the ground, now using a nefarious US “aid” programme to lure Palestinians to aid hubs where they are then shot.
“Israel” uses dirty bombs with wide area effects on a densely crowded area, the Gaza Strip, with a population of up to 50% children. It uses internationally banned white phosphorus that causes horrific injuries and burns. “Israel” abducts Palestinians – including those arriving for “aid” - into its detention centres i.e. torture camps where it uses torture such as electric shocks to the genitals and rapes prisoners to death, including innocent medics.
“Israel” ensures that it causes maximum injuries to civilians including children, one in ten Gazan children are amputees; it also snipes children in the head and chest, from the testimonies of international medics who have volunteered in Gaza. It uses drones to target any meetings of several people, and these drones act as killing machines – it could be children playing football, it could be a family at a market.
“Israel” then lies about all this, and says it is the only democracy in the middle east and that it has the most “moral” army.
Hell, “Israel” has killed countless aid workers and humanitarians from the UK, the US and Europe, it has killed British soldiers and bombed US ships; it is hands down the most evil entity on God’s green earth.
If you believe “Israel”s lies, you are either a moron, or you are lying to cover up your own racism and your conviction that “Israeli” and white lives are more valuable than Palestinian and Arab ones.
I was going to use a picture of Arsen Ostrovsky but I didn’t want to ruin my post (you can google him if you’re intrigued), so here is the lovely Greta before the flotilla mission instead
“Israel” Supporters and Vile Behaviour
On Sunday an “Israeli” man, “international human rights lawyer” Arsen Ostrovsky posted on social media: “Oh look, the little jihadi @GretaThunberg is trying to get into Gaza, to show solidarity with Hamas. It would be so sad if something were to happen to her flotilla”. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham also posted of her: “Hope Greta and her friends can swim”.
These are clear death threats and incitement towards a young humanitarian woman, one from a senior politician, and the other from a man who claims to be a human rights lawyer. “Little jihadi” is a racist term against another religion, from a man who, like the contingent of people he represents, screams “anti-semitism” at every turn.
Quite apart from the fact that we need desperately to unpick the kind of ludicrous moral double standards of the West that hold one religion as sacrosanct with protected status and yet allow slurs against another – we should be shocked at this mans words.
Another man, Ouriel Ohayon on Linkedin said of the young woman Megha Vemuri, 2025 MIT class president, barred from attending her commencement ceremony for making a speech denouncing the war in Gaza at a commencement event: “Make that bitch famous. May she never find any career path for what she just did and did before that. P.s. Megha if you really want to sound cool, work on your “rrrrrhazzzza” accent”. He later attempted to defend himself and justify his behaviour – but such behaviour is indefensible.
Let us be quite clear: a grown man making abusive or threatening comments towards young women is never okay. Let’s cut through the semantics and excuses from these types of men, we all know that decent human beings do not enact such behaviours.
Greta and Megha have some important things in common. Both are brave, fiercely intelligent, humanitarian women of integrity and principles, who have chosen, unlike many more superficial and flippant celebrities, influencers and others, to use their platform to speak about the shameful brutalization of the people of Gaza. They are the best of humanity.
Not only this, but they have risked their own professional reputations to speak up boldly about Palestine, when they could have remained silent. Greta could have remained the Western media’s darling by speaking only of climate change and never about Gaza; Megha could have attended her commencement and walked into a top corporate job.
With position comes responsibility; but also with nobility of character comes a fierceness of principles and a burning desire to speak up for those being oppressed and subjected to inhumane treatment.
The fact is though, that we all have a platform, and we all have responsibility. Our platform are our friends and social circle, our work and any other networks of people that we can broadcast our message to. This is why I have utter contempt for anyone today who does not speak up for the truth, and who makes excuses for “Israel”, or who will not speak up about the inhumanity of what is happening on Gaza. Social choices have subsequently become easier.
The People Who Stand with “Israel”
Nonetheless, despite “Israel’s” inhumane actions in full public view, there are people who insist that they support “Israel” and that Palestinians should indeed be moved to another country, that “Israel” is in the right and that there are two sides of equal violence.
I’ll deal with the debunking of just about every lurid October 7th (tall) story in a separate post, including the mass deployment of the Hannibal Directive resulting in Apache helicoptors (Palestine doesn’t own these) gunning down “Israeli” civilians on that day.
October 7th is indeed the mother of all excuses, used to justify the genocidal progression from a gradual slow Nakba phase into a full onslaught that has reduced Gaza to rubble and continues to brutalize and kill en masse its people. Again, back to basics – it is not okay to seal the borders to prevent any food or aid to a civilian population. It is not okay to snipe children. It is not okay to bomb hospitals.
These are very basic truths. To keep bringing up October 7th any time somebody criticizes “Israel” is just an admission of the kind of person you are. It is an admission that you regard nothing “Israel” does as being beyond the pale, whether raping doctors, sniping children and babies or starving a civilian population. And that you regard any “reaction” by Palestinians, no matter how big or small, as indefensible.
So, the kinds of people who still, despite all this, support “Israel” in my experience, are either Zionists of course – because everything is permissible for their beloved monster; racists, because to them it is a very simple binary and they will side with the oppressor no matter what the crime committed; or the hard of thinking, who need somebody else to tell them what to think.
From pretend “liberals” in senior city positions who regurgitate Zionist propaganda and talk of “Israel’s” need for “security” because they are too scared to deviate from the Western liberal enlightened position that being too critical of “Israel” is on a par with horror of horrors, anti-semitism, that black stain on the Western collective psyche and evidence of their own brutal nature – to Zionist supremacist Jewish housewives with children of their own, that screechingly chase down anybody in their leafy NW London neighbourhood wearing a keffiyeh, because they feel that unsafe.
From supposedly liberal young socialist people who call out “racism” and display their trendy rejection of people like Farage, but shit themselves when speaking about Israel”, to the obnoxious self-important corporate wankers who are only too aware who their Zionist paymasters are, and that dismiss peaceful crowds of people protesting genocide as lefty “mobs” and terrorists, in a desperate attempt to convince themselves that they are the bearers of enlightened Western values no matter what “Israel” does.
I have yet to encounter anybody who appears to possess a clear moral compass and sense of equality towards all people irrespective of creed or colour, who is not horrified by “Israel’s” actions and who does not support the Palestinian people out of a sense of shared humanity.
But each and every day, I encounter what I thought was a rarity: mothers with young children of their own supporting genocide, and people you would expect to know better – grown, “educated” and professional men such as Arsen and Ouriel, behaving abusively towards young women. This is the true nature of the Zionist.
A Freedom Flotilla side note:
I watched a Ray McGovern interview yesterday. Ray is a retired CIA analyst and Pro-Palestine commentator. For days now, I have been questioning many how the Freedom Flotilla plans to arrive safely at the Strip. Previous Flotilla’s have been attacked by Israeli forces. Some have died in their efforts. Ray provided a solid answer to this question. He was on board the 2011 Freedom Flotilla during the Obama administration.
Ray still had contacts in the state department in 2011 and enquired as to how the administration would respond to the Flotilla? They informed him that the best case scenario for the administration would be for everyone on the Flotilla to come back in body bags. They indicated that this would help Obama’s election campaign.
As it turned out, when the Flotilla docked at Cyprus on the last leg of the journey, the Obama administration threatened the leaders in Cyprus to not allow the Flotilla to continue. When they tried to embark toward Gaza, the Captain of the ship was threatened by Cyprus Port Authorities that they were going to board the ship by force and take command of the vessel. He decided at this point to turn back for the safety of his crew and passengers.
Ray explained that the yearly Flotilla trip is a token effort that showers the current US/EU leaders with absolute embarrassment and highlights their extreme cowardice in not forcing Israel to stop the genocide in Gaza. In this context, all of the flotilla’s have been a overwhelming success. To my understanding, if this Flotilla arrives near Gaza on June 8th, this would the anniversary the attack on the USS Liberty which took place on 06.08.67, killing 37, and wounding 171 crew members. Israel has yet to be held accountable for this murderous rampage. Link to interview below:
https://youtu.be/O1_F9etOeN8?t=910
People are awful. They don't know about the world and don't want to know. It's awful. Humans will support a genocide rather than feel uncomfortable or challenge their relationships with other people although those people support genocide.
Our society seems to be designed to make most people stupid enough to support a genocide if they aren't evil.