Where the Victims Become Perpetrators
We live in times of horrific contradictions.
Holocaust Memorial Day starts from sundown May 5th to sundown May 6th. We should all be contemplating the horrors of the Shoah and still, be shocked at how one group of humans can be so intensely cruel to another. Yet, there is “shock and anger” at people who demonstrated at Auschwitz in favor of the ceasefire in Gaza; The Gaza invasion that has claimed over 34,000 lives and maimed over 100,000 Palestinians AND continues without let.
Jews, the one people who should be foremost in standing against genocide. Yet, Israeli Jews and their Blind supporters, the very descendants of the Shoah, are glorying in the Gaza genocide being committed in their name.
Germany, the one nation that committed the genocide of the Jews in the name of Germans, is one of the largest providers of the tools of genocide against Palestinians today.
USA, the nation that beats every other nation on the head with its pronouncements of “Human Rights”, “Freedom” and “Democracy”, is the single largest provider of the tools of the genocide in Gaza.
News media that tout their staunch support for “Truth”, “Accuracy” and “objectivity”, are so biased against the Palestinians that they barely pay any attention to news that may show Palestinians in sympathetic light and DEFINITELY, no attention to the evils being committed by Israelis.
The term, “Anti-Semitism” should be taken to mean hate or bias against Jews, but it has been weaponized to stop ANY criticism of anything Jewish; criticism of Israel, of what Israeli Jews are doing to Palestinians; even the term “Genocide” has become Verboten and calling for a ceasefire is taboo; BOTH are termed as “Anti-Semitism”.
“Anti-Semitism” has been so consumed by emotional inflation that it has become meaningless even as it is being used to mean everything.
The October 7 attack on Israeli Jews by Palestinian resistance groups in which 1,200 people (not counting Palestinians of course) were killed and over 200 taken captives is still mourned and vilified. Yet, the same mourners don’t have a word of sympathy or pity for the Warsaw-like razing of all of Gaza in which over 34,000 Palestinians (70% children and women) were killed and continue to be killed; not a word about the deliberate creation of Misery, the likes of which the world has never seen before.
Like the Jews, Palestinians are doomed to be mourned after the fact, not a word of support DURING the genocide.
Driving Public Opinion through “Polls”
Mark Twain is said to have noted, “There are lies, Damned lies and there are statistics”.
Taking advanced statistics class during my UW studies (a LOOONNG time ago!) was an eye-opener for me. I learned that statistics and results of polls can be skewed in any direction one wants them to go. Now, whenever I see some statistic, I look at it questioningly.
WHAT is motivating the stats?
WHO is running the numbers?
WHY was this data collected (to serve WHAT goal)?
When I saw this headline in The Jerusalem Post: “Majority of Americans think Israel should press on with Rafah op., finish war – poll“.
I wanted to know how the “poll” was conducted and exactly WHAT was the question; I was not surprised to see the wording of the question in which “the majority of Americans” gave the okay to continue the slaughter of Palestinians:
…according to a Harvard CAPS/Harris poll published on Monday.
Survey respondents responded to a prompt asking, “Should Israel move forward with an operation in Rafah to finish the war with Hamas, doing its best to avoid civilian casualties even though there will be casualties, or should it back off now and allow Hamas to continue running Gaza?”
Looking at this “Poll” question, I see how the question is crafted to persuade the audience that “the most moral army” of Israel, will of course, take great care not to kill or injure civilians. I guess we can trust that part if we believe the “most moral army” has so far exercised “great care” and that the 34,000+ dead Palestinians and the well over 100.000 maimed Palestinians and the 2 MILLION+ starving Palestinians happened ONLY after the Israelis did “take great care” to avoid civilians.
The question has been sanitized to a point at which the person saying “yes” feels their conscience is clear that this is a “WAR!” and not a genocide.
The last part offers the reader a choice between wanting to “finish the war with Hamas (not Palestinians, mind you!) or backing away like a coward and allowing the great “Terrorist” Hamas to continue with their rule and control over Gaza. Since Hamas has been so successfully recast as a “Terrorist” organization, what reasonable person could possibly say “NO” to such a proposition?
Goal achieved, headline created; time now to offer it to the blind supporters and the greedy politicians who would willingly slaughter as many people as needed , in order to get the public on their side.
Send it across the media which will also amplify the “poll” so people shut up about this ”Ceasefire” nonsense and let the great slaughter continue; There’s a genocide to complete!!
Goodbye Lesley, my friend…
I just lost a good friend.
Lesley Hazleton was a longtime friend with whom I had many deep conversations about faith, beliefs, politics and humanity in general. She was a real scholar and went into depths of knowledge about things that interested her and she wrote many books.
She lived her final time on a houseboat on Lake Union where she was very happy, enjoying the water in her not-so-large houseboat.
She wrote her goodbye letter and sent it to her MANY friends (I am proud to have been one) in which she wrote, “ The bad news is that it’s cancer (no, by some irony of fate, not lung cancer, despite my lifelong contribution to the coffers of Philip Morris et al). And that I am officially six-months-terminal.”. Lesley she had cancer of the bladder, it had gone to her kidneys and spreading. She decided to use the freedom offered to her in the Death With Dignity Act, she contacted End of life Washington and they helped her go in peace.
Lesley lived her life as a free-thing, free spirit, she was a strong feminist and believed in human equality and human dignity, whenever I saw her she was in a good mood, enjoying life and her cigarette (later vape).
I will miss her.
Her books reflected her own interests in diverse topics, usually faith topics. Her style was refreshing as it was interesting; she would write about a person or a period and she would weave a real personality based on the contemporary history around the person or period; I know whenever I read one of her books, I would come away with a deeper understanding of the subject..
Her book, “The First Muslim”, about the life of the prophet Mohammed created a real human being instead of sterile, historical details woven around connecting sentences; it offered a much better understanding of what the man was about, his ways of thoughts and actions. As her fame spread, she was invited to come and speak about Islam, the Prophet Mohammed and his philosophy, in Pakistan. Being a Jew, she asked me if it would be safe to go there and actually speak about Islam and the prophet Mohammed. I told her she would be perfectly fine so she went; she was treated as grandly as if she were a visiting queen.
“After the Prophet” was a fascinating picture of how the Shia-Sunni split happened and how the Caliphs who followed the prophet Mohammed, were human beings with human strengths and weaknesses. It is the best book I have encountered, that explains the schism that has plagued Muslims for over fourteen centuries.
“Mary” was a creation of who the woman was and what the people around her were like, the support she got from her tribe and family; a beautifully written book.
“Agnostic”. In this book she makes the case for those who do not deny there is a God, but do not agree there isn’t one either; they leave the case open, as opposed to atheists who deny the existence of God.
All Muslims are TRRRSTS!
It looks like Israel has won the emotional war against Muslims. I would NEVER have believed any sane mind could have come to such an asinine and Islamophobic conclusion as this story shows.
If wearing the Shehada as a headband can cause so much distress to Jews that is becomes a criminal offense, then surely wearing a Star of David would also be a criminal offense because of the trauma it would cause to millions of Palestinians!!!??
Below is a link to the story as reported by the British Daily Mail. Of course, one of the illustrations they chose to show is of an armed Palestinian in GAZA, wearing the Shehada headband. Talk about subliminal messaging!
They could have shown the eBay items showing the Shehada headband for sale, or the Etsy site showing a Shehada headband but no, obviously, a gunman in GAZA was more appropriate!
In a demonstration against the Gaza genocide, a (non-White of course!) man wore a headband that had the Islamic Affirmation (Shehada) on it; “la ilaha Il Allah Mohammed Rasul Allah” (There is no god but one God and Mohammed is his prophet”). He was promptly ARRESTED by the Police as showing support for the “TRRRST organization “HAMAS!”.
Unbelievably, the judge found him guilty of intimidating Jews and supporting Hamas!
The Judge said, “Hamas is the most notable Palestinian group associated with the colour green…” (REALLY???) and…
“I am satisfied so I am sure that the defendant wore an item of clothing, a green headband in such circumstances to arouse reasonable suspicion that he was a supporter of a proscribed terrorist organisation, namely Hamas” and..
“‘…I do find that the harm is serious and I have to agree that the nature of the offence when it happened, soon after the incident of 7 October, would have made significant distress to those who were observing the demonstration”
What kind of manipulatable, servile, idiotic and unthinking people does Britain have a Judges???
How can anyone twist a holy symbol into a representation of something bad (It’s bad enough that “HAMAS!” is deemed a “TRRRST organization by so many of the oh-so civilized nations in the West)?
Einstein is reported as having said, “The difference between Stupidity and Genius is that Genius has limits”.
Muslims had better walk careful; don’t wear green, don’t wear a T-shirt with a watermelon on it and don’t say, “Palestine” except with “Kill them all!” afterwards. Otherwise, you are supporting terrorists and causing great grief to Jews. If you are non-White, don’t “look like a Muzlem“.
You could lose your job, you could lose your education, you could even go to Prison!!
…Or some super-patriotic buffoon could kill you!
ACTION: Helping the Genocide Forward?
Israel and its blind supporters are determined to slaughter or starve to death, the last Palestinian in Gaza…and the West Bank will be next!
First countries and now companies are following Israel’s directive to help complete the genocide. Israelis have been pressing to destroy UNWRA, The United Nations Relief & Works Agency for Palestinian refugees in the Near East. Israel has accused UNWRA employees of Participating in the October 7 attack on Israelis that took 1,200 Jewish lives…WITHOUT PRESENTING ANY EVIDENCE. Yet the simple fact that ISRAEL made the accusation got SIXTEEN countries to jump to please Israel: Austria, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Romania, Sweden, the United States, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Japan, Canada, and Australia1; all 16 of them stopped funding UNWRA and to Hell with the Palestinians dying of Western-caused Famine (Israel: “What Famine? there is no Famine!“). Of these 16 bloody-minded and blind supporters of Israel, only Canada and Sweden have resumed funding, presumably after they were embarrassed at acting in such a rash and heartless manner.
In a show of generosity, the US partnered with w couple of countries and airdropped 100 tons of food supplies in Gaza…killing five Palestinians with the pallets. That amounts to less than 285 grams (10 ounces) PER PERSON. Simultaneously, the US delivered several planeloads of bombs and shells to Israel so they can kill thousands of Palestinians. To date, the total is approaching 34,000 dead of which, about 40% (13,600) were children, about 9,000 were women and 11,400 men; according to Israelis, all the men were “TRRRSTS!”. This does not take into account the uncountable Palestinians who remain buried under the rubble of buildings bombed at random by Israel and the well over 100,000 maimed of all ages.
Now companies are moving to join the blockade of funds to UNWRA, Fidelity Charitable quietly dropped UNWRA from its list of charities for donation. This company’s Board has now opened to door for other charities who may also be under pressure by the pro-Israeli groups, to boycott UNWRA and thus, help the genocide of Palestinians.
The only way such a murderous rush to kill Palestinians can be stopped if is people put pressure on big companies that may be donating to Fidelity Charitable. For example, if companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook etc., make a decision to drop funding of such “charity” companies, if they stop funding UNWRA.
The only way THAT can happen is if the employees of those companies help their company take such a stand.
Otherwise, we can just wring our hands as we watch the last Palestinian child, starve slowly to death.
Stoning, Taliban and Islam
I guess if we want to see how utterly depraved, stupid, merciless and controlling people can get, The Taliban are happy to provide an example.
Stoning for adultery is the worst interpretation of something that does not even exist in Islam, yet here we are. I fear it may not take long before Pakistan decides to show just how devout its people are an codify stoning into law…it is already in practice along the border tribes of Pakistan. All it takes to “punish” a woman is an accusation.
Origins of Stoning in brief:
A Muslim man and a Jewish woman accused of adultery were brought to the prophet for sentencing. He ordered that the man be punished according to the laws of Islam (whipping) and the woman be returned to her tribe for their punishment (stoning).
Today’s idiots have taken that as a sanction favoring stoning when he was really saying, “They to their laws and us to ours”.
The Quran, being the final word on Islamic law, clearly outlines the process (An-Nur-The Light 24:6-9) of establishing guilt and the punishment for adultery and even after that, it allows for the woman to avoid punishment if she swears, she is innocent of the accusation. At the same time, it deals harshly with anyone who bears false witness against the woman, such liars are to be whipped and never to be trusted at their word again (24:4). To the best of my information, none of this process has ever been implemented anywhere where the so-called, “Sharia Law” of stoning has been implemented. Even the establishment of the so-called “Sharia Courts” is arbitrary and capricious, designed to impose violence under cover of faith rather than actually follow the commands of the Quran.
Sadly, it is very clear, but the fanatics seem to have printed their own version of the Quran, Finley Peter Dunne-Chicago Tribune said it very appropriately, “A fanatic is someone who does what he thinks the Lord would do, if He knew the facts of the case“.
Is there a Path to Peace in Israel/Palestine?
How can a One State of Israel/Palestine work?
Why not a Two-State or a Confederation?
There is no “solution” to work on until there are leadership changes on both sides and new leaders come in who are more interested in seeing the “Other” as humans rather than as people with whom the choice is to kill or be killed; leaders who are more interested in a greater nation than they are in their own greatness and ability to be seen as leaders. Leaders who are willing to see the pain the “Other” feels and are willing to work to heal the pain, not just in their own people, but among the other people as well.
Each “side”; Jews and Christian/Muslim Palestinians have experienced great pain and remains deeply suspicious of the other side, knowing full well that if given half a chance “They” will slaughter “us”. We must realize that the pain is measured, not in piles of bodies, but in the depths of the minds; that it is the Mind that maintains the fear, the suspicion and the hate, it is the Mind that makes coexistence impossible. We may not agree with how a side refers to its foundation of Fear, whether it is the endless string of Pogroms leading to the Shoah of the Jews, or the endless attacks and dispossessions leading to the current Shoah of the Palestinians, but what we must agree on is that a lasting Peace can only come from a change in the perception of the “Other”.
This is where leadership comes in because when leaders decide to change the perception, people feel safe in going with the change no matter how horrible the past may have been. The leaderships have to show that identities are not based on religion but on the humanity of each other because only after the divisiveness of religious identities are set aside, can the people see each other as equal humans and fellow brethren.
Foreign interference also needs to change. Currently Israel is being plied with unquestioned and endless money and war material by Western countries. All this does is feed the Jewish existential fear of annihilation; in effect, feeding the very fears that make peace impossible. The money and the weapons may make Israelis feel “safe” (how safe is a nation whose people constantly carry guns and has to occupy and kill people?), but it also creates an incentive to keep the minds shut and not look for peace. Peace, in a situation where one has taken over the lands and properties of the “Other”, means that the injustices have to be accounted for and that in turn, means “giving up” what one has. Peace means that absolute power and absolute impunity can no longer exist, that power and rights must be shared equally. Difficult as it may appear, Western nations must make their support and aid conditional to to definite, measurable, changes in attitudes of Israeli leadership. At the same time, similar pressure must be applied to Palestinian leadership that currently exists to maintain itself in utter disregard for the Palestinian people.
It is a most difficult but not an impossible obstacle to overcome but it must be overcome if people and their children in Israel/Palestine are to live as the brothers and sisters that they really are.
But Peace is not a shadow that cannot be caught. History has proven again and again, that yes, Fear and Hate are easy to ignite and can be maintained very easily with catastrophic results, but Peace can also be achieved if a leadership is willing.
For hundreds of years, Britain, France, Netherlands, Spain and Portugal have been at each other’s throats, waging wars that cost millions of lives and uncountable amounts of money, yet today, they are allies and neighbors so friendly that they barely recognize each other as different nations.
Germany fought two major wars with European countries that devastated Europe, yet today, they are all part of a single unit (except for Britain which marches to a different beat altogether). The Germans committed genocide of the Jews, slaughtering millions of them as if they were less than insects. Yet today, Germany is the staunchest supporter of Jews.
The United States fought genocidal war in South East Asia in which millions of Vietnamese, Cambodians and Laotians were butchered, yet today, the US has a close relationship with all those countries.
Japan carried out genocide in China and Korea and was responsible for millions of lives lost during WWII but today, Japan has good relations with all of its former adversaries.
Pakistan fought a brutal, genocidal civil war which resulted in the independence of Bangladesh (East Pakistan), yet today, the peoples of the two countries are close in their mutual relationships.
Being from Pakistan myself, I remember when Bangladesh was liberated, the leaders of West Pakistan declared the Bangladeshis to be traitors, deserving death and that Pakistan would never recognize them. Then there was a terrible hurricane and massive flooding that took thousands of lives in Bangladesh. Bhutto, Pakistan’s leader at the time, declared that he had already sent some ships loaded with food and supplies to aid the devastated people of Bangladesh and that the Bengalis were our brothers and it was Pakistan’s duty to help. Almost immediately, people in Pakistan started to agree that they were indeed our brothers (and sisters) and the hostility disappeared. The people of Bangladesh opened their hearts to the people of Pakistan in spite of the devastating genocide.
One major objection raised by many Jews in Israel as well as outside is that Israel must remain a Jewish nation with its Jewish character and that a nation with equality for Palestinians and Jews would destroy its Jewish character; it would be tantamount to the annihilation of the Jewish state.
Setting aside the fact that the very premise of such an objection is racist, one has to deal with the genuine fears it raises. Perhaps the best way is to illiterate again, examples from history.
The American civil war was a war for the way of life for the Southern states…a way of life that included the slavery of an entire people based on their race. After the war, slavery was abolished and today, the South still exists, the evil “way of life” is no longer and people of all races live well together.
South Africa was based on White supremacy and here too, the African people were suppressed and exploited and the country had a “White Character” for several hundred years. After the overthrow of the White rule, Blacks got parity with the Whites, there was no “annihilation” of the Whites. Today, South Africa is a much admired leader of African states.
Yes, there are still some animosities among people from the different countries but they have been relegated more to family “traditional” rather than communal or national frictions.
In spite of the disparate positions of Israeli Jews and Israeli Palestinians, they do work together and cooperate with each other. About a quarter of all the doctors and healthcare workers in Israeli hospitals are Palestinians. They and their Jewish colleagues routinely work together to care for Patients who may be Jews, Christians or Muslim. This is a situation of major trust, literally a matter of life and death and their cooperation shows how a path to peace is within reach.
Leadership can be achieved because there are plenty of people on both sides who want peace and who wish to live together as equal brothers and sisters; people who desperately want their future generations to experience what it is like to live in an environment of friendship and love, rather than in the climate of hate and slaughter. Such people will rise to lead as soon as the foreign support for the hate-mongers is replaced by support for the peaceniks.
Utopian? Unrealistic? Perhaps, but so far the “realistic” and the “pragmatic” paths have shown nothing but misery, insecurity and death, what is there to lose?
Israel’s “Gaza Plan”
If you wish to learn about what Israel is doing before it is censored or sanitized by Western media, check out Richard Silverstein’s blog Tikun Olam. His latest post on his blog gives details of Netanyahu’s “Plan” on Gaza, the Day After. Richard is a no holds barred person who stands for Truth and Justice no matter whose sacred cow is gored. He seems to have the insider information on matters relating to Israel that others sometimes do not dare to publish.
Gaza “Plan” in a nutshell. Israelis (Netanyahu) are saying that they reserve the right to kill as many “terrorists” as they wish; they will continue this “WAR!” as long as there are any Palestinians left alive, who can be called “TRRRSTS” (which is ALL of them)…their military will continue to occupy Gaza until there is no Palestinian left or, until they are all brainwashed into having the opinions of a cabbage. Netanyahu wants “Arab nations” to come and “de-radicalize” the Palestinians for Israelis.
Further, Israelis will control all the food and resources (destroy UNWRA) so they may strangle any area or groups within Gaza at will; control of food and necessities. Reconstruction will happen only by Israeli permission and will be done using Israel to do it…post war profits to go to Israelis. Israel wants Arab nations to “contribute tens of billions of dollars” to rebuild Gaza into a M-E Singapore.
Israelis will establish a Judenrat (a select group of Palestinians) that will govern and control…people to blame when things go awry. They will remain under Israeli control. Nobody will have a say in how a “Final” Agreement” on Palestine is made; Israelis will “negotiate directly with Palestinians” (at the point of a gun) in such a way that Israelis get everything, and Palestinians get nothing.
What’s there to complain about? I am sure the servile US and Europe will agree! The US will do whatever it takes to please the Blind supporters of Israel. Remember when Biden said there is no way the US will accept the ethnic cleansing of Gaza? Well, NOW the US has arm-twisted a number of states into accepting the possibility of what Israelis call a “Voluntary Relocation” to “temporary” sites for their own safety. Egypt is getting tens of BILLIONS of dollars from the US, Europe, IMF and World Bank, to build a large, walled concentration camp in the Sinai where the Gaza “volunteers” will be housed. Israelis are also in talks with other nations such as Congo who are willing to take in Palestinians … for a price paid by US of course!
As for getting Arab states to agree and support; All their heads of state are tyrants who depend upon the US to stay in power and since the US does what Israel wants, the Arab states WILL cooperate regardless of what their people might wish.
In the meantime, the US says, “Let the bombing continue but please, will you take care to avoid hurting too many innocent people?”
Five Months…
Wasn’t it wonderful to hear Biden’s State of the Union speech?
So righteous, so strong (America loves “Strong”) and SUCH a (“lifelong”) supporter of Holy Israel!
He informed us that the “WAR!” in Gaza (invasion) was “gut-wrenching”, but obviously not enough to make Israel stop the bombing for which HE provides the money and the means. He has no such “gut wrenching” reaction about people being slaughtered by the tens of thousands; they are Palestinians!
Israel “has a right to go after Hamas.”, he said, Hamas had taken “hostages” (captives) and must release them, and he said the only path to peace is the dead-on-arrival, Two-State “Solution”.
“Give Hate no safe harbor”…except when it is from Israel against Arabs and Palestinians. Words coming from all ranks of Israeli Jews, genocidal words such as “Amelek”, “It is an entire nation who are responsible. This rhetoric about civilians supposedly not being involved is absolutely untrue”, “We will turn Gaza into an island of ruins”, “Gaza to be smashed and razed to the ground without mercy”, and many more, appear to have a perfectly safe harbor with Genocide Joe.
UN Office on Genocide prevention and the Responsibility to Protect
There was no mention of the fact that the US has offered Egypt massive IMF support of Egypt accepts Palestinians terrorized and slaughtered out by Israel. With US help, Egypt is building its own concentration camp with concrete walls, for Palestinians who, in the words of Israeli leadership, will “voluntarily transfer” out of Gaza.
Genocide Joe is also by now, keenly aware that people whose support he has to count on, are starting to shift, they are ready to vote for Trump or just not vote at all, rather than vote for a geriatric, heartless leader; a man who has proven that he does not care if well over 13,000 children and 10,000 women are slaughtered among a number totaling over 30,000. He does not care that the well over 100,000 victims of HIS bombing are being treated…their limbs being amputated…without anesthetics. He doesn’t care of the people of Gaza are literally starved to death as is happening under Israel’s plan to starve them until Hamas surrenders. Hamas will not surrender but the people WILL starve to death in a genocide financed largely by the US and Germany (the second largest provider of weapons to Israel).
Images below are of a dead child in Gaza and children in a Nazi death camp
But Biden wants people to know that he actually does care! He dropped a planeload of pallets of supplies in Gaza…killing five people (two children) with the pallets in the process.
FIVE MONTHS after the October attack Genocide Joe ordered a few pallets of food to be dropped in Gaza…FIVE MONTHS after Israel had blocked all food, all water, electricity, medical aid…everything from reaching the people of Gaza.
FIVE MONTHS after the October attack Genocide Joe said the US would be building a temporary port to deliver supplies by sea to the people of Gaza…in the next SEVERAL WEEKS. At 1,500 dead Palestinians a week, Biden’s feeble P-R posturing is certain to take another 10,000-20,000 more lives before any effects of starvation can be staved off. In the meantime, the endless supplies of bombs will continue to be delivered to and used by, Israel.
It is as if Biden wants Palestinians to remain alive long enough so they may be slaughtered by Israelis.
It took exactly THREE DAYS for the first plane loads of bombs and weapons to be delivered to Israel after October 7 (Day One: Order. Day Two: Load. Day Three: Deliver).
Muslims I know or have heard from are adamant about not supporting Joe Biden. Muslims and many people of good will, understand that the only way a strong and lasting message will register with ALL politicians is when they realize that they can no longer be assured of the Default Vote where people may hold their noses but still vote for their party. The stench of rotting Palestinian bodies is too great even for noses that are held shut.
Killing Palestinians; Rapes and Tortures
Some interesting articles in Counter Punch and in CNN today. One talks about the “untalkable”: that Israeli forces do indeed, rape, torture and loot…NO! Not the “most moral army in the world”!
The second shows that Israel is counting every man they slaughter, as a “TRRRST” and how that inflates the “Righteous Kill” count while the Blind Supporters of Israel (Jews AND Christians) applaud the genocidal slaughter. Unfortunately, this article has a paywall but enough of it is reproduced here to give us an idea.
It will not be a shocking surprise when we also see that Western nations don’t give a damn as long as the victims are the “Unwashed Palestinians”; they are not human enough to be treated with rules of Humanity and Democracy.
UN experts demand investigation into claims Israeli forces killed, raped and sexually assaulted Palestinian women and girls.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/02/20/middleeast/israel-hamas-un-investigation-sexual-abuse-intl/index.html
CNN — United Nations experts have called for an investigation into what they described as “credible allegations of egregious human rights violations” against Palestinian women and girls in Gaza and the West Bank by Israeli forces.
The allegations include extrajudicial killing, arbitrary detention, degrading treatment, rape and sexual violence, according to a statement by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights released on Monday. It did not detail how they did their fact-finding, but they referred to photos of female detainees in degrading circumstances reportedly taken by Israeli troops and uploaded online.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) denied the accusations and said it adheres to international law. “Without precise details or proof of individual cases it is not possible for us to examine them in depth,” the IDF said in a statement to CNN.
Israel Counting All Men Killed in Gaza as Militants
Last month, The Wall Street Journal published an article on the disparities between estimates by the Israeli military of the number of Palestinian militants killed in Gaza and estimates by US intelligence agencies of the same. Although the article focuses on the Israeli military’s over-estimations, it also shares two revealing figures:
1. According to the Health Ministry of Gaza, which does not distinguish between civilians and militants, at least 8,000 Palestinian men were killed by the Israeli military in Gaza;
2. According to the Israeli military, its forces killed 9,000 militants in Gaza.
The only possible way to square those two numbers is for the Israeli military to count every single Palestinian man it has killed in Gaza as a militant, and then add some. As absurd as that sounds, that appears to be precisely what the Israeli military has been doing for months — and the United States and United Kingdom have done the same in their wars in the Middle East too.
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