Caitlin
Johnstone
Israeli snipers
routinely, deliberately shoot children in the head throughout the Gaza Strip.
Israel created
an AI system for the IDF to target suspected Hamas fighters when they go home
to their families and mockingly called it “Where’s Daddy?”, because they are
killing the fighters’ children.
Israel has
targeted healthcare facilities and ambulances in Gaza hundreds upon hundreds of
times. They’ve been documented entering the hospitals they attack and
systematically destroying individual pieces of medical equipment in order to
make them unusable.
IDF soldiers
constantly post photos and videos to their social media accounts showing
themselves mockingly dressing in the clothes of dead and displaced Palestinian
women and playing with the toys of dead and displaced Palestinian children.
The IDF has
admitted to running a popular Telegram channel called “72 Virgins” which posted
extremely gory and sadistic snuff films of people in Gaza being butchered by
Israeli forces.
After
destroying buildings full of civilians, the IDF has been known to send in
sniper drones to pick off the survivors, including children.
Israel has
murdered a historically unprecedented number of journalists in its Gaza
onslaught, and has been knowingly attacking humanitarian aid workers.
Israeli
soldiers rape and torture Palestinian prisoners to death, including doctors. On
the rare occasions that anyone is ever arrested for these abuses, Israelis have
riots — not to oppose the abuses, but to oppose the arrests of the
perpetrators.
https://x.com/Antiwarcom/status/1919841171733696754
And now Israel
is openly declaring its agenda to ethnically cleanse the entire Gaza Strip of
Palestinians, with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich saying the plan is for
Gaza’s population to be “concentrated” at the southern end of the enclave and
pressured to leave while the rest of Gaza is “totally destroyed”.
“The population
of Gaza will be concentrated from the Morag Corridor southwards. The rest of
the Strip will be empty,” Smotrich said, adding, “They will be totally
despairing, understanding that there is no hope and nothing to look for in
Gaza, and will be looking for relocation to begin a new life in other places.”
A poll released
earlier this year found that only three percent of Jewish Israelis oppose the
planned ethnic cleansing of Gaza on moral grounds. That’s right: three percent.
Three out of every one hundred people.
I got into a
back and forth with a liberal Israel supporter the other day whose entire
argument basically boiled down to “Oh so you’re claiming Israel is just doing
terrible things to civilians on purpose, just because they’re evil??”
And, I mean,
yes. That’s a bit of an oversimplification, but yes. Israel is evil. It’s a
deeply evil country full of deeply evil people. Again: three percent.
My interlocutor
was attempting to dismiss the idea of Israelis being horrible people as a
legitimate explanation for their actions in Gaza, meaning Israel’s actions
could only be explained as rational responses to unfortunate provocations by
the Palestinians (who he of course had no trouble believing were bloodthirsty
savages). But the evidence says Israel really is as evil as it looks.
As we have
discussed previously, this isn’t because there’s anything inherently evil in
Judaism or Jewishness which would cause a state led by Jews to behave in this
way. Rather, it’s because modern Israel has from its very inception been
premised on the idea of a tiered society where one ethnic group dominates the
others, making injustice and inequality an inherent part of the system.
Israelis are indoctrinated from birth into accepting this unjust apartheid
framework as normal, which necessarily entails indoctrinating them into
accepting the dehumanization and abuse of the disempowered group.
If you have a
society whose populace are systematically indoctrinated into accepting
apartheid and abuse as normal and good, you are inevitably going to wind up
with a society full of sociopaths. That’s who’s going to be casting the votes,
serving in the military, working in the media, and working in the government.
It’s not caused by their ethnicity or their religion — it’s caused by the
perverse nature of the apartheid state in which they live.
Many westerners
tend to give Israel the benefit of the doubt because they assume from the
beginning that this can’t be as simple as it looks and the abuse cannot be as
one-sided as it appears to be. They assume this because western news media and
politicians are constantly churning out narratives to make Israel look as
innocent as possible and Palestinians look as guilty as possible, but in
reality this really is exactly what it looks like: Israelis murdering and
starving a civilian population in order to steal their land.
It really is
that simple. Israel really is that bad. And so is anyone who supports it.
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