One of the first things I was told when I started working in a newsroom was ‘One man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter’. At the time I thought it was a statement of the obvious. Decades later we have now arrived at the point where this idea is dangerously controversial. It is one that may land you in prison as an anti-Semite and supporter of terrorism.
According to the testimony of IDF bulldozer driver Guy Zaken on many occasions he and others had to “run over terrorists, dead and alive, in the hundreds.”
“Everything squirts out,” he said. Seeing all that “meat and blood” had made eating meat difficult for him.
The village is almost entirely razed to the ground, but there are still some buildings left. Kushmaro’s report is replete with vitriol, where he repeatedly refers to “these evil people”, whom he chides for “hating Israel”.
Israeli journalists join the live-streamed genocide
In reaction to the Knesset passing bills banning UNRWA from operating in areas under Israel’s control, Sally Abi Khalil, Oxfam Regional Director in the Middle East and North Africa said:
Investigative journalist Antony Loewenstein questions the narratives he was taught growing up in the Jewish Diaspora as he traces the origins of Israel’s military-industrial complex, examining how Israel became one of the world’s leading arms and tech exporters. When a military force essentially creates a nation, can they ever be truly separated?
Francesca Albanese warns the entire population of Gaza at risk of genocide, while the Israeli army herd Palestinian men in Jabalia and a child trapped in rubble waits for help.
“I am deeply moved by the growing number of Israeli young people who are refusing to be inducted into the IDF. Their decision to live out their values is deeply inspiring to me as a Jew,”
attempts to separate the Palestinian resistance forces from Palestinians in Gaza so that Washington and Tel Aviv can eradicate the Palestinian resistance and extend and enforce the Israeli occupation.
Israel is fighting actual wars too; a war of extermination and genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, which has killed and wounded more than 150,000 people in the course of one year.
The above is not an inference, but a statement of fact, based on Netanyahu’s own declared policies. “Israel must have security control over all the territory west of the Jordan,” he said during a news conference last January. To be more precise, “between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty,” he said. ‘Security control” is an Israeli euphemism for territorial expansion.
There is a difference between a country fighting a defensive war on multiple fronts and another fighting for colonial expansion, for regional hegemony and for military dominance driven by religious prophecies. Those who have chosen the latter path, as Israel has, cannot claim to be in a state of self-defense.
Merging documentary with sci-fi, a new film narrates the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian city in 1948, and imagines what it would look like if the war never happened. So the Israeli government banned it from being screened.Banned
Dropsite News and other news sites like it – that is, unlike those like the ABC, owned by organisations that are susceptible to the Israel lobby’s threats – are ensuring the truth will out about the genocide in Gaza.
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