Israeli soldiers laugh at their victims.
Troops invading Gaza display extreme cruelty
Khuloud Rabah Sulaiman 15 July 2024
Tag: Cruelty
Israel claims to have dropped millions of leaflets and made millions of phone calls telling people to evacuate. It’s not to warn but to panic and put the fear of god into people herded and trapped like fish in a barrel. There are no phone lines, a rarely functioning internet and when technicians try to repair it they are shot. So who are the Israelis ringing?
The leaflets aren’t a humanitarian warning they are intended to panic Palestinians and to keep them moving. Cruelty is when your oppressors regard you as animals. There is only one side to this war.
Displaced multiple times by the war, many in Gaza’s southernmost city are living in makeshift shelters without sufficient food, water, or blankets.
Source: ‘Tents everywhere’ as Rafah struggles to hold a million Palestinians
“Punching down” is more than being mean, rude, or vulgar. It’s the intentional act of attacking those in powerless positions. Going after the people who are most vulnerable. A specific type of cruelty and cowardice.
Source: I’m a Professional Comedy Writer — The GOP Has a ‘Punching Down’ Problem | The Smirking Chimp
Media staged politics is at the expense of humanity and everything decent. The history of Morrison’s cruelty will be on display. The ABC has seemingly been promised some money back that was taken away after Morrison’s win as it was after Abbott’s. It’s par for the LNP.
The Biloela Family will be used in Morrison’s cruel plan to advertise a false fact “I’m not the man they say I am”. These people have been held politically captive to be released for just this sort of event. We have to remind ourselves, Morrison is simply looking to stop a small % swing against him in marginal electorates. He’s not trying to influence the whole country. So Religious Discrimination stays, ICAC goes, humanizing Morrison remains a priority according to the polls. So acts like this will and must remain on the agenda no matter how calculating they seem to the majority of us. There will be very Australian not a French polish used and it’s coming our way. However, what lies beneath won’t change.
The good news: I’m quietly confident the Biloela family will be “home to Bilo” before the election. The bad news: They should have been there years ago. The despicable news: The timing of their release is being delayed for political theatre, the staging of a “Liberal moderates acting tough, achieving change” pantomime.
Source: Michael Pascoe: Here comes the window dressing (Cheers, Biloela family!)
“From Alex’s point of view, he’s succeeded in a court proceeding, and yet nothing has happened, that’s a particularly hopeless situation to be in, when you win and your life doesn’t change.”
Sri Lankan refugee detained by Australia for 11 years despite government ruling he’s owed protection | Australia news | The Guardian
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