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Western journalists – having promoted Israel’s lies for more than a year and half – have grown entirely insensible to their active collusion in genocide
Israel’s claim that Hamas is “stealing aid” is so preposterous no serious journalist or politician ought to give it any kind of airing – yet there it is continuously cropping up in the coverage of Gaza.
How do I know Israel’s claim is utterly worthless? For this simple reason:
Israel has a fleet of surveillance drones constantly hovering over the tiny strip of land that is Gaza, monitoring every inch of the territory. The incessant whine you hear every time you watch someone there being interviewed is from one of those drones. They are Israel’s eyes on the enclave. If you are outside in Gaza, you might as well be living in the Truman Show.
Were Hamas stealing aid in Gaza, Israel would easily be able to document it. It would have the video footage from its drones. The fact that it has not provided any footage showing Hamas’ theft of aid – its ransacking of aid trucks, or its fighters smuggling themselves into aid warehouses – is confirmation enough that Israel has simply invented this claim to rationalise its plans to starve the people of Gaza to death through months of an aid blockade or force them to flee into neighbouring Sinai, whichever comes first.
Without its disinformation campaign about “Hamas stealing aid”, Israel knows popular revulsion at its starvation campaign would grow quickly, and western governments would further struggle to keep opposition in check.
There are lots of others reasons, of course, to reject Israel’s lies about “Hamas stealing aid”. Not least, because every single charity and aid agency dealing with Gaza says that aid is not being stolen by Hamas.
But also because, were Hamas fighters doing so, they would be stealing from their own families: from their children and grandparents, who are much more vulnerable to Israel’s starvation campaign than they are. The idea that Hamas is stealing aid makes sense only to a racist, European colonial mindset in which Hamas fighters are viewed as bogeymen figures indifferent to the deaths of their own children, wives and parents.
What undoubtedly is happening is that Israel is allowing the strongest extended families in Gaza – often crime families with significant private arsenals – to loot the aid. That has become a serious problem since Israel killed off Gaza’s civilian police force (in violation of international law), leaving no one to enforce public order.
When everyone’s starving, the most powerful families mobilise their strength to grab an unfair share of the aid. That was an entirely predictable outcome of Israel’s policy to smash all of Gaza’s institutions, including its hospitals, government offices, and police stations, on the bogus pretext that they were “Hamas”.
Note too that Israel has long cultivated close ties to Palestinian crime families, because they provide a potential alternative, and more co-optable, power base to the Palestinian national movements and are a good source of collaborators.
The evidence suggests Israel is encouraging these crime families to loot the aid precisely to justify its dismantling of an existing aid system that works remarkably well, given the catastrophic circumstances in Gaza, and replace it with its own militarised, completely inadequate “aid distribution” system, which is designed only to herd Palestinians into the southern-most tip of Gaza, ready to be expelled into Sinai.
No journalist ought to be repeating Israel’s transparent disinformation. To do so is to collude in the promotion of lies to justify genocide. But the western media class have been doing that now for more than a year and half. They have grown entirely insensible to their own active collusion in the genocide.
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Has Israel ever said anything that wasn’t a lie?
I used to say something similar long before October 7, 2023:
If Israel actually had evidence that Palestinians were instigating conflict, their surveillance apparatus would surely have captured video evidence of it.
Bear in mind that Israel has had the capacity to obtain such evidence for many years, even before smartphones became commonly available items.
Essentially, post-October 7 revelation is much like the thread which, when pulled, unravels the whole cloth from which Israel has woven its tapestry of lies.
Rather fortuitously, one high profile aid agency received prominent media coverage in America last weekend:
Cindy McCain refutes Israel’s claim that Hamas is stealing aid: ‘These people are desperate’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/cindy-mccain-hamas-israel-aid-b2757707.html
Keep up the good work, Jonathan. Hold those feet firmly to the fire.
Maybe we can ask Ron Unz to ask DeepGrok or whatever his AI buddy is called.
That is a very difficult question.
Sucks to be an author that no one pays attention to, someone who is completely flaccid and impotent Cook, unable to have any effect on Israelis systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from the river to the sea, doesn’t it? .
And looky here, as I keep telling the hoi polloi of TUR, Israel is doing very well economically, despite the expense of the war.
Have you?
If John McCain’s widow is calling BS on Israelite dis-info, you know it’s bad.
shouldn’t that be “as I keep trolling…”
The Oct 7 videos of the kibbutz raid and supposed videos taken by Hamas apparently have specific indications of being generated by AI. I recall one indicator was the same color for all the cars, gray, and anther, major misalignment of verticals that cannot be accounted for as regular video anomalies. But, if Congress considers covering up for Israel’s crimes its chief duty, as it does, nothing will come of it.
The Aztecs talked like that too when Cortes and his Indian allies invaded their capital.
Hamas and their families have to eat too. When hunger takes over, normal scruples are lost. The issue is, Israel has to get out of Gaza and end the siege. The aid been sent to Gaza is the normal international response to a major disaster. By blocking it , Israel is making itself an international pariah even if Hamas families are in the starvation conditions turning into crime families. That is a tactic of turning your enemies into the monsters you have accused them of being. After Gaza is liberated, Hamas will be national heroes in Palestine and in most of the world. They can then change their name and turn into statesman. But they must not surrender their weapons.
maybe now that the old songbird is dead and he’s not there to beat her up anymore, she can finally speak her mind. how ironic, john mccain dying of brain cancer, i didn’t know he even had a brain.
Horrible, joojoo, but thanks for the info.
Zionists are demons.
https://twitter.com/AJEnglish/status/1927001788856590622
Al Jazeera English
@AJEnglish
A Palestinian child was filmed trying to escape a fire caused by an Israeli strike on a school housing forcibly displaced people in Gaza. More than 36 people were killed, mostly children burned to death.
He may have had a brain, but he certainly had no heart.
Stoopid Canadian. I will make sure you get sent to El Salvador when Canada becomes our 51st state!
FACTS is not trolling!
Washington Examiner? This is pathetically low, even for you. I thought you were better than this. Do you not have any self-respect? That’s practically a self-published blog by a bunch of self-styled “Washington Jews” who are desperate to get in on the action in the Zionist Occupation Regime, except that the actual Zionists in that regime don’t want anything to do with these pathetic lumpen and bottomfeeders.
That’s the kind of Zionist Jew who reads and writes for garbage like Washington Examiner. The losers who couldn’t get into the official cabal of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, so they invented their own little mini-cabal that doesn’t have any power and where they just basically jerk each other off all day and night.
This kind of cope is unbecoming. I urge you to visit Tel Aviv in person and witness the pissant settler-colony as it collapses under the weight of daily Yemeni missile attacks, which every time they occur send the genocidal colonists running for their lives even though they’re not actually in any danger. Yet.
As I have to keep reminding TUR readers, criticize the CONTENT, not the SOURCE!
As to DAILY Yemeni missile attacks, you have quite the imagination!
Jesus, who knew them well, said:
John 8, 44 , “ye are of your father the devil, sons of the devil, and the desires of the fathers ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning and abode not in truth because there’s no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his very essence.”
So what else can you expect from them and the western media they control?
However, some good news today (source almayadeen.net):
EBAY ANNOUNCES EXIT FROM ISRAELI MARKET
The company will shut down its research and development hub in Netanya and lay off over 200 employees
FOUR EUROPEAN NATIONS URGE FULL UN MEMBERSHIP FOR PALESTINE
Spain, Ireland, Slovenia, and Norway have called on the international community to accept the State of Palestine as a UN member.
PALESTINIAN RESISTANCE TARGET (AND KILL) ISRAELI TROOPS IN GAZA
The Al-Qassam Brigades and Islamic Jihad’s Al-Quds Brigades announced carrying out multiple attacks, resulting in the killing and wounding of Israeli Occupation Forces troops in northern and eastern Gaza.
RYANAIR SUSPENDS FLIGHTS TO TEL AVIV UNTIL AUGUST
Ryanair cancels 200,000 bookings after extending its suspension of flights to “Tel Aviv” through August due to escalating regional security tensions.
Airlines suspend flights to ‘Israel’
British Airways has extended its suspension of flights to and from “Israel” through July 31, citing persistent security risks following a missile strike from Yemen
The following carriers have extended their “Israel” flight cancellations:
• Air France, LOT Polish Airlines: Suspended through May 26
• Iberia (Spain): Suspended through May 31
• airBaltic (Latvia): Suspended through June 2
• ITA Airways, Lufthansa, Austrian, Swiss, Brussels Airlines, Eurowings: Suspended through June 8
• Ryanair: Suspended through June 11
• United Airlines: Suspended through June 12
• Air India: Suspended through June 19
Over the past 19 months, many foreign airlines suspending “Israel” flights have done so repeatedly, caught in a cycle of restarting and pausing services due to the Yemeni operations in support of Gaza amid the ongoing Israeli genocide, which has so far killed more than 53,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children.
These disruptions, coupled with mounting class-action lawsuits and individual compensation claims, have raised concerns that some airlines may abandon their routes to “Israel” altogether.
WE CAN THANK THE BRAVE YEMENIS FOR THAT…
HAMAS SAYS AGREED TO WITKOFF GAZA CEASEFIRE PROPOSAL
In an official statement, Hamas said the proposal outlines a general framework that includes a permanent ceasefire, a full withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from the Gaza Strip, the immediate entry of humanitarian aid, and the formation of a professional committee to administer the enclave’s civil affairs upon the formal announcement of the agreement
Of course there weren’t only good news as the zionist monsters and their settler trashes attacked villages again but globally it smells like the beginning of the end for the genocidal regime.
You fucking idiot.
It only makes sense to self-justifying Jews… and their Shabbos Goyim stooges.
Stop trying to put JOO SINS on other peoples.
Just by the odds, the truth must occasionally serve their interests.
On those occasions, Israel wouldn’t lie.