The drums of war continue against a background of misinformation fabricated by apologists of Israel's colonial genocidal war against the Palestinian people. Terms like "sexual mutilation" and "decapitations" are rampant in the Zionist propaganda machine. That such atrocities may have been committed by the Hamas fighters is certainly possible, but in the history of colonial wars both the colonizers and the colonized are guilty of such offenses to humanity, and Israel is no exception as its savagery in Gaza shows.
Having being pushed to face the truth of their own barbarity, Israelis are desperate. The image they have carefully fabricated over decades of lies is disintegrating, and their anger at having been defeated is driving them into blind revenge and further violence. Just as Hamas perpetrated its atrocities against innocent Israelis on October 7 in revenge for 75 years of Israeli colonial barbarity, Israel too is now taking revenge by committing atrocities against the innocent Palestinian population in Gaza and the West Bank. Neither Israel nor Palestine can claim the higher moral ground. They are both desperate: Israel to dig the coffin of historic Palestine deeper into oblivion, and Palestine to resist and survive against its own disappearance.
But there is one major difference:
More so than the much paraded right of Israel to self-defense, Palestinians have a greater right to self-defense: They are an occupied colonized people fighting against foreign invaders, the colonizer European Jews who have illegally persecuted, occupied and stolen the land of their victims, the native indigenous Palestinians. Israelis are not an indigenous people in Palestine; they are all colonial settlers. If someone breaks your front door, walks into your house, kills your family members, steals your furniture and kicks you out of your own house and into the backyard shed, would you be a terrorist if you throw stones at them and kill their dog?
Supposedly God told the Jews they could have Palestine some 4,000 years ago by killing every Amalekite and Canaanite man, woman, child and beast - is there anything more demented and self-serving than such an idiotic claim? Yet lots of people, intoxicated by centuries-old religious brainwashing believe this crap... Lots of people say they pray to God, but they very rarely say that God replies to them. Not everyone has the talent to convince ignorant mobs that God chose them as "his people" or as "his prophets". So I am very wary of people who claim that God talks to them and tells them to do horrible things, like Jewish and Islamic fundamentalists regularly do.
Readers: Use your brain. Do not fall for a melodrama turned into a tragedy to brainwash and condition you and make you believe the unbelievable and the unacceptable. Know also that a child killer with a knife is exactly the same as a child killer hiding in his tank or his jet fighter.
Here is an example of disinformation propagated by the Zionists to undermine the credibility of the Palestinians:
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Israeli propaganda claims dead Palestinian baby was 'a doll', then retracts under pressure
There has been a deluge of disinformation around the Israel-Hamas conflict, including the Hamas terror attack of October 7 and the Jewish terrorist militia's siege and attempted genocide of Gaza. It
was highlighted this week when verified images of a grieving
grandfather holding a dead Palestinian baby were widely denigrated by reputable Israeli mouthpieces as "a
doll" in a slew of social media posts. If reputable outlets like the Jerusalem Post lie and fall so low as to fabricate stories like this, can you imagine all the false anti-Palestinian propaganda disseminated on the social media that goes unverified?
Photojournalist Ali Jadallah posted an Instagram story, writing: "I shared the name of this baby, and still Israeli media are claiming he is a doll. No, he is not a doll. He is a human that was killed by Israeli airstrikes."
Several of Jadallah's photos were supplied to Getty Images, a respected global photo agency, for its client base of news outlets worldwide.
Getty's caption for the photos read: "Dead body of a 5-month-old Palestinian baby named Muhammad Hani Al-Zahar, is brought to the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital by his mother Asmahan Attia Al-Zahar and grandfather Attia Abu Amra after the Israeli airstrikes at the end of the humanitarian pause in Deir Al-Balah, Gaza on December 1, 2023. Thirty-two Palestinians were killed within 3 hours of the end of the humanitarian pause in Gaza."
The Reuters news agency also supplied the images of baby Muhammad.
Ben Goggin, NBC's News deputy tech editor, posted a screenshot of Jadallah's story on X and followed up by saying that the English-language The Jerusalem Post, one of Israel's leading news outlets, had deleted their "doll" article from their website and all associated social media posts, but had not published a correction or a statement.
In a later statement on X, The Jerusalem Post retracted the article and said: "The
article in question did not meet our editorial standards and was thus
removed. We regret this incident and remain committed to upholding the
highest journalistic standards at all times." What a fine belated standard, now that the harm had been done.
Shayan Sardarizadeh, a journalist at BBC Verify who has carried out fact-checking and challenged disinformation during several conflicts, wrote that the flood of disinformation, fake stories, and manipulated images around the Hamas-Israel conflict was unprecedented.
He said he had never witnessed in a previous war, "....so much disinformation posted with the direct intent of dehumanizing real victims of war on both sides. Dead or injured women and children, civilians, hostages, prisoners; no-one is being spared."
Sardarizadeh said that the appearance of baby Muhammad's body was due to rigor mortis.
More than 16,000 innocent civilian Palestinians, including 6,000 children, have been killed in Gaza since the Jewish colonial terror militia started a retaliation campaign after the October 7 terrorist attacks on southern Israel that left 1,200 people dead.
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