Nov 17, 2023

GAZA

(by Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh - Bethlehem)

11800 murdered civilians: men, women, 4600 children
But the victim we are told is the villain
Many a death certificate written before birth certificate
Yet, rotten governments western and arab procrastinate
No point to count the thousands rotting under the rubble
For no one has tools or equipment to go to the trouble
No counting of "unknowns" burried in mass graves
For there are still living injured after each of the shockwaves
The 27,000 living dead are injured many cannot be treated
For hospitals were bombed, medicine denied, and they can't even be shielded
Hungry and thirsty they envy the dead
Children merely want to die having last meal fed
Or go to heaven where they can play
They hate the counting and feebly pray
To live to tell a story, realize dreams, maybe safety arrive
silence the bombs and keep hope alive

Tears stop

Facilities of medical service
Rendered out of practice
Al-Shifa (The cure) hospital was framed
With lies so it can be maimed
A pyrrhic "victory" for the offensive occupiers
Hapless patients, displaced people, doctors, nurses: all murders
Denied electricity, water, food, medicines, no place to go
Western hypocrites to a simple ceasefire, they say no
Many newborns off incubators die with feeble cries
Dialysis patients in agonies perish while humanity's conscience dies

Breathing stops

Cancer patients with no treatment and even no morphine to ease their pain
thousands of pounds of amputated legs
But the injured will not be saved
All watch others die and then their turns come
Sickening is the smell of death and rotting corpses
Streets filled with dust and pieces of flesh

Heartbeats stop

45,000 tons of bombs (2 nuclear bomb equivalents) are dropped
An Israeli picture of a scene pathetically photoshopped
10 kg per person in Gaza... every few minutes a US supplied JDAM
Politicians in shiny suits paid by lobbies talk a sham
US bombs kill one every four minutes, a child every ten minutes
Are there red lines. No we are told there are no limits
Homes, schools, water tanks, restaurants, streets destroyed
Hospitals, universities, office buildings, bakeries leveled
No contending armies - this is genocide
Even animals and plants not spared - this is ecoside
And there is the endless "depleted" uranium shells
New incendiary on baby flesh for revenge and war bells

Is God silent?

A girl begs God for martyrdom to join her family - I am alone she scream
Another child is asked what he would do when he grows up.. he says we don't dare dream
A burnt child trembles in shock voice quivering- her one eye to a doctor pleads
But the old Zionists watching stock prices care none but their greeds
Abducted men tortured naked and deprived of food, sleep, and water
Matter not to leaders interested in protecting the illegal squatter
Will the screams of mothers who lost their babies
Make men in 5-star hotels and conventions hesitate when they dip their pastries?
Make more than a statement of "concern"
For an ongoing holocaust to discern?
Let alone the drums of war on civilians stop?

Western media parrot endless lies
Pathetic talking points disproven yet fuel the slaughter as time flies
Massacres need a cover... Hamas will suffice
The truth we are told can be a sacrifice
For there are gas fields of Gaza to take
A new Middle East to make
Where there is no space for truth, justice, or even basic humanity
Where hubris replaces humility
Only space for greed, hegemony, and endless suffering
And the perpetuation of unipolar world worth ushering
Elbit systems worth more than the death of 13000
McDonnell Douglas worth the tiny death bags of 6000
When will the voice of jets scream
and the clank of money stream
get a ceasefire and make a child's hurt stop?
Lack of mercy stop?

Children of a lesser God must endure racism
A sacrifice at the feet of the Golden calf of Zionism
One more holocaust added to dozens before it for chauvinism
Crush the aspirations of 15 million Palestinians for the sake of imperialism
Remind me: Did the Nazis deny water and food to occupied cities?
Did the Americans besiege any Iraqi hospitals to make them cemeteries?
Is the new agent orange and napalm 'white phosphorous'?
Does history repeat itself once as tragedy once as farce?

Will oppression stop?

Will genocide satisfy the injured pride of the "chosen"
Will it satisfy the guilty feelings of those in colonial times frozen
Comfortable on top of the world with an 5th strongest military
Or is it a terror organized army with a fake state, WMD and artilleries
Deir Yassin, Tantura, Jabalia and hundreds of other massacres since 1948
State terror from a state built on terror of Irgun, Hagana and Stern since 1921
To facilitate ethnic cleansing with eight million refugees considered not enough
Having established a "Jewish state" by trying to destroy Palestine is tough
How dare us call for return to a pluralistic society
How dare us show extreme anxiety

Will we dare stop Jewish supremacy?

The West Bank already started to be destroyed
Jenin streets and homes and another hospital besieged
Our fate will be like Gaza, the terrorist army warned
Beirut too soon and other cities will also be damned
for our "new Middle East" with Starbucks
Grow General Electric and all war stocks
The USA has got Israel's back and gives the weapons to kill
American Taxpayers foot the bill

Will anyone signal stop?

Of the carnage, there will be survivors alive
They are also those who also watched it live
They will not be forgiving
They will not be forgetting
Keeping the hope alive for peace
They promise to work harder for the nightmare to cease

Who can make them stop?

Thank you Gaza for teaching us to care
Thank you Gaza for teaching us to dare
Thank you for awakening hearts and minds
Thank you for removing the blinds
Dropping the masks
Clarifying the tasks
Letting the sun shine through

Millions go out on streets, blocking roads and the US den of (Congress) thieves
For how can one stop anyone who believes
Some lose jobs and many get arrested
A small price to pay to get connected
Haunted by the pain of living
Feeling guilty when we are eating or drinking
As 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza denied such
And all they ask from us is not much
Stop your governments from supporting criminals
Who dare to call us human animals
(Actually animals are much kinder than many humans)

Genocide must stop

Until justice prevails
And the boat in Gaza sails
Until refugees return
And humanity gets a turn
Until apartheid is dismantled
And our olive trees get replanted
Until the Palestine Phoenix rises
Triumphant from the ashes
Keep the hope alive every day
We shall overcome someday
From the River to the Sea
Palestine will be free



















Nov 14, 2023

Six unique things about Gaza genocide

 The genocide goes on: several babies died when taken out of incubators that had no power and many more cancer patients sent home died. Most injured people cannot be helped since the medical system is completely collapsed and there are 27,000 injured.  A friend I have in Gaza told me American flag was seen on a tank and unusual soldiers not Israeli are seen (wonder if these are the US Delta forces that Biden was photographed shaking their hands in this country). Rotting dead human bodies are all over Gaza. Stray hungry dogs are eating some!. Ofcourse Israel does not allow international observers or even international journalists to enter Gaza to check on its lies and distortions. They even killed 1 Lebanese and 37 Palestinian  journalists (majority reporting for international agencies). I do not know if sope people have yet thought of eating other humans to survive (at least in North Gaza were starvation and thirst are more since Israel carpet-bombed the area).  Now to be sure there are many genocides/holocausts in human history but there are six unique features of this ongoing one: 

1) It is so blatantly obvious and live broadcast live 24 hours a day and available for anyone willing to switch off the mainstream media and go to live footage like aljazeera.com or almayadeen or even telegram, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok etc. The images and sounds are horrifying (imagine people there also feeling and smelling the death and dying)

2) It is self-admitted by the Zionists themselves including that they denied water, foo, medicine, fuel, electricity etc  to the 2.3 million inhabitants of Gaza and even proudly explained that there are “no civilians in Gaza” (Israeli president), and we deny food because we are dealing with human animals (Israeli minister of war), see https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2023/11/are-we-being-duped-to-focus-only-on.html 

3) It is accompanied by the highest number of LIES spoken by Israeli officials and parroted by those with no conscience. Is anything the Israeli government say to be believed after a long history of past and present lies challenged by facts- see https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2023/11/does-truth-matter.html )??,

4) Due to the money and resources of strong lobbies (most of it funded by Western taxpayer money), the colonization, ethnic cleansing, and apartheid are supported by a) many western and arab governments, b) the mainstream media parroting the Israeli (false) talking points

5) Palestinians are not only victimized (8 million are refugees/displaced people, millions who remain in Palestine stored in ghettos/Bantustans/concentration camps and subjected for decades to the most brutal oppression. Bu Palestinians and their supporters asking for human rights are also dehumanized and defamed as hating Jews etc (ironic since thousands of Jews were willing to be arrested and even brutalized for their support of Palestinian rights)

6) There is a vicious brutalization of people for being Palestinian by Israeli occupation forces (and here there is no distinction between settlers and soldiers since everyone serves in the army and all behave similar). Collective punishment and torture are rampant. Beatings of and shooting civilians happen regularly. The attempt to suppress free speech goes on, destroying any semblance or pretense of “democracy”. A new law in Israel forbids people from watching some videos considered “terrorist propaganda” (and of course anything against Israeli apartheid si considered such). People under Israeli rule lost their jobs, were jailed or tortured or all for social media posts even mildly speaking of the horrors of Gaza. In Gaza now, if you post message critical of Israeli actions your home can be bombed. In the Western countries also, citizens showing sympathy to Palestine or working against apartheid or colonialism are targeted. There are laws in some US states against engaging in Boycotts, Divestments, Sanctions and in some European countries working for freedom for Palestine is considered illegal.

On the positive side this injustice has garnered unprecedented public outrage around the world. Millions were in the streets protesting and hundreds of thousands are acting and engaged in civil disobedience, in boycott of Israeli and US products that support colonization etc. (see ongaza.org item #  21) . That is also unique!! Everything helps so please keep the pressure on the cheerleaders and participants in genocide.

I wrote some open letters before and here for the sake of those who missed some of those letters here are the links

Letter to Gaza https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2023/10/letter-to-gaza.html

Letter to the world https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2023/10/letter-to-world.html 

Letter to US Citizens https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2023/11/open-letter-to-us-citizens.html

Letter to Israelis and Jews who support Israel https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2023/10/questions-to-israelis-and-jews.html

Letter to PLO https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2023/11/open-letter-to-plo.html

Letter to Mainstream media https://popular-resistance.blogspot.com/2023/11/mainstream-media-kills-truth.html 

Update on numbers of victims from the UN https://www.ochaopt.org/updates

Chris Hedges The Horror https://scheerpost.com/2023/11/11/chris-hedges-the-horror-the-horror/

Israeli soldiers beat father in front of wife and child and mother tries to reassure child

https://tinyurl.com/fatherbeaten

Other interesting videos stripping prisoners (most with no charge or simple workers) and beating them while many are naked https://tinyurl.com/palestiniansabused

https://youtu.be/d3D0Vrn7DQ8

My podcast on 100 years of injustice

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/understanding-israel-palestine/id1656552317?i=1000632420017

An Open Letter from Palestinian Christians to Western Church Leaders and Theologians

https://www.change.org/p/an-open-letter-from-palestinian-christians-to-western-church-leaders-and-theologians

Nov 12, 2023

هل يتم خداعنا للتركيز فقط على معاناة غزة؟

 إن الإبادة الجماعية التي ترتكبها إسرائيل في غزة مقصودة ومخطط لها ومستمرة دون أي علامة على التباطؤ، بل على العكس من ذلك، في ظل غياب الماء والغذاء والدواء فإنها في تسارع. يتباهى قادة إسرائيل علناً بأنهم لا يهتمون بما تقوله الأمم المتحدة أو ما يقوله زعماء العالم. ويقول القادة الفاشيون الإسرائيليون إنهم لا يهتمون بالبيانات التي تصدرها حكومات الدول الإسلامية والعربية. كما أنهم لا يهتمون إذا كانت الضغوط الشعبية قد دفعت بعض الزعماء الغربيين إلى تخفيف لهجتهم من الدعم غير المشروط لإسرائيل لإظهار القلق بشأن "الكارثة الإنسانية" التي تتكشف في غزة (دون تسمية مرتكب الجريمة). في الواقع، يمكن لإسرائيل أن تستخدم الكارثة الإنسانية (كما لو أنها قدر الله وليس تدبيرها) كورقة مساومة. ويمكن لإسرائيل أن تعرض وقفاً مؤقتاً للمذبحة مقابل الحصول على المزيد من الأسلحة من الحكومات الغربية وإطلاق سراح السجناء الإسرائيليين. وربما حتى وقف مؤقت لإطلاق النار وتوفير الوقود لأي مستشفيات متبقية مقابل دعم إضافي لمواصلة الاحتلال والإبادة الجماعية والإفلات من المحاكمة أمام محاكم جرائم الحرب والجرائم ضد الإنسانية.

إن القادة الإسرائيليين واضحون تمامًا فيما يتعلق بجرائمهم، ويصلون إلى طريقهم من خلال الإبادة الجماعية وإرهاب الدولة الشامل ضد السكان. إذا كان لديك أي شك، استمع إليهم (انظر الروابط أدناه). بل إنهم يقولون صراحة إنه إذا واصل حزب الله مقاومته في جنوب لبنان، فإن لبنان كله سيدفع ثمناً باهظاً وستكون بيروت مثل غزة (أي مدمرة تماماً). ووجه المتحدثون العسكريون الإسرائيليون نفس التهديدات لمدن في الضفة الغربية مثل جنين وطولكرم وحتى رام الله. هذه ليست تهديدات خاملة. إذا لم يكن العالم على استعداد لمنع إسرائيل من تدمير المدن في قطاع غزة، بل وإعطائها المزيد من الأسلحة لارتكاب جرائم الإبادة الجماعية هناك، فلماذا لا تدمر لبنان أو الضفة الغربية أيضًا. إذا أفلتّ من جريمة إبادة جماعية واحدة، فإنك تفلت من جرائم أخرى. بعد كل شيء، لا يمكن تطبيق القانون الدولي في هذه الحالة. وبحسب القادة الإسرائيليين، فإن الرأي العام العالمي والضغط "الدبلوماسي" لن يوقف مذبحتها. العديد من المدافعين عن حقوق الإنسان في حيرة من أمرهم بشأن كيفية إنهاء المذبحة.


نفس الأفكار من الصهيونية والنازية

إسرائيل هي الدولة الوحيدة على وجه الأرض التي لم تضع أي حدود لنفسها. كما أنها القوة الاستعمارية الأولى التي لا تكون قاعدتها منطقة جغرافية بعيدة عن المنطقة التي استعمرتها (مثلاً فرنسا كانت قاعدة استعمار الجزائر). القاعدة الصهيونية هي أينما يتواجد الصهاينة في مواقع السلطة في الدول الغربية (في الأصل فرنسا وإنجلترا ولكن الآن الولايات المتحدة ودول أخرى). الخطة الصهيونية الأصلية هي إقامة أرض إسرائيل في المنطقة الواقعة بين نهر النيل في مصر إلى نهر الفرات. لكن هذا يتغير حيث تشمل الهيمنة الإسرائيلية، كما أظهر نتنياهو في خريطة الأمم المتحدة، شبه الجزيرة العربية ودول الخليج. لكن الخطط الصهيونية هي أكثر بكثير من مجرد جغرافيا. الجغرافيا قابلة للتفاوض إذا كانت هناك ضمانات للهيمنة الاقتصادية والاستعمارية. هناك حاجة إلى غزة بسبب حقول الغاز هناك التي تقدر قيمتها بمئات المليارات، لكن هذا جزء صغير من خطة أوسع يمكن الاستغناء عن 2.3 مليون شخص فيها.

إن الإمارات العربية المتحدة والمملكة العربية السعودية مستعمرتان اقتصاديًا بالفعل ويديرهما قادة يسهل السيطرة عليهم وينفذون أوامر الولايات المتحدة وإسرائيل. إن القبضة الصهيونية على النظام الأمريكي واضحة في كل مكان، من هوليوود إلى وسائل الإعلام الرئيسية إلى الكونجرس الذي يخصص أموالاً لإسرائيل أكثر مما تخصصه أمريكا الجنوبية وأفريقيا مجتمعة. وفي العديد من الدول الغربية، نجح اللوبي الصهيوني في إسكات حرية التعبير، لذلك يتعرض المطالبون بالحرية في فلسطين للاضطهاد. هناك حرب على الحقيقة.

إذن ما الذي يجب فعله؟ أولاً، يرجى ملاحظة أنه في حين أن العديد من وسائل الإعلام مثل قناة الجزيرة تظهر معاناة الفلسطينيين، إلا أنها لا توفر تغطية للبيانات أو النوايا الإسرائيلية/الصهيونية. نادراً ما تُرى تصريحات الإبادة الجماعية في وسائل الإعلام الغربية والشرقية أيضًا. وهذا أمر مهم لأن المعاناة الإنسانية تثير التعاطف من أولئك الذين يهتمون بإخوانهم من بني البشر. لكن معظم الناس، وبالتأكيد معظم القادة، لا يرغبون في التحرك إلا إذا رأوا تأثيرًا مباشرًا عليهم. لسوء الحظ، فإن تصريحات القادة الصهاينة وأفعالهم المباشرة، بما في ذلك قمع حرية التعبير في "الدول الديمقراطية" المفترضة، إذا تم كشفها، فمن المرجح أن تحقق نتائج أكثر من المناشدة لإنقاذ الأطفال الفلسطينيين (على الرغم من أهمية ذلك). وبالتالي، يجب علينا أن ننفق على الأقل نفس القدر من الوقت في نشر الخطط والكلمات الصهيونية. يجب أن يكون توثيق الذبح مصحوباً بتوثيق نية الذبح وخططه. يجب علينا أن نكشف لماذا لا يتعلق الأمر بفلسطين فحسب، بل يتعلق بإيديولوجية قبلية شريرة تسمى الصهيونية التي لا تكتفي بفلسطين ولكنها تخرب وتؤذي الناس في جميع أنحاء العالم. على سبيل المثال، من المهم إظهار كيف تلحق إسرائيل الضرر بالمصلحة العامة للولايات المتحدة وتدمر الولايات المتحدة، بل وتفلت من العقاب بقتل مواطنين أمريكيين مثل بحارة السفينة يو إس إس ليبرتي (USS Liberty). يتم تعبئة الملايين من الناس، أي أن أفعالك تحدث فرقاً. كل الجهود الفردية مهمة. فيما يلي المواد التي يمكنك استخدامها ونشرها. قول الحقيقة هو عمل ثوري. القلم قد يكون أقوى من السيف أحياناً.

على أية حال، يرجى تخصيص الوقت الكافي للاطلاع على هذه المواد واستخدامها على نطاق واسع:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20160213-the-wild-beast-of-israeli-racism/

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/israel-defense-minister-human-animals-gaza-palestine_n_6524220ae4b09f4b8d412e0a

الرئيس الإسرائيلي يقول إنه لا يوجد مدنيون أبرياء في غزة وأنهم مسؤولون https://thewire.in/world/northern-gaza-israel-palestine-conflict

"الحل الوحيد هو تدمير غزة بالكامل" موشيه فيجلين https://youtu.be/rjLW847tvig

الفكر الصهيوني عن الكنائس والمساجد https://www.facebook.com/reel/308177298660625

عن المدنيين https://www.facebook.com/reel/308177298660625

"عندما يعيش 2.5 مليون شخص في قطاع غزة المغلق، فستكون كارثة إنسانية. وسيصبح هؤلاء الناس حيوانات أكبر مما هم عليه اليوم، بمساعدة الإسلام الأصولي المجنون. سيكون الضغط على الحدود مروعا". "... ستكون حرباً فظيعة. لذا، إذا أردنا البقاء على قيد الحياة، فسيتعين علينا أن نقتل ونقتل ونقتل. طوال اليوم، كل يوم". أمنون صوفر، عالم ديموغرافي إسرائيلي 2004

"لن يكون هناك طعام ولا كهرباء ولا غذاء ولا وقود. كل شيء مغلق. نحن نقاتل حيوانات بشرية، ونتصرف وفقًا لذلك" يوآف جالانت، وزير الدفاع الإسرائيلي في 9 أكتوبر 2023

"سنحول غزة إلى جزيرة خراب" بنيامين نتنياهو 8 أكتوبر 2023

"نحن نسقط مئات الأطنان من القنابل على غزة. التركيز على التدمير وليس الدقة" دانيال هاغاري، المتحدث باسم الجيش الإسرائيلي 10 تشرين الأول/أكتوبر في صحيفة هآرتس

"سيتم التعامل مع الحيوانات البشرية على هذا النحو، أنتم أردتم الجحيم، وسوف تذهبون إلى الجحيم" غسان اللواء في الجيش الإسرائيلي، 9 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول، منشور على وسائل التواصل الاجتماعي

"هناك أمة بأكملها مسؤولة. هذا الخطاب حول عدم تورط المدنيين المفترض هو غير صحيح على الإطلاق (...) سنقاتل حتى نكسر ظهورهم" يتسحاق هرزون، الرئيس الإسرائيلي مؤتمر صحفي

"صاروخ جيريكو! سلاح يوم القيامة! هذا هو رأيي. صواريخ قوية يمكن إطلاقها بلا حدود. غزة ستُحطم وتُسوى بالأرض. بلا رحمة" تالي جوتليف حزب الليكود، 9 أكتوبر على X/Twitter

"أبيدوا عائلاتهم وأمهاتهم وأطفالهم. لا ينبغي السماح لهذه الحيوانات بالعيش لفترة أطول" عزرا ياكين، أحد قدامى المحاربين الإسرائيليين الذين شاركوا في التطهير العرقي عام 1948 (النكبة)

“الآن هناك هدف واحد فقط: النكبة. "نكبة في غزة ستقزم نكبة 1948" آرييل كيليت، سياسي من حزب الليكود 7 أكتوبر على X/Twitter

"الشيء الوحيد الذي يحتاج إلى دخول غزة هو مئات الأطنان من المتفجرات، وليس أوقية واحدة من الإغاثة الإنسانية" إيتامار بن جفير (الوزير الإسرائيلي المسؤول عن الشرطة ومسؤولي التسليح)

"عليهم أن يرحلوا، وكذلك البيوت التي قاموا بتربية الثعابين فيها. وإلا سيتم تربية المزيد من الثعابين الصغيرة هناك" أييليت شاكيد "يمكننا أن 

قد نسامح العرب على قتل أطفالنا، لا يمكننا أن نسامحهم على إجبارنا على قتل أطفالهم "غولدا مئير" (تصريح قديم ولكنه يظهر الفكر العنصري المتجذر)

"أنا هنا اليوم ليس فقط بصفتي وزير خارجية الولايات المتحدة ولكن أيضًا كيهودي ... طالما أن الولايات المتحدة موجودة، فلن تضطر أبدًا إلى القيام بذلك [بمفردك] لأننا سنكون معك دائمًا" وزير الخارجية الأمريكي بلينكن 12 أكتوبر (توجد بالفعل مئات من القوات الخاصة التابعة لقوات دلتا الأمريكية على الأرض).

ميخائيل بن آري، عضو الكنيست السابق: "لا يوجد أبرياء في غزة. اسحقوهم… اقتلوا الغزيين بلا تفكير ولا رحمة".

إسرائيل كاتس، وزير المواصلات: "يجب قصف غزة بشدة بحيث يضطر السكان إلى الفرار إلى مصر".

آفي ديختر، وزير الزراعة والتنمية الريفية الحالي، ومدير الشاباك السابق ووزير الأمن الداخلي: "يجب محو غزة بالقنابل".

الحاخام العسكري الإسرائيلي والجنود الإسرائيليون:

https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1721239223091536228?s=20

  وهنا على هذا الرابط يمكنك أن تجد المزيد من التصريحات الدامغة من القادة الصهاينة:

https://palestineremembered.com/Acre/Famous-Zionist-Quotes/Story637.html


Are we being duped to focus only on Gaza suffering?

Israel's genocide of Gaza is intentional, planned and ongoing with no sign of slowing down. The contrary, with no water, food and medicine it is accelerating. Israel leaders boast openly that they do not care about what the UN, ICC, or ICJ say. Israeli fascist leaders say they do not care what statements are issued by governments. Nor do they care if public pressure causes some western leaders to moderate their "language" stating there is a "humanitarian catastrophe" unfolding in Gaza (without naming the perpetrator and continuing to support physically the genocide). Israel actually can use the humanitarian catastrophe (as if it is an act of God not their agency) as bargaining chips. The focus on "ceasefire negotiations" is actually a very clever strategy to continue the genocidal occupation and for impunity from facing tribunals for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Israeli leaders are crystal clear about their crimes and they get their way by genocide and total state terrorism against populations. If you have any doubt, listen to them (see below). They even say openly that if Hizbollah continues its resistance in South Lebanon, then all of Lebanon will pay a devastating price and Beirut will be like Gaza (i.e. totally devastated). Israeli military spokesmen gave the same threats to cities in the West Bank like Jenin and Tulkarem and even Ramallah. These are not idle threats. Many were complicit with Israeli apartheid regime by suppressing the truth and giving weapons to commit genocide . According to Israeli leaders global public opinion and "diplomatic" pressure will not end its carnage done to promote colonialism and greed. Many human rights advocates are at a loss as to how to end the carnage. While people focus on the carnage, few address its underlying cause. It is like focusing on suffering in concentration camps without identifying the source of that suffering (or even worse blaming the victims)



Nov 11, 2023

Does the truth matter?

 The Israeli government just downgraded the number of those killed in October 7 attack to 1200 from 1400. Haaretz Newspaper was able to name less than 980 (some yet to be identified). George Galloway wrote: "The foul allegations of rape have been dropped by the Israeli government. The forty beheaded babies has been downscaled to one dead baby, not beheaded, and killed by persons unknown." Does the truth of what happened on October 7 matter? Yes it does because it is used to justify an ongoing genocide (of course nothing justifies genocide even exaggerated and fabricated stories). But why do many western leaders and western media parrot Israeli lies and not just about 7 October but for the past 75 years of committing atrocities against a largely defenseless Palestinian population? DOES THE TRUTH MATTER? The links below are a glimpse of the overwhelming body of evidence about Israeli/Zionist lies. You be the judge. In the end I will say why this is important if not CRITICAL to achieve peace.



The Zionist movement literally threw Palestinians into the sea (loading boats in Haifa and Jaffa) in 1948 to sent them to Lebanon and Gaza, Only AFTER this ethnic cleansing, they came up with the lie that Palestinians were going to throw Jews into the sea (see http://qumsiyeh.org/sharingthelandofcanaan/). From these early lies sprung many others over the past 75 years. A book should be written about this as it is the most remarkable set of orchestrated lies in the history of global colonization. Here are some information and links from ongaza.org about lies and then I add a comment on why these lies will contribute to the end of the Israeli apartheid regime. Since western media puppets always start with the events of October 7, ignore history, ignore lies, and ignore preplanned and executed genocide, we can start with 7 October.lies about Hamas atrocities (beheading 40 babies, raping women, burning people alive etc.):
https://thegrayzone.com/2023/10/27/israels-military-shelled-burning-tanks-helicopters/
https://new.thecradle.co/articles/what-really-happened-on-7th-october
see also Why is Israel trying to HIDE this hostage interview?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HugMS0k0kB4
https://www.jta.org/2023/10/16/israel/i-decided-to-play-dead-my-son-is-still-missing-a-survivors-account-from-kibbutz-nir-oz
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20231030-report-7-october-testimonies-strikes-major-blow-to-israeli-narrative/
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-forces-shot-their-own-civilians-kibbutz-survivor-says/38861
https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/hostages-how-the-u-s-media-is-distorting-the-news-from-palestine/  
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/no-proof-of-beheaded-israeli-babies-white-house-backtracks-on-bidens-comments-breaking
https://fair.org/home/unconfirmed-beheaded-babies-report-helped-justify-israeli-slaughter/
Fabricating a picture of a burnt baby 
Israeli forces shot at their own civilians
https://electronicintifada.net/content/israeli-forces-shot-their-own-civilians-kibbutz-survivor-says/38861
also look up Hannibal doctrine.  

There were false flag operations like the Lavon Affair, or the bombing of Jewish community centers in Iraq to blame it on locals and scare Iraqi Jews to leave their country. Hasbara (propaganda) is a very common Zionist tactic to advance their project of colonization. During the October 2023 incidents Israeli leaders lied about Hamas killing and beheading babies, about Israeli soldiers killing Israeli citizens, or even about wanting peace and set the stage for ongoing genocide.

The Lavon Affair: Israel and Terror in Egypt http://www.mideastweb.org/lavon.htm
Three Worlds: Memoirs of an Arab-Jew (about Israel's false flag operations targeting Jews to drive them out of Iraq) https://books.google.ps/books?id=XTWUEAAAQBAJ&redir_esc=y
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/avi-shlaim-proof-israel-zionist-involvement-iraq-jews-attacks
Israel killed an American citizen and lied about it https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/24/middleeast/shireen-abu-akleh-jenin-killing-investigation-cmd-intl/index.html
This UN report on the shelling of a UN Compound that killed civilians (Qana massacre 1996 that contradict Israeli lies 

https://documents-dds-ny.un.org/doc/UNDOC/GEN/N96/117/52/IMG/N9611752.pdf
https://youtu.be/ergrmLKmv7I

The current prime Minister Netanyahu is well known for lying to foreigners. The Israeli newspaper Haaretz (7/15/01) reported that: "... giving his audience (Likud leaders) a bit of advice on how to deal with foreign interviewers (Benjamin Netanyahu said): 'Always, irrespective of whether you're right or not, you must always present your side as right'".
In private and thinking he is not taped, he gives a more candid assessment of where he stands:  https://www.facebook.com/mazin.qumsiyeh.9/posts/10160919216451181
https://twitter.com/trtworld/status/1711750682733355146

Israel's history of lies
https://imeu.org/article/fact-sheet-israels-history-of-spreading-disinformation
Israel lies to manufacture a case for genocide 
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/12/israel-is-manufacturing-a-case-for-genocide
https://truthout.org/articles/medias-selective-moral-outrage-manufactures-consent-for-palestinian-genocide/
Taking responsibility and then lying https://twitter.com/dancohen3000/status/1714357542879457390

Israel lied when it said an errant Islamic Jihad rocket fell in Al-Ahli hospital courtyard killing 471 civilians:
https://sputnikglobe.com/20231018/what-could-have-triggered-gazas-deadly-hospital-blast-1114287684.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x9-XPw8bixg
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/18/al-ahli-arab-hospital-piecing-together-what-happened-as-israel-insists-militant-rocket-to-blame
https://youtu.be/RcNMPlj1iAA
https://skwawkbox.org/2023/10/19/israel-caught-out-in-further-lie-about-hospital-strike-after-doctored-image-exposed/
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/who-bombed-al-ahli-baptist-hospital-three-top-investigations-offer-an-answer/
https://www.who.int/news/item/17-10-2023-who-statement-on-attack-on-al-ahli-arab-hospital-and-reported-large-scale-casualties
Israeli history of attacking medical facilities
https://normanfinkelstein.substack.com/p/israel-would-never-target-medical
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-10-19-video-evidence-points-to-israeli-air-burst-bomb-striking-al-ahli-hospital-grounds.html
Hospital warned two and four days before it was targeted https://www.anglicannews.org/news/2023/10/anglican-run-al-ahli-arab-hospital-in-gaza-damaged-by-israeli-rocket-fire-as-conflict-continues.aspx

UN says Israel intentionally and recklessly killed Journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh (a US Ctizen) https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-releases/article/israel-un-concludes-that-idf-intentionally-or-recklessly-killed-palestinian-journalist-shireen-abu-akleh
https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/how-israel-likely-killed-its-own-settlers-on-october-7
Killing Aljazeera Correspondent’s Family Days After Blinken Demands the Channel’s Coverage be ‘Toned Down’
https://www.globalresearch.ca/israel-kills-al-jazeera-correspondent-family-days-after-blinken-demands-channel-coverage-toned-down/5838015
(Dozens of journalists were killed in 1 month in Gaza. Why target journalists and not allow others into Gaza if you have nothing to hide)

The self-declared “I am zionist” US president Biden questioned the number of people killed in Gaza as documented by the Ministry of Heath so in response, the ministry released the data with names, ages, and ID card numbers (Biden has no shame to dehumanize Palestinians and start to lie on behalf of his pimps. The list released did not include the names of the reported missing who are likely dead under the rubble.
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-palestine-death-toll-names-killed-released-biden-questions
You can find the list of names here but this grows daily by hundreds https://tinyurl.com/2y7fkrac

Now I did not expect everyone to look through the above in detail because of its length. But it is actually a tiny glimpse of a 75 year history of lies and myths that are used by a movement that never had any moral or logical justifcation for its existence.  Zionists lie because they have to justify stealing land from indigenous people and to transform a multi-ethnic multi-cultural and multi-religious society to a Jewish state with countless laws that discriminate against the remaining Palestinians kept in Ghettos/concentration camps.  Truth matters because lies and myths justify colonization, ethnic cleansing, and now accelerated genocide (2.3 million without food or water or medicines while their hospitals are taken out of service). As the lies are exposed Zionists resort to their last card: weaponizing "anti-Semitism" but even this trick is not working as opposition to the apartheid colonial regime comes from every quarter including hundreds of thousands of Jews around the world. Here is Dan Lieberman explaining how Israel is using the last card it has to defend the indefensible genocide https://dlieb10gmailcom.substack.com/p/a-call-to-action and see this on weaponization of anti-Semitism  https://youtu.be/qJfYXVI_-Dc

Israel's Military Rabbi Amichai Friedman: "This is the happiest month of my life... We're finally realizing who we are. All of this land is ours. The entire land, including Gaza & Lebanon... We will destroy everyone" he said to cheering Israeli soldiers https://x.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1721239223091536228?s=20
see also https://caityjohnstone.medium.com/israelis-keep-hurting-their-own-pr-interests-by-talking-fa653840d732
This and other genocidal statements listed at ongaza.org (39 in list) plus the history of lies to sugar coat genocide (of which a glimpse is above) should shed any remaining doubt about why we must utilize all possible tools of resistance (especially truth telling, boycotts, divestments, sanctions) to end the nightmare.

If Martin Luther King was alive today, would he have made a similar speech about the US support of the genocide in Palestine to the speech a he made about Vietnam? Read his speech and judge for yourself https://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/mlkatimetobreaksilence.htm
But if not convinced, here is more about MLK Jr including his letter about Israel's aggression
http://qumsiyeh.org/martinlutherking/

Get a glimpse of Gaza that is now subject to genocide. Note that the photographer interviewed is a Christian Marwant Tarazi who was killed with his wife, a child, and many Chistians when Israel bombed of the church compound hey were sheltering in
https://www.dw.com/en/collected-memories-photographs-of-gaza/video-54540624

A letter from a person who chose to stay in Gaza city despite the illegal and immoral order for ethnic cleansing of North Gaza
https://www.972mag.com/israel-ground-offensive-gaza-city-children/

Remarks at media briefing by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk following visit to Rafah, Egypt.
Statement: https://www.ohchr.org/en/statements-and-speeches/2023/11/un-human-rights-chief-visits-rafah-border-crossing-gaza

Democrats are feeling the pressure of public sentiment in the US for ceasefire (will Biden sac his Zionist secretary of state and replace his his Zionist VP and change course to ensure a second term or will it be the orange monster Trump again?). Will the US and Israel implode anyway? https://www.huffpost.com/entry/calls-for-congress-ceasefire-gaza-israel_n_654d4d0ce4b0373d70b16b0f

Stay Human, keep Palestine alive, stay tuned and act

Mazin Qumsiyeh
A bedouin in cyberspace, a villager at home

Nov 7, 2023

Mainstream media kills truth

What happened October 7 and after as UN Chief Gutteres said “did not happen in a vacuum”. Palestinians endured ethnic cleansing and racist onslaught daily for 75 years (that is over 27325 days). That left 8 million Palestinians refugees or displaced people and the rest stored in disconnected concentration camps (Gaza, Bethlehem, Jericho, Ramallah etc).  There is deepening crime of apartheid and racial discrimination in the West Bank while genocide goes on in Gaza. Israel's ongoing horrors are a mockery of international law.  Today the situation in Gaza is catastrophic as it shifts to a higher stage of carnage: from sudden death and injury of civilians by bombing them without warning to ADD death by thirst, starvation, lack of hygiene, and collapse of health care services (Israeli policies of mass murder by denial of basics of life). We in the West Bank as Palestinians everywhere in the world) witness this genocide and ethnic cleansing of a captive population in Gaza and know we are next.  Already 163 Palestinians were murdered by the occupation army and settlers in the West Bank since 7 October and we expect the worse. Israel blocked our cantons and arrested/kidnapped over 2500 more Palestinians in the West Bank. And they are torturing these political prisoners (now over 11,000 by direct physical abuse and denial of food and medicine. See example here  https://twitter.com/Issaamro/status/1719332892608753828 The mood is somber and angry. We just can't believe how the US government and its western allies colluded and collaborated and funded this carnage for 75 years.

But we remain focused for now on Gaza where relentless bombing of residential buildings and of even people on the streets, bakeries and schools meant hundreds of civilians die daily. Over 10,000 are registered now as civilians killed with some 2500 missing presumed dead under the rubble.  Half the population in Gaza are Children and 42% of those killed are children.. But this pales compared to denial of water, food, medicines and fuel (babies and patients on dialysis die with lack of fuel for generators for the remaining devastated hospitals). Health care system completely collapsed and Israel refuses even to pause or to allow humanitarian aid.  Several countries (Bolivia, Columbia, Chile, Brazil, Jordan, South Africa) suspended diplomatic ties with Israel but this is not sufficient to deter this genocidal regime.  People around the world are mobilizing and the gap between the Western Governments and their citizens grow wider daily. But people are also still being murdered daily despite the millions on the streets. More pressure is needed. Palestinians will continue to resist even as we say the governments of both the West and the many Arab countries take a stand of collusion, aiding and abetting genocide while issuing vague statements of "concern."

 There are many battles going on simultaneously: 1) A genocidal slaughter of the civilian population of Gaza, 2) a battle against the civilian population in the West Bank and 1948 areas of Palestine (intensified colonization and persecution), 3) a battle between Israel on the one hand and and resistance forces of Hamas and Hizbollah, and 4) the battle to destroy truth waged by Zionists and their arms globally. As Israel is losing the battles with the resistance despite massive air power, the occupying army is intensifying the battles on the other fronts including the slaughter of civilians (intensifying genocide) while the US administration and its allies try to throw sand in the face of the world via the mainstream media (MSM). They even claim they seek peace AFTER Israel finishes off preplanned ethnic cleansing and genocide. Civilians die but colonialism/apartheid/ genocide (US/Israel) will not continue if we grow our marches and pressures around the world (a global uprising).

Activists just demonstrated for the first time at the Statue of Liberty (see https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/11/07/wire-statue-of-liberty/ and https://www.commondreams.org/news/gaza-protests-2666166026).  We live in a historic moment where we can see and act on genocide in real time and we need better and bigger organizing to change the course of this rotten old world order in which might be made right and people's lives were dispensable for greed while the Zionist lobby machine works feverishly to lie and pressure and buy politicians and media. The western politicians support Israel because they are bribed and lobbied to do so. Here is an example from the UK https://www.declassifieduk.org/two-fifths-of-keir-starmers-cabinet-have-been-funded-by-pro-israel-lobbyists/
But the media is an integral part of this war https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/10/29/western-coverage-of-israels-war-on-gaza-bias-or-unprofessionalism

The MSM is complicit in genocide by regurgitating Zionist talking points. Ignoring UN reports, human rights reports, the carnage and massacres committed, the MSM some times states that civilians are killed "in fighting". No civilians are being bombed and obliterated in large numbers without any "fighting". The fighting is happening with advancing Israeli tanks away from civilians and the evidence shows the Israeli army not doing well there and maybe that is why they intensified bombing civilians. Gaza health officials invited any International fact finding missions to visit them to prove the lies that hospitals house Hamas fighters (in them or under them). Israel's lies that they are targeting fighters in civilian areas are disproved even by current staff and reports from a number of international organizations. Lying and killing are not restricted to the military and government. The MSM kills the truth.  See this excellent Jonathan Cook's analysis of BBC's complicity https://www.jonathan-cook.net/blog/2023-11-02/bbc-october-7/
MSM is not only guilty of lying but also of intentionally hiding important facts. For examples:

1) How many western MSM outlets covered this unprecedented report from UN Chiefs dubbed "Enough is enough"  https://www.arabnews.com/node/2403981/middle-east

2) How many MSM covered this leaked memo shows there is mutiny within the US State Department against the Zionist Blinken/Biden foreign policy that supports genocide of Gaza population
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/11/06/u-s-diplomats-slam-israel-policy-in-leaked-memo-00125538 or for that matter interviewed Josh Paul who resigned (only Democracy Now interviewed him and it is a must see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1w9fAgaUBrw). Also how bout interviewing Craig Mokhiber who resigned from the UN (see https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/24103463-craig-mokhiber-resignation-letter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvm0HYvPJu4 )

3) Did the MSM cover the plummeting public support for Biden? Just among Arab Americans it declined from 59% to 17%!
https://www.aaiusa.org/library/arab-americans-special-poll-domestic-implications-of-the-most-recent-outbreak-of-violence-in-palestineisrael

4) Did the MSM report on Delta force members working on the ground with Israelis or the expansion of the US military base in Israel
https://theintercept.com/2023/10/27/secret-military-base-israel-gaza-site-512/
How about polls that show the US public does not want to arm apartheid and genocidal regimes?

5) Did the MSM cover the massive rallies to end the genocide in Gaza that show the government is disconnected from the . Here is Democracy Now coverage which is rare among media outlets.
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/6/dc_march_for_palestine_nov_2023
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/6/alice_rothchild_gaza_healthcare_crisis
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/6/shibley_telhami_israel_palestine_one_state
https://www.democracynow.org/2023/11/6/ahmed_abu_artemahttps://www.democracynow.org

6) Why does the MSM fail to highlight the growing rift between political elites and the people. Here are two examples from Frankfort and 11-12 November mobilizing at the upcoming APEC summit in San Francisco
https://criticalresistance.org/event/no-apec-summit-2023/
https://bnn.network/breaking-news/protests/frankfurt-protests-shine-light-on-german-cancel-culture-silencing-palestinian-support/

7) Why is the MSM not ciovering Jewish pogroms against Arabs even those who ar Israeli citizens? See examples here  https://www.972mag.com/palestinian-citizens-gaza-war-enemies/

https://www.btselem.org/video/20230312_jewish_supremacy_regime_carries_out_pogrom_in_huwarah_and_other_palestinian_communities_in_northern_west_bank

8) Context is not given in MSM making it look like Israel is a legitimate state "defending itself". But the facts are so obvious, Israel is a colonial entity that stripped Palestinians from their land, made them refugees, and those who remained are kept in ghettos/concentration areas like the Gaza strip. Here are the conditions in Gaza in 2019 (before this latest prison outbreak and genocidal actions): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HnZSaKYmP2s For background on Gaza see http://ongaza.org