https://theshot.net.au/uncategorized/you-are-being-remorselessly-gaslit-about-israels-colonisation-of-palestine/You are being remorselessly gaslit about Israel’s colonisation of Palestine
....Cowed courtiers on couches, or the ABC’s Insiders program, spearheaded by spear-headed David “Speersy” Speers, ran rampant genocide apologia from top to bottom last Sunday morning. Far from being outrageous, this was in fact extremely normal – pompous and dull, even – just as it would have been anywhere within the American sphere of influence, vassal states like Australia most definitely included.
All the talking heads that fine Sunday morning played their part. Niki Savva by shutting up, everyone else by repeating, mantralike, Defence Minister and US submissive Richard Marles’ cliche that “Israel has a right to defend itself”.
[Chanting] Defence defence defence!!!
No one bothered to ask if that’s something the Palestinians, and now the Lebanese, might be doing.
More than 2100 Lebanese people have been killed by Israel in the past week. In the year since Hamas’ October 7 attack, which led to 1200 Israeli deaths, more than 41,800 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli Defence Force in Gaza. Given the genocidal scale of the destruction, 70 percent of all structures damaged, assessments from The Lancet (not typically ones to overdo it) and various UN agencies, this is likely a gross underestimate. Most of the dead are women and children. The open-air prison is being flattened.
Of those killed, at least
138139 were journalists. Gaza, this past year, has been the most dangerous place on the planet for journalists, since, well, ever, really. Many were targeted specifically for being journalists (the other journalists represented in the tally weren’t targeted for being journalists but were simply murdered for being Palestinian). Some were killed alongside their families, inside their homes. Wael Dahdouh was even reporting on air live as he heard news of his own little world coming to an end. Foreign reporters have been shut out of Gaza. Al Jazeera has been silenced within Israel.
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