George Orwell, role model for government propaganda
Hamas' statement on the October 7 operation
Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7th targeted Israeli military facilities and aimed to detain enemy soldiers in order to pressure Israeli authorities to release thousands of Palestinians in Israeli prisons as part of a prisoner swap prisons. Therefore, the operation focused on the destruction of the Israeli Army's Gaza Division, that is, Israeli military sites stationed near Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip.
All fighters of the Al-Qassam Brigades are committed, for religious and moral reasons, not to harm the civilian population, especially children, women and the elderly. We reiterate that the Palestinian resistance during the operation was fully disciplined and committed to Islamic values and that the Palestinian fighters only targeted the occupying soldiers and those who bore arms against our people. Meanwhile, Palestinian fighters have been careful not to harm civilians, even though the resistance lacks precise weapons. If there was ever a case of civilians being targeted, it was accidental and in the course of the confrontation with the occupying forces.
Other Israeli testimonies confirmed that many Israeli prisoners and their captors were killed in the Israeli army's raids and soldiers' operations. The Israeli occupation army bombed the houses in the Israeli settlements where Palestinian fighters and Israelis were staying, in clear application of the Israeli army's infamous "Hannibal Directive", which clearly states that it is "better to have a dead civilian hostage or hostage." dead soldiers rather than being captured alive” in order to avoid a prisoner exchange with the Palestinian resistance.
The claim that the Palestinian fighters committed rapes against Israeli women was also strongly rejected by the Hamas movement. A December 1, 2023 report from the Mondoweiss news site said, among other things, that there was no evidence of “mass rapes” allegedly committed by Hamas members on October 7 and that Israel was using this accusation “to promote genocide to heat up Gaza.”
Good evening, Dr. shoots,
I'm looking for reliable sources about the events on October 7.10.23, XNUMX. Because nothing comparable had happened there for decades, and then this happened at a time of great global political tension. Where did the logistical support for this come from? The Mossad registers insects crossing the border, but claims to have not noticed anything beforehand.
One thing is certain, as has always been the case in war, the truth is the first victim. By the way, the Mossad founded Hamas to oust the more moderate PLO and control the “resistance” itself. This is from Dr. Gysi, from a speech in the Bundestag. A rogue who thinks evil of it.
“The current escalation in the Middle East is occurring because the Zionists are attempting to ethnically cleanse the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and southern Lebanon. Active U.S. support for this goal has led to additional U.S. wars in Yemen, Iraq, and now Syria. Although the US claims it does not want all-out war in the Middle East, it has encouraged it to the best of its ability.
The dystopian decision by the USA and its European vassals to withhold all support to UNRWA in response to the International Court of Justice ruling against Israel's genocide against the Palestinians was a further escalation. It had been known for weeks that a dozen or fewer of UNRWA's 30.000 employees might be involved in the events of October 7. The fact that this became known shortly after the ICJ ruling is a clear act of revenge against the entire UN system.
It is the rules-based order in which the United States makes and rejects rules as it sees fit, violating longstanding international and humanitarian law.”
https://uncutnews.ch/krieg-im-nahen-osten-zeit-der-monster/
Every U.S. military death in the Middle East is the fault of the U.S. government that sent them there. U.S. troops should not be in the Middle East at all, and the U.S. has no legitimacy to retaliate against efforts by the people living there to drive them out of the region. Iraqi militias have 100 percent legitimacy to attack U.S. troops in the Middle East during a U.S.-sponsored genocide, and the U.S. has no legitimacy to retaliate.
To those in charge of the US empire:
Get out of the Middle East. Just fuck off. Stop supporting genocide in Gaza, stop murdering people to ensure dominance of the world's resources, and leave. Leave before you unleash something far worse than the nightmare you have already inflicted on our species.
Source: More US-Driven Escalations Toward War In The Middle East
https://uncutnews.ch/der-krieg-gegen-gaza-public-relations-vs-realitaet/
“Most of the patients I treated were children between the ages of 2 and 17. I mean, I saw horrific eye and facial injuries that I've never seen before, shattered eyes on two 6 year olds with shrapnel that I had to take out, eyes with shrapnel inside, facial injuries. I've seen orthopedic injuries where limbs were simply severed and left dangling. I've seen abdominal injuries that were just terrible. And there was just a lot of chaos. There were children with head injuries lying on the floor unattended and people suturing patients on the floor without anesthesia. There was just a lot of chaos and really terrible scenes took place.”
“Israel's constant fixation on attacks on health facilities makes no sense from a military strategy perspective, but from a genocidal perspective it makes a lot of sense. Hospitals are where people are taken to save their lives when they are seriously injured or acutely malnourished or sick, and they are where civilians typically seek shelter when nowhere else is safe.
Back in December, it was reported that Gaza's health system was virtually destroyed by constant attacks on health facilities and the siege war that is cutting off the enclave from much-needed medical care. Now we see Israel repeatedly attacking the same facilities, ensuring that they do not function despite the best efforts of the people of Gaza to stay alive.
This is exactly what it looks like. The narrative managers of Israel and the West will try to twist and distort the information you see right before your eyes to make you believe you are seeing something other than what you are seeing, but the truth could not be more obvious . This is genocide. If it were not so, Israel would not be methodically destroying hospitals while bombing and starving the populations it has oppressed for generations.”
https://uncutnews.ch/finde-jemanden-der-dich-so-liebt-wie-israel-die-angriffe-auf-palaestinensische-krankenhaeuser-liebt/
The prevented speech by Yanis Varoufakis, which he wanted to give to the Palestine Congress in Berlin
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"Friends,
Congratulations and thank you very much for being here, despite the threats, despite the armored police in front of the venue, despite the contingent of the German press, despite the German state, despite the German political system that demonizes you because you are here.
“Why a Palestinian congress, Mr. Varoufakis?” a German journalist recently asked me. Because, as Hanan Ashrawi once said, “We cannot rely on the silenced to tell us about their suffering.”
Today, Ashrawi's justification has depressingly become even stronger: because we cannot rely on those silenced, who are also being massacred and starving, to tell us about the massacres and starvation.
But there is another reason: because decent people, the Germans, are being led to take a dangerous path towards a heartless society by committing another genocide in the name of this country and with its complicity.
I am neither Jewish nor Palestinian. But I am incredibly proud to be here among Jews and Palestinians - uniting my voice for peace and universal human rights with the Jewish voices for peace and universal human rights - together with the Palestinian voices for peace and universal human rights.
The fact that we are here together today is proof that coexistence is not only possible, but that it is already happening. Even now.
“Why no Jewish congress, Mr. Varoufakis?” the same German journalist asked me, probably thinking he was clever. I didn't mind his question.
Because if even a single Jew is threatened just because he or she is Jewish, I will wear the Star of David on my lapel and offer my solidarity - whatever the cost.
To be clear: If Jews were attacked anywhere in the world, I would be the first to advocate for a Jewish congress to show our solidarity.
Likewise, if Palestinians are massacred because they are Palestinians - according to the dogma that if they are now dead they must have been Hamas - I will wear my keffiyeh and express my solidarity, no matter the cost.
Universal human rights are either universal or they mean nothing.
With this in mind, I answered the German journalist's question with a few questions of my own:
Are 2 million Israeli Jews, thrown out of their homes into an open-air prison 80 years ago, still kept in this open-air prison, with no access to the outside world, with minimal food and water, no chance of a normal life, no ability to travel anywhere , and bombed regularly for 80 years?
No.
Are Israeli Jews being deliberately starved by an occupying army while their children writhe on the ground and scream in hunger?
No.
Are there thousands of injured Jewish children with no surviving parents crawling through the rubble of their former homes?
No.
Are Israeli Jews being bombarded today by the world's most sophisticated aircraft and bombs?
No.
Are the Israeli Jews experiencing a total ecocide on the little land they can still call their own, no longer a single tree under which they can seek shade or whose fruits they can taste?
No.
Are Israeli Jewish children being killed by snipers today on the orders of a UN member state?
No.
Are Israeli Jews being driven from their homes by armed gangs today?
No.
Is Israel fighting for its existence today? No.
If the answer to any of these questions was “yes,” I would be attending a Jewish solidarity congress today.
friends
Today we would like to have a decent, democratic and mutually respectful debate with people who think differently than us about how to achieve peace and universal human rights for all people, Jews and Palestinians, Bedouins and Christians, from the Jordan to the Mediterranean can.
Unfortunately, the entire German political system has decided not to allow this. In a joint statement, not only the CDU-CSU or the FDP, but also the SPD, the Greens and, remarkably, two chairmen of the Die Linke party came together to ensure that such a civilized debate in which one can have different opinions , will never take place in Germany.
I tell them: You want to silence us. Ban us. Demonize us. Accuse us. That's why you leave us no choice but to counter your accusations with our accusations. You chose this. Not us.
You accuse us of anti-Semitic hatred.
We accuse you of being best friends with anti-Semites by equating Israel's right to commit war crimes with the right of Israeli Jews to defend themselves.
You accuse us of supporting terrorism.
We accuse you of equating legitimate resistance to an apartheid state with atrocities against civilians. Atrocities that I have always condemned and will condemn, no matter who commits them - Palestinians, Jewish settlers, my own family, whoever.
We accuse you of not recognizing the duty of the people of Gaza to tear down the wall of the open prison in which they have been locked up for 80 years, and of this act of tearing down the wall of shame - which is just as indefensible as the Berlin Wall – equated with acts of terrorism.
You accuse us of trivializing Hamas' terror on October 7th.
We accuse you of trivializing Israel's 80-year-long ethnic cleansing of Palestinians and the establishment of an armored apartheid system in Israel-Palestine.
We accuse you of trivializing the fact that Netanyahu supported Hamas for years in order to destroy the two-state solution that you supposedly support.
We accuse you of trivializing the Israeli army's unprecedented terror against the people of Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
You accuse us, the organizers of today's congress, of, and I quote, "not interested in talking about possibilities for peaceful coexistence in the Middle East against the background of the war in Gaza." Are you serious? Have you lost your mind?
We accuse you of supporting a German state that, after the USA, is the largest arms supplier to the Netanyahu government, which wants to use it to massacre Palestinians in order to make a two-state solution and peaceful coexistence between Jews and Palestinians impossible.
We accuse you of never answering the question that every German must answer: How much more Palestinian blood must flow before your – justified – feeling of guilt for the Holocaust is washed away?
To be clear: We are here in Berlin with our Palestinian Congress because, unlike the German political system and the German media, we condemn genocide and war crimes regardless of who commits them.
Because we reject apartheid in the land of Israel-Palestine, no matter who has the upper hand - just as we rejected apartheid in the American South or South Africa. Because we stand for universal human rights, freedom and equality among Jews, Palestinians, Bedouins and Christians in the ancient land of Palestine.
And so that we are even clearer about the legitimate and malicious questions that we must always be ready to answer:
Do I condemn Hamas' atrocities?
I condemn every single atrocity, regardless of who the perpetrator or the victim is. What I do not condemn is armed resistance to an apartheid system designed as part of a slow-burning but unstoppable program of ethnic cleansing. In other words, I condemn any attack on civilians while simultaneously celebrating anyone who risks their lives to tear down the wall.
Isn't Israel in a war for its existence?
No it's not. Israel is a nuclear-armed state with perhaps the most advanced army in the world and the full arsenal of the US military machine behind it. There is no symmetry with Hamas, a group that can cause serious harm to Israelis but is in no way capable of defeating Israel's military or preventing Israel from continuing the slow genocide of Palestinians under the apartheid system that is established with longstanding support from the USA and the EU.
Aren't the Israelis right to fear that Hamas wants to wipe them out?
Of course they did! Jews suffered a Holocaust preceded by pogroms and a deep-rooted anti-Semitism that has permeated Europe and America for centuries. It is only natural that Israelis live in fear of a new pogrom if the Israeli army gives in. By imposing apartheid on its neighbors and treating them as subhumans, the Israeli state is fueling the fires of anti-Semitism, empowering fanatics among Palestinians and Israelis who only want to destroy each other, and ultimately contributing to the terrible insecurity facing Jews in Israel and consumed by the diaspora. Apartheid against the Palestinians is an extremely bad idea when it comes to Israel's self-defense.
What about anti-Semitism?
Anti-Semitism is always a clear and present danger. And it must be rooted out, especially among the ranks of the global left and Palestinians fighting for Palestinian civil rights all over the world.
Why don't the Palestinians pursue their goals through peaceful means?
That's what they did. The PLO recognized Israel and renounced armed struggle. And what did they get in return? Absolute humiliation and systematic ethnic cleansing. This is what gave birth to Hamas and made it appear in the eyes of many Palestinians as the only alternative to a slow genocide under Israel's apartheid.
What should be done now? What could bring peace in Israel-Palestine?
An immediate ceasefire.
The release of all hostages: those of Hamas and the thousands held by Israel.
A peace process under the auspices of the United Nations, supported by the international community's commitment to end apartheid and ensure equal civil rights for all.
When it comes to the question of what should replace apartheid, Israelis and Palestinians must decide between the two-state solution and the solution of a single federal, secular state.
friends
We are here because it is lazy to take revenge instead of mourning.
We are here to promote not revenge, but peace and coexistence in Israel and Palestine.
We are here to tell the German democrats, including our former comrades from the LEFT, that they have covered themselves in shame for long enough - that injustice plus injustice does not make right - and that it does not contribute to Germany's coming to terms with the past , if we allow Israel to get away with war crimes.
Beyond today's congress, we in Germany have a duty to change the discourse. We have a duty to convince the vast majority of decent Germans that universal human rights are the most important thing. That “Never again” really means “Never again.” For no one, whether Jew, Palestinian, Ukrainian, Russian, Yemeni, Sudanese, Rwandan - for everyone, everywhere.
In this context, I am pleased to announce that the German political party MERA25 from DiEM25 will be on the ballot in the European Parliament elections next June - to get the vote of the German humanists who are looking for someone in the European Parliament who represents Germany and denounces the EU's complicity in genocide - a complicity that is Europe's greatest gift to anti-Semites in Europe and beyond.
I greet you all and suggest that we never forget that as long as one of us is in chains, none of us is free.”