I saw him crying, shedding floods of tears upon Calypso’s island, in her chambers.
She traps him there; he cannot go back home.
— Homer, The Oddyssey
The #DigitalWorld
@DRabbaanii85890@pathodox@bannedpastor “You must not make for yourself a carved image or a form like anything that is in the heavens above or on the earth below or in the waters under. You must not bow down to them nor be enticed to serve them, for I, Jehovah your God, am a God who requires exclusive devotion.”—Exodus
One of the very few good things coming out of the relentless nightmare happening in Gaza is that at long last the western world is getting a clear look at Israel. The real Israel.
Not the Israel they teach you about in school. Not “the only democracy in the middle east,” where Jews were given safe haven after their victimization at the hands of the Nazis and managed to create a thriving society despite existing in a sea of savage enemies bent on their destruction.
Not that Israel. The real one. Arguably the most racist society on earth, whose existence has depended on nonstop violence, theft, tyranny and abuse since its very inception.
The real Israel, whose government is deliberately and methodically starving Palestinian civilians to death by the tens of thousands just for being the wrong ethnicity.
The real Israel, whose snipers routinely murders Palestinian children by shooting them in the head.
The real Israel, whose military is so sadistic that it created an AI system to specifically target suspected Hamas fighters when they are at home with their families, and called the AI “Where’s Daddy?” because it would be killing fathers when they are at home with their children.
The real Israel, whose soldiers cannot stop posting footage of themselves mockingly dressed in the undergarments of dead and displaced Palestinian women and playing with the toys of dead and displaced Palestinian children.
The real Israel, where Palestinian doctors are raped and tortured to death.
The real Israel, where the majority of men do not believe acquaintance rape or spousal rape are real crimes, and where the majority do not believe the soldiers accused of raping and torturing a Palestinian prisoner to the point of severe injury should face criminal charges.
The real Israel, who routinely bombs buildings full of civilians and then uses sniper drones to pick off the survivors, including children.
The real Israel, whose drones have been heard playing the sounds of crying babies and screaming women in order to lure out civilians so they can be killed.
The real Israel, who has damaged or destroyed 94 percent of the healthcare facilities in Gaza with hundreds of targeted attacks.
The real Israel, whose military forces target medical staff so methodically that doctors and nurses in Gaza reportedly change out of their uniforms when they leave the hospital in order to avoid assassination.
The real Israel, who hates truth so much that it has been killing historic numbers of journalists in Gaza while preventing foreign journalists from entering the enclave.
The real Israel, who has been knowingly attacking the locations of humanitarian aid workers.
The real Israel, whose citizens are so warped and twisted that they attend boat tours to cheerfully witness the devastation in the Gaza Strip.
The real Israel, whose citizens set up blockades to prevent aid trucks from getting to starving civilians in Gaza while they enjoy barbecues and set up bouncy castles and cotton candy machines for their children.
The real Israel, whose TikTok influencers started a viral trend mocking the suffering of civilians in Gaza.
The real Israel, whose citizens will travel to another country and tear down Palestinian flags and sing about how there are no children left in Gaza and then cry victim when people fight back.
This is the real Israel, in all its glory. And it is good that it is being seen.
The sooner everyone stops supporting this freakish, murderous society and begins insisting that normal human values win out over the demented forces which keep it going, the sooner there can be peace in the region. And the better off our entire species will be.
Me: "Do you condemn Benjamin Netanyahu's terrorism against the children of Gaza?
@piersmorgan: "You're not going to get me to say what Israel has been doing is terrorism."
The tables finally turned & I interviewed Piers on Gaza & Trump.
Full interview: https://t.co/iwmdXPREzq
This is the famous picture of Faris Odeh, a fifteen-year-old Gazan boy killed Nov. 9, 2000, ten days after this photo. According to the NYT, "His friends said he was shot while crouching down to pick up a stone. He was so close to an Israeli tank, they said, that they could not drag his still body to an ambulance for more than an hour. The hospital pronounced him dead on arrival." Does this picture make your uncomfortable? Do you think I should not show it? It makes me cry each time I see it, not because I am sad for his death, but because I cannot fathom the courage he had. I know of no culture, no religion, that would not praise him as a martyr (a Greek loanword into English meaning literally the same thing as shaheed: witness). If you have a problem with this photo, I urge you to ask yourself why.
This epitomizes how the Palestine conflict has been managed for the US public for seven decades. Despite going to the finest schools, until I was in college I didn’t even know Israel was a new state. I used to make jokes about how the civilizationally superior Israeli military had whipped multiple Arab armies. Then I saw one documentary, The People & The Land, and was stunned. I was crying like a baby. I couldn’t believe my country had been facilitating these abuses. That was it for me. I could never unsee it. And I don’t think any other ordinary American could either.
Why is it that you lack the humanity to do the same? @piersmorgan
In fact, in your recent post, you picked a shorter version of this clip that doesn’t include the Israeli condemnation.
How often have you said you are “fair”?
" I stand on the side of civilians and innocents and not on the side of political posturing."
Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al Khalifa, Crown Prince and PM of Bahrain, said at the IISS Manama Dialogue forum.
“In the name of the Lord... let it fall on the head of the snake.”
Israeli singer and actor Shuli Rand writes on one of the bombs that the Israeli army will drop on Palestinian children in the #Gaza Strip.
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