They have a word for every form of resistance.
If you fight with weapons, you are a terrorist.
If you fight with boycotts, you are antisemitic.
If you fight with words, you are spreading hate.
If you fight with international law, you are politicizing the courts.
If you document the casualties, you are spreading propaganda.
If you mourn publicly, you are inciting violence.
If you survive and refuse to be silent about surviving, you are a threat to stability.
There is no form of resistance they will permit.
Because the point was never to find a form of resistance they could accept.
The point was to make resistance itself the crime, so that the original violence, the violence that created the conditions requiring resistance, could be discussed, if at all, as an unfortunate but necessary background detail.
The trick is not complicated.
It just requires everyone to look at the resistance and never at what produced it.
They have spent centuries perfecting the art of controlling where you look.
Here is the question that European civilization has never answered:
At what point, in the five hundred years of colonial practice, should a European person have been expected to know that what was happening was wrong?
Not 1945. That is too easy, and too convenient.
1904, when the German Empire issued a written extermination order against the Herero people and generals carried it out and soldiers followed orders and administrators recorded the deaths and the skulls were shipped to universities for racial science.
At that point, should someone have known?
1890, when the systematic amputations in the Congo were being photographed by missionaries and the photographs were being published in European newspapers and reformers were raising the alarm and Leopold II was receiving those reformers in his palace and explaining that the civilizing mission required certain difficult measures.
At that point?
1830, when the Trail of Tears was a policy debated in the United States Congress and approved by elected representatives and challenged by lawyers and litigated to the Supreme Court, which ruled against it, and then carried out anyway.
At that point?
1619?
1492?
The question matters because the defense of European civilization against the charge that the Holocaust was colonialism coming home always rests on the assumption that colonial violence was invisible, unexamined, a product of its time.
It was not invisible.
It was photographed and debated and reported and litigated.
It was chosen.
At every decision point, by specific people with names and offices and moral agency, the choice was made to continue.
The Holocaust produced Nuremberg because the victims were European and the defendants were the enemies of the victorious powers.
The colonial period produced nothing comparable because the victims were not European and the defendants were the victorious powers.
That is the only reason one has a trial and the other has a museum of natural history.
Same civilization.
Same logic.
Different documentation.
@goldi Die linke Presse ist weitgehend von Zionisten und Rüstungslobby unterwandert. Für mich haben sich u.a. Taz und Telepolis weitestgehend delegitimiert und werden nicht weiter von mir gelesen.
We must not listen to pesky “conspiracy theorists” like James Corbett who are asking questions about the most startling security failure in the history of the most heavily defended border in the world.
@TortoiseMarry@MaxBlumenthal Actually the are two major perpetrators of terrorism in the world,they are Israel and the USA. Hamas are using their legal right of armed resistance against an occupation force who rob their land, kill their people and are genociding not only in Gaza, but the whole region.
@Dragontail110@MaxBlumenthal To rob most American people blind, pretty much wipe out middle class, destroy American hegemony and bring America down to the level of a regional power, despite a bloated exorbitantly expensive but ineffective military, communists had no part in all of it.
‘They massacred Arab babies’
Headline in the Sydney Daily Telegraph, 1948.
This passage stands out:
Jews saw their opportunity. Men of the army of Zion attacked Deir Yassin at 10 a.m. that day.
They easily overcame the opposition. They killed 20 Arab defenders, and entered the village, tossing grenades into houses.
They killed old men, women, and children with bayonets. For three hours the slaughter went on.
Babies were killed in front of their mothers. Mothers’ throats were slit. Some were beheaded.
A group of men and women—some of the women obviously pregnant—were lined up and shot. The bloodlusting Jewish soldiery desecrated the bodies of pregnant mothers with knives.
When they had murdered 264 villagers, the Jews called a halt. They rounded up four truckloads of survivors of all ages and both sexes, tossed the bodies of the dead into the village well, and drove off with the survivors.
The victorious Jews drove the survivors through Jewish areas as exhibits of victory while Jews spat upon them. The parade continued, with breaks, for two days.
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Every Zionist accusation is a confession.
Zionism is Jewish supremacism. The bloodlust is baked in.
#EndJewishSupremacy
#DismantleZionism
@StuPettigrew@EYakoby Why, Schools and hospital are always the preferred targets of Israel/USA. Only works in Israel, because the resistance often attack military sites, which happen to be often in/under civil structures, so the media can claim that they are targeting civilians.
A new GHF whistleblower speaks out for the first time
David McIntosh managed aid sites in Gaza. He also witnessed IDF fired at aid workers for no reason. They shot at their camp constantly.
He says Israeli soldiers shot a 12-year-old boy who was laughing and joking. No weapon. No threat. Just a child. They shot him in the shoulder. He lay bleeding for 30 minutes. No one came. He died.
They denied everything. Over 2,000 aid seekers killed. 19,000 injured. No accountability.
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Da überweist Europa, vor allem Deutschland, Milliarden für Waffen „zur Verteidigung der Freiheit in der Ukraine“ und plötzlich tauchen genau diese Waffen in der Golfregion als Angebot des ukrainischen Staatschefs wieder auf. Das ist schon ein interessantes Geschäftsmodell: Wir zahlen für Raketen, die ja „so dringend gebraucht werden“ und am Ende landen sie als Exportware auf dem internationalen Markt. “So geht Realpolitik, finanziert vom hiesigen Steuerzahler”, sagt unser stellvertretender Parteivorsitzender Michael Lüders süffisant.
As part of psychological torture, Israeli captors told Palestinian hostage from Gaza Shadi abu Seido that his family and children had been bombed and killed..
He was shocked when he was released and found them alive..
🚨🇺🇸🇮🇱 BREAKING: Israeli soldiers beating and arresting Christians who were celebrating Orthodox Easter in Jerusalem today
Happy Easter from America’s greatest ally!