“Most Israelis want to commit genocide. If they could push a button that wiped out millions of people they would do it in seconds.”
— Podcast by Israelis “Two Nice Jewish Boys”
You can tell a lot about the health of a society by how it treats its warmongers and how it treats its peacemongers.
When those who push for war are elevated to positions of prominence in government and media while those who push for peace are smeared as antisemites and Russian agents, you know you are living in a wildly dysfunctional civilization.
When politicians who promote the interests of empire managers and war profiteers rocket to the top echelons of government while those who promote the interests of war victims and ordinary people have their homes raided and their devices seized by police under counter-terrorism laws, you know you are living in a profoundly sick society.
When those who spend their lives promoting mass military slaughter at every opportunity are rewarded with esteemed and lucrative punditry careers while those who call for an end to mass military slaughter have their influence relegated to increasingly marginalized online platforms, you know you are living in dystopia.
War is the most insane thing humans do. The most destructive. The most traumatizing. The most destabilizing. The least sustainable. The least morally defensible. The least conducive to human thriving. It is promoted by the very worst among us, and it is opposed by the very best.
In a healthy society, those who dedicated themselves to the task of getting as many human beings ripped apart by military explosives as possible would be reviled as monsters and caged for the health of the collective. In our society this is seen as a perfectly legitimate career path, from which someone can earn a very comfortable living.
In a healthy society, only those who promote the interests of ordinary human beings and spurn the influence of malign manipulators would ever be elevated to positions of leadership. In our society, it's the best way to make sure you spend your life in perpetual obscurity.
This is what powerful manipulators have successfully duped us into accepting as normal. This is the insanity that mass media propaganda and mainstream culture-manufacturing have convinced us to regard as okay. But it is not okay. It's about as far from okay as anything could possibly be.
And now here we are, our eyes full of genocide in the foreground and a looming global conflict between nuclear-armed states in the background, with those who decry this being shouted down and silenced while those who support this become millionaires and presidents.
There is no part of this that is acceptable. Every aspect of this civilization is a freakish abomination. We've got to wake up to what's going on, and we've got to find some way to remove the people who have placed us on this trajectory from power.
So long as any part of this nightmare looks fine and normal to most people, we've got no chance at a healthy world.
The bodies of 13 Palestinian civilians killed in Israeli airstrikes have arrived at Nasser and European Hospitals. Among the deceased are four women from the Al-Arja family, who were killed by Israel in Rafah yesterday.
1. Naima Nayef Al-Arja
2. Layan Suleiman Al-Arja
3. Safaa Abdel Karim Al-Arja
4. Lamis Suleiman Al-Arja
5. Ra’ef Omar Suleiman Abu Shab
6. Omar Ra’ef Abu Shab
7. Jabr Atiya Shalouf
8. Ihab Anwar Shalouf
9. Masoud Said Shalouf
10. Abdel Moneim Mohammad Abu Teim
11. Mohammad Atiya Abed Al-Amour
12. Kamal Khalaf Mahmoud Abu Khamash
13. Mohammad Ayman Hamdan Al-Amour
Jews in Germany are celebrating the election success of the "Nazi" party AfD (Alternative für Deutschland).
The far-right AfD party won its first state election in Thuringia with 32.8% of the vote.
Nationally, the AfD is polling as the second strongest party, just behind the CDU/CSU coalition.
After 11 months of the US's limitless financing and arming of Israel's war in Gaza, major populations in Asia now overwhelmingly say that they prefer an alignment with China over the US.
The costs the US incurs to its own interests to finance and shield Israel are staggering:
Las fuerzas de ocupación sionistas arrestan indiscriminadamente a hombres palestinos, y después regresan con el cuerpo sin vida de los mismos. Esto es lo que el Estado español y la UE defienden cuando se niegan a cortar relaciones comerciales con un sistema criminal.
An Israeli airstrike killed a young Palestinian girl in central Gaza City while she was playing on her roller blades, targeting and bombing the area where she was.
Israel has killed more than 14,000 Palestinian children in Gaza since October 7, according to the latest figures from the Gaza Ministry of Health. The Lancet medical journal estimates that tens of thousands more have also been killed.
Malismo profundo. Dos modernetes pijos nazis israelíes angloparlantes presumiendo en su propio podcast de que les molaría exterminar a todos los palestinos de una tacada. https://t.co/QnZdHauURj
HOW is it possible that a GENOCIDE is being carried out in plain sight of the whole world and in the UK - where I live - the Govt & Opposition support the GENOCIDE, almost all the mainstream media, including BBC, supports the GENOCIDE and almost all public intellectuals do too?
The world hates us even more
Our international legitimacy is gone
And we have less rights and freedoms at home
That is what supporting Israel means for the West— to say nothing of the human cost of this holocaust in Palestine.
Ten percent of the population in Gaza is either killed, injured, missing, or detained. I have never thought our lives are so worthless to the world; every day, the world proves how little they care about stopping the mass killings of Palestinians.
As a result of today’s Israeli airstrikes and rescue operations, the bodies of 24 Palestinians have been brought to Nasser and European Hospitals in Khan Yunis since dawn.
Nasser Hospital
1. Raif Omar Suleiman Abu Shab - Bombing of a tent near Asdaa Prison
2. Omar Raif Abu Shab - Bombing of a tent near Asdaa Prison
3. Jabr Attia Shalouf - Rafah
4. Ihab Anwar Shalouf - Rafah
5. Masoud Saeed Shalouf - Rafah
6. Abdul Moneim Muhammad Abu Teym - Inaya Nasser
7. Naima Nayef Al-Arja - Al-Tanour neighborhood, Rafah
8. Layan Suleiman Al-Arja - Al-Tanour neighborhood, Rafah
9. Safaa Abdel Karim Al-Arja - Al-Tanour neighborhood, Rafah
10. Lamis Suleiman Al-Arja - Al-Tanour neighborhood, Rafah
11. Haya Hamdi Kalakh - Extracted from Al Amal neighborhood
12. Karam Ibrahim Abu Mustafa
13. Mohammad Ibrahim Abu Mustafa
14. Mahmoud Ibrahim Abu Mustafa
15. Iyad Mohammad Jumah Abu Kura
16. Rashid Al-Qadi
17. Rashed Al-Qadi
European Hospital
18. Mohammad Atiya Abed Al-Amour - Rafah
19. Kamal Khalaf Mahmoud Abu Khammash - Rafah
20. Mohammad Ayman Hamdan Al-Amour - Rafah
21. Ibrahim Fayez Abu Shabab - Bombing east of Al Shouka Municipality, Rafah
22. Unknown martyr - Al Shouka, Rafah
23. Moataz Marzouk Ahmed Abu Bakra
24. Ismail Hussein Al-Baladji
HAPPENING NOW: Columbia students are picketing on the first day of classes to demand the university divest from Israel. As the admin works to suppress their right to peacefully protest for Gaza, students say they’re more determined than ever to mobilize.
El ejército israelí sigue matando periodistas. Llevan ya 116 profesionales de la información asesinados desde el pasado octubre. Hoy lo han intentado con Ayman y Mohammad en Cisjordania. No quieren testigos. Se sienten impunes.
I cannot stop thinking about how sinister this bit of the entire horrific picture is:
The UK government thugs who brutalised Sarah demanded to know the precise geolocation of fresh water drinking wells her NGO had put into Gaza.
Who was tasking them for this info?