Canberra is running a genoside protection racket.
“Juliet Lamont came home from being raped and tortured by a foreign military..
“And her own country ransacked her luggage, seized her phone and laptop, and told her she was under arrest unless she surrendered her passcodes.
“Her government did not protect her. Her government investigated her.”
‘Israeli soldiers raped her. Australian customs threatened her’
https://t.co/Ha8BKZ4Sk8 via @MichaelWestBiz
Journalist Muath Amarneh shares painful details following his release from Israeli prisons; medical negligence and a severe infection caused his prosthetic eye to fall out of its socket, remaining that way for 10 days as he now awaits urgent surgery for re-implantation.
Despite the significant incident yesterday where the Israeli Army stopped a @UN convoy with staff traveling to provide #polio vaccinations, our teams have been able to vaccinate thousands of children in north #Gaza today.
This is a race against time, the spread of polio is a very real threat. Our colleagues continue to do the impossible to reach every child under the age of 10 across the #GazaStrip
مهم جدا جدا جداااااااا..
*إذا أردت أن تشارك في دعم قضية فلسطين ومُحاسبة إسرائيل فأعطي دقيقة من وقتك وإنشر هذا الفيديو على جميع وسائل التواصل ولتشمل كل أصحابك ومن ضمنهم الأجانب غير الناطقين بالعربية.
هذه المشاهد توثق حقيقة إجرام إسرائيل وتعيد صياغة الرأي العام العالمي لصالح القضية الفلسطينية ونصرة غزة وأهلها*
All the frenzied shrieking about pro-Palestine protests at universities these last few days makes it clear that our civilization is so twisted and insane it sees protesting a genocide as far worse than committing one. Which is about as backwards as any society could possibly be.
Seriously, try to imagine a crazier, more upside-down civilization than one which gets more angry at people protesting genocidal atrocities than it does at people committing them. A civilization where people wear their pants on their head and walk backwards all day? That would be less crazy. A civilization where the dogs own the people and the children go to work while the parents go to school? That would be less crazy.
It’s as wrong as you can possibly get anything in this world. It’s actually hard to imagine how anyone could get anything more wrong. If you’ve accepted daily massacres of innocent civilians as the baseline normal and appropriate thing, and regard any opposition to this as a freakish and evil abomination, then you’re as screwed up and confused about reality as any other stark raving lunatic in town. Maybe worse.
To view nonstop mass military slaughter as moral and opposition thereto as immoral is to live in a mental moral universe that has been flipped on its head. It’s to inhabit a reality tunnel that has become completely divorced from reality. But that’s the kind of mainstream worldview that the political-media class in this society are working to indoctrinate us into day in and day out throughout our entire lives.
I just saw a tweet from the commentator Briahna Joy Gray saying that in order to find any mention in The New York Times of the hundreds of Palestinians in mass graves that are being discovered in Gaza, she had to scroll past no fewer than four stories about pro-Palestine protests on college campuses — including two op-eds which criticized the protesters.
What kind of warped, fucked up dystopia is this where that’s the kind of mainstream news outlet people are getting their information and ideas from? Our entire civilization is saturated with reality-distorting propaganda like this, and it’s making people insane. It’s got our moral compasses flipped 180 degrees from our true north, and our inner sensemaker tuning in to frequencies of nothing but garbled static.
That’s how crazy they need us to be to keep us supporting a globe-spanning empire that literally cannot exist without nonstop violence and tyranny. They need us thinking up is down and black is white. They need us not just unable to tell the difference between right and wrong, but actually believing that wrong is right and right is wrong. So they pound our collective consciousness day in and day out with extremely aggressive psyops in the form of mass media propaganda to ensure that our insides are scrambled around enough to consent to the amount of depravity necessary for our rulers to continue dominating this planet.
This is what our ruling class has decided will be normal, as Aaron Bushnell said moments before lighting himself on fire in protest of the genocide in Gaza. A society where mass graves get less media attention than university protesters. A society where more political firepower is going into stopping pro-Palestine demonstrations on college campuses than ending Israel’s murderous assault on an enclosed enclave packed full of children. A society where trying to stop a genocide is considered evil, and committing one is considered good.
وصف متابعون غربيون مرافعة البروفيسور رالف وايلد في محكمة العدل الدولية بالمذهلة:
كانت درسا قانونيا ينزع شرعية وجود دولة يهودية في فلسطين من الأساس ،لكن جامعة الدول العربية التي وكلته فوجئت بقوة المرافعة التي ضربت سياسة التطبيع في مقتل فلم تذعها القنوات العربية
#فلسطين_قضية_الشرفاء_فقط
This is quite extraordinary:
This is Ma Xinmin, China's Foreign Ministry's legal adviser, speaking on behalf of China, saying at the ICJ today that Israel is a colonizer and that the Palestinians have a right to resistance under international law, "including armed struggle", which he "in this context, is distinguished from acts of terrorism".
Here is the exact quote (after the quote I'll link to all the legal texts he refers to):
"The UNGA resolution 3070 of 1973, I quote ‘reaffirms the legitimacy of the peoples' struggle for liberation from colonial and foreign domination and alien subjugation by all available means, including armed struggle’.
This recognition is also reflected in international conventions. For example, the Arab Convention For The Suppression Of Terrorism of 1998, affirms, I quote: ‘the right of peoples to combat foreign occupation and aggression by whatever means, including armed struggle, in order to liberate their territories and secure their right to self-determination and independence’.
Armed struggle, in this context, is distinguished from acts of terrorism. It is granted in international law, this distinction is acknowledged by several international conventions. For example, article 3 of the OAU Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism of 1999 provides that, I quote: ‘the struggle waged by peoples in accordance with the principles of international law for their liberation or self-determination, including armed struggle against colonialism, occupation, aggression and domination by foreign forces shall not be considered as terrorist acts’.”
- UNGA resolution 3070 of 1973: https://t.co/aWtoK8VX9h
- Arab Convention For The Suppression Of Terrorism of 1998: https://t.co/CalZUBfR8v
- OAU Convention on the Prevention and Combating of Terrorism of 1999: https://t.co/ZsaVzkwOrk
In three plus decades of studying armed conflict across the world, I have not seen this scale of recorded and shared gleeful depravity from soldiers. The consequences and corollaries of this vile behaviour shall reach far into the future
Tonight the BBC will broadcast a Panorama episode attacking British Palestinians and Muslims by John Ware and Leo Telling –– the team that brought you the discredited "Is Labour Antisemitic?" episode.
These images show the brutality with which the Israeli occupation forces treated two doctors whom they arrested a week ago from Al-Amal Hospital, subjected to torture, beating, and humiliation before being released yesterday.
The Israeli occupation continues to arrest 12 PRCS teams, including 7 who were arrested from inside Al-Amal Hospital about a week ago.
🚨PRCS expresses deep concern for the safety of its detained teams, whose fate remains unknown, and calls on the international community to urgently intervene to pressure the Israeli occupation authorities to immediately release our detained teams and provide protection for PRCS teams working in the #Gaza Strip.
#NotATarget ❌ #IHL #AlAmalHospital
WATCH LIVE: the State of #Palestine opens the public hearings in the advisory proceedings on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, before the #ICJ https://t.co/8m54WxxxWf
« À Gaza, j'ai vu l'horreur, j'ai vu le chaos, la souffrance. Il y a un état de sidération mélangé à de l'espoir. À chaque jour suffit sa peine. Tout ça je l'ai absorbé.»
Imane Maarifi, infirmière humanitaire dans #Ensociété
➡️ La suite :
https://t.co/1yX3EDFMFH
The build up to the Herero-Nama genocide in Namibia, perpetrated by Germany started on 12 January 1904. The absurdity of Germany, on 12 January 2024, rejecting genocide charges against Israel and warning about the “political instrumentalisation of the charge” is not lost on us.