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[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

I never asked to know what a dismembered child looks like. Israel imposed that knowledge upon me.

I never wanted to know what it looks like when military explosives blow an infant's head off. I only know it because Israel forced me to know it.

The reason the Gaza holocaust hit westerners so hard is because it punched through our shitbrained western supremacist narcissism and our vapid mainstream culture and shook us violently awake to something real and terrifying.

All of a sudden the idea that our bombs are killing people in the middle east was no longer a vague abstraction sitting in the periphery of our awareness. It was a reality hitting us right in the guts in the middle of the day while we casually scrolled our phones, forcing us to run to the toilet to vomit up our lunch.

It made it personal. We were being kicked in the stomach over and over again by the state of Israel with the backing of our own western governments. The abuse of the Palestinians wasn't something that was happening exclusively to the Palestinians; to a much smaller degree, it was also something that was happening to everyone who witnessed it.

Westerners aren't accustomed to such confrontations. We are accustomed to bustling around in our mind-controlled dystopia with our first world problems and our neuroses and distractions, our attention going into treats and screens and our consumerist preferences and the petty dramas playing out in our respective social circles. Then all of a sudden we find ourselves in the bathroom puking up our sushi because our phone had just shown us the most unimaginably horrific thing we have ever seen.

And we were at all times aware that all the nausea and horror and rage and disgust we experienced when witnessing the Gaza holocaust happened because of the real material actions of real material people. The Israelis were deliberately causing as much devastation as possible to advance their longstanding goal of forcibly transferring all Palestinians out of Gaza. Our leaders were deliberately stalling and equivocating from behind their podiums to buy Israel enough time to make Gaza uninhabitable. We all understood that the waking nightmare we were witnessing was not some natural disaster that was passively occurring; it was being actively inflicted by people who were fully aware of what they were doing.

That's the sort of thing that changes you as a person. Changes your whole worldview. Changes your politics. Changes your beliefs. The average westerner needs to do a lot of internal restructuring to truly reckon with the Gaza holocaust and all its implications.

That, I think, has been the biggest reason why the genocide of the Palestinians has gotten so much attention and sympathy. It's because its live-streamed nature caused it to affect us in ways other acts of mass military slaughter usually don't.

Westerners are so propaganda-addled and indoctrinated that we are largely apathetic to what our bombs are doing to human bodies on the other side of the world. It's only when we are given some skin in the game, as in the Vietnam draft, that we start caring in any politically significant way. Gaza gave us skin in the game in the way it entered into our lives through our electronic devices and showed us things that were so jarring it left a permanent mark upon our lives.

Gaza forced us to look, and forced us to see, against all the efforts the propagandists have expended trying to keep us from noticing such things. That's why this thing isn't going away. People are only getting angrier and angrier. The empire has spent three years scrambling around unsuccessfully trying to get us to close our eyes again, and it keeps failing and failing and failing.

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@Anfield_Sector Bloody international football man so pointless

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@LeeAndersonMP_ So is anti-semitism a made up phrase too?

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@mehdirhasan @MikeRogersForMI When you think you’re dumb just realise there are idiots who support Israel and they’re made up bs. Everything that comes from them is nothing but lies, remember these are the devils people.

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

People say 1,163 innocent civilians were killed on October 7th. That is, of course, not true. Lets do the math:

1) 274 of them were active IDF soldiers
2) 58 were Israel Police officers
3) 10 were Shin Bet personnel
4) 43 were community emergency squad members
5) 421 people were of reserve duty age
6) 70 were foreign workers
7) 7 IDF admits to killing by friendly fire

Anyone is welcome to do the math.

That leaves 270 innocent Israeli victims. Out of those, who knows how many were killed through the Hannibal directive? We are probably left with 100 and something. Every death is tragic. But this was a more precise military operation than anything the IDF does. And why the entire world has to mourn this, is a very good question.

[Pop Base @PopBase]

3 years into the genocide initiated by Israel in Palestine, the number of reported people killed has passed 74,000 and over 175,000 injured — a culmination of decades of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.

(https://t.co/c4bWzOI1xn)

[🤖 @THEREALAK97]

@MarcoFoster_ @NYCMayor It’s a lot more than 74,000 that figure is old. The constant bombing and killing by the terrorist IOF, you’re looking at hundreds of thousands Palestinians dead.

[Noah’s Ark 🚢 @NoahsArk1000]

Remember when Israelis said Hamas took this innocent female civilian as a prisoner, but she was later identified as IDF soldier?

That was funny.

But sharing it today is important because I want you to understand something: Israel is always going to lie, manipulate, and cheat.

[Siobhán @siobh_99]

the most recent reporting by the Lancet put it at over 500,000 deaths - the people parroting the 70k number are engaging in active genocide denial propaganda.

[Remi Kanazi @Remroum]

I don't give a fuck about Israeli pain, Israeli whining, Israeli narratives. You're colonizers, butchers, rapists, and thieves on stolen land. Boo hoo, you had a bad day because people reacted to a century of your depravity. If you don't like it, get the fuck off stolen land.

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

Colonized people are justified in using any means necessary to free themselves from imperialism

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@Anfield_Sector These international games were so pointless as well

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@KemiBadenoch What about people who turn a blind eye to extreme Judaism ie the majority people of Israel. You guys seem to love them and obey their orders.

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@bathelshoshana1 You cunts are all going to hell. Celebrating babies dying, raping and stealing peoples homes. There’s nothing good about you, you’re the devils people.

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@mironov_fm You’re talking about Israel right.

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@avavidan You’re the devils people and you will rot in hell where you belong

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@RabbiJeffx @grok You’re better at sharing the truth than the idiots that call themselves “journalists” in western media

[Ali Abunimah @AliAbunimah]

Worried you’ll offend your Jewish friends by calling Zionism a violent racist movement for ethnic cleansing and genocide? Listen to Israelis:

[Buksterlin @andy_buksterlin]

He’s not upset about the raping, he’s only upset about the fact it was exposed.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

Nothing started on October 7.
It was just the only day that the boot was on the other foot.