This is how UK politicians and media control the narrative on Israel and Gaza
Don’t believe the gaslighters: babies are dying in Gaza – not because of anything Hamas did, but because Israel chose to deny power to the hospital that was caring for them. That isn’t Israel defending itself; it is Israel murdering babies. Only a few weeks ago, Israel was asking us to sympathise with its people on the basis of a lie that Israeli babies had been murdered by Hamas. Do you see how this works?
I know he’s divisive but this YouTube clip by Owen Jones is right on the button.
It immortalises an exchange – more like a confrontation – between the Guardian columnist and primarily Ed Balls, former (useless) Shadow Chancellor who now podcasts with the man who was the UK’s actual Chancellor, George Osborne (see how cosy these guys are?)
And it wasn’t over the horrifying carnage being wrought in Gaza – upon, as Jones rightly states, babies as much as everyone else; it was over the way the vast majority of UK politicians and the mainstream media have been trying to gaslight us all into thinking that Israel is somehow in the right.
The behaviour of all those in the studio around Jones – but Balls in particular – is highly instructive:
At the end of the day, we all know that Israel is wrong to do what it is doing.
We are watching genocide.
If Israel had any interest in removing Hamas, it would have run an espionage operation to spy out all that organisation’s hiding-places long ago, and then after the October 7 attacks, it would have carried out surgical strikes on those hiding-places. It would also have engaged in international diplomacy to expose and remove Hamas from its bases in other countries. That did not happen.
Instead, Israel has waded into Gaza and is piling up the bodies of innocent people.
Politicians from Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer down have lined up to say Israel has a right to do this because it is defending itself, despite the fact that Israel has already murdered many times the number of innocents that Hamas killed on October 7 (most Israeli casualties were military, remember) without making any real dent in the organisation that it claims is its real enemy.
And when commentators like Jones point out the falsehoods in their arguments, media interviewers like Balls turn up to pick holes in the claims, on the basis that any tiny inconsistency in what Jones says under pressure must mean his entire line of reasoning is wrong. ‘Tisn’t.
You saw it very clearly in the clip, when it was claimed that people on Saturday’s (November 11) peace march were preaching hate – so that meant everybody on the march had to be a racist and an anti-Semite. They very obviously weren’t.
Owen Jones is right. The UK’s politicians – and their client media (and let’s be generous here and agree that it doesn’t include every single member of the UK media establishment – just most of them) – are trying to gaslight us into believing a lie that Israel has to commit genocide in Gaza in order to defend itself.
And he’s right about another element of this: history will judge those people harshly.
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The endless lies being published and/or uttered by Uk fascist politicians swiftly become ‘the truth’ because innumerable members of the public believe them!
Yes Israel is the ‘victim’ and every Palestinian woman, child and man is apparently a Hamas terrorist so therefore deserves to die! And this includes babies because they too are ‘terrorists!’
Mens’ his tory will doubtless pretend fascist Israeli murderers along with their leader in chief fascist Netanyahu was ‘merely obeying orders from some unknown man’ so therefore they aren’t guilty of any war crimes!
Remember no criticism or accountability must ever be levied at the powerful fascist Israeli men in political power because whatever crimes they are committing it is fine and UK’s political leaders are publicly supporting systemic genocide!
The media whore, nazi cosplayer, serial house-flipper and massive weirdo known as ed balls charged his wedding guests.
(Apologies for the faily heil link)
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-2040049/Ed-Balls-Yes-I-wore-Nazi-costume-friends-decided-I-dictator.html
Also wanted compulsory sex education for five years olds.
And looks like nookie bear after it’d been fired out of a howitzer, face-first into a thirty -foot thick concrete wall.
Now he’s gidiot osborne’s best mate.
That’s all you need know about the so-called “hard man of politics” (jesus wept).
Andrew Pierce doesn’t get any better.
I keep forgetting his name, he’s so awful.