Two months into the conflict with Gaza (NOT Hamas), Israel’s stories are falling apart
The following sets the tone for this article:
All this while transporting prisoners of war back to Gaza. Consider the logistics of this attack… Does anyone among journalists and politicians still think critically?
— Almir Colan (@almircolan) December 6, 2023
We can’t trust what the Israeli authorities say about their war in Gaza because their accusations don’t make sense and aren’t backed with any credible evidence.
Sadly, they’re supported by liars in the UK government. Here’s Chris Philp saying the government won’t pass evidence of war crimes to the relevant authorities:
UK govt minister Chris Philp says that if the UK uncovers evidence of war crimes in Gaza they won't pass it on to the International Criminal Court & explains the ICC doesn't have jurisdiction.
He then immediately denies that's what he said. pic.twitter.com/P8nQp2po07
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) December 6, 2023
The International Criminal Court is investigating the possibility that both Hamas and Israel have committed war crimes. If the UK doesn’t pass on information about such matters, is it not perverting the course of justice?
Now, how’s this for deception?
Israel has claimed it has created shelters with aid organisations in al Mawasi, a 'safe zone' in the south of Gaza.
A Sky News team visited and found no aid, no food kitchens and no help.https://t.co/4AaV5xBc8O pic.twitter.com/ey7gWxTpzR
— Sky News (@SkyNews) December 6, 2023
Israel has also been accused of turning Palestinian civilians’ survival into a game – sending images of a numbered grid superimposed on a map of Gaza and telling civilians to move to particular numbered areas to avoid being bombed or involved in conflict.
There’s just one problem: Israel has bombed the places where it sent people.
Challenged over where Palestinians should go to be safe, former Israeli diplomat and politician Michael Oren said the problem was that Hamas personnel were going to the designated safe zones as well.
Isn’t the problem actually that Israel could not be trusted to keep its word?
Former Israeli diplomat & politician Michael Oren is asked 3 times where Palestinians should go to be safe. He doesn't say. pic.twitter.com/egBbTwMqRt
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) December 6, 2023
Note also that this means Israeli claims that it is not targeting civilians are false.
One former prime minister of that country has laid the blame at the feet of his own government:
Ex- Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert 2006-2009 tonight says the Israeli government are butchers and murderers.
The former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is correct.
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) December 6, 2023
Meanwhile:
BBC tonight: Civilians in Gaza are running out of places to flee to.
That’s Netanyahu’s plan. He’s driving them into the Sinai Desert to settle what he perceives to be a 3,500 year old revenge mission.
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) December 6, 2023
Sadly, the spokesman for Israel’s most powerful ally, the United States, seems happy to let the slaughter continue:
What a disgusting answer to those 5 babies left to rot (literally) in Al-Nasr hospital, fact which he doesn't dispute but justifies by saying that "Hamas should stop hiding its fighters in hospitals". And he says this with a smirk on his face 🤢
In this particular case that… https://t.co/u3EYnK2KQg
— Arnaud Bertrand (@RnaudBertrand) December 7, 2023
He absolutely refuses to condemn the actions of Israel’s armed forces, and instead condemns Hamas for mingling with civilians. And he refuses to condemn Israel for targeting people in places that are intended not to be combat zones.
No wonder frustration is growing against the silence of Israel’s allies:
Do those parties and governments endorsing genocide honestly think they will ever be trusted again by their own citizens? Those people behind this utterly of evil destruction of a people that have already suffered persecution for many decades should never be near power again https://t.co/32hL53KSuE
— Revolution Breeze (@SueJonesSays) December 7, 2023
Meanwhile, more Israeli lies are being debunked. Here’s a former Gaza hostage:
Wow. A former Gaza hostage tells Netanyahu that they were shot at by a helicopter on their way to Gaza (further corroborating story about the helicopter firing indiscriminately). They were also shelled in Gaza, leading her to conclude that Israel have "no information".… pic.twitter.com/3ZWtXG3jwJ
— Marc Owen Jones (@marcowenjones) December 7, 2023
So the hostages were attacked – by Israel – while they were in captivity and while Israel was claiming to be trying to get them back. Hannibal Doctrine, anybody?
Ah, but according to the United States, Israel does not intentionally kill Palestinians, so we must conclude that the spokesman believes it won’t intentionally kill its own citizens either. Right?
I still find it amazing that officials representing the most powerful empire in human history just relentlessly ventriloquise the crude propaganda of a tiny country with a population of 9 million and a GDP smaller than Sweden.
How did this happen? Does it have any precedent? https://t.co/IIaMmSZvLA
— Matt Kennard (@kennardmatt) December 7, 2023
At ground level, this is what Israel’s armed forces are getting up to:
A perverted Israeli soldier rummages through a woman's lingerie and personal belongings in Gaza.
"I always said Arab women are the sluttiest"
"Look what they're wearing under the hijabs"
What’s this got to do with Israel’s right to defend itself?
pic.twitter.com/VO54yAKzea— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) December 7, 2023
Another Israeli claim is that Hamas had no grievance with Israel prior to October 7 – that the attack on that date came out of the blue and had no provocation.
Here’s a report debunking that:
A record of what a 16 year old Palestinian child in Gaza has already been through in their short life.
But this started on October the 7th, right? pic.twitter.com/NLUOWMp0DC
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) December 7, 2023
While this was being made clear, an Israeli reporter was merrily writing messages on tank shells intended for Gaza – and ordering a tank team to fire them, in the knowledge that they could kill civilians:
In a video posted by Israel’s Kan News on 6 December, presenter Rotem Achihun is seen joking with Israeli soldiers who show her various tank shells with messages on them, including “to Gaza with love”. Achihun is later seen writing a note on a missile
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) December 7, 2023
I’ve never seen citizens of any other country write messages on bombs which are about to take the lives of innocent civilians.
Zionists are beyond depraved. #IsraelWarCrimes
Israeli news presenter writes message on missile https://t.co/LKP1xNgJ1O via @YouTube
— Phil Gould 🇵🇸🖕🥁 (@bongosaloon) December 7, 2023
So much for the “Israel does not attack civilians” claim.
Economically, it seems the conflict is harming Israel:
• 76% fall in tourism to Israel.
• 80% fall in flight activity at Tel Aviv airport.
• 950,000 jobs lost in Israeli economy.Israel is now a pariah state.
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) December 7, 2023
But that hasn’t stopped Israel continuing to carry out ever-more-appalling acts. For example:
The video circulating of Palestinian men stripped naked in public and guarded by Israeli soldiers is disturbing. At least one reported to be a journalist. The IDF admit they are only suspects. Imagine this in your city? Men paraded naked in the street because they are a suspect?
— Adil Ray OBE (@adilray) December 7, 2023
Here’s a news report about this:
#BBCBreakfast reporting that a journalist who works for a London based newspaper was sheltering in a UN school when Israeli forces took him, stripped him to his underwear, bound him, blindfolded him, filmed him, & then took him away.
The journalists name is Diaa Al-Kahlot pic.twitter.com/NIKtpVAdJ1
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) December 8, 2023
If one of the detainees who was stripped and carted off was a journalist for a London-based Arab newspaper, then he can’t be a terrorist. Right?
The IDF are either the most incompetent army in the world or there was a deliberate stand down order so that Netanyahu could achieve his long stated aims…
Israel FAILED To Warn Music Festival Organizers Of Suspected Oct. 7 Attack https://t.co/A7zzg6af7F via @YouTube pic.twitter.com/Mu9O2VlBOK
— Phil Gould 🇵🇸🖕🥁 (@bongosaloon) December 8, 2023
Here’s the report:
Israel says all deaths are the responsibility of Hamas – but it seems clear that Israel could have prevented any deaths at all, from October 7 onwards.
And Israel says it is not targeting civilians – but if more civilians have been dying in this conflict than in any other, then at the very least, it seems this is unlikely to be true.
So Israel’s fairy tales about Hamas, and about its own behaviour, are falling apart. Why are the UK’s politicians still refusing to condemn this terror nation?
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The current fascist/zionist regime continues to commit mass murder and genocide against the Palestinians and one important reason why the US and UK men in political power refuse to condemn them is because of oil and gas!
UK’s fascist fake government doesn’t care that the Israeli zionist/fascist regime under that mass murderer Netanyahu are murdering Palestinians. Given the fascist tory fake government continues to violate international and national laws why would these male criminals pass on evidence of Israeli war crimes to the International War Crimes Court.
One important reason why UK and US are openly condoning and collaborating with the fascist/terrorist israeli regime is because of gas and oil deposits in the west coast of Gaza. Terrorist Israeli regime has already awarded licences to that greedy climate destroying male owned company BP as well as other greedy companies. Mens’ obsession with amassing huge profits as well as political power and land always supercede stopping male instigated mass genocides!
https://www.thecanary.co/uk/2023/12/08/bp-israel-gas-licences-protest/
You mention Chris Philps MP, isnt he the MP who live on the BBC was called a liar 17 times by Mick Lynch (RMT). My first experience of MR Philps was listening to him talk before a GE, he spoke so fast that I thought he was unsure of what he was saying…nothings changed…I AGREE WITH MICK LYNCH !!
Little has been said about multiple security lapses since 7th October, when it became quite clear to me that the whole war on Hamas thing was an excuse to start a major ethnic cleansing/genocide which Netanyahu has been promising for some time. I am embarrassed (that’s an understatement) that our government continues to support the ‘American’ line that Israel is one of the good guys however brutal, sadistic and criminal its actions. We need to recognise that Israel had already stolen a substantial proportion of Palestinian land and killed or removed very many Palestinians. There can be little doubt that this was another planned phase of the ethnic cleansing/genocide which, apparently necessitated the total destruction of Palestinian society.