Public opinion turns further against Israel after Rafah slaughter. So what? [WARNING: SHOCKING CONTENT]
Now we have a name for the little girl whose body, hanging from a window with its legs shredded and absent below the knee, has become synonymous with Israel’s so-called Superbowl Massacre:
https://twitter.com/afshinrattansi/status/1757337535347413125
Here’s video of Sidra while she was still among the living:
Don’t look away https://t.co/HbdzNl5ifQ
— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) February 13, 2024
This was Sidra on February 12, and I make no apology for the graphic nature of what follows; Israel should apologise:
We’re told that the Superbowl Massacre was set up under the pretence that it was cover for a raid on Hamas to rescue two Israeli hostages; Israel ran an advert during the Superbowl with the tagline “Bring back our dads”, and then magically produced two such “dads”.
But it has been claimed that these “dads” had actually been rescued on February 2, and there was no raid to rescue anybody; this was simply an excuse for the massacre.
You can see the wider-scale impact of it in the post below:
🇵🇸🇮🇱 This was the state of a refugee camp in Rafah after The Super Bowl Massacre last night.
Imagine being moved from here, there and everywhere to be a place you were told was a safe zone.
Only to be woken up at 2am by the sound of missiles landing on you.
Pure evil. pic.twitter.com/j5TFxJpPow
— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) February 12, 2024
This is not the limit of the “pure evil” that Israel has been visiting on the people of Palestine, though. Here are a few more examples:
Israeli soldiers attack Palestinian mourners at a funeral inside the cemetery ground.
Palestinians are facing an impossible situation. This is unnecessary savagery! This is evil. pic.twitter.com/HH3MQPKzmS
— Amwoga Khalwale (@amwogakhalwale) February 12, 2024
https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1757357698071294252
https://twitter.com/muhammadshehad2/status/1757358867132948930
Alongside the murders – looting:
Absolute stains on humanity https://t.co/SH4PBzJZGA
— Team Phoenix 🔥 #followthephoenix (@LeftPhoenix) February 13, 2024
And lies. Israel is apparently claiming that it is helping send aid into Gaza, but the clip being used as evidence of this is from two years ago:
How are there still journalists in the west who blindly believe and pass on whatever the Israeli government says? Without being even mildly skeptical? Without insisting on evidence?
Bizarre. Fool me once etc etc https://t.co/LnkITbAjqn— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan) February 12, 2024
In fact, it seems Israelis are blocking aid from entering Gaza:
Feels like a scene from a sick dystopian movie, complete with demented characters and erratic music. Something is sick and disturbing about these people.
— Amree (@Amree71983) February 13, 2024
Looking at the evidence, some of us have been working backwards to find out what Israel has actually been doing. Here’s what they found:
Israel came up with a master plan
• Pack Gaza civilians into tiny areas & then bomb those areas.
• Get the west to defund the only body capable of preventing mass starvation (UNRWA).
• And get USA taxpayers to pay for the bombs needed to do it.
The plan had 100% success.
— Tory Fibs (@ToryFibs) February 13, 2024
It’s certainly true that the United States, courtesy of President ‘Genocide Joe’ Biden, has sent huge amounts of money to Israel. enabling that country to buy more weapons and ammunition to use on Palestinians:
Over and over again, I hear the President and Members of Congress express deep concern about Netanyahu and the humanitarian disaster in Gaza that he has caused.
Then why are they supporting giving Netanyahu another $10 billion to continue his war against the Palestinian people?
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) February 12, 2024
And the US government has been roundly criticised for it.
"If you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms."
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell has suggested the US rethink its military aid to Israel – because of the high number of civilian casualties in Gaza.pic.twitter.com/ng8iqPNupe
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) February 13, 2024
But this is not solely a war on Gaza:
This is not Gaza. It is Huwwara, in the West Bank, yesterday.
Palestinians under attack from Israeli settlers.
Hamas are not in the West Bank.
It is not about ‘defence’.
It is about ethnic cleansing.— Howard Beckett (@BeckettUnite) February 13, 2024
Yes it is ethnic cleansing. Yes it is genocide. Yes it is a holocaust.
And, being perpetrated by Jewish people from Israel, it means that the leaders of that country have learned nothing at all from the Holocaust inflicted on them by Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler.
It is, therefore, understandable for people to have become more than a little upset at this turn of events:
A friend has warned me that my posts this last 48 hours have lacked my usual measured tone and appear driven by anger.
I expect that is true. But anybody who is not furious at the genocide in Gaza is not paying attention.— Craig Murray (@CraigMurrayOrg) February 13, 2024
I am 62
I don’t think I have ever seen anything as disgusting, vile and shameful in British public life as the attitude towards the GENOCIDE in Gaza, supported by the UK, of the Govt, the Opposition, the BBC and most of the rest of the media
— Tom London (@TomLondon6) February 12, 2024
Yes that is correct – the UK’s government wholeheartedly supports what happened to Sidra Hassouna. On your behalf, it is saying that you wanted her to be blown to pieces by what’s most likely to have been an American bomb, triggered by an Israeli grunt. The UK and the US are drenched in the blood of Gazan children:
"There is no mainstream anti-genocide party in this country or the United States…"
Investigative journalist Matt Kennard points out bipartisan support for Israel in both Britain and North America. pic.twitter.com/uLjosBqUwM
— Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) February 12, 2024
Also covered in blood are the Labour MPs who supported this. One of them, Rachel Reeves, was confronted by a member of the public – and ignored her:
I look forward to seeing more Labour MPs meet the public in the upcoming elections!!😊
They must be held to account wherever they go. https://t.co/Yc3h2cQxf0
— Daniel Fooks (@DanielFooksArt) February 13, 2024
Backtracking a little, remember the claim that Israel had persuaded the UK and the US to de-fund the only organisation capable of preventing a famine in Gaza – refugee care organisation UNRWA – with lies?
Here’s Israel’s liar-in-chief, Eylon Levy, failing to provide any evidence that UNRWA workers were involved in the October 7, 2023, attack on Israel:
On #C4News last night Krishnan Guru-Murthy asked Israeli govt spokesperson Eylon Levy if the Israeli government has any actual evidence that UNRWA workers were directly involved in the October 7th attack.
Levy cannot confirm there is any evidence. pic.twitter.com/x50XnDQ5gD
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) February 13, 2024
And this satirical post highlights the differences between what journalists have been told and what they know to be factually accurate:
https://twitter.com/LKTranslator/status/1757357874362147214
You may be asking, what’s the situation now?
Here are a few reports:
“In the northern part of Gaza… it is literally a famine – people are dying from hunger.”
Filmmaker Yousef Hammash, who is sheltering in Rafah with his family, speaks to @krishgm about what people are making of Israeli calls for people to leave the southern city. pic.twitter.com/V34bUnKjUO
— Channel 4 News (@Channel4News) February 13, 2024
Journalist @HaneenHarara has been displaced from her home and is now in Rafah.
The interviewer begins his interview with her by asking "Are there many many others in a similar position as you?" pic.twitter.com/jsKRXxUGvL
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) February 13, 2024
.@DrHananAshrawi: "We are in the midst of a genocide… the primary objective is to destroy not just the Palestinians of Gaza but all of Palestine" pic.twitter.com/rudunCCewl
— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) February 13, 2024
Palestine’s ambassador to the UK, Husam Zomlot, has been consistently excellent in putting forward the case for his people to receive help from the UK, rather than hostility:
There’s no doubt @hzomlot has been one of the leading voices for Palestine during Israel’s barbaric campaign of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
Be more like Mr Zomlot and less like Eylon Levy. pic.twitter.com/VZMzCwpWUa
— Rachael Swindon (@Rachael_Swindon) February 12, 2024
But perhaps if your heart is too hard for you to listen to these adults, it will soften at the words of these Palestinian youngsters:
“The best journalist I have ever seen.
This is Lama's message to the world
Rafah was said to be safe and now it is facing brutal bombardment…where are these children to go and despite it all they themselves are still speaking up…so should you.” Via zein_rahma pic.twitter.com/oj5wKVWjMD— Robert Martin 🇵🇸 (@Robert_Martin72) February 13, 2024
They want help, so they will be able to go home again. This may be difficult if their homes are now rubble. And the UK’s government remains hell-bent on supporting Israel.
But the tide of public opinion has turned further against our government – not just here in the UK but across the world, wherever Israel is receiving indiscriminate support for its genocide.
Ordinary people are refusing to accept it – here in the UK:
At very short notice, it was incredible to see so many people come out in Newcastle against the atrocities in Rafah and against the genocide. 🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/VUMlziLOUK
— Laura Pidcock (@LauraPidcock) February 12, 2024
In the Netherlands:
Less talk & more action
She took over the loudspeaker at Amsterdam airport
Dear passengers …..
Holland is on the wrong side of history & its taxes are contributing to a genocide. It's time to act …pic.twitter.com/G5u0MkF6ew #Israel #Gaza #Rafah #CeasefireNow #Palestine— Jerry Hicks (@JerryHicksUnite) February 13, 2024
In Japan:
Two major Japanese companies have cut ties with Israel's biggest arms maker after a grassroots campaign by Palestine solidarity activists across Japan https://t.co/oqBdTzIq5w pic.twitter.com/QbY4TscX2J
— Electronic Intifada (@intifada) February 13, 2024
And, yes, in the United States:
Protestors have taken over the tunnel to Grand Central
The march rapidly changed directions and rushed into the tunnel before #NYPD could block the entrance pic.twitter.com/vhrBO7P7Tr
— Gaza Under Attack_🇵🇸 (@Palestine001_) February 13, 2024
Harvard University students stage a die-in vigil on the stairs of Widener Library for the fatalities of Rafah and recite the late Dr. Refaat Al Areer's poem "If I must die". pic.twitter.com/0DvNB9FxDq
— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) February 13, 2024
So far, our pleas for our governments to stop fuelling genocide have fallen on deaf ears.
It seems they will not heed the plight of children like Sidra Hassouna, and will instead continue funding Israel so Benjamin Netanyahu can continue buying the bombs and bullets that blew her apart.
But with public opposition growing, the tide will turn. How long will it be before we have a government that demands justice for Sidra; justice for Gaza?
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What will it take for the arrogant brutal and cruel criminals namely the UK fake government, the US government, Netherlands government and all the other fake western governments to finally decide ‘no longer will we support the fascist terrorist zionist murderous Israeli regime.’
And not forgetting the craven cowardly fake opposition party namely Labour with their fascist leader Starmer still insisting Israel has a right to defend itself!
The people in western countries continue to speak out and denounce the cowardly craven war criminals who claim to be ‘the governments’ and still fascist terrorist Israel continues to commit holocaust against the Palestinians!
Shame on the terrorist/fascist/zionist Israeli men and women who are the ones responsible and shame on the cowardly white western governments!