| zeldaring said: Sorry but it's hard to take anyone seriously when they say will a ceasefire solve anything. If they are paying attention it's not a war, it's a genocide. something like 9000 children under 7 years old killed and isreal knows this every time they drop a bomb but they calculate it's worth it since Palestinians lives are worth nothing. The whole population homeless and starving, 70% of homes destroyed, and 70%-75% of civilians killed you really have to be heartless to say what would a cease fire accomplish. |
Yes, I feel the same way. But I don't watch Fox News and I assume neither do you. The narrative there and in other main stream is very different, always downplaying or ignoring what happens in Gaza, completely ignoring what happens in the West Bank, continuing to push the narrative that Oct 7 happened out of the blue because Hamas wants to kill all jews. (Why would they take hostages if they want to kill all jews?)
Israel has succeeded in painting themselves as the only democracy in the Middle East, surrounded by hate filled Arabs that want to wipe them off the planet. It's not that people are for genocide, it's that they don't or refuse to belief what's actually happening in Israel, Gaza and the West Bank. Disinformation campaigns on all fronts plus social media in particular makes it easier than ever to fall prey of confirmation bias.
The 'Hamas-run' health ministry must be lying about the death toll, despite it being well under represented as stated by many respected international organizations. Hamas is going to wipe out Israel if we don't stop them now. Just listen to all the lies Eylon Levy spouts as gospel
Fox news regurgitates all that as truth.
The Western media is complicit in the long ongoing genocide, which did not start on Oct 7 either, started in 1948.
For example article from 2016
https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2016/10/Background%20on%20the%20term%20genocide%20in%20Israel%20Palestine%20Context.pdf
Genocide is a term that has both sociological and legal meaning. The term genocide was coined in 1944 by a Jewish Polish legal scholar, Raphael Lemkin. For Lemkin, “the term does not necessarily signify mass killings.” He explained:
More often [genocide] refers to a coordinated plan aimed at destruction of the essential foundations of the life of national groups so that these groups wither and die like plants that have suffered a blight. The end may be accomplished by the forced disintegration of political and social institutions, of the culture of the people, of their language, their national feelings and their religion. It may be accomplished by wiping out all basis of personal security, liberty, health and dignity. When these means fail the machine gun can always be utilized as a last resort. Genocide is directed against a national group as an entity and the attack on individuals is only secondary to the annihilation of the national group to which they belong.
Israel has been doing this to the Palestinian people for the past 75 years and hasn't been shy about it either
https://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/israel-palestine-conflict-history-causes-and-international-law
During the 2014 Gaza War, the U.N. Special Advisers on the Prevention of Genocide issued a statement that they were “disturbed by the flagrant use of hate speech in the social media, particularly against the Palestinian population,” and that “individuals have disseminated messages that could be dehumanising to the Palestinians and have called for the killing of members of this group,” while “remind[ing] all that incitement to commit atrocity crimes is prohibited under international law.”[31]
This sort of language is not isolated, either. Israeli lawmakers have publicly called for action against Palestinians that would clearly meet the definition under the 1948 Convention. In 2008, Matan Vilnai, the Deputy Defense Minister for Israel, declared that the increasing tensions in the Gaza Strip would bring on a “shoah” (or holocaust). He stated, “The more Qassam [rocket] fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they will bring upon themselves a bigger shoah because we will use all our might to defend ourselves.”[32]
Israeli Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked posted a statement in June 2014 on Facebook stating that “the entire Palestinian people is the enemy” and he advocated for Palestine’s destruction “including its elderly and its women, its cities and its villages, its property and its infrastructure.” The post also called for the killing of Palestinian mothers who give birth to “little snakes.”[33] The language is shocking, and when combined with the policies enacted by the people saying things like this, it becomes clear that the actions of Israel could constitute genocide.
Yet their PR office in the form of Hasbara and Aipac have kept all this hidden from the casual audience of the world and pushed the narrative that it's always been Hamas that wants to wipe out Israel and Israel is merely defending itself from barbarians.
In 2022 Israel allocated another 30 million to spread propaganda
https://www.972mag.com/hasbara-funding-foreign-agents/
The Israeli cabinet approved on Sunday a project that could inject up to NIS 100 million [$30 million] toward covertly funding government propaganda in the United States and other Western countries. Led by Foreign Minister Yair Lapid, the initiative is expected to revive a failed plan entrusted until recently to the now-defunct Strategic Affairs Ministry, which closed in 2021. The plan is to transfer money indirectly to foreign organizations that will spread Israeli propaganda in the countries in which they operate, all while hiding the fact that they are backed by the Israeli government.
Meanwhile Aipac spends 3 million a year lobbying politicians
https://www.opensecrets.org/orgs/american-israel-public-affairs-cmte/summary?id=D000046963
If you believe the Western media and Israeli propaganda, then statements like "what would a ceasefire accomplish" make sense. The one thing I hope will finally happen is that Israel has gone so far this time that they won't be able to cover up all the war crimes and ongoing genocide any longer. And maybe then a solution can finally start to happen.
