This is in the West Bank, which Hamas does not control and where it has barely had a presence since the PA, Israel, and the US collaborated to drive them out after they won the 2006 election.
They smashed Shireen Abu Akleh’s memorial in Jenin (West Bank) too.
the fact that western media outlets are still referring to this situation as “conflict” or the Israel-Hamas “war” when it is evidently an active invasion and genocide of the Palestinian people tells you all you need to know. a traditional war implies that the main parties are near equal in military and political power, that there is some end in sight, that the fight and pain is occuring away from civilian areas, when that is clearly not the case here. it is fucked up that government has so much power over the news we see and it is appalling that people are so blinded by hate and unable to recognize the reality that modern genocide is occurring, and that soon enough Gazans will disappear.
Isn’t this the same dude who sexually harassed AOC?
Christ….
Sky News is the worst of the worst, but it is also important to note that Australia has this funny little problem where literally 70% of our media is run by Rupert Murdoch, the guy who owns Fox News. Sky News is by far the most racist station, but that is only because it’s the only one that goes full mask off. It’s awful. The media here is a constant deluge of inescapable right wing propaganda.
The No result on the recent Indigenous voice referendum? The result of the news media platforming racist politicians and purposefully allowing them to spread misinformation with no fact checking whatsoever. And you bet the media here is also fully on board with Israel’s genocide as well. They love imperialism and settled colonialism, and they aren’t shy about it.
When a corrupt politician came under investigation, the media immediately jumped to her defence, claiming that our corruption watchdog was unfairly targeting her and ruining her life. When an accused rapist in parliament house refused to go to court, the media let him come on and “tell his side of the story” in an environment in which the relatives of the victim (who killed herself) couldn’t challenge any of his claims.
Whenever there is racist bullshit happening somewhere, it is almost guaranteed that the media is exacerbating it if they aren’t its direct cause. I would give anything for the chance to beat Murdoch to death, the hatred I feel for him is indescribable, he should be put to death, he should have been smothered in his fucking crib before he had the chance to make the entire news media his vile little propaganda machine. I legitimately believe that he should be personally held accountable for all the hate crimes his right-wing propaganda has encouraged.
“Fuck Rupert Murdoch” does not even begin to scratch the surface of how much hatred I feel for him and everything he and his media puppets have done.
One of the most evil people alive, the repugnant shadow overlord responsible for irreversibly poisoning the minds of so many people around the world, an unapologetic genocide supporter, a demagogue enabler, an enabler of homophobia and transphobia, a true capitalist pig, the number 1 climate apocalypse fan, racist enough to make klansmen blush, a master misogynist, a fascist puppet master. Rupert Murdoch is all of these things and more. There will be no progress or justice in this nation until we drag him out onto the street and stomp his skull into the pavement.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health released a full report with names, ages and IDs of those who were killed – maybe at least in part as a fuck you to Western media and the US president who suddenly cast doubt on the number of fatalities. Over 7000 people died. Whole families wiped out forever. It’s beyond comprehension. May their memory be eternal.
The decision to release the names was made in explicit response to the skepticism of US admin:
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The Ministry of Health announcement is here, and ends with a link to the 212 page pdf [both in Arabic]
“When the Palestinians in Gaza tried to elect their own leadership in January 2006, Hamas—formed in the first Intifada (Uprising) of 1987 in Gaza—won the election. The victory of Hamas (the Islamic Resistance Movement) was condemned by the Israelis and the West, who decided to use armed force to overthrow the election results. Operation Summer Rains and Operation Autumn Clouds introduced the Palestinians to a new dynamic: punctual bombardment as collective punishment for electing Hamas in the legislative elections. Gaza was never allowed a political process, in fact, never allowed to shape any kind of political authority to speak for the people. Israel has tried with force to eradicate Gaza’s political life and to force the people into a situation where the armed conflict becomes permanent. When the Palestinians conducted a non-violent Great March of Return in 2019, the Israeli army responded with brute force that killed two hundred people. When a non-violent protest is met with force, it becomes difficult to convince people to remain on that path and not take up arms.”
“Where are our humanitarian interventionists? The ones who wept crocodile tears about the human rights of Ukranians, Iraqis, Syrians, Libyans and Afghans, to justify massive arms shipments and war? Where is the old anti-war wing of the Democratic Party and the liberal class? What has happened to the public intellectuals who used to decry the slaughter of innocents and the U.S. war machine? Where are the jurists who uphold the rule of international law? Why are the few lonely voices speaking out about Israel’s genocide of the Palestinians attacked, censored and doxxed?”
“The gruesome images of Israelis gunned down by Hamas is the currency of death. It trades carnage for carnage, a macabre dance that Israel initiated with the massacres and ethnic cleansing that allowed for the creation of the Jewish state, followed by decades of dispossession and violence meted out to the Palestinians. The Israeli army, before the current assault, had killed 7,779 Palestinians in Gaza since 2000 including 1,741 children and 572 women, according to the Israeli human rights group B’Tselem. This figure does not include Gazans who died due to drinking contaminated water or being denied access to medical treatment. Nor does it include the rising number of Gazan youth who, having lost all hope and struggling with deep depression, have committed suicide.”
i believe israeli politicians and media personalities mean it when they say gaza should be flattened, destroyed and ethnically cleansed. i believe they mean it when they say there is no reason to distinguish between hamas militants and civilians. i believe this is their real position and i believe that their statements apply to hospitals in gaza
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