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The news you may not have read - by design
Dec. 4th, 2023 11:38 amEver since the 10/7/2023 attack by Hamas on Israel, in which Israel said 1,400 Israeli Jews died (and a month later revised that number down to 1,200), I have watched with increasing horror the reports of the slaughter of innocent Palestinian civilians.
The 10/7/2023 attack didn't come out of nowhere.
On 5/18/2023, Yaniv Kubovich and Ben Samuels, reporting for Haaretz, said, "Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has instructed Israeli government ministries to prepare for the addition of 500,000 settlers in the West Bank, including an improvement of infrastructure in the settlements and illegal outposts."
On 6/15/2023, CNN reported the rampage by Israeli settlers on 2/26/23 through Huwara was violence so brutal that the Israeli military commander for the West Bank called it a “pogrom...”
In a month long investigation "...CNN found that, not only did the forces fail to stop the riots in Huwara, they did not protect residents as settlers set fire to Palestinian homes and businesses and blocked emergency services from responding. Instead, when residents threw rocks in reaction to the settlers’ aggression, Israeli forces fired at the Palestinians with tear gas and stun grenades, according to analysis of the footage and eyewitness accounts."
On 8/28/2023, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported attacks on Palestinians, including the deaths of children in Israeli force operations, saying, "The number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank and Israel by Israeli forces so far in 2023 (172) has surpassed the total number killed in all of 2022 (155), which already saw the highest fatalities in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since 2005."
And on 10/7/2023, Vox laid some of the blame at the feet of the United States saying, "...It comes after nearly two decades of the US and world leaders overlooking the more than 2 million people living in Gaza who endure a humanitarian nightmare, with its airspace and borders and sea under Israeli control. The attack comes amid an ongoing failure to grapple with the dangerous situation for Palestinians in the West Bank where Israel’s extreme-right government over the past year has escalated the already brutal daily pain of occupation."
During what Israel is calling a war, but in which I see no attempt to cover up what is really genocide and ethnic cleansing, Israel has made multiple weekly proclamations to innocent Palestinian non-combatants about where to go in the tiny Gaza strip where they can be safe.
And then bombs the hell out of the convoys carrying them and the destination itself.
I have posted some of this at various times to my Facebook page. It's gotten few and no comments. I have a Facebook friend with the same opinion about this "war" as I have, and I can't see those posts in my newsfeed. I have to go to her page to view them. Mine is not a popular viewpoint. I get that. But I know I am being censored by Facebook's AI.
For all of you screaming, "But I know some Jewish people!" so do I. And I also know some Muslim people, and expect you do also.
But I also know when the leaders of one country are trying to wipe out the people of another, and I am not afraid to call a spade a spade.
This is not war. Israel's intention has been clear for the past year. It's not something we can wish away.
Although I would so love to be able to do that.
The 10/7/2023 attack didn't come out of nowhere.
On 5/18/2023, Yaniv Kubovich and Ben Samuels, reporting for Haaretz, said, "Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has instructed Israeli government ministries to prepare for the addition of 500,000 settlers in the West Bank, including an improvement of infrastructure in the settlements and illegal outposts."
On 6/15/2023, CNN reported the rampage by Israeli settlers on 2/26/23 through Huwara was violence so brutal that the Israeli military commander for the West Bank called it a “pogrom...”
In a month long investigation "...CNN found that, not only did the forces fail to stop the riots in Huwara, they did not protect residents as settlers set fire to Palestinian homes and businesses and blocked emergency services from responding. Instead, when residents threw rocks in reaction to the settlers’ aggression, Israeli forces fired at the Palestinians with tear gas and stun grenades, according to analysis of the footage and eyewitness accounts."
On 8/28/2023, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) reported attacks on Palestinians, including the deaths of children in Israeli force operations, saying, "The number of Palestinians killed in the West Bank and Israel by Israeli forces so far in 2023 (172) has surpassed the total number killed in all of 2022 (155), which already saw the highest fatalities in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since 2005."
And on 10/7/2023, Vox laid some of the blame at the feet of the United States saying, "...It comes after nearly two decades of the US and world leaders overlooking the more than 2 million people living in Gaza who endure a humanitarian nightmare, with its airspace and borders and sea under Israeli control. The attack comes amid an ongoing failure to grapple with the dangerous situation for Palestinians in the West Bank where Israel’s extreme-right government over the past year has escalated the already brutal daily pain of occupation."
During what Israel is calling a war, but in which I see no attempt to cover up what is really genocide and ethnic cleansing, Israel has made multiple weekly proclamations to innocent Palestinian non-combatants about where to go in the tiny Gaza strip where they can be safe.
And then bombs the hell out of the convoys carrying them and the destination itself.
I have posted some of this at various times to my Facebook page. It's gotten few and no comments. I have a Facebook friend with the same opinion about this "war" as I have, and I can't see those posts in my newsfeed. I have to go to her page to view them. Mine is not a popular viewpoint. I get that. But I know I am being censored by Facebook's AI.
For all of you screaming, "But I know some Jewish people!" so do I. And I also know some Muslim people, and expect you do also.
But I also know when the leaders of one country are trying to wipe out the people of another, and I am not afraid to call a spade a spade.
This is not war. Israel's intention has been clear for the past year. It's not something we can wish away.
Although I would so love to be able to do that.
