[News] Important! - How Western Media Laid The Groundwork For A Holocaust
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This week Israel murdered five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza, including
Anas al-Sharif, one of the few journalists regularly broadcasting from
the strip.
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This week Israel murdered five Al Jazeera journalists in Gaza, including
Anas al-Sharif, one of the few journalists regularly broadcasting from
the strip. He was twenty-eight years old and had a young son and daughter.
The images testify to a scene of utter brutality, bombed in their tent,
cameras and laptops lying melted among their torn and charred bodies.
Israel didn’t deny they’d targeted journalists (a war crime). They
boasted about the crime, predictably crying 'Hamas' as a justification
for their butchery.
They claimed the four men and one woman were Hamas, because they
believed this was the best way to sell a war crime to the western
public. And why not? After all, cries of Hamas! have become the
justification for a holocaust itself. What’s another five murdered
journalists between genocidal friends?
Twenty-plus years of propaganda aided by the western media and political
class helped create the conditions for all of this. This propaganda,
that Hamas is a terror group and anything goes in pursuit of their
destruction, was designed to end us up here. It was designed to smooth
Israel’s final solution.
Let’s interrogate exactly what it means to be ‘Hamas’ for a minute.
Let’s look at the context and reality behind a word that has so deeply
contaminated western brains that it has enabled a genocide in our time.
Hamas are (were) the civic authority in Gaza, responsible for everything
from landscaping the parks, to maintaining the sewage system to
collecting the garbage. And they were democratically elected. The
engineer who fixed the water pipes in Gaza City? Hamas. The gardener who
tended the parks and watered the flowers in Rafah? Hamas. The guy who
cleaned the Khan Yunis water park and maintained the slides? Hamas. The
accountant who collected the taxes to fund the governance and management
of Gaza? Hamas.
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But it was essential that no one in the west thought of Hamas like this.
On the contrary. *It was essential that in the western mind Gaza was
synonymous with terror, so when the timing and conditions were right for
a final solution, Israel could apply that final solution without friction.*
And this was achieved via the proscription of Hamas as a terror group in
key western countries in the late 90s and early 2000s, starting with the
US under Clinton in 1997 and the UK under Blair in 2001. Hamas has never
attacked outside Israel and the occupied territories and never wanted
to. Why would they? Hamas isn’t ISIS or al-Qaeda. Hamas is a local
resistance group struggling against a nuclear-armed oppressor who stole
their land, stole their homes and inflicted generations of apartheid on
them.
Because Hamas is a local organisation, only ten countries in the world
proscribe them as a terror group. Do we believe it’s because these are
the best, right and most moral countries in the world? Of course not.
These are the countries most vital to the Israeli project, the ones
where you can get most bang for your Zionist buck. Proscribing Hamas was
an indispensable ploy, because it ensured western media would preface
every future mention of Hamas with the words 'terror group.’
Terror group Hamas.
Terror group Hamas.
Terror group Hamas.
A phrase repeated over and over and over for years, in print, on TV, on
the radio, brainwashing key western publics. This brainwashing granted
Israel the license to murder whoever it wanted in Gaza, whenever it
wanted, with minimal fuss and outcry in those countries.
This brainwashing enabled Israel to kill nearly two hundred civilians
and maim /over one thousand/in 2018 when Gaza’s residents organised
peaceful marches to the border fence demanding an end to the blockade of
the territory. The UN report of the mass murders
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a series of marches known as the Great March of Return details only one
injury to an Israeli soldier (from a stone being thrown). Not a single
Israeli soldier was badly hurt, let alone killed. Palestinians marched
to the fence with banners and were simply shot through the head by
snipers in watchtowers. The report says the patterns of injuries on
children were particularly clear: the knees and legs were targeted in an
effort to permanently maim and disable.
This brainwashing enabled Israel to bomb Gaza during the height of covid
in 2021, striking six hospitals, nine health centres, and killing Dr
Ayman Abu al-Ouf, the specialist responsible for leading the response to
the pandemic across Gaza City. They killed Dr Ayman and his entire famil
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wife, children, a 12-year-old daughter and 17-year-old son, collapsing
their home down on top of them with American bombs. The justification
for slaughtering a man responsible for leading the response to a
once-in-a-century pandemic? You guessed it. Hamas.
The Hamas brainwashing helped lay the groundwork for the final solution
we’re now witnessing.
And to this day, after nearly two years of the slaughter, we see and
hear this propaganda alive and well in the western media. ‘Hamas-run
health ministry’ has been a particular favourite of so-called
journalists in the west, a signal that we should doubt the number of
dead. The prefacing of everything with 'Hamas-run' is terror-coding, a
little nudge to make sure we remember our training, to make sure we know
these aren’t white Ukrainians. These aren’t real victims. We’re dealing
with brown terrorists here. And some babies may have to be killed. Maybe
a lot of babies actually. But remember: Hamas.
This is how racist Zionists, via their client journalists in the media,
managed to cultivate in the western mind a caricature of Hamas that
facilitated a holocaust. A caricature that made Hamas out as
bloodthirsty murderers and rapists who would kill and/or rape you the
moment you set foot in Gaza. This caricature has done a lot of the heavy
lifting that brought us to this point and to the total destruction of
Gaza, the near-extermination of a people.
*And this propaganda is almost certainly why you’ve never of Vittorio
Arrigoni.*
Arrigioni was an Italian peace activist who left Italy and arrived in
Gaza on a peace flotilla in 2008. Living with local Palestinian families
across the strip, he was welcomed openly, and lovingly. He integrated
into the society and culture of Gaza and became an iconic figure. He
even got a tattoo in Arabic dedicated to Gaza (because no, Hamas didn’t
kill people for having tattoos).
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Then, in 2011, after leaving the gym, he was kidnapped off the street by
an al-Qaeda affiliated group seeking the return of their leader who had
been imprisoned by Hamas. Arrigioni was held as a bargaining chip by the
al-Qaeda-linked militants who gave Hamas officials thirty hours to
release their leader or they'd kill Arrigoni. Hamas were making
arrangements for delivering the leader back to the group when Arrigoni
was killed by his captors before the expiration of the deadline. Hamas
immediately sealed off parts of Gaza City and launched a manhunt. They
found the militants, killed two of them in a gunfight, and arrested four.
In the weeks after his death, Ismail Haniyeh, the-then leader of Hamas
(who was assassinated by Israel last year) arranged for Arrigoni's
parents to fly to Egypt, and from there they were personally escorted by
Hamas officials into Gaza. Hamas gave Arrigioni a state funeral, the
highest honour in death, and one normally reserved for the elite of
society in Gaza. He was designated an official martyr by Haniyeh and a
street in Gaza City was named after him. On top of this, Hamas respected
the wishes of the parents for the courts not to impose the death penalty
on the remaining al-Qaeda-affiliated militants, who were instead
sentenced to between one year and life in prison. Every year after his
death, hundreds of Palestinians in Gaza would march in remembrance of
Arrigioni
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the Square of the Unknown Soldier.
You’ve never heard this story. You never heard about Arrigioni, and you
never heard the story of the hundreds of western activists who have
lived safely in Gaza over the years, welcomed with love by Palestinians.
You never heard about it because it would have disrupted the narrative.
Because it would have humanised Hamas and the Palestinians.
Israel’s murder of Anas and his colleagues was enabled by the
dehumanisation so successfully cultivated in the western mind.
Israel knew that if they denied foreign journalists access to Gaza they
could call everyone Hamas and do a holocaust because the depth of
anti-Muslim racism in the west would mean Palestinian accounts of their
own suffering would be disbelieved or ignored.
The propaganda has been sickening. Grotesque. Genocidal.
We must remember this propaganda every time we hear a news anchor or
journalist or talking head screeching wildly about Hamas as
justification for genocide.
Remember also that IDF doctrine says the families and friends of anyone
they consider Hamas are legitimate targets for murder.
This is how we ended up with slaughter on a scale that erodes all of our
humanity.
Cracks are appearing now, because after a time, a genocide becomes
obvious as the thing that it is.
But it has taken far, far too long.
And this is because the propaganda that aimed to dehumanise the
Palestinians worked so well.
This is because people who are paid to be impartial interlocuters of
events are nothing of the sort.
This is because racism, anti-Muslim racism, is thriving in the west.
The caricature of Hamas is the same caricature that Zionists and
fascists seek to cultivate in the western mind about Muslims everywhere.
This caricature is central to the far-right vision and is a key subtext
to the illegal immigration narrative. And this is why we can’t divorce
Gaza from the domestic politics of the west. Fascists in our countries
look to Gaza approvingly. And western fascists poisoning minds with
racist lies about what ‘third-world immigration is doing to our
countries’ cheer as Gaza lies in complete ruins, a civilisation
destroyed by the same supremacist credo that claims itself the saviour
of civilisation.
We have to organise to defeat these people.
And have to organise against genocidal propaganda and against the
pushers of this propaganda for a truth that could set us all free.
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