[News] It Shouldn't Have Taken This Much For Mainstream Voices To Start Speaking Up About Gaza
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It Shouldn't Have Taken This Much For Mainstream Voices To Start
Speaking Up About Gaza
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Israel’s top human rights group B’Tselem has finally declared
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Israel is committing genocide, as has
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Israel-based Physicians for Human Rights. The Israeli organizations join
Amnesty International
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Human Rights Watch
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UN human rights experts
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and the overwhelming majority
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leading authorities on the subject of genocide in their conclusion.
The debate is over. The Israel apologists lost. And we are seeing this
reflected in mainstream discourse.
Pop megastar Ariana Grande has started speaking out
<https://substack.com/redirect/e30e911b-0627-462a-aa7e-088215abe591?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>in
support of Gaza, telling her social media followers that “starving
people to death is a red line.” This is a new threshold. Opposing
Israel’s genocide is now the most mainstream as it has ever been.
MSNBC just ran a piece explicitly titled “Israel is starving Gaza. And
the U.S. is complicit.
<https://substack.com/redirect/8d9d1144-dd79-4edd-9e7c-651bda734ab2?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>”,
featuring a segment with the virulently pro-Israel Morning Joe slamming
the mass atrocity. CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, himself a former AIPAC employee
<https://substack.com/redirect/1553ca05-b618-476a-9739-79bbb0025ceb?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>,
has done a 180 and is now raking Israel over the coals
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the air for its deliberately engineered starvation campaign. The New
York Times finally overcame its phobia of the g-word
<https://substack.com/redirect/0e6f65c0-3b5c-4e06-abc4-76525987e906?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>with
an op-ed titled “I’m a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.
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We’re now seeing notoriously Zionist swamp monsters in the Democratic
Party like Barack Obama
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Hakeem Jeffries
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Cory Booker
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Amy Klobuchar
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their tune and attacking Netanyahu and Trump for their joint genocide
project in Gaza, with increasingly forceful pushback from some on the
right like Marjorie Taylor Greene
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well.
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As western pundits, politicians and celebrities suddenly pivot to
denouncing Israel’s genocidal atrocities after two years of silence,
it’s hard to believe that just a few weeks ago we were being told that
saying “death to the IDF” is a hate crime.
People who’ve been staring at this genocide from the beginning have been
asking the entire time, what is it going to take? What will it take for
our society to stop sleepwalking through inane trivialities and vapid
distractions and start opposing the holocaust of our day?
Raining military explosives on a giant concentration camp
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full of children wasn’t enough.
Burning children alive
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enough.
Systematically destroying Gaza’s entire healthcare infrastructure
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to and including entering hospitals they’ve attacked and destroying
individual pieces of medical equipment one by one — wasn’t enough.
Killing more journalists than were killed
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both World Wars plus the US Civil War, the Korean War, the Vietnam War,
the Yugoslav Wars, the War in Afghanistan, and the ongoing war in
Ukraine wasn’t enough.
The systemic rape
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torture
<https://substack.com/redirect/e308e299-ca32-452d-a347-5fbf94c64024?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>of
prisoners wasn’t enough.
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https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1949587236434931921
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IDF soldiers routinely sharing photos and videos
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themselves mockingly dressing in the clothes of dead and displaced
Palestinian women and playing with the toys of dead and displaced
Palestinian children wasn’t enough.
Israeli officials
<https://substack.com/redirect/af6224a2-c362-4420-a485-07aca186dca8?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>openly
expressing genocidal intent
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the people of Gaza wasn’t enough.
The US president and Israeli prime minister openly declaring
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goal of the complete ethnic cleansing of a Palestinian territory wasn’t
enough.
Field testing new weapons of war
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Palestinians like they’re guinea pigs in a laboratory wasn’t enough.
Leaving countless civilians to slowly suffocate or die of dehydration
trapped under the rubble
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bombed buildings wasn’t enough.
Creating an AI system to ensure that suspected Hamas fighters are bombed
when they’re at home with their children and naming it “Where’s Daddy?”
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enough.
Using Palestinians as human shields
<https://substack.com/redirect/ca9253e1-1854-4df1-9cb7-acb41e18f8b4?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>wasn’t
enough.
Burying injured civilians alive
<https://substack.com/redirect/2d9a8e65-839d-46a3-b4c0-26099fdf5aea?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>with
bulldozers wasn’t enough.
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https://x.com/GozukaraFurkan/status/1949232008216887774
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The IDF admitting
<https://substack.com/redirect/e000078c-5926-4c9f-b365-0973f5f2c482?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>to
running a popular Telegram channel called “72 Virgins” which posted
extremely gory and sadistic snuff films
<https://substack.com/redirect/6718d7d5-50d8-43c6-ac98-50c3f591c24f?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>of
people in Gaza being butchered by Israeli forces wasn’t enough.
IDF snipers routinely shooting children in the head and chest
<https://substack.com/redirect/cb0597e7-798b-48da-984c-eb1b29326c30?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>throughout
the Gaza Strip wasn’t enough.
The IDF flying drones which play the sounds of crying babies
<https://substack.com/redirect/36b53762-eb04-4a15-bc2c-98824a8e0112?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>at
night in order to lure out hiding civilians to murder them wasn’t enough.
IDF troops telling the Israeli press
<https://substack.com/redirect/8eb2c1f7-3c17-4e3a-87a0-ac947c3e6311?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>that
they’re being ordered to massacre starving civilians seeking food from
aid sites wasn’t enough.
Israeli snipers targeting different body parts
<https://substack.com/redirect/ef427460-8124-4e20-9409-ec200d44589c?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>of
starving civilians on designated days — leg day, head day, genitals day,
etc — wasn’t enough.
Far right Israeli citizens setting up blockades
<https://substack.com/redirect/6b3d2195-3476-4f7b-8397-a846c706e477?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>to
stop aid trucks
<https://substack.com/redirect/2e7defdd-19e5-4965-940a-76f556473911?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>from
entering Gaza while they enjoyed parties and barbecues
<https://substack.com/redirect/1a7656d6-17ad-4207-9891-b3febe8657bd?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>at
the blockade sites wasn’t enough.
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https://x.com/mamoun_linda/status/1949190406211825696
<https://substack.com/redirect/8ae176bd-a217-4bcb-a09e-b0a0437f3374?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>
Using lies and propaganda
<https://substack.com/redirect/251f8846-cd0b-41dc-b5f8-30565bc0f4c2?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>to
dismantle the aid system
<https://substack.com/redirect/26ad8533-67ca-4aaa-987c-b52ae4e67ada?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>for
bringing essential food and life-supporting supplies into Gaza, to
replace it with a US/Israeli op
<https://substack.com/redirect/75eec27d-d5c2-4a53-985c-0c9dec341ed3?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>where
aid seekers are massacred every single day, wasn’t enough.
Using siege warfare to deliberately starve Gaza
<https://substack.com/redirect/ce1f0709-dd24-4608-8c1f-4af002b2bf6e?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>for
the previous 22 months wasn’t enough.
But now that starvation has hit a critical point and deaths from
malnutrition are skyrocketing, now that images of dead skeletal children
are filling our screens, now that the damage to organs and brains from
starvation will be irreversible
<https://substack.com/redirect/c73c8ee7-1efe-405c-9ec4-4e38326cca89?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>in
many cases — /*now*/it’s enough.
That was the line, apparently. That’s what mainstream western
consciousness has decided is too much. Everything up until that line was
fine, but now it’s not fine anymore.
And the killing is still going on. The sudden awakening of conscience
hasn’t translated into any material actions or changes at all yet. If it
had come in October or November 2023 like it should have we might be
seeing that opposition translate into actually saving Gaza by now, but
the light has only just been switched on. It’s not even guaranteed that
those who are speaking up will continue to do so.
<https://substack.com/redirect/e9c688af-3116-421e-a27c-c28cc7f5b631?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>
https://x.com/d_boeckner/status/1949137485776265514
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I’m glad people are waking up to the cruel reality of this nightmare.
I’m grateful to each and every influential voice who uses their platform
to speak out, even at this late date. I truly am.
But I also think we need to take a very hard, very uncomfortable look at
ourselves as a society right now. If all those monstrous abuses were
tolerable for us over these last two years, there’s something deeply and
profoundly sick about our civilization.
We are not living right. We are not thinking right. We are not feeling
right. We are warped and twisted. The information we consume and the
norms we’ve been conditioned to accept have corrupted our souls.
We have been made into something bad. Something ugly. Something
shameful. Something we need to do everything in our power to change.
We need to rescue ourselves from what we have become. We need to
transform, deeply and radically, into something that could never again
allow something like this to occur.
<https://substack.com/redirect/297ef191-801d-48ec-8bc8-0fc33f3321f0?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>
https://x.com/BlakPantherBabe/status/1949834226343293339
<https://substack.com/redirect/986834c3-e8cf-4ba6-95da-cc9f090b797e?j=eyJ1IjoiNDg0OWljIn0.Y6K1LMhdrJlQZgVGsgH3ZN_uOH6pr27RwbiXoo1LXXA>
The way things are clearly isn’t working. The mainstream worldview is
clearly a lie. Everything we’ve been taught to believe about our
society, our nation, our government and our world was clearly false.
We need to fight our way through the cognitive dissonance of recognizing
that our entire way of looking at things as a collective has failed, and
we need to find a new way of being.
Otherwise we’re going to keep being smashed in the face with
increasingly horrifying reminders of what we have allowed ourselves to
become.
The lessons will repeat until they are learned.
We had better start learning them.
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Restack
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