Today the Palestinian terrorists bombed their own hospital.
Tom Morello from Rage Against The Machine here is, I think, trying to make a point about a hospital. He’s kept this tweet up several hours after it was confirmed that the IDF is not responsible for bombing the hospital, so I can only assume that he’s just really upset about the hospital, and absolutely not trying to say that Jewish people are that demonic. Because, as I opened this piece, and will repeat again: Today the Islamic Jihad bombed their own hospital in Gaza. Not Israel. The Islamic Jihad.
You know what though, for absolute clarity I am going to run this back a third time. I know it’s confusing, but to be exact: Islamic Jihad tried to fire a rocket at Israel, and as commonly happens with Palestinian terrorists’ rockets, it didn’t quite make it across the sky and instead landed at a hospital in Gaza. Hamas being Hamas, of course, said: ISRAEL DID THIS! And because Hamas is a leading trustworthy objective source for information during a war on terror, the Western mainstream media totally ran with what Hamas said, and within mere minutes reported globally that Israel bombed a Gazan hospital, killing hundreds of Palestinians.
“A hospital. A. Hospital.” - Tom Morello, Rage Against The Machine.
Rage Against The Machine once famous, of course, for the song “Know Your Enemy”, which apparently they do not. “Know Your Enemy” my arse.
Anyway, this all entirely checks out. Because as we’ve already discovered, the mainstream media has found an amazing way to stay alive in the digital age, and that is by selling popular narratives that have been proven extremely profitable for, oooh, at least two-and-a-half thousand years. Blood libel sells, y’all. There’s still a lot of money in the Jews Killed Jesus jar. So the entire fucking spectrum of media this afternoon ran with it hard. Those bloodthirsty Jews got after it again and bombed a hospital. A. Hospital.
New York Times. Associated Press. Reuters. BBC News. AlJazeera. All profited off death today, carelessly attributing the deaths to Israel. The truth is the deaths of Palestinians are way more profitable for the media when Israel is to blame. Fight me on it.
For a whole week there was controversy over the truth of whether Hamas beheaded Israeli babies (nah, they merely burned them…). But a hospital exploded and despite no proof, everyone concluded it was Israel.
Except there was - again - proof. Just like last week, there is video footage of this insane backfiring. Hamas Go-Pro’d a massacre that was apparently fake according to many stubborn leftists, so clearly the video of the rocket firing from Gaza and landing in Gaza is non-conclusive. It must be just another weird conspiracy!
Sidenote: In what war, does every single explosion occupy this amount of analysis? No war. Russia, I’m sure, have bombed tons of hospitals in Ukraine. Is this contested? Is it of interest? No! It doesn’t sell. Online traffic on Ukraine has come to a halt. People aren’t glued to the news waiting for more proof to justify their own biases in that war. But Israel versus Gaza. Grab the popcorn. It’s time to score against these Zionist pigs.
Don’t know about you but I find it putrid that people are baying for news of Palestinian bloodshed that can be squarely blamed on Israel. It’s a psychotic illness. These humanitarians are frothing at the mouth for it to happen. Palestinians only matter to the rightoues if Jews are killing them, hey.
After it was indeed confirmed that Islamic Jihad were responsible for the hospital bombing, The New York Times, begrudgingly walked back their completely unethical (potentially lawless) mistake, several times, perhaps to lessen the impact. Follow from left to right as the headline becomes less sensational. I’m sure many tears were shed at the reduction in exhilarating war porn by the people at this particular news desk.
Israel is the only country in the world that has to deal with requests for proportionality beyond the realms of international law. According to international law, a proportionate response in war is one that focuses on annihilating the threat. I’m not a war commander but I know that while you cannot directly target civilians in war, you can make military targets, and those are allowed even if it tragically incurs the loss of civilian life. Even if civilian casualties are high, strikes aren’t necessarily illegal. And as we know Hamas ensures that all its military is hidden in overpopulated areas, including hospital sites, press offices, and schools, because Hamas are lunatics. So what is a proportionate response to a genocidal regime and culture that completely disregards its own innocents for the sake of a propaganda win? Does anyone have an answer?
This is a war on two fronts: the real time war in the Middle East, and the war in the media. And the lesson of today is that we cannot trust Gaza’s “Ministry of Health” (a fancy name for Hamas) for on-the-ground information as to targets and explosions in Gaza. And yet however things play out over there, over here the media has already concluded that Israel has committed a genocide. (By the way, for the puposes of the media narrative, “Hamas” also includes Ilhan Omar, AOC and Rashida Tlaib – aka The Hamas Caucus, who are constantly on Twitter doing Hamas’s bidding for them. They may as well be parroting direct soundbites from Hamas’ PR Team during their media appearances).
Speaking of Twitter, assisting and boosting this propaganda war are Iranian social media bots, ie FAKE accounts that are programmed to spread misinformation against Israel and the IDF. In an analysis of over 162,000 profiles that engaged in anti-Israel conversations about Hamas’s attacks, Cyabra found that 25% were fake. Those fake profiles disseminated over 312,000 pro-Hamas comments, with some of the accounts publishing hundreds of posts per day. Via the use of hashtags, those posts yielded 371,000 replies and shares, and over 531 million views. The amplification of anti-Israel propaganda is being fuelled by bot farms in Iran and Qatar. They also troll those of us who try to fight back against the misinformation. This is now the reality of modern warfare. Think of it like a really not fun version of Terminator.
Which brings me to a second lesson from today. And this lesson has scared the shit out of me way more for its wider consquences. Today something sinister struck me during the worst day yet of online bots and trolls. I’ve been lectured by internet worms for the past 48 hours about “Jewish Palestinians” who live in Gaza and are being ethnically cleansed. Huh? Right. I’ve also been scratching my head wondering where these fictitious people are and why we’ve never met them, and then I realized that the internet worms already wiped Israel from the map in their heads. What they mean by “Jewish Palestinians” is Israelis, and they’ve already freed Palestine from the river to the sea.
The internet worms who largely reside on the left (surprise, surprise) have dehumanized us to such an extent that they don’t even recognize our identities as people of the Levant. Dehumanization, of course, is a drawn-out process whereby the entire character of a person/group of people/tribe is called into question and reduced over time until the mob are not only convinced that this group are sub-human but can justify treating the group as such, which is what the world has done to the 90% of Jews who are Zionists. We are no longer great songwriters, and authors, and doctors, and scientists, and philosophers, and philanthropists. No now we are rats who bomb hospitals.
Over time, the propaganda from Hamas & Pals has poured poison into the ears of the do-gooder woke leftists. Drip. Drip. Drip. Until they begin to believe a narrative about the Jewish people they’ve called neighbors, friends and loved ones for entire generations. Bad faith actors have latched onto their insecurities, and magnified creeping anxieties, rooted in fundamental tropes about the Jews (they’re greedy, they’ll stab you in the back, they have motives, they’re not as loyal to you as they are to their Israel!) And these communities have lapped it up because the propaganda has come to them when they’ve been on their knees. They’re vulnerable. They’re outsiders. These are queer communities, trans communities, Black and Brown communities. You know, it’s become very popular to define the system of abuse as the patriarchy. But there are plenty abusers beyond the patriarchy, with better disguises. Look at the UN. The UN is abusing the vulnerable by preying on the weak to excerpt its global power. The UN run the schools in Gaza that indoctrinate children to grow up hating Israelis. And if you ever needed The UN’s help, The UN isn’t gonna save you at the expense of itself. (see also: Amnesty International. Human Rights Watch. etc. These entities will only serve you if it serves them).
It dawned on me today, that not only are progressives wilfully blind to their own antisemitism, they’re blind to their own diminishment. See this:
No, I had to read that headline a few times, too. It is not a spoof. The progressives have been so indoctrinated by terrorist extremist propaganda that they are willing to sabotage themselves to kill Jews (sorry, Zionists). It’s incredible. How do terrorists indoctrinate people? Well, they coerce at-risk, lost, rudderless, identity-torn communities to learn how to diminish themselves for the ultimate sacrifice. I have a feeling the progressives haven’t figured out where this is all going yet…
“Free Palestine” has lied. None of its supporters will get to be feminists or queer or trans or anything in a world where Hamas reigns superior. But rather than being angry at the deception by Hamas, et al, they’re projecting onto the Jews, who deserve to be genocided because a hospital. A. Hospital.
Honestly the only thing I would ever give Hamas is an award for PR. Earlier today a video was released showing the people of Gaza with makeup kits having bruises and fake blood painted on them for photo opportunities. It’s in my Instagram stories, and it reminded me of being on-set of a music video shoot. Minus the gays. D’uh.
I’ll leave you with this video of a “journalist in Gaza” who was completely upended by a British news anchor yesterday. Nothing but a Hamas terrorist sympathizer in sheep’s clothing…
What astounds me is the lack of condemnation of palestinians firing rockets from highly dense population regions. This is the main cause of civilian casualties on the palestinian side.
Thank you for talking sense 🙏🏼