· Η δυτική αποικιακή δημοκρατία στην Μέση Ανατολή – ναι, μερικές/οι προσπαθούσαν κάποτε σαν, ας πούμε, αχάπαρα φερέφωνα, να περάσουν το δόγμα των ισραηλινών υπηρεσιών προπαγάνδας, ότι το Ισραήλ εν «η μονη δημοκρατία στην Μέση Ανατολή»...

·           Η δυτική αποικιακή δημοκρατία στην Μέση Ανατολή – ναι, μερικές/οι προσπαθούσαν κάποτε σαν, ας πούμε, αχάπαρα φερέφωνα, να περάσουν το δόγμα των ισραηλινών υπηρεσιών προπαγάνδας, ότι το Ισραήλ εν «η μονη δημοκρατία στην Μέση Ανατολή»...

Η αποκάλυψη εν ενδιαφέρουσα στην υστερία του αίματος που θωρούμεν για μήνες, που εν η συνέχεια δεκαετιών ουσιαστικά...

Το Ισραήλ δολοφονεί εν ψυχρώ άμαχους. Αρρώστους σε νοσοκομειακά κρεβάθκια... Λανσάρει ψέματα με την χυδαιότητα τραμπούκου..

Δολοφονεί μέσω του στρατού του, γιατρούς τζαι άτομα που εργάζονται σε διεθνείς οργανισμούς χωρίς εξήγηση. Χωρίς ίχνος απολογίας...

Τζαι οι δημοσιογράφοι ήταν πρώτος στόχος...

Οι δημοσιογράφοι που προσπαθούσαν να μεταδώσουν τί γίνεται...

«Η δημοκρατία» του απαρτχάιντ φυσικά τρέμει την αλήθκεια..

Τζαι τα φερέφωνα που απάγγελαν δουλοπρεπώς το εμβατήριο για την «μόνη δημοκρατία» κατάπιαν την γλώσσα τους να πουν ένα συγνώμη...

Τωρά απαγορεύσαν τζαι τον Αλ Τζαζίρα...

Η «δημοκρατία» της λογοκρισίας τζαι του εμβατήριου της υποταγής...

 

Kenneth Roth @KenRoth

Netanyahu's shutting down of Al Jazeera comes after a long history of labeling human rights groups as "terrorists" and expelling human rights workers, all in an effort to cover up Israel's war crimes. We see through that strategy.

Eulogies should rarely be taken at face value.  Plaster saints take the place of complex individuals; faults transmute into golden virtues.  But there was little in the way of fault regarding Lalzawmi “Zomi” Frankcom’s messianic purpose, whose tireless work for the charity, World Central Kitchen (WCK) in northern Gaza had not gone unnoticed.  Sadly, the Australian national, along with six other members of WCK, were noticed by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) around midnight of April 1 and 2 and targeted in a strike that killed all of them.

Other members of the slain crew included Polish citizen Damian Sobol, three British nationals whose names are yet to be released, a US-Canadian dual citizen, and the driver and translator Saif Abu Taha.

The charity workers had been unloading food supplies from Cyprus that had been sent via sea in a designated “deconflicted” area.  All three vehicles, two armoured and one “soft skin”, sported the WCK logo.  Even more galling for the charity was the fact that coordinating efforts between WCK and the IDF had taken place as it left the Deir al-Balah warehouse, where the individuals had been responsible for uploading over 100 tonnes of humanitarian food aid.

On April 2, Haaretz reported that three missiles had been fired in rapid succession at the convoy by a Hermes 450 UAV on direction of a unit guarding the aid transport route.  The troops in question claimed to have spotted what they thought was an armed figure riding a truck that had entered one of the aid storage areas with three WCK vehicles.  The armed figure, presumed to be a Hamas militant, never left the warehouse in the company of the vehicles.

In a public relations war Israel is increasingly losing, various statements of variable quality and sincerity could only confirm that fact.  IDF spokesman Rear Adm. Daniel Hagari stated that he had spoken to WCK founder Chef José Andrés “and expressed the deepest condolences of the Israel Defense Forces to the families and the entire World Central Kitchen family.”

Hagari went on to add the IDF’s expression of “sincere sorrow to our allied nations who have been doing and continue to do so much to assist those in need.”  This was a bit rich given the programmatic efforts of the IDF and Israeli officials to stifle and strangulate the provision of aid into the Gaza Strip, from the logistical side of keeping land crossings closed and delaying access to existing ones, to aggressive efforts to defund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA).

As for the operation itself, Hagari announced that “the highest levels” of military officialdom had been “reviewing the incident” to comprehend the circumstances that led to the deaths.  “We will get to the bottom of this and we will share our findings transparently.”  Again exalting the prowess of his organisation in investigating such matters, he promised that the army’s General Staff Fact-Finding Assessment Mechanism – yet another independent body designed to give the impression of thoroughness and impartiality – would look into this “serious incident” to “reduce the risk of such an event from occurring again.”

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gave a better barometric reading of the mood, and it was certainly not one of grieving or feeling aggrieved.  The killings had merely been “a tragic instance of our forces unintentionally harming innocent people in the Gaza Strip.  It happens in war.”  Israel would “investigate it” and had been “in contact with the governments and we will do everything we can so that it doesn’t happen again.”

https://www.counterpunch.org/2024/04/03/killing-humanitarians-israels-war-on-aid-workers-in-gaza/