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  • I think what is telling about the Haaretz article is that they try to paint the whole situation as being caused by an accident, as if the the systematic massacre of Palestinians is not the intended function of the IOF.

    The article continuously states that the IOF militants are confused about why they firing at civilians. The whole article is written as if there was an event of mass amnesia. There’s a quote in the middle of the article which says that war crimes may be ideologically motivated but then the article never investigates further. “My greatest fear is that the shooting and harm to civilians in Gaza aren’t the result of operational necessity or poor judgment, but rather the product of an ideology held by field commanders, which they pass down to the troops as an operational plan.” Only a brief moment of self awareness.

    It’s good that an Israeli newspaper admits that the Israel is doing a war crimes, however the tone of the article is still sympathetic towards the Israeli militants.


  • This content is paywalled and I’m not linking the archive link to the site; Haaretz is one of the few news organizations (if not the only one) willing to talk about what’s being done in a critical manner. Any support you can provide, you should.

    What are you saying? Haaretz is an Israeli newspaper and openly Zionist, although more liberal than other Israeli newspapers. If the GHF aid traps are being reported as bad by Haaretz, then you should imagine that they are so much worse than that. Sometimes Haaretz will report something that is honest, like when they reported that the Hannibal Directive was used on October 7.

    https://archive.is/ilyEU

    I think today is the first day that Haaretz has reported the GHF aid traps are massacring Palestinians. Other news sources have been reporting it daily for over a month. I’ve posted multiple articles about it. I’ve seen it reported by Al Jazeera, Drop Site News, Zeteo News.

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    Over 2 weeks ago, Zeteo published this anonymous testimony of a US mercenary, who was payed to work at a GHF aid trap. The testimony is someone who is probably a chud, foolishly they thought they were going to help people, but decided to leak the testimony when they saw how the aid sites were death traps. Zeteo is founded by former MSNBC anchor Mehdi Hasan.

    This idea that the Israeli military isn’t involved is bullshit. They’re very much involved. They have offices in our compounds. We share our radio communications with them. The higher-ups claim the Israeli military is not involved, but it feels like they’re the man behind the curtain. Sure, they’re not on-site with us, but their snipers and tanks are just hundreds of meters away. You can hear them shooting all day.

    One episode sticks with me. We were monitoring an empty site all day; sometime after dark, dozens of flatbed trucks finally brought aid. The Israeli military soon radioed in that 200 to 300 civilians a couple of kilometers (less than two miles) north were approaching. We then observed an Israeli drone go out there.

    The generous interpretation? Maybe the Israelis were firing between our position and the people in order to keep them from moving forward. I don’t think that’s the case. After all, tanks fire all day long near these aid sites. Snipers fire from what used to be a hospital. Bombs and bullets fly all day long in one direction – toward Palestinians.

    We know the Israeli military has been enforcing curfews in some parts of Gaza. I would not be surprised if the aid was delivered at night deliberately, given it would then draw people out, at which point they could be fired on as combatants, even though they weren’t. It’s very clear that the Israeli military will take any opportunity available to fire.

    People sometimes have to travel miles to get to the sites – and that means through Israeli-controlled areas. Any excuse the military can come up with to say someone is a threat, they’ll take. There’s not really any international media in these areas, and the West doesn’t really want to believe the Palestinian media, so you get to this point where the truth itself is murky. All the while, all I’ve heard all day is Israeli tanks, machine guns, snipers, and bombs.

    But never any fire from the opposite direction.

    https://zeteo.com/p/exclusive-american-security-contractor

    https://archive.is/d4A1V









  • dead [he/him]@hexbear.nettovideos@hexbear.netDemocracy Now! at it again
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    I know most people aren’t going to watch the video because nobody ever watches the video before commenting.

    He went on her show yesterday and he’s mad that Amy Goodman said that Evin Prison is “notorious” and claims she called Iran a “regime”. In the video she only uses the word regime when quoting Trump. Then he says that she would never call an American prison “notorious”, she has. Then he says that he doesn’t watch Democracy Now. He forgets Amy Goodman’s name during the interview as well.

    He went on her show. She let him say exactly the same message as this video, that western media is slandering Iran to manufacture consent. Then he goes to this other channel and acts like his messaged was censored. Why did he go on her show then? How is his message censored when he was allowed to speak his whole message with no interruption?

    Say what you will about Amy Goodman, but this seems like a very weak criticism of Democracy Now.


  • His tweet from only 15 minutes earlier than the tweet that you posted said that Iran was not part of an “agreement” but Iran’s military would stop responding if Israel stopped attacking Iran. So I think Iran is complying with the ceasefire, despite not having agreed to the ceasefire.

    I was replying to a user who said there was no agreement, but Netanyahu had announced that Israel accepted the agreement and then Israel violated the agreement that they had accepted it. Israel should have followed an agreement that they accepted. I think they probably wanted to make the point that Israel can violate agreements without consequence.

    It’s the same situation as it was with Ansarallah only a couple months ago. Trump said that the US would stop attacking Ansarallah and then Ansarallah decided to stop attacking US military target afterwards.








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