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A post by Stephen Prior in fb: the israeli “aim was genocidal from the very first day”

una fossa comune piena di vittime palestinesiEverybody now knows from the first week after October 7th that Israel had already planned to commit genocide, traditionally defined genocide, targeting a population because of their bloodline and trying to exterminate or move them.
Everyone knew this because Israel announced it.
Twice in October of 2023, the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, said out loud in a public speech, “The Palestinians are Amalek.”
Amalek, a reference that many in the West didn’t get, but everyone in the region understood. And it’s a reference to 1 Samuel 15, the first verses in it, which you should read because it tells you a lot about what Israel’s doing now.
Those verses describe God’s command to eliminate a tribe called the Amalekites. And not just the draft-age men, but all of them, including children and infants. All of them. Kill all of them. Destroy all of their property. Slay all of their animals. This is God’s command.
So when Benjamin Netanyahu describes the Palestinians as Amalek, twice in the first month of the Gaza operation, you don’t need to guess what the point of this is. The point is to destroy every man, woman, child, and infant in Gaza. And they set about doing that.
But it wasn’t just Netanyahu who said that. It was a lot of different authorities in Israel.
On October 9th—three days after the Hamas attacks—Yoav Gallant, the defense minister of Israel, their own Pete Hegseth, described his plans for Gaza, not for Hamas, for the entire territory, for the over two million people who live there. And we’re quoting:
No electricity, no food will be allowed in. We are fighting human animals, not human beings, human animals.”
Well, that winter, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem responded, not to say, “Whoa, whoa, settle down, defense minister! Calling your opponents animals is, of course, genocidal talk.” No, the deputy mayor of Jerusalem thought he didn’t go far enough. He said this:
“They’re not human animals. They’re not human beings. They are sub-human.” And then he said that the Palestinians of Gaza should be buried alive with bulldozers. Which some, ultimately, apparently were.
You had both cabinet ministers in Israel and supporters of Israel in the United States making the same case in public from the very first day, “Kill indiscriminately, move them out.”
There were “discussions,” on the American Right about what we should do with those Gazans, the people who live there. “Move them to other countries—Egypt, maybe even the United States. Get them out, kill enough of them that the rest leave, so the survivors want to flee.”
So the aim was genocidal from the very first day. The Israelis announced it. Israel’s supporters in the United States seconded it, amplified it. And members of the US Congress on television, the people who are paying for this genocide, announced proudly, “That’s right. The Israelis have every right to kill civilians, and that’s why we are paying them and giving them weapons to do so.”
In addition to shooting children in the head, leaving toy bombs to blow their hands off, having a
‘shoot to cripple’ policy, bombing schools, hospitals and playgrounds, shooting people running for food drops, starving people, pouring cement in their water holes, setting up safe zones then bombing them, setting hospital tents on fire, shooting doctors to the extent Palestinians give them street clothes so they aren’t shot wearing hospital scrubs, executing hospital staff and patients and burying them in mass graves, bombing aid stations, trucks and ambulances, blocking over 1,000 aid trucks, they have run over 100s of people with bulldozers while still alive. If you support Israel, you are evil. It’s that simple. If you provide them with money and weapons there is probably a penthouse suite in hell waiting for you.

Stop. The. Genocide.

October 7th and what followed

src: Europe says OXI https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DuxpFZMCG/

On this day, 7 October 2023, after decades of ethnic cleansing, illegal occupation, and apartheid, armed Palestinians, led by Hamas, broke out of Gaza and attacked Israel.

Since 2007, Gaza had been subject to a blockade which destroyed its economy and left a million residents without enough food, while over 5000 were killed in Israeli attacks. Over 1500 Palestinians were also killed in the West Bank and Israel, and thousands of terrorist attacks by Israeli settlers took place.

During the October 7 assault, the Israeli army gave the Hannibal directive, instructing troops to kill Israelis in order to stop them being taken hostage. By the time the attack was over, at least 314 Israeli soldiers and 809 civilians were dead, with 252 taken hostage, with the intention of exchanging them for some of the 2500 Palestinian hostages held without charge in Israel.

Israel immediately attacked Gaza, with officials indicating clear genocidal intent. The defence minister called Palestinians “human animals” and said that energy, food and water would be cut off from civilians. The deputy Knesset speaker said Israel should be “erasing the Gaza Strip from the face of the earth”, and the heritage minister said there were “no uninvolved civilians” so they should drop a nuclear bomb.

Since then, over 234,000 Gazans have been killed or wounded, with 48% of those killed being children; 40% under 10 years old. The dead include at least 248 journalists, 1722 health workers and 543 aid workers. With food cut off, a third of young children are malnourished, while hundreds of people have died of malnutrition. 90% of the population has been displaced, 92% of residential buildings destroyed, along with every university, and 90% of schools and 94% of hospitals have been damaged or destroyed.

Most reputable human rights bodies now consider that Israel is engaged in genocide, including the United Nations, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, B’Tselem, Physicians for Human Rights Israel, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, and many more.


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