There is a concerted media ploy to change the narrative on the massacre of hundreds of women and children in Gaza, on the grounds that it is Hamas’ fault for breaking the ceasefire. The Israeli account of the ceasefire breakdown is parroted relentlessly.
I have put some effort into discovering why the ceasefire broke down, including contacting sources in Gaza itself. What is plain is that there were multiple incidents shortly after the ceasefire deadline, of violations by both sides. This is actually normal – such ceasefires usually take a few hours to take hold as fighting in hot progress and operations under way get stopped. At leasy eleven Palestinians were killed by shellfire in the first hour after the ceasefire.
The media has however focused solely on a single incident, that which featured missing Israeli Lieutenant Goldin. What appears to have happened here was that the Israelis were continuing with their destruction of tunnels, as the ceasefire provisions allowed. They came across a group of Palestinian fighters sheltered in the tunnels, and not surprisingly the Palestinian fighters did not interpret the ceasefire as meaning the Israelis could kill them but they were precluded from fighting. In the ensuing firefight some on both sides were killed and injured, while Lt. Goldin has disappeared.
Incidentally it is worth noting that my information is that Hamas’ statement that the incident was a deliberate ambush, and occurred before the ceasefire, is also untrue.
The Israelis immediately called in massive shellfire and missile attack. It is not improbable Goldin was killed or wounded in the firefight – or possibly just hiding – and he and his body destroyed by an Israeli shell or missile. It is a sad norm of warfare that sometimes there is no recognisable body.
Why we are supposed to be more concerned about Goldin than about the twenty Palestinian children who have been killed since he vanished, is beyond me. But you see, killing those children is now OK again, because Hamas broke the ceasefire. The media have a nice narrative mapped out for them – and boy, are they milking it.
Mike
“If required to choose, I’d say being a homophobe is preferable to being a child-killer.”
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Well, Mike, you aren’t required to choose and nor is anyone else.
Since you appear to be Rehmat’s temporary spokesman this evening, perhaps you could answer the following on his behalf:
“Rehmat, why did you choose to point out that the Canadian Foreign Minister was gay in your “comment” at 16h09?
Is homophobia one of your many issues?” ?
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BTW, have you written to the rector of Dundee University yet, protesting against the granting of an honorary doctorate to Baroness Cox?
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La vita è bella, life is good!
Miss Piggy
Glad to see you’ve stopped writing about poetry and are back on a subject you know equally little about!
Oink!
Mary
2 Aug, 2014 – 11:55 am – I too sensed the sadness. What a beautiful, loving, caring women.
Mary and Mark
Do stop sending each other tear-stained little billets-doux on this public forum, will you? It’s getting downright embarrassing for those of us brought up in a more reticent age when it was considered bad form to blub in public.
That, together with the many professions of broken-hearts, is turning this blog into an Agony Aunt column.
Please use letter post instead – support the privatized Royal Mail!
Baa! Humbug
Like a frit factory pigeon you shit out egg and shit in one flutter of wings. You were once Larry of St Louis. Isn’t it time you changed your alliterative theme again?
“You were once Larry of St Louis”
Any veterans here who remember the style? Hab does seem quite protective of USdotgov.
A bitter pill indeed.
“The Obamanation who is joined at the hip with Bibi hates all of this. No, it is not because he is a kind man with a big heart. The Obamanation doesn’t give a rat’s backside how many Palestinians die, or children for that matter. Palestinians in general and Gaza in particular are completely unimportant to Empire‘s Geo Political game plans.
The Obamanation needs the world’s undivided attention as he tries to bring Empire to the brink of war with Moscow. He has no intention of really going to war. All of this is intended to keep the world at the edge of its seat, afraid of World War 3. Now how can Obama do this, if when he turns on his TV, it is filled with images of Gaza and the damned Israelis?
The answer is he can’t. Even the downing of a passenger airline with nearly 300 people can’t keep the world’s attention. They are all transfixed to the TV war, as they used to be with Vietnam. Some saying; “monstrous Nazi Israelis”. Some saying; “damned terrorists had it coming”. Others saying “poor people, poor children. It is so horrible”. And most just watching the edutainment saying to themselves; “I guess my life isn’t so bad after-all”.”
http://www.redpillviews.com/bombs-away-in-gaza-as-washington-grinds-its-teeth/
Where’s a fucking FedUp when you need him to do a bit of troll-scathing? Gone all posh and erudite about Islam.
Anyway, Thank you for your statement that FGM is no part of Islam,
though I might use it on Habba for insulting Mary disgracefully if I could only find him.
Powerful words Guano. Slightly amazed at my post evaporating at precisely 11:30. Was that ‘entanglement’ Dave? Of course it confirms our weakness, it means we are drowning in our own lack of emotion. Our intentions are weak – Yes, your ‘anti-christ’ is driven by dark emotion as observed at 11:30 thankyou.
Feel that darkness, feel it! Painful?
what is lost in the current propaganda campaign by western MSM & politicians –
5 June – Foreign Policy in Focus – U.S. Culpability in the Failure of Israeli-Palestinian Peace Talks
The failure of John Kerry’s Israeli-Palestinian peace talks showed just how extreme U.S. policy on the conflict has become.
by Stephen Zunes
The Palestinian government agreed to these terms. Israel rejected them.
An interview with an anonymous U.S. official close to the peace talks in an Israeli publication confirmed numerous other reports that, despite the Obama administration’s claims to the contrary, the Palestinian side made major concessions while the Israeli side essentially refused to make any, generally refusing to talk about any substantive issues….
http://fpif.org/u-s-culpability-failure-israeli-palestinian-peace-talks/
2 August Belfast Telegraph – Palestine football legend Ahed Zaqout killed in Gaza
Palestinian football star, Ahed Zaqout, has been killed after an Israeli bomb struck his apartment in Gaza while he was sleeping, it has been confirmed….
In January two young Palestinian footballers from Abu Dis FC, Jawhar Nasser Jawhar, 19, and Adam Abd al-Raouf Halabiya, 17, were reportedly shot by Israeli snipers, beaten up and had dogs set on them as they walked home after training….
In an interview with the website Adam said that he was shot first in the leg. As Jawhar tried to drag him to safety, he was shot repeatedly in the hand and leg — 11 times total. Adam was shot once in the knee and two times in the other leg. The teenagers told the website that as they lay screaming, Israeli forces set a dog on them….
On March 10 Saji Darwish, Birzeit student and player for Beitin FC, was shot dead by soldiers near the West Bank settlement of Givat Assaf, close to Ramallah. It was alleged that he was throwing stones at vehicles belonging to Israeli settlers in the area.
Meanwhile as of late Saturday, Gaza health ministry officials reported that the death toll has now risen 1,712 Palestinians. Among those killed 398 were children, 207 women and 74 elderly.
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/sport/football/international/palestine-football-legend-ahed-zaqout-killed-in-gaza-30479627.html
Max Blumenthal – Obama humiliates Muslim guests at White House Ramadan event, endorses Israel’s Gaza assault and NSA surveillance
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/07/humiliates-endorses-surveillance.html
the war on Gaza coinciding with Ramadan meant nothing to the MSM.
Has anyone noticed the hypocrisy of it all.
Secretary of State, John Kerry, wants Russia to withdraw from Crimea. Yet, at the same time when Israel has built beyond the 1967 borders – not a peep from him about the illegal settlements.
Honest broker indeed!
Nuremberg Rassensehutz-Gesetz (race protection laws) are abhorred whilst “Jewish state” is celebrated, encouraged and supplied with free arms, ordnance and free money, as well as a free hand in obliteration of the untermenschen, all the while decrying that the Palestinian terrorist are to be blamed for their own destruction.
Hypocrisy! Lying to ourselves has been refined to the nth degree; we no longer can discern the reality from unreality.
Israel’s military story as told by US-Israeli blogger Richard Silverstein.
Israeli soldier kept their “tunnel operation” during the 72-hour Netanyahu-Abbas ceasefire. In one of such operations, Hamas fighters ambushed Israel’s Givati brigade soldiers. In the fire exchange Gaza defenders were able to kill Maj. Benaya Sarel and Sgt. Liel Gidoni. three other Jew soldiers were seriously wounded. One of them, Lt. Hadar Goldin was dragged away by the fighters. “But the Israelis who were unscathed, invoked Hanniball Directive”, killing Goldin and the Gaza fighter dragging him”.
http://rehmat1.com/2014/08/03/hannibal-directive-israeli-soldiers-kill-fellow-soldiers/
Israel has accepted that Goldin was killed. They knew all along and used the opportunity to do some more slaughtering and destroying. Netanyahu is carrying on with the ‘operation’ as it is referred to.
Meanwhile Chris Gunness is warning of a serious health emergency in Gaza where the medical service is broken.
They knew all along about the ‘kidnapped’ teenagers Mary. It’s all about dominating the Media, as they well know. I have seen the same faces excreting the same homilies for several days now.
Cue the Media ownership of mainstream media.
On a positive point; several US outlets have begun asking them embarrassing questions. The follow-up question is rare, but it is happening with greater frequency.
“All Leftists are Sons of Bitches” Is the cry from the vast majority of Israeli nazi collaborators.
Then there is the other Israeli opinion.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa9lTvEr32w#t=120
“Turkey PM slams Israel for ‘Hitler-like fascism’”
http://rt.com/news/177164-erdogan-israel-gaza-fascism/
This article is beyond surreal (if that is logically possible!)
The reaction of Nehanyahu was apparently to “report” Erdogan to John Kerry for “anti-semitism”. It will be interesting to see Kerry’s response.
Israel now accepts that “kidnapped” soldier is dead. Looks like you guys were right…
http://news.yahoo.com/israel-declares-missing-soldier-dead-gaza-toll-rises-014322076.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Great quote from another time of religious extremism:
“We never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.” – Blaise Pascal
And here is the text of the pulled “Times of Israel” article:
http://www.vox.com/2014/8/1/5959635/heres-the-full-text-of-the-deleted-time-of-israel-post-backing
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/aug/02/netanyahu-warns-us-israel-gaza-ceasefire-second-guess
Such a big deal out of the alleged capture of Israeli soldier, now admitted to have been killed in some kind of counter attack by Israel.
Such amazing chutzpah by Obama: “barbaric” for Hamas to capture an Israeli soldier. Not barbaric for Israel to kill their own, being captured is a fate worse than death? If so, Israel army has become taken on the code of Bushido, with blind allegiance to an “Emperor” and adherence to International law that is purely optional.
Like the Nazis, Israeli policy is to de-humanise, in this case the Arabs, and particularly Palestinians, who are now apparently the new “Untermenschen”
Imagine the Nazis squealing “barbaric” about an SS officer captured by the Warsaw resistance in the uprising in 1944. The parallels are many, Polish territory invaded and occupied, ongoing war crimes, crimes against humanity, flattened residential areas with not a care for the civilian population, and then, when the occupied dare to fight back, how ‘illegal’ and ‘barbaric’ is that?
It’s war, with overwhelming force on one side, and they squeal like stuck pigs when one of their own is allegedly captured? Pathetic cowards can’t take what they dish out!
The moral force of Western nations has sunk to new abysmal lows, and as for Bibi and his gang of murderous, fascist, racist individuals, at least Caligula had some redeeming features, was perhaps less racist, sometimes perhaps more interested in fornicating with his slaves rather than killing them?
@Peter: Obama bullshit seems to be getting to Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld levels.
Glad to see plenty of protesting in the US at last. The protests should now be directed at their (successive) governments who sustain this war in Palestine.
TO ALL YOU BLOG FREAKS…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ut7IdSovP_E&app=desktop
Peacewisher, indeed.
Actually the Caligula analogy reminds me, the nickname ‘Little Boots’ when a boy he was dressed in miniature uniform with little (presumably) soldier’s boots, and accompanied his father Germanicus on military duty and the soldiers gave Caligula that nickname.
I hereby dub Netanyahu ‘Little Boots Bibi’
Baa! Humbug
La vato ry bowla
The content of that video was chilling Ben. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pa9lTvEr32w#t=120
Reminiscent of Germany 1933. I don’t think that even the EDL here come anywhere near to those thugs. What has Israel bred?
Trust me on Hamas says #LittleBootsBibi musing something like this:
A pretend spat is being created by Miliband E who accuses Cameron of staying silent.
Both are avowed Zionists.
http://www.jpost.com/International/Cameron-declares-himself-a-Zionist
http://dissidentvoice.org/2014/06/ed-miliband-a-shameless-zionist/
A group of Conservative FoIs have just been visiting Israel.
Agent Cameron cannot step out of line. Most of his wealthy donors are Jewish and he has a big election campaign coming up in 9 months’ time.
He has just given a peerage to the Jewish ex head of M&S Stuart Rose. Another one to ‘Mr Copper’ Michael Farmer, the party treasurer. Farmer has donated +£3m to the Tories. He’s a ‘devout Christian’ and has a son who was a Bullingdon Boy like Cameron, Osborn and Johnson.
http://unlockdemocracy.org.uk/blog/entry/donor-of-the-week-michael-farmer
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2126636/New-Tory-treasurer-funded-sons-membership-Bullingdon-Club.html
‘OUCA, which boasts two prime ministers, 13 cabinet ministers and three leaders of the Conservative Party among its alumni, has been a nursery for future Tory stars since it was founded in 1924. Its patron is Baroness Thatcher, a former president, and the honorary president is Foreign Secretary William Hague.’
Lovely country.
Inhuman shield: How ‘The New York Times’ protects US elites from Gaza’s brutal reality
http://mondoweiss.net/2014/08/inhuman-protects-reality.html
Memo: NYT Editor is Mark Thompson, ex DG BBC.
His record on Palestine/Israel when at the BBC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Thompson_(media_executive)#Accusations_of_Pro-Israeli_editorial_stance
Thompson and his wife Jane Blumberg (she comes from a strongly Zionist US upbringing) visited Israel to meet Sharon. They were also friends of a rich lawyer Scot Young who introduced them to the rich Israeli Zabludowicz and others.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1293708/The-BBC-s-DG-man-400m-divorce–strange-incident-Drones-restaurant.html
Just as the MSM achieves synchronicity, so do these 32 metronomes. Compelling to watch.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqFc4wriBvE