We could very easily – in fact more easily – have made these mini-documentaries featuring the bodies of children slaughtered by Israel and the hideous aspect of the maiming of tens of thousands, or focusing on the tears of the bereaved and orphaned.
We chose to go a different way and make that unavoidably implicit, but not shown, in the interests of attracting and engaging the widest audience possible.
Yet I believe what we do show highlights Israeli barbarity and makes it stark in another way. I would be grateful for your thoughts.
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Craig Murray, we must all thank you for your dedication and commitment in underlining the savage bloodshed in both Gaza and Lebanon. It’s certainly comforting to know that several millions of viewers have already watched your numerous documentaries, usually not on YouTube as this channel is held in dubious hands, and even tries to belittle your work by showing a really dismal number of views.
Like in the best movies of the late Antonioni, many times we have a welcomed feeling of déjà vu, the latest documentary seeming to be like a new edit of a former one, both blending magically into our minds.
We’re so glad you resisted the easy temptation of using gore, and avoided us the sight of slaughtered children. But we know how difficult it must be for you to confront such horror. The criminals responsible must be brought to justice sooner or later, and you shall be a witness for the prosecution when the day comes.
Best of luck for the forthcoming videos, and don’t exclude making the trip to Damascus, where as you know plenty of crimes are committed and unreported by you-know-who…
Beware “widest possible audience”-ism.
This is what the BDS movement (which calls for boycotts, divestment, and sanctions against the Zionist entity) says about Google, the pro-Zionist outfit that owns Youtube and is helping with the genocide by supplying cloud computing technology to the “IDF”:
https://bdsmovement.net/tags/google
Those who are interested in this company should know that as well as supplying the Chrome web browser it also supplies important parts of most of the other web browsers, including Edge and Opera. It also spies on almost every act of browsing to every webpage in the western world, by supplying (nudge nudge) font services. (Check a webpage’s source code to verify.) In case any readers didn’t already know, it also spies on every phone that runs the Android operating system.
Everything that helps promote Youtube – or any other service supplied by Google (Alpha) – as some kind of agency of the common good helps kill Palestinians. Agencies of Google are not agencies of the common good. They are baby burners.
Dear Craig
Thank you for bearing witness.
My wife and I were reflecting upon the President of Ireland’s Mansion House National Holocaust Memorial Day Commemoration Speech.
It seems that all the endless killing and gratuitous destruction is actually revenge for the Holocaust.
Bullies have always suffered trauma or abuse and consequently experience an overwhelming need to express their frustration and anger.
Invariably this uncontrollable emotion is gratified by simply beating up an entirely unassociated and innocent victim, who is close to hand, physically weaker and therefore more easy to exploit. Think playground, think domestic violence.
This is what we are witnessing in Gaza, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, South Lebanon and anywhere within easy reach of Israel: a terrifying and absolute example of the bully and its victims.
The leaders of Israel and their military hold the hurt of the Holocaust and its devastating impact upon their parents and grandparents so close to their hearts that they refuse to see what they do.
All bullies need to be told, ‘No’. All bullies need to be helped to understand that the source of their anger is within themselves.
The Israeli leadership need to learn to understand that their Muslim and Christian neighbours are not a threat to their existence.
As in the examples of playground bullies and abusers of women, they have to learn the real cause of their unhappiness and realise that if they can be helped to come to terms with that, then there is a future through reconcilliation and peace.
This is not amateur psychology: it is well understood now how unresolved trauma and abuse suffered usually in early childhood, but not always, is the root cause of psychosis and murder. True healing from of the effects of the Holocaust is taking generations to achieve. Clearly there is much hard and compassionate work yet to be done. We live always with hope.