Chris Hedges on the Genocide in Gaza

When those who are occupied refuse to submit, when they continue to resist, we drop all pretense of our “civilizing” mission and unleash, as in Gaza, an orgy of slaughter and destruction. We become drunk on violence. This violence makes us insane. We kill with reckless ferocity. We become the beasts we accuse the oppressed of being. We expose the lie of our vaunted moral superiority. We expose the fundamental truth about Western civilization — we are the most ruthless and efficient killers on the planet. This alone is why we dominate the “wretched of the earth.” It has nothing to do with democracy or freedom or liberty. These are rights we never intend to grant to the oppressed.

--- Chris Hedges, in his article Exterminate All the Brutes

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Exterminate All the Brutes

All settler colonial projects, including Israel, reach a point when they embrace wholesale slaughter and genocide to eradicate a native population that refuses to capitulate.

Sometimes Israel’s crimes are so horrific that at first you don’t even understand what you’re looking at. You just stare at it trying to make sense of what you’re seeing for a bit, like you would if you suddenly saw a space alien or a leprechaun or something.

It happened to me yesterday when I was watching a Sky News report about a teenage boy who was shot by Israeli forces in Jerusalem for celebrating the release of Palestinian prisoners in the hostage negotiations with Hamas. I was watching it thinking to myself, I must be misunderstanding what I’m looking at. I know that Israel does gross things, but surely the story here isn’t that they shot a kid for being happy about something.

Then, as has happened so many times over the last two months, I kept watching and learned that yes, that is indeed what happened. The deputy mayor of Jerusalem Fleur Hassan-Nahoum is seen defending the shooting by saying “part of the deal is that there would be no celebrations for the release of attempted murderers” (this was actually not a part of the deal, it was just a decree issued by Israel’s national security minister) and claiming dishonestly that “we’re talking about the release of attempted murderers” (the vast majority have not been convicted of any crime and have been denied any due process for the accusations against them).

The band Eve6 nicely summed up what it felt like watching the clip of the deputy mayor’s comments, tweeting, “The remarkable thing about this clip is her self assurance. Like she’s supremely confident that ‘we shot the teenager because he was celebrating’ is a thing that people will find reasonable.”

--- Caitlin Johnstone, in her article Israel's Savagery Is So Shocking It's Sometimes Hard To Take In

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Israel's Savagery Is So Shocking It's Sometimes Hard To Take In

Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): Sometimes Israel’s crimes are so horrific that at first you don’t even understand what you’re looking at. You just stare at it trying to make sense of what you’re seeing for a bit, like...

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What would the western media say if the same thing happened in Iran or Russia and was directed towards Jews or Christians?

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Part 1: https://twitter.com/zaramagnusson/status/1727023334444138812

Part 2: https://twitter.com/itslaylas/status/1727059850725872010

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https://twitter.com/AliAbunimah/status/1726340085875155108

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https://twitter.com/realnikohouse/status/1720234504629985634

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https://twitter.com/MintPressNews/status/1717940854155849970

We live in the craziest times. There is a mass genocidal psychosis that's taking over the West right now. I remember being young and seeing the same psychosis take over the American people with 9/11. And you think about how did people allow the Holocaust to happen, [...] how did people allow the slaughter of indigenous people to happen. This Mass genocidal psychosis that we are seeing from the West should scare the shit out everybody.

--- Nick from RBN (Revolutionary Blackout Network) https://www.youtube.com/live/IMoBZKkikYo?si=7zltu0X-_20_dpYM&t=1609

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