It's easy, even as a professional journalist for many years, to become emotional when you see innocent people, especially children, being caught up in a war of attrition and genocide streamed live and direct into your living room. And it's also easy to get angry, very angry, when you see spineless, insensitive so-called world leaders - including the president of the United States of America and his western cabal of cowardly political imbeciles - like Duracell-wound up toy robots, simply mouth off one-sided Israel's talking points in one of the worst acts of enabling violence and brutality against a defenseless people in modern times.
And even the paper-tiger, toothless United Nation cannot even find language, or the guts, to condemn the violence on both sides, but the lop-sided and disproportionate response by a belligerent and angry Israeli politician who gleefully embraced the opportunity the brutal and inhumane Hamas act has spawned. So, Israeli prime minister waxes tough and patriotic while exacting vengeance and brutal collective punishment on an entire people because of the embarrassment and shattering of the myth of invincibility that Israel (and the United States) has carefully cultivated over the past 75 years.
So, Israel has dropped 6,000 bombs in a week on the Gaza Strip indiscriminately killing, maiming and exacting a terrible human toll for Hamas's daring to attack and kill over 1,400 Israelis. And yes, as dubious as that claim is, I can conclude, NOT AGREE, that Israel does have a right to defend itself even though it's the occupying and controlling power over the Gaza Strip for the past 16 years. Self-defense yes, but war crimes no. They are not justified under any circumstances.
Oh, yes, Israel AND its United States enablers, including President Joe Biden in his capacity as Israel's PR spokesperson after being embarrassingly snubbed by Egypt, Jordan and the quisling Palestinian Authority, has been trying desperately to "control the narrative" after the fallout of the bombing of a hospital in Gaza that has already claimed the lives of over 500 innocent Palestinians.
The U.S. President has said that "the Pentagon has showed him evidence that Israel did not bomb the hospital and that it was an errant rocket fired by a terrorist group." But he's provided no proof. Maybe we'll get some photos and videos sometime later. Nobody believes him. The U.S. does not have credibility in the Middle East. Sending his military toys to the region to threaten nations that do not like Israel is also very clumsy if not stupid.
And why should anyone with half a brain take the world of a government that in 2003 showed "iron-clad evidence" of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, presented by a former U.S. Secretary of State to the United Nations, with photos, charts, props and all, that proved to be a mountainous tissue of lies, untruths and distortions? Those lies cost the murder and deaths of millions of Iraqis and the near total destruction of that country. And what about Afghanistan? That country never even threatened the United States but as the global superpower it invaded, occupied and killed thousands of innocent Afghans - for 20 long, brutal years. In fact, former president Donald Trump boasted that he dropped the "mother of all bombs" (MOAB) on that poor country.
Israel? Well, the usual playbook is to first deny, deny and deny and get their lackeys in the U.S. mainstream media to "put a human face" on the whatever tragedy or war and to trot out Israeli "military experts" with stock photos and journalists fielding powder-puff questions in the best propaganda tradition to obfuscate and further muddy the situation. It's the fog of war 101. But try as they will and no matter the unconditional embrace and support of the latest Israel massacres, truth while the first casualty of any war, many be wounded, but not dead. And you can spin and lie but this is not 1948 - its 2023 and the world is far more interconnected and information is easily available from non-traditional sources and can be easily checked and verified.
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