Before They Launch Missiles, They Launch Propaganda Campaigns by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!
(2023-10-30 at 00:16:37 )

Before They Launch Missiles, They Launch Propaganda Campaigns by Ms Caitlin Johnstone!

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Before they launch missiles, they launch propaganda campaigns. Before they roll out tanks, they roll out narratives. Everyone who helps manufacture consent for the killing in Gaza is just as culpable for the murder of those thousands of children as the people dropping the bombs.

In case you missed it there is an overwhelming amount of evidence that many of the horrific acts Hamas is accused of committing on October 7 (burning people alive, burning babies, mowing down concertgoers, etc) were actually the result of indiscriminate fire by Israeli forces.

Here is a link to a Grayzone article and a link to a video presentation by Propaganda & Co, both citing Israeli media reports as their evidence.

To be clear none of this means Israel killed everyone who died on October 7 or that Hamas did not kill noncombatants, it just means the narrative is wrong!

Remember that murderer who took a United States elementary school classroom hostage, and the United States air force dropped a MOAB on the school and killed all the children, and everyone was cool with it because they needed to kill the guy and he was using the kids as human shields??

No??

Me neither!!

Israel apologists do not seem to get that we have seen every part of their tired schtick before!!

"Anti-semite"? Saw it with Jeremy Corbyn.

"Terrorist supporter"? Saw it with Bushs wars.

"Unprovoked attack"? Saw it with Ukraine.

If you want to fool people, get an original routine.

Every once in a while I remember that a significant percentage of the Israel apologists yelling at me on social media are American Christians who support Israel because they want Jesus to come back and cast all the unrepentant Jews into Hell.

Western officials: Israel is defending itself.

Israeli officials: We are doing genocide.

Western officials: They are following the laws of war.

Israeli officials: We are gonna do way more genocide.

Western officials: It is a measured response to October 7.

Israeli officials: Kill their babies.

Netanyahu is now going fully genocidal; calling Palestinians "Amalek" & citing the bible to justify their destruction!!

The bible called to "utterly destroy all that Amalek have, & spare them not; but slay both man & WOMAN, INFANT & suckling, ox & sheep, camel & donkey"!!-Muhammad Shehada (muhammadshehad2) October 28, 2023

I see people saying the United States gets nothing out of its alliance with Israel and it is all one way, which is inaccurate.

The interests of the United States empire are massively advanced by having a nuclear-armed intelligence proxy in a strategically crucial resource-rich region constantly inflicting violence and chaos on non-United States-aligned nations.

Perhaps more importantly, Israels existence serves as the ultimate argument against ever removing United States troops from the middle east, which it does not want to do because of its interest in controlling the worlds fossil fuel supply.

As Joe Biden said, "If Israel did not exist, we would have to invent it."

People often point to Israels aggressive lobbying efforts in Washington,D.C. to argue that the alliance is not mutually beneficial, but lobbying is just one of the adhesives which holds an unofficial, unacknowledged empire together!!

You may be certain that if Washington,D.C. did not want Israel manipulating United States politics in its own interests, it would not be happening; the United States government has plenty of laws at its disposal to shut that down if it wants!!

Israel has no qualms about pushing the United States to give it the most it can get for the smallest possible return because it understands, quite correctly, that in the end Israel is still just an ally of convenience and the United States will throw it under the bus the moment it is in the empires interests to do so!!

Israel has an extensive history of aligning with hostile and unpredictable powers to advance its own interests, like the anti-semitic Christian Zionists and supporting the rise of Hamas. So the two power structures use each other for whatever they can get in exchange, and because of the way Israel was set up from the beginning their interests are aligned far more often than not.

Remember everyone, before you criticize an ongoing genocidal massacre that is being supported by your own country you must first condemn a small foreign militant group who has spotty internet access, does not speak your language, and will never hear anything you say to them.

They tell you Israel is defending itself when you can see it is mostly killing women and children!!

They tell you they are targeting Hamas when you can see them flattening whole city blocks!!

They tell you you are an anti-semite when you know you are not!!

All they have got is gaslighting!!

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