Fighting Fake News with REAL 28/12/23, Every Picture Tells a Story, False Equivalence, Over 100 Journalists Killed, Voluntary Ethnic Cleansing?, Dutton Cancels Xmas,

  

 END HATRED

Following Hamas’ October 7 attacks on Israel that caused more than 1,200 fatalities, there was a barrage of injunctions from Western mainstream media, politicians, and pundits insisting that anybody wishing to express an opinion on the events and the ensuing Israeli war crimes and genocide in Gaza, first denounce Hamas before expressing any other view. The failure to explicitly do so or any attempt to put events in their historical context or emphasise the root causes of the conflict were interpreted as condoning Hamas’s actions (that the speaker was a Hamas sympathiser) and conflated with antisemitism.

By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master? — Walter Rodney

Source: The false equivalence of the colonised and coloniser – Pearls and Irritations

 

Ceasefire now. End the occupation. And never forget the people who were killed for giving us a glimpse of the truth.

Source: Over 100 Journalists Killed in Less Than Three Months – CounterPunch.org

 

The extremist, fascist government of Binyamin Netanyahu continues to press its monstrous, illegal and most of all completely implausible plan to push the 2.2 million Palestinians of Gaza out of the Strip into Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula or into other Arab countries. Netanyahu also pledged to continue the high-intensity campaign against the people of Gaza.

Netanyahu’s plans to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians of Gaza, which have been echoed by many other Israeli politicians, including cabinet members, aren’t just plans to commit crimes against humanity. They are also highly implausible fantasies. The hard line, fascist government that Netanyahu has cobbled together dreams big, but just isn’t that powerful in the real world, and nor does the Biden administration want to see the Palestinians ethnically cleansed. Though, if it somehow did happen, no doubt Washington would put lipstick on that pig for Israel’s sake, as well.

Source: Netanyahu Advocates Ethnically Cleansing Palestinians of Gaza: Believe him the First Time

So in answer to the question that a newspaper recently asked, “Should Jacinta Nampijinpa Price run for PM?”, I’d merely say: I don’t know, so I’ll say no.

Source: Number 5 for 2023: The Strange Case Of Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price – » The Australian Independent Media Network