Monday, March 25: Horror Beyond Description
The depth of the horror in Gaza surpasses anyone's ability to describe it
Every week I wish there were more positive updates to provide, and every week I learn that the genocide in Gaza has yet to reach the bottom. It’s a disgrace beyond words. We're watching an international catastrophe unfold in real time, much of it live-streamed directly to our phones, and our spineless political leaders are too stupid, cowardly, racist, and blindly loyal to an apartheid state to do anything different, no matter how much worse it gets.
According to the bill passed by congress this week, the US will send the apartheid state an additional $3.8 BILLION while cutting funding to UNRWA (The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees). The bill also limits financial support to the Palestinian Authority if Palestinians initiate or support an International Criminal Court investigation against the apartheid state for their human rights crimes. So any aid to Palestinians is conditional on them not taking Israel to court for human rights violations, but aid to Israel is apparently *not* conditional on not committing those human rights violations. Yet another example of how Palestinians are consistently and repeatedly excluded from international law while the Israelis are exempted from it and protected by western powers.
This forensic analysis from Al Jazeera dives deep into the misinformation and disinformation that’s been publicized and spread by the apartheid state since October 7th. Their investigation found that many of the initial claims made by Israel (40 beheaded babies, mass rape by Hamas, some of the killing of Israeli hostages, etc.) were outright lies, making it that much more ridiculous to believe anything reported by the apartheid state. While Israeli politicians and genocide defenders have continued to make it abundantly clear that they desire nothing short of ethnically cleansing Gaza of Palestinians, Israel's apologists and western politicians deny their crimes until, lo and behold, the ethnic cleansing is in full swing. At this point they’ll say, "well, there's nothing left of Gaza anyways, so the Palestinians may as well leave."
But there’s a massive difference between people “starving” and people “being starved”. One is passive, almost accidental or coincidental while the other is an active and murderous choice, a daily refusal to ensure the safety or survival of innocent people. At present, the apartheid state is provoking and guaranteeing famine on a massive scale by preventing aid from reaching Palestinians and by continuing to withhold access to clean water. According to a UN report, more than 70 percent of Gaza’s 2.3 million population is facing “catastrophic hunger”.
“This is the highest number of people facing catastrophic hunger ever recorded by the Integrated Food Security Classification system – anywhere, anytime.”
-UN Secretary General António Guterres
This drone footage documents the targeting and murder of several Palestinians as they walk through the rubble and remnants of their neighborhood in Khan Younis (WARNING: Watching this video will ruin your day and likely your week). This footage is not safe for work, it’s not safe for life, it’s repugnant on every level. I share it here with the sole intent of reminding you of the depth of depravity regularly employed by the genocidal military of the apartheid state. The only reason this footage is even seeing the light of day is because the Israeli drone that recorded it was shot down by Palestinians and the video was released. Take a moment and imagine how many identical videos of blatant war crimes exist in Israeli vaults and archives, never to see the light of day. And then imagine how much hatred and desire for vengeance this footage generates.
Side Items
Convenient Timing: A terrorist attack at a concert hall outside of Moscow killed at least 130 people a few days ago, with many rushin’ (pun intended) to claim that the mysterious “Islamic State” was behind the attack. It’s interesting how we can go literal years not hearing about this shadow terrorist group, but once the world starts paying attention to Israeli war crimes and the heat gets too hot, they pop out like it’s Groundhog Day. If I were slightly more conspiracy-oriented I might try and make some kind of connection there, but I’m skeptical of the official reports to say the least. Vladdy the Baddy Putin went so far as to suggest, without a shred of evidence, that Ukraine was somehow linked to the Islamic State's Afghanistan branch and that they were working in tandem. A likely story
“Good Squad” Crackdown: Six white piglets down in Mississippi finally saw the consequences of their depraved behavior this week when a federal judge sentenced them to years in prison. These six former officers each pleaded guilty to breaking into a home without a warrant and torturing two Black men. Now they’ll each get the opportunity to think on their sins in a place where I’m sure they’ll grow to become very popular
Royal Kate Update: Turns out it was cancer all along. After much online speculation and swirling conspiracy theories about Kate Middleton and whether or not the royal family was intentionally hiding her from public view, the princess recently announced that she was diagnosed with cancer and is currently undergoing treatment. As much disdain as I may have for anything royal-adjacent, this is a relatively young woman with young children. I wish her a speedy recovery, but I wish the royal family as a whole a speedier downfall