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Israel descends into barbarism

Unless you are the victim of a moral narrow-mindedness (and there seems to be an epidemic of this defect nowadays), it should be obvious to you that Israel has descended into barbarism. Why barbarism? Because in Israel, cruel, murderous, and otherwise criminal behaviour has become State policy.

Firstly, let me give a list of signs of this horrible meltdown: Establishing an apartheid State to satisfy a racist ideological doctrine, committing “probable” genocide in Gaza, committing mass executions at, amongst other places, Gaza hospitals, issuing orders to shoot unarmed Palestinian civilians, torture and murder of Palestinian detainees, inducing an artificial famine in Gaza, blocking humanitarian aid, systematic destruction of most of the infrastructure needed to sustain human life in the Gaza Strip, committing increasing numbers of pogroms against Palestinian villages and towns in the West Bank.

All of this is documented in the reports of credible human rights organisations, the United Nations agencies, as well as in the decisions of the International Court of Justice. Face it, this is not a matter of opinion or perspective—be it President Biden’s or anyone else’s. It is a matter of (often televised) fact. Israeli Jews, and Zionists generally, get really mad when you cite the above facts without referencing their excuses. So, let’s run down some of them:


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