Stalin
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Probably the greatest tragedy, and there are many, is the descent of the promise of israel into a full blown genocidal nazi regime...
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But as Israel has made clear for decades now, it does not regard the territories under its occupation as Palestinian. It regards them as lands divinely willed to the Jewish people and which it has a right to actively colonise — or as Israeli officials term it, “Judaise.”
"..The Palestinians are simply an obstacle to the full realisation of that colonisation. They are viewed rather like an infestation of termites. They need to be removed or eradicated.
Israel is at different stages in that eradication process, reflecting the degree of pushback it has received internationally. Gaza is near completion. The West Bank is well advanced. East Jerusalem is a work in progress.
It takes brains as well as brawn to keep an ugly, dehumanising system of oppression like this running for so long and in ways that don’t embarrass allies too greatly. The Israeli army is the muscle. The Shin Bet is the brains.
The latter’s main job is to constantly surveil Palestinian society and devise ways to subvert and weaken it to prevent Palestinians from successfully resisting their gradual dispossession and eradication.
The Shin Bet oversees Israel’s extensively documented torture programme — one that relies on systematic rape and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners, including by specially trained dogs.
Young children are routinely abused in this system: grabbed from their homes in the middle of the night, beaten by soldiers and locked up for months or years by military courts that have a near 100 percent conviction rate.
As part of this system, the Shin Bet uses the threat of prison, or torture, or sexual abuse, or denial of medical treatment, to pressure Palestinians into turning informer. It recruits and runs an extensive network of Palestinian collaborators it uses to undermine any attempt at organised, collective resistance.
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comrade stalin
moscow
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But as Israel has made clear for decades now, it does not regard the territories under its occupation as Palestinian. It regards them as lands divinely willed to the Jewish people and which it has a right to actively colonise — or as Israeli officials term it, “Judaise.”
"..The Palestinians are simply an obstacle to the full realisation of that colonisation. They are viewed rather like an infestation of termites. They need to be removed or eradicated.
Israel is at different stages in that eradication process, reflecting the degree of pushback it has received internationally. Gaza is near completion. The West Bank is well advanced. East Jerusalem is a work in progress.
It takes brains as well as brawn to keep an ugly, dehumanising system of oppression like this running for so long and in ways that don’t embarrass allies too greatly. The Israeli army is the muscle. The Shin Bet is the brains.
The latter’s main job is to constantly surveil Palestinian society and devise ways to subvert and weaken it to prevent Palestinians from successfully resisting their gradual dispossession and eradication.
The Shin Bet oversees Israel’s extensively documented torture programme — one that relies on systematic rape and sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners, including by specially trained dogs.
Young children are routinely abused in this system: grabbed from their homes in the middle of the night, beaten by soldiers and locked up for months or years by military courts that have a near 100 percent conviction rate.
As part of this system, the Shin Bet uses the threat of prison, or torture, or sexual abuse, or denial of medical treatment, to pressure Palestinians into turning informer. It recruits and runs an extensive network of Palestinian collaborators it uses to undermine any attempt at organised, collective resistance.
Jonathan Cook: Western Democracy?
Western societies are not led by individuals. Rather, they are shaped by structural forces that reward the super rich and operate like laws of nature — though there is nothing natural about them. By Jonathan Cook Jonathan-Cook.net Two pronounced — and inverse — trends in Western soc
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comrade stalin
moscow
