Miguel Afonso Caetano on Nostr: "What’s happening in Gaza is not a war, it’s a few thousand guys with homemade ...
"What’s happening in Gaza is not a war, it’s a few thousand guys with homemade rockets fighting an entire empire, and Israel isn’t even focused on them — it’s focused on the entire population of Gaza.
States often try to avoid using the word “war” to describe their actions due to people’s negative associations with it. The US likes to call its wars “humanitarian interventions”. Russia called its invasion of Ukraine a “Special Military Operation”. But Israel immediately rushed in to call its naked ethnic cleansing operation in Gaza a “war”, as did its western allies and their propaganda press. Why is that?
I will tell you why. It’s to justify permanently taking Gaza away from the Palestinians. Israel has an established track record of using the wars it has fought to grab up more territory, which its apologists then justify by saying things like “Yeah well they lost a war in 1967, you lose territory when you fight a war and lose.” They’re laying the narrative foundation to make sure everyone in the future will see Gaza in the same light after they annex it, purge it of Palestinians, and replace them with Jews.
That’s all this has ever been: not a war with Hamas, but another Israeli land grab. There are mountains of evidence that Israeli officials let October 7 happen on purpose in order to justify this land grab, and they’ve been framing this as a “war” ever since to make sure they can get away with it.
Framing this as a war has other benefits to be sure, such as framing the civilians and civilian infrastructure it has been deliberately targeting as “collateral damage” instead of systematic extermination and demolition. But first and foremost this is about the expansion of Israeli territory."
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-is-just-bush-in-a-red-hat
#USA #Trump #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #HumanRights #Genocide
States often try to avoid using the word “war” to describe their actions due to people’s negative associations with it. The US likes to call its wars “humanitarian interventions”. Russia called its invasion of Ukraine a “Special Military Operation”. But Israel immediately rushed in to call its naked ethnic cleansing operation in Gaza a “war”, as did its western allies and their propaganda press. Why is that?
I will tell you why. It’s to justify permanently taking Gaza away from the Palestinians. Israel has an established track record of using the wars it has fought to grab up more territory, which its apologists then justify by saying things like “Yeah well they lost a war in 1967, you lose territory when you fight a war and lose.” They’re laying the narrative foundation to make sure everyone in the future will see Gaza in the same light after they annex it, purge it of Palestinians, and replace them with Jews.
That’s all this has ever been: not a war with Hamas, but another Israeli land grab. There are mountains of evidence that Israeli officials let October 7 happen on purpose in order to justify this land grab, and they’ve been framing this as a “war” ever since to make sure they can get away with it.
Framing this as a war has other benefits to be sure, such as framing the civilians and civilian infrastructure it has been deliberately targeting as “collateral damage” instead of systematic extermination and demolition. But first and foremost this is about the expansion of Israeli territory."
https://www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/trump-is-just-bush-in-a-red-hat
#USA #Trump #Israel #Gaza #Palestine #HumanRights #Genocide