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blueiight · 5 months

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Stop bolstering sources like these🙏🏾

#972mag & haaretz are the vestiges of the liberal/‘left’ zionist that founded the occupation #they just reword what palestinians say #in english to put on a show for yall #and yall act like they reinvented the wheel #yn.#haaretz #palestine #972mag #meanwhile in hebrew their articles sing a diff tune.

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emptyanddark · 6 months

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In one case discussed by the sources, the Israeli military command knowingly approved the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in an attempt to assassinate a single top Hamas military commander. “The numbers increased from dozens of civilian deaths [permitted] as collateral damage as part of an attack on a senior official in previous operations, to hundreds of civilian deaths as collateral damage,” said one source.

“Nothing happens by accident,” said another source. “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target. We are not Hamas. These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.”

According to the investigation, another reason for the large number of targets, and the extensive harm to civilian life in Gaza, is the widespread use of a system called “Habsora” (“The Gospel”), which is largely built on artificial intelligence and can “generate” targets almost automatically at a rate that far exceeds what was previously possible. This AI system, as described by a former intelligence officer, essentially facilitates a “mass assassination factory.”

According to the sources, the increasing use of AI-based systems like Habsora allows the army to carry out strikes on residential homes where a single Hamas member lives on a massive scale, even those who are junior Hamas operatives. Yet testimonies of Palestinians in Gaza suggest that since October 7, the army has also attacked many private residences where there was no known or apparent member of Hamas or any other militant group residing. Such strikes, sources confirmed to +972 and Local Call, can knowingly kill entire families in the process.

In the majority of cases, the sources added, military activity is not conducted from these targeted homes. “I remember thinking that it was like if [Palestinian militants] would bomb all the private residences of our families when [Israeli soldiers] go back to sleep at home on the weekend,” one source, who was critical of this practice, recalled.

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The third is “power targets,” which includes high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices. The idea behind hitting such targets, say three intelligence sources who were involved in planning or conducting strikes on power targets in the past, is that a deliberate attack on Palestinian society will exert “civil pressure” on Hamas.

The final [fourth] category consists of “family homes” or “operatives’ homes.” The stated purpose of these attacks is to destroy private residences in order to assassinate a single resident suspected of being a Hamas or Islamic Jihad operative. However, in the current war, Palestinian testimonies assert that some of the families that were killed did not include any operatives from these organizations.

In the early stages of the current war, the Israeli army appears to have given particular attention to the third and fourth categories of targets. According to statements on Oct. 11 by the IDF Spokesperson, during the first five days of fighting, half of the targets bombed — 1,329 out of a total 2,687 — were deemed power targets.

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“We are asked to look for high-rise buildings with half a floor that can be attributed to Hamas,” said one source who took part in previous Israeli offensives in Gaza. “Sometimes it is a militant group’s spokesperson’s office, or a point where operatives meet. I understood that the floor is an excuse that allows the army to cause a lot of destruction in Gaza. That is what they told us.

“If they would tell the whole world that the [Islamic Jihad] offices on the 10th floor are not important as a target, but that its existence is a justification to bring down the entire high-rise with the aim of pressuring civilian families who live in it in order to put pressure on terrorist organizations, this would itself be seen as terrorism. So they do not say it,” the source added.

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“They will never just hit a high-rise that does not have something we can define as a military target,” said another intelligence source, who carried out previous strikes against power targets. “There will always be a floor in the high-rise [associated with Hamas]. But for the most part, when it comes to power targets, it is clear that the target doesn’t have military value that justifies an attack that would bring down the entire empty building in the middle of a city, with the help of six planes and bombs weighing several tons.”

Indeed, according to sources who were involved in the compiling of power targets in previous wars, although the target file usually contains some kind of alleged association with Hamas or other militant groups, striking the target functions primarily as a “means that allows damage to civil society.” The sources understood, some explicitly and some implicitly, that damage to civilians is the real purpose of these attacks.

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krill-joy · 6 months

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"It is now clear to any person with common sense that Israel will not stop its massive bombardment and ground invasion of the Gaza Strip without serious external pressure. I am not a radical. I am not a traitor. But you would have to be delusional to trust the same people who led us into this disaster to take the proper steps to lead us out of it. Our government has no answers and no limits.

I have attended the few small protests in Tel Aviv in recent weeks calling for a ceasefire. We leftist activists are a tiny minority in our society, and we are currently having to choose our words carefully. We are scared for our own safety amid the crackdown on dissent within Israel since Hamas’ October 7 massacres, which is forcing us to tone down the visibility of our rage. If we are completely silenced, who will be left to protest for an end to the war and the release of the hostages?

During the speeches by the hostages’ families, many have stated in no uncertain terms that their calls are being shunted aside to allow the Israeli army to continue its aggression in Gaza. If our government is not even listening to them, who will listen to us? The fear is numbing, like everything could blow up in our faces, and Itamar Ben Gvir’s police could lock us up with ease. We feel frustrated and powerless.

There is no ceasefire because the only way Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu knows how to survive politically is through blood and tanks, satiating a fascist base thirsty for ever more settlements and resources to achieve their messianic dreams. He is fueling division even in our grief, now even suggesting that the October 7 massacres were enabled by army reservists refusing to serve in opposition to the government’s judicial coup.

While polls currently indicate that a majority of the Israeli public wants Netanyahu gone as soon as the hostilities are over, we know this war criminal far too well to expect him to exit the stage quietly. He will surely find some way to pit us against each other again to try to remain in office. "

#972mag has been doing good work for a long time

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jewishvitya · 7 months

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972mag is a publication by Palestinian and Israeli journalists.

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In a eulogy for her brother Hayim, an anti-occupation activist who was murdered in Kibbutz Holit, Noi Katsman called on her country “not to use our deaths and our pain to cause the death and pain of other people or other families. I demand that we stop the circle of pain, and understand that the only way [forward] is freedom and equal rights. Peace, brotherhood, and security for all human beings.”

Ziv Stahl, executive director of the human rights organization Yesh Din, and a survivor of the hellfire in Kfar Aza, also came out strongly against Israel’s assault on Gaza in an article in Haaretz. “I have no need for revenge, nothing will return those who are gone,” she wrote. “Indiscriminate bombing in Gaza and the killing of civilians uninvolved with these horrible crimes are no solution.”

Yotam Kipnis, whose father was murdered in the Hamas attack, said in his eulogy: “Do not write my father’s name on a [military] shell. He wouldn’t have wanted that. Don’t say, ‘God will avenge his blood.’ Say, ‘May his memory be for a blessing.’”

And people there talk about breaking the cycle, which has to mean us. We must be the ones to do that, we have the power and the freedom to allow us to do that. We keep Palestinians trapped and dying and give them no path out of this way of life.

Peace should not mean quiet subjugation. It should mean stopping the genocide, and it should mean no occupation, no apartheid, no ethnic cleansing, undoing whatever we can from the colonialist tactics Israel has been using from the start.

And it has to mean us.

#palestine

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ahaura · 6 months

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(Nov. 30)

For yrs, the Israeli military calculated the caloric needs of Gaza & permitted just enough food to enter to avert outright starvation. Today @972mag reports Israel also calculates "how many civilians are certain to be killed" in each strike @CIJ_ICJhttps://972mag.com/mass-assassina

#palestine #zachary foster #israel #geopol #📁.zip

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sexhaver · 6 months

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that reblog chain reminds me of this article i read in 972mag:

Golan, the Israeli farmer who was close to Hashim, says he has forged friendships with laborers from Gaza and it is clear to him that the majority of Palestinians in Gaza do not support Hamas. That said, he also believes the Israeli army should take this war all the way. “We can’t live like this anymore,” he said. “How can I bring my daughters to the kibbutz school again after the terrorists were there?” More than anything, however, he says the most difficult feeling is the sense of betrayal. That the State of Israel abandoned its citizens who live near Gaza.

i love/hate reading these kinds of articles because they always treat racist Israeli "concerns" so credulously to the point where it's almost comical. just once i want to read one of these articles where the journalist grows a spine and asks "so you're okay with your government killing civilians? that's what 'all the way' means here, right? well it's what's been happening for the last few weeks, have you not been following the news?"

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soldan56 · 1 month

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L'esercito israeliano utilizza un sistema per seguire i sospetti membri di Hamas e ucciderli non sul campo di battaglia ma quando rientrano a casa con moglie e figli, così da uccidere l'intera stirpe. Si chiama “Where’s Daddy”. Si chiama davvero così. L'inchiesta di +972.

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prole-log · 1 month

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Via @972mag

During the early stages of the war, the army gave sweeping approval for officers to adopt Lavender’s kill lists, with no requirement to thoroughly check why the machine made those choices or to examine the raw intelligence data on which they were based. One source stated that human personnel often served only as a “rubber stamp” for the machine’s decisions, adding that, normally, they would personally devote only about “20 seconds” to each target before authorizing a bombing — just to make sure the Lavender-marked target is male. This was despite knowing that the system makes what are regarded as “errors” in approximately 10 percent of cases, and is known to occasionally mark individuals who have merely a loose connection to militant groups, or no connection at all.

#free palestine #ai #anti zionisim #politics #freeblr

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hassanatforusmk · 4 months

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@GOOGLE & @AMAZON ARE ENABLING THE FIRST AI-POWERED GENOCIDE.

Over the last 100+ days, Israel has escalated its assault on Gaza in what's being called the first AI-facilitated genocide in human history. @amazon @google & companies across tech have powered the current genocide of Palestinians in Gaza & the surveillance & oppression of Paletinians across historic Palestine for years, revving up Israel's genocide machine that has led to the murder of 32K-F Palestinians, according to @euromedhr.

Last November, a @972mag investigation revealed the Israeli military's use of a new AI-based system called Habsora ("The Gospel") to automatically generate bombing targets & kill Palestinians in Gaza at an unprecedented rate.

Google & Amazon are also providing powerful Al tech to the Israeli military through the $1B Project Nimbus contract, which was signed while Israel dropped bombs on Gaza during its May 2021 assault.

In 2022, a @theintercept investigation confirmed @Google is offering advanced Al & machine-learning capabilities to Israel via Nimbus. The dots indicate that the new cloud would include facial detection tech & even sentiment analysis that claims to "assess the emotional content of pictures, speech & writing" to Israel. Any of these capabilities

In 2022, a @theintercept investigation confirmed @Google is offering advanced Al & machine-learning capabilities to Israel via Nimbus. The docs indicate that the new cloud would include facial detection tech & even sentiment analysis that claims to "assess the emotional content of pictures, speech & writing" to Israel. Any of these capabilities supercharge Israel's ability to surveil Palestinians & collect/process data on Palestinians—key strategies of the Israeli occupation.

Workers don't want their labor to be used to power genocide.

For 2+ yrs, Google & Amazon workers w/ community orgs have organized against the companies' ties to Israel. Last year, 100s of tech workers & community protested at @googlecloud & @amazonwebservices conferences in SF & NYC. In 2022, tech workers & community organized #NoTechForApartheid demonstrations in four tech hubs across the US in a historic show of unity & solidarity among workers across two of the biggest tech companies on the planet.

We won't stop organizing until @amazon @google drop Nimbus & the tech industry stops fueling state violence & genocide.

Take action: - Are you a tech worker? Get involved at t.ly/ NotaGenerallntake

Demand #NoTechForApartheid by emailing the CEOs at notechforapartheid.com.

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jensorensen · 6 months

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Over the past few weeks, protests organized by Jewish Voice for Peace have poignantly made the case against the slaughter of civilians in Gaza with slogans such as "Never again for anyone" and "My grief is not your weapon." A rabbinical student wrote a heartfelt essay for 972Mag about her reasons for participating in a sit-in on Capitol Hill alongside other rabbinical students and rabbis. Yet those who speak out against collective punishment for Hamas's brutal attacks are routinely demonized as antisemitic. By and large, it isn't protesters who are extremists; that label belongs to those who dehumanize whole civilian populations.

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#comic #politics #cartoon #gaza #israel #palestine #war #protest #first amendment

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sataniccapitalist · 5 months

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LEAKED: Israel's War Machine Exposed

This is extraordinary: members of Israel's intelligence community have exposed the workings of Israel's war machine. The truth is more shocking than you may realise. I'm joined by brilliant Israeli investigative journalist Yuval Abraham - of Israeli-Palestinian publication @972mag - https://www.972mag.com/mass-assassina... - who wrote this astonishing exposé.

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intimate-mirror · 1 month

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many of those arguing that Israel's war on Gaza is blameless point out that the word "proportionality" as used in law of warfare is not about ratios of kill counts, so saying that killing ~30k people in response to ~2k people isn't "disproportionate"

I think that while keeping in mind the war law context's meaning of the word is worth something, it's also okay to use the general meaning of the word

but this here, if neither 972mag nor their sources are lying, seems like proof that Israel is not being proportionate in the military law sense either - it is specifically those targets who Israel "needs" to kill the least which it spends the least effort on preventing "collateral damage"

#i/p cw

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raffaeleitlodeo · 6 months

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Tre cose che ho letto e che rimettono un po' le cose di Gaza nel loro contesto. Si parla di scelte di politica estera, reazioni all'11 settembre, diplomazia vista non dal buco della serratura ma da chi la fa e del perché sono saltati gli accordi di Camp David del 2000 (Arafat, Barak, Clinton).

1. Su 972Mag un media ebraico di sinistra si pubblica uno scoop su un documento del ministero dell'Intelligence israeliano nel quale si valuta l'idea di espellere la popolazione da Gaza e mandarla verso il Sinai per poi immaginare una loro permanenza sulla penisola egiziana. Non è LA linea perseguita dal governo, è uno scenario tra gli altri, che è il lavoro dell'intelligence preparare, ma è un segnale di uno dei filoni di pensiero che guida le politiche del governo Netanyahu e dei suoi alleati nazionalisti di destra. https://www.972mag.com/intelligence-ministry-gaza.../

2. Sulla NYRB un lunghissimo e vecchio articolo (2001) da Robert Malley, inviato speciale di Clinton per il Medio Oriente, in cui si spiega come non sia vero che gli accordi del 2000 siano saltati per "colpa" di Arafat. Malley non dice che la colpa sia di Clinton o di Barak, ma di un complesso di cose, dubbi relativi all'atteggiamento con cui ciascun attore approcciava ai negoziati, all'ostinazione di Barak di volere tutto o niente contro quella di Arafat a volere dei passi intermedi già negoziati realizzati invece di aspettare il padre e le madre di tutti gli accordi. E a una serie di errori da parte di Clinton, natturalmente schierato con Israele per ragioni storiche e strategiche ma con grandi divergenze da Barak che non esplicitò, rendendo sospettoso Arafat. Ho semplificato tutto, questo è un articolo ricchissimo di particolari e analisi. Il succo: negoziare è complicato, i fattori che giocano sono molteplici, dalle personalità, al contesto politico interno, alle relazioni internazionali, al caso. https://www.nybooks.com/.../camp-david-the-tragedy-of.../

3. Questo dei tre è l'articolo più importante e ne tradurrò qualche frase. Si riferisce alla risposta degli USA al 9/11 è del 2002 e sembra scritto su Gaza. Dichiarare "guerra al terrore" ha significato creare una psicosi da guerra nella società USA, in guerra si vogliono vittorie semplici, battaglie che seguano il news cycle, cioé l'esatto opposto dell'operazione di intelligence, operazioni mirate e segrete (che rimangano tali o meno), individuazione di interlocutori per raccogliere informazioni, ecc. che serve se vuoi sconfiggere un gruppo informale e militante. "L'uso della forza non è più visto come l'ultima risorsa, da evitare se umanamente possibile, ma come la prima, e prima viene usata meglio è". Una guerra contro il terrorismo è anche una guerra diversa: per molti nel popolo i terroristi sono "combattenti per la libertà" e quindi reagire brutalmente invece che lavorare a conquistare i cuori e le menti è controproducente. Inciso su Gaza, oggi Israele sta facendo l'esatto contrario di quel che servirebbe per conquistare cuori e menti. In un articolo sul NYT Thomas Friedman parla della reazione di Manmohan Singh dopo gli attentati a Mumbai, qiando decise che invece di dare la caccia alle bande terroriste in Punjab o Paksitan lavorò in maniera molto diversa, impedendo così che l'attenzione si spostasse dalle bombe a Mumbai alle bombe indiane. Oggi siamo qui a parlare della strage nel campo di Jabalya, segno che in questo senso Israele ha sbagliato tutto.

In secondo luogo dichiarare guerra ai terroristi nel 2000 ha significatto dare ad al Qaeda uno statuis da combattente, da esercito, e non da banda di banditi. Un errore che ha elevato la guerra di al Qaeda a una guerra appunto e non ha un atto di terrore da parte di una banda di assassini fanatici religiosi. Quello status regalato dagli USA a bin Laden ha aiutato al Qaeda a diventare un punto di riferimento planetario. Infine, "Nell'intricato gioco di abilità tra i terroristi e le autorità, come hanno scoperto gli inglesi sia in Palestina che in Irlanda, i terroristi hanno già vinto una battaglia importante se riescono a provocare le autorità a usare la forza armata contro di loro. A quel punto si troveranno in una situazione vantaggiosa per tutti: o fuggiranno per combattere un altro giorno, o saranno sconfitti e celebrati come martiri". A Gaza è lo stesso, con in più le migliaia di civili che muoiono e che alimentano l'idea che a essere martire è il popolo palestinese e non i miliziani delle brigate al Qassam e i loro leader. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/.../whats-name-how-fight

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jewishvitya · 5 months

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This is so horrifying. Other news sources picked up on this, but this is the source that did the investigating. +972mag and Local Call are a publication run by Palestinian and Israeli journalists.

From the article:

Several of the sources confirmed that the Israeli army has files on the vast majority of potential targets in Gaza — including homes — which stipulate the number of civilians who are likely to be killed in an attack on a particular target. This number is calculated and known in advance to the army’s intelligence units, who also know shortly before carrying out an attack roughly how many civilians are certain to be killed.

In one case discussed by the sources, the Israeli military command knowingly approved the killing of hundreds of Palestinian civilians in an attempt to assassinate a single top Hamas military commander. “The numbers increased from dozens of civilian deaths [permitted] as collateral damage as part of an attack on a senior official in previous operations, to hundreds of civilian deaths as collateral damage,” said one source.

“Nothing happens by accident,” said another source. “When a 3-year-old girl is killed in a home in Gaza, it’s because someone in the army decided it wasn’t a big deal for her to be killed — that it was a price worth paying in order to hit [another] target. We are not Hamas. These are not random rockets. Everything is intentional. We know exactly how much collateral damage there is in every home.”

In the majority of cases, the sources added, military activity is not conducted from these targeted homes. “I remember thinking that it was like if [Palestinian militants] would bomb all the private residences of our families when [Israeli soldiers] go back to sleep at home on the weekend,” one source, who was critical of this practice, recalled.

In addition, there are apparently four kinds of targets. The first are "military targets such as armed militant cells, weapon warehouses, rocket launchers" etc. The second are underground targets, the tunnels, which harms whatever structure exists over them. The third are "power targets," and the fourth are the homes of suspected Hamas operatives, which can include their families.

The paragraph about "power targets":

The third is “power targets,” which includes high-rises and residential towers in the heart of cities, and public buildings such as universities, banks, and government offices. The idea behind hitting such targets, say three intelligence sources who were involved in planning or conducting strikes on power targets in the past, is that a deliberate attack on Palestinian society will exert “civil pressure” on Hamas.

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In the early stages of the current war, the Israeli army appears to have given particular attention to the third and fourth categories of targets. According to statements on Oct. 11 by the IDF Spokesperson, during the first five days of fighting, half of the targets bombed — 1,329 out of a total 2,687 — were deemed power targets.

“We are asked to look for high-rise buildings with half a floor that can be attributed to Hamas,” said one source who took part in previous Israeli offensives in Gaza. “Sometimes it is a militant group’s spokesperson’s office, or a point where operatives meet. I understood that the floor is an excuse that allows the army to cause a lot of destruction in Gaza. That is what they told us.

“If they would tell the whole world that the [Islamic Jihad] offices on the 10th floor are not important as a target, but that its existence is a justification to bring down the entire high-rise with the aim of pressuring civilian families who live in it in order to put pressure on terrorist organizations, this would itself be seen as terrorism. So they do not say it,” the source added.

A thing that I see all the time is people saying "how can you trust the number of casualties, they're coming from Hamas" but:

The figures provided by the Health Ministry and the Government Media Office — both of which fall under the auspices of the Hamas government — do not deviate significantly from Israeli estimates.

And apparently the estimates of Hamas operatives killed are between 1000 and 3000. According to the guardian, "the estimate from Israel’s military that it has killed between 1,000 and 2,000 Hamas fighters, relates only to the assault on Gaza, and not to any Hamas fighters killed during the initial attacks on Israel." According to these numbers, around 80-93% of the deaths were civilians. So these are the numbers if we trust the Israeli military as a source.

And I made this point before, so it's validating to see here:

“Hamas is everywhere in Gaza; there is no building that does not have something of Hamas in it, so if you want to find a way to turn a high-rise into a target, you will be able to do so,” said one former intelligence official.

#palestine

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rebel-girl-queen-of-my-world · 2 years

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Relevant to my last post: these are the kind of war crimes the Israeli military is trying to stop Palestinian human rights organizations from exposing. #Repost @jewishvoiceforpeace with @use.repost ・・・ The Israeli military's killing of Palestinian children is conscious and calculated — despite claims it has nothing to do with their deaths or kills them unintentionally. Most of Israeli society and many American Jews believe that the Israeli military does not knowingly bomb Palestinian children. This belief — along with the belief that Israel only targets Palestinians in “self-defense,” for “security” reasons — allows people to justify and even forget the hundreds of murders of Palestinians, children and adults alike, in Gaza over the years. People are already forgetting that, just over a week ago, Israeli air strikes in Gaza killed 49 Palestinians, including 17 children, and wounded at least 360 others. But these beliefs are wishful and false ones: the Israeli military has a "permissible" number of Palestinian children and families it will approve to kill in advance, as @972mag’s recent interviews with former Israeli soldiers reveal (swipe left). Former soldiers also testify to monitoring phone conversations between the murdered children’s family members to confirm that they were in fact dead. Even more disturbingly, the military later taught soldiers Arabic using recordings of these calls, making them translate the screams of crying parents into Hebrew. How many more Palestinian children will the Israeli military murder before Jews and people all over the world stop believing its lies? Before the US stops funding it to the tune of $3.8 billion per year? Before companies stop doing business in Israel, consumers boycott Israeli products, and institutions pull their Israeli investments? Protecting Palestinian children means ending Israeli impunity NOW. #warcrimes #israel #palestine #childrenofgaza #gazaunderattack #gaza #falastin #jewsagainstzionism #jewishvoiceforpeace #palestine🇵🇸 #freepalestine #israelioccupation #ethniccleansing #humanrights #israeliapartheid #israeliarmy #idf #iof #endtheoccupation #palestinewillbefree https://www.instagram.com/p/ChfA8g4u0CJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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sneezewizard · 1 month

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There is nothing I can say that isn't already in the article. Just give it a read, if you have the chance, and support the work that +972mag is doing.

#cw: death #israel/palestine

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