WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THESE VICTIMS ARE BEING TAKEN, BUT WE KNOW WHO IS BEHIND THE WHEEL...
See cartoon of the same criminal who put the gas in the tank, the tools of torture in the hands of the thuggish Israeli storm troopers and the free pass to do it all.
Israeli soldiers stand by a truck packed with bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees, in Gaza, Dec. 8, 2023.
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
―George Orwell,1984
Cartoon by Mark Taylor . DeMOCKracy.ink
UN Accuses Israel Of Detaining, Mistreating Thousands Of Palestinians
“There are reports of men who were subsequently released — but only in diapers, without any adequate clothing in this cold weather.”
(Editor’s Note: I must admit to being a tad shocked to see this photo and the detailed descriptions of Israeli abuse of Palestinian civilians in the Voice of America (VOA). The story is from January 19th, before the despicable ‘hospitals-as-terrorist-command-center’ lie of US/Israeli propaganda was debunked. Do note this passage: “Israeli army spokesman Rear Admiral Daniel Hagai said, “In this war, all options are on the table.”
The words of a war criminal. The words of a Nazi, or in this case, a ‘Zionazi’.
Clearly, for the US and Israel, that includes genocide, brutal torture and secret concentration camps. And we taxpayers fund it all.
— Mark Taylor)
By Lisa Schlein
VOA (Voice of America) (1/19/24)
GENEVA — The U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on Friday accused Israel of detaining thousands of Palestinians in secret locations in Gaza and the West Bank and subjecting them to mistreatment that could amount to torture.
Addressing journalists in Geneva by video link from Gaza, Ajith Sunghay, OHCHR representative in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, said he met “a number” of released detainees who said they’d been held by Israel Defense Forces for between 30 and 55 days.
“Getting to the bottom of numbers has been extremely difficult, but we have heard that it runs into the thousands,” said Sunghay.
“They described being beaten, humiliated, subjected to ill treatment and to what may amount to torture,” he added. “There are reports of men who were subsequently released — but only in diapers, without any adequate clothing in this cold weather.”
Sunghay also said the released detainees “reported being blindfolded for long periods — some of them for several consecutive days,” and that most said “they were taken at some time into Israel,” although they could not determine specifically where.
OHCHR spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said that her agency had been in touch with Israeli authorities regarding allegations of abuse.
“We have raised our concerns with the Israeli authorities about ill treatment, which would amount to torture of detainees in the occupied Palestinian territory repeatedly prior to October 7 and since then.
“Unfortunately, we have not received any response,” she said.
VOA contacted the Israeli mission in Geneva for comment but did not get a response. …
“That is a baby born into this horrendous war every 10 minutes. Becoming a mother should be a time for celebration. In Gaza, it is another child delivered into hell.”
Here’s What Everyday Israeli ‘Zionazi’s Look & Sound Like On The Border Of Gaza
Where the average Germans pretended to not know what was going on in the Nazi death camps, Israeli ‘Zionazis’ are out and proud about their crude inhumanity.
(Editor’s Note: Warning, this is a tough video to watch. These people are inhumane and deranged, and perfect representative of the fascist state the US supports. — Mark Taylor)
The Grayzone (3/21/24)
Journalist Jeremy Loffredo goes inside the grassroots Israeli campaign to block desperately needed aid to the besieged Gaza Strip and elicits the shockingly candid views of the Jewish Israeli nationalists manning the barricades. Setting out on a bus caravan through illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Loffredo arrives at the Kerem Shalom crossing to Gaza, filming Israeli citizens as they physically block trucks loaded with flour and other essential goods. There, a reservist who served in the military assault on Gaza confesses to an array of war crimes, including blowing up the offices of UN centers dedicated to providing food to the local population.
Loffredo then joins nationalists on a march toward Gaza, where they hope to establish new settlements after the population is violently driven out. This original Grayzone report was produced thanks to viewers like you.
17-minute video
If Jonathan Glazer’s Brave Oscar Acceptance Speech Made You Uncomfortable, That Was The Point
“Glazer has repeatedly stressed that his film’s subject is not the Holocaust, with its well-known horrors and historical particularities, but something more enduring and pervasive: the human capacity to live with holocausts and other atrocities, to make peace with them, draw benefit from them.”
By Naomi Klein
The Guardian (4/14/24)
t’s an Oscar tradition: a serious political speech pierces the bubble of glamour and self-congratulation. Warring responses ensue. Some proclaim the speech an example of artists at their culture-shifting best; others an egotistical usurpation of an otherwise celebratory night. Then everyone moves on.
Yet I suspect that the impact of Jonathan Glazer’s time-stopping speech at last Sunday’s Academy Awards will be significantly more lasting, with its meaning and import analyzed for many years to come.
Watching the Oscars on Sunday, where Glazer was alone among the parade of wealthy and powerful speakers across the podium to so much as mention Gaza, I remembered that exactly two weeks had passed since Aaron Bushnell, a 25-year-old member of the US air force, self-immolated outside the Israeli embassy in Washington.
Glazer was accepting the award for best international film for The Zone of Interest, which is inspired by the real life of Rudolf Höss, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The film follows Höss’s idyllic domestic life with his wife and children, which unfolds in a stately home and garden immediately adjacent to the concentration camp. Glazer has described his characters not as monsters but as “non-thinking, bourgeois, aspirational-careerist horrors”, people who manage to turn profound evil into white noise.
Before Sunday’s ceremony, Zone had already been heralded by several deities of the film world. Alfonso Cuarón, the Oscar-winning director of Roma, called it “probably the most important film of this century”. Steven Spielberg declared it “the best Holocaust movie I’ve witnessed since my own” – a reference to Schindler’s List, which swept the Oscars 30 years ago.
Does “never again” mean never again for all or just Jews?
But while Schindler List’s triumph represented a moment of profound validation and unity for the mainstream Jewish community, Zone arrives at a very different juncture. Debates are raging about how the Nazi atrocities should be remembered: should the Holocaust be seen exclusively as a Jewish catastrophe, or something more universal, with greater recognition for all the groups targeted for extermination? Was the Holocaust a unique rupture in European history, or a homecoming of earlier colonial genocides, along with a return of the techniques, logics and bogus race theories they developed and deployed? Does “never again” mean never again to anyone, or never again to the Jews, a pledge for which Israel is imagined as a kind of untouchable guarantee?
These wars over universalism, proprietary trauma, exceptionalism and comparison are at the heart of South Africa’s landmark genocide case against Israel at the international court of justice, and they are also ripping through Jewish communities, congregations and families around the world. In one action-packed minute, and in our moment of stifling self-censorship, Glazer fearlessly took clear positions on each of these controversies. …
“More than five months into the daily slaughter in Gaza, and with Israel brazenly ignoring the orders of the international court of justice, and western governments gently scolding Israel while shipping it more arms, genocide is becoming ambient once more – at least for those of us fortunate enough to live on the safe sides of the many walls that carve up our world.” — Naomi Klein
‘Due Dissidence’ — Israel Supporters CAUGHT Distorting VIRAL Oscars Speech
“Unbelievably disgusting and deceptive.”
Regarding the release of Palestinians in diapers. The sexual subjugation of both women and men is part and parcel of war. The rape of women as fairly normalized in history as an aspect of conquest. The dirty little secret that is known but not discussed is the rape of male prisoner citizens and warriors. Rape is a physical, emotional, intellectual and spiritual degradation that leaves people filled with shame, guilt, helplessness and a feeling of existential emptiness. You want to destroy someone? Rape them. Rape them with a bottle or a board or rod or a dick. Humiliate them knowing they will tell no one. Break their soul. They will beg you to kill them but that would be merciful and the beasts of war be they Zionist, Russian, or soldiers of Abu Graib are not that. Where is God? “Where is God …people ask?” Wrong question. Where is humanity?
The NeoNazis of the 21st Century (?);
Are white literally everywhere now.