Just how many of 'Israel’s' civilians are entirely ‘innocent’?
I find it more and more difficult to be patient with the mainstream media. A response to Alan Dershowitz.
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The New York Post — noted for being the barometer of good journalism in the US (this is sarcasm) — just published an opinion piece co-written by Alan Dershowitz, the secular Zionist attorney and alleged accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein (this is not sarcasm).
In this piece, they ask the question that’s on everyone’s mind: When will the genocide in Gaza finally cease?
Sorry, I meant that they ask if civilians in Gaza, after 7 months of enforced famine and nonstop bombings, are truly and entirely innocent, so that if the ethnic cleansing of Rafah happens, you will cheer for it along with the ghoul Dershowitz, who was on Epstein’s island at several points and had sex with minors there as unsealed court documents demonstrated.
I frankly find it more and more difficult to be patient with the mainstream media. Alan knows what he’s writing. The Post knows what it’s publishing. Together, they work to whitewash a genocide and add a coat of polish to ‘Israel’s’ destroyed image. But perhaps doing this in a tabloid rag and tying it to the name of a noted sexual offender was not the best choice of hasbara.
Truthfully, after 7 months of genocide which ‘Israeli civilians’ gladly sing to, I think it is time to ask: just how many of “Israel’s” civilians are entirely innocent?
Before we begin, a disclaimer. I don’t want my style and my work associated with a person as vile as Dershowitz. What I did below was take the original article from the Post and rewrite it from the opposite point of view. I highlighted parts that were left verbatim in bold. Please don’t consider this to be my writing, but simply my response to his article.
Read the original here: archive link
If the Palestinian resistance escapes through the apartheid fence that keeps them locked in Gaza to reclaim their native home, as it vows to do on October 7, civilian deaths are likely — even though al-Qassam and the other military wings of the Palestinian resistance take great care to prevent such casualties.
After all, we shouldn’t put it past the ‘Israeli’ mind to just run in the direction of incoming fire, as their soldiers show this is a favorite pastime of theirs.
Yet who exactly are these ‘Israeli’ civilians and just how innocent are they?
Sure, every baby and young child in ‘Israel’ is 100% innocent. At least until they grow up to become part of the army.
Yet among adults, including women, there are many who fall far short of that.
That doesn’t mean civilians deserve to die in the fighting. But the Palestinian Resistance goes out of its way to protect non-combatants.
And remember, ‘Israel’s’ adult “civilians” include those who wear civilian clothing and work in civilian jobs per day, but report to their barracks to conduct raids in al-Khalil at night.
They include those who take up weapons and directly assist the Waffen-SS in their murderous activities, as well as those that help them kidnap innocent Palestinians from their homes and family at night.
They include the thousands who gleefully destroy critical food aid meant for Gaza, and those who allow their homes, hospitals, schools and synagogues to be used as recruiting and propaganda grounds.
And those who contribute money, food, or even medical supplies to the Zionist terrorists, such as President Biden.
Finally, though perhaps to a lesser degree, they include those who settled in occupied Palestine and stay there.
(Recall Albert Einstein’s letter holding responsible the “fine Germans” who brought Hitler to power.)
Being a civilian and innocent are matters of degree when it comes to ‘Israel’.
The difficulty, if not impossibility, of distinguishing between combatants and civilians in ‘Israel’ may be one of the reasons the settler government adamantly refuses to publish the accurate tally when supplying death tolls from the Flood of al-Aqsa Operation.
Instead, it gives a dreamt up number, entirely exaggerated, and then indicates how many are
whitechildren, reminding us about them for 7 months straight in cities in which these children are assuredly not. It does this without disclosing that the IOF, as good Nazis, killed its own civilians on October 7 to prevent their capture as Prisoners of War.It also identifies the number of women who have purportedly been raped by the boogeyman. Yet there, too, it fails to disclose these women simply do not exist.
And the Zionist government deliberately excludes civilians killed as the result of being used as human shields. To be sure, these do count as civilian deaths, but they are attributable to the IOF full stop.
Similarly, the IOF doesn’t break out the numbers of civilians it itself intentionally kills for trying to escape — okay, you get the point. Let’s just move on a few paragraphs.
When all these factors are taken into consideration, the number of “innocent” civilians killed by the Resistance on October 7 is certainly far fewer than the numbers given suggest, and perhaps so few that we may even stop bothering to think about them! How about that? Please? Can we stop talking about all the dead children in
Gaza‘Israel’?Every dead innocent civilian is a tragedy, of course. And, again, the Resistance went to great lengths to avoid such collateral damage.
It does so for two reasons: 1) al-Qassam is a moral army that is professionally-trained, whereas the IOF is a ragtag of settlers vicariously living out their Rambo fantasies; 2) As much as we would want them not to, al-Qassam understands that there is more value in a POW than a dead settler.
So the resistance has everything to lose and nothing to gain by deliberately killing civilians.
The IOF, on the other hand, has everything to gain and nothing to lose when its settlers are killed. When dead, a settler cannot be exchanged anymore. It cannot be bargained for. Thus, it is more reasonable to simply kill them. From a purely utilitarian perspective, if you would recall Ayn Rand, it limits negative impacts while maximizing positive impacts. Hence the Hannibal doctrine is completely justified.
So if and when al-Qassam goes into “Tel Aviv” to destroy the remaining Waffen-SS battalions and capture their leaders, and if then death tolls are announced or settler bodies shown on TV, think about the real facts on the ground.
The truth is that no army in modern history has made more efforts, and has been more successful, in avoiding civilian casualties than Hamas and the combined Palestinian Resistance.
And, yet, no nation in modern history has been condemned so irrationally for 600 ‘civilian’ deaths — which are largely the fault of those who started the genocide in the first place and fought it by using civilians as human shields.
The world must come to realize that there is no moral, political, diplomatic or legal equivalence between terrorists who deliberately murder and rape (the IOF), and democracies that seek to protect their citizens and take precautions to reduce civilian deaths (Hamas).
Thank you to the New York Post for the inspiration and for giving the pro-Palestine, pro-humanity camp a voice and reminding us why we fight.
You can read the original piece here.
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The intent in this piece was to take the original article (which I'm sure Dershowitz won't object to as he's a known plagiarizer) and rewrite it from another perspective. If there is interest, however, I'm totally up to write my own, much better article on this topic. Let me know in the comments!