Israel Ramps Up Propaganda Campaign To Justify Murdering Civilians
Israel, once again, is engaged in collective punishment as opposed to striking military targets. Instead of Gaza, the target is now the people of Lebanon. The contrast between Israel and Russia on this point is the difference between black and white. Israel, without regard to the potential of killing and maiming civilians, is launching indiscriminate bombings inside Lebanon. Russia, on the other hand, has taken great pains to avoid killing civilians, by targeting military and infrastructure targets with precision missiles. If you count the civilians killed so far by Israel in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, Israel has killed four times as many civilians since October 7, 2023 as has Russia, during two-and-one-half years of fighting in Ukraine. Here is the death toll from Israeli attacks in just Gaza alone:
More than 40,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel launched its war on Hamas following the group’s October 7 attack, the health ministry in the enclave said Thursday, yet another darkmilestone in the 10-month-old conflict.
The ministry said 40 people had died in Gaza during the past 24 hours, taking the total number of deaths since October 7 to 40,005 – about one in every 55 people in the enclave.More than 92,401have been injured.
Here are the numbers attributed to Russia:
As of January 23, 2024, the United NationsHuman Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine has recorded 29,330 civilian casualties in Ukraine, consisting of 10,191 killed and 19,139 injured since Russia’s invasion on February 24, 2022.
In other words, Israel is killing 3,636 civilians per month while the Russia figure is 329 per month. These figures show that Israel is killing more than 10 times the number of civilians as Russia. But there is another big difference between the Israeli approach and the Russian approach — Russia actually gives a damn, and admits regret over the death of civilians. If Russia was slaughtering civilians recklessly, Ukraine and its Western allies would be pumping out those videos and images on a daily basis. This is another case where the dog ain’t barking.
The Israeli press is trumpeting the smashing success of the Israeli Occupation Force in destroying Hezbollah missiles and leadership. Only one little problem, it may not be true. My understanding is that most of the Hezbollah personnel and arsenals are underground. It also appears that Hezbollah is placing “dummy” munitions — e.g. fabricated rocket tubes — in locations the Israelis can see and bomb. Also, Israel is reportedly using AI software, i.e. Lavender, to select targets. The problem with these AI systems is they have no way to sort out garbage from gold.
Despite what Israel has announced as devastatingly successful airstrikes, Hezbollah continues to rain rockets on northern and central Israel. Hezbollah appears to be having some success because the Israeli Government imposed an immediate blackout in Haifa, the site of the last Hezbollah attack. If Hezbollah’s attack had been thwarted and no damage done, why would Israel want to cover that up?
I discussed some of these issues today with Danny Davis.
I also sat down for my weekly chat with Marcelo Soares, a Brazilian who lives in Italy.
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