Listen to a reading of this article (reading by Tim Foley): One aspect of the recent revelations about the IDF’s Lavender AI system that’s not getting enough consideration is the fact that it is completely devastating to the narrative that Israel has been killing so many civilians in Gaza because Hamas uses “human shields”.
I always look forward to reading your articles but they always leave me deeply disturbed. Israel’s capacity for evil is without limitation, it chills me to the bone
The noon call in program on the radio today had a former ambassador to Israel as the guest. He was defending "Israel's right to self defence". Talking as if this mess is as horrible for Israelis as it is for Gazans. I kept turning it off but then back on hoping he would make some sense. Fortunately a couple of callers called him on his crap. He said that Palestine had always belonged to Jews. He seemed never to have heard of the Balfour declaration. It felt as if I were listening to a horror show. I was.
"Israel isn’t being “forced” to kill Palestinian children, it is knowingly choosing to."
Until we can get the Zionists to openly admit to this heinous crime and to beg forgiveness for their sins against the Palestinian people and foreign aid workers, journalists, and doctors, I sincerely doubt we will ever see peace in that region of the world.
We cannot allow Israel to continue existing as the apartheid chamber of horrors that it is and call ourselves decent human beings. We cannot allow Western "leaders" to remain in office who condone Israel's targeting of civilians. For almost six months we've seen nothing but death and horror on our social media feeds.Our elected representatives tell us that it's all "lies" and they want to censor our access to what's really happening in the world. Both genocide and its cover-up of the truth of genocide are crimes against humanity. Let us lock up all the so-called humans and the AI programs in Israel who perpetuate these war crimes.
I worry for Yuval Abraham who broke this story, and the story about Israel’s other AI killing machine called “The Gospel” in Nov ‘23. He and his family were threatened by Zionists after this:
Well, if they weren't implementing a genocide why did Gallant say, no food, no water, no fuel. from the beginning of their assault? If you are committing a genocide why would you use discrimination since you want them all dead, which they have made very obvious. Everyone is a target, and they have a history of treating Palestinians in a dehumanizing way with little to no regard for their lives. It's a disgrace that the people of Israel are totally indifferent to the genocide being implemented in their own backyard. All they scream about is getting rid of Netanyahu and get the hostages back. Their whole history from the Nakba on says we don't give a good damn about your lives.
They've made us all victims in one way or another. I feel victimized as I watch the liars in the US state dept. defend these barbarisms with lame sophomoric excuses. But I recognize that my cross is nothing compared not only to Israel-America's direct homicide victims, but to the generations behind me. My cross includes the knowledge that those generations, which include my former students, will need to go on living in this shithouse country, to find some sanity in this degenerate society of bloody liars and murderers, this empire of death, that I'll be lucky to soon escape because I'm old.
When people, by people I mean strangers who I seem to be having conversations with lately all the time, start on about the human shield BS. I say “what would be the point of Hamas using women and children as human shields when IDF do not care about killing women and children?” There is this fallacy that IDF are decent soldiers who don’t want to do that. All lies, they have even killed some of their own people /hostages in the process of their invasion. They don’t care.
The terrorist state of Israel and the Zionist Nazi IDF know damned good and well that Hamas and the other resistance fighters are no where near the actual Palestinian people in the south. All anyone has to do to learn the truth is listen to Richard Medhurst (my favorite journalist) to learn that the IDF is getting its ass fed to it by the Freedom Fighters to the north!
It’s always been a lie! Who would have ever believed that it was true? Obviously the gullible and brainwashed - the ill-informed captured by a narrative so dishonest it became laughable to believe it could be anything otherwise than a lie. Israel is the global Pinocchio - always forever lying.
"The “human shields” narrative is just one more instance in which Israel pretends to be the victim while actually being the victimizer. They lied about beheaded babies so that they could get away with murdering babies. They lied about mass rapes so that they could get away with committing rape. They lied about Hamas using civilians as human shields so that they could kill civilians. They lie about being victims so that they can victimize".
Why were we aware of the truth of Caitlin's words right from the start - because we are not stupid. We have a modicum of intelligence. We are skeptical and can see through the lies of manufacturing consent and creating necessary illusions. We have unearthed how propaganda works. From Academia to Think Tanks, from experts to NGOs to media ,to lobby groups to "human rights", to linguistic manipulations, from capitalism to neoliberal economics. Everything is weaponised and we are lied to every minute of every day. And we know it. We have hearts and minds.
Yet the biggest lie we took time to unravel is the World Central Kitchen fiasco. It was heartbreaking to hear that the good people who risk their lives to help the starving Palestinians were targeted and killed.
And the puny men who rule over us were outraged and thoughts and prayers and messages of condolences were liberally expressed.
In the shock of it all we didn't stop to think why weren't there any outrage when UN, UNRWA and other aid workers, doctors, ambulance workers, good journalists, were targeted and killed? Why only the World Central Kitchen aid convoys were allowed in by the brutal Israeli military who have been blocking all food and other sustenance from getting into Gaza in order to starve the populace into submission and to death? Why?
Now we find out that this special World Central Kitchen is a Trojan Horse, a ploy to replace UNRWA, and have any food coming in tightly controlled. More truths are bound to come out. Israel lies about feeding the starving while starving them.
Israel (& the west) are built on white supremacist ideologies. That’s why the murder of innocent people in Palestine is viewed with a shrug at best and at worst the murdered are blamed for turning the innocent and pure supremacists into murderers.. it’s how psychopaths protect their egos.
See operation Pied Piper. The US has a habit of buying these lies: Hiroshima and Nagasaki were “warned to leave” before the bombs were dropped. Go where? If Israel were serious they’d provide a camp outside Gaza for women and children. It is intriguing that what Hamas did happens a lot, the West never asks why. What Israel is doing is very rare. There is a reason we think it normal, we are old hands at it. It is an atrocity reserved for the superpower in the space.
I repeat: There are thousands of Palestinians locked up in Jail in Israel who have had NO trials.
It's time to start asking for these people to be set free. All I hear about are Israeli hostages!
They are kept manacled to the floor/sometimes 12 to a small cell with only a bit of cheese bread and some water. I wish I could remember where I saw this!
Even before we knew this, bullshit should have been called on the "human shields" trope. What's the point in Israel crying foul over "human shields" if they have zero compunction about just blasting through them?
They are not the “IDF”. Stop using their propaganda name. They don’t “defend”.
In fact they have been bombing other countries, violating the sovereignty of other countries, and invading and occupying and stealing Palestinian land for decades. Murdering people there. Now mass bombing civilians and using computerised systems to massacre entire famiiies in their own homes. That’s what these people actually DO.
I always look forward to reading your articles but they always leave me deeply disturbed. Israel’s capacity for evil is without limitation, it chills me to the bone
The noon call in program on the radio today had a former ambassador to Israel as the guest. He was defending "Israel's right to self defence". Talking as if this mess is as horrible for Israelis as it is for Gazans. I kept turning it off but then back on hoping he would make some sense. Fortunately a couple of callers called him on his crap. He said that Palestine had always belonged to Jews. He seemed never to have heard of the Balfour declaration. It felt as if I were listening to a horror show. I was.
"Israel isn’t being “forced” to kill Palestinian children, it is knowingly choosing to."
Until we can get the Zionists to openly admit to this heinous crime and to beg forgiveness for their sins against the Palestinian people and foreign aid workers, journalists, and doctors, I sincerely doubt we will ever see peace in that region of the world.
We cannot allow Israel to continue existing as the apartheid chamber of horrors that it is and call ourselves decent human beings. We cannot allow Western "leaders" to remain in office who condone Israel's targeting of civilians. For almost six months we've seen nothing but death and horror on our social media feeds.Our elected representatives tell us that it's all "lies" and they want to censor our access to what's really happening in the world. Both genocide and its cover-up of the truth of genocide are crimes against humanity. Let us lock up all the so-called humans and the AI programs in Israel who perpetuate these war crimes.
I worry for Yuval Abraham who broke this story, and the story about Israel’s other AI killing machine called “The Gospel” in Nov ‘23. He and his family were threatened by Zionists after this:
https://youtu.be/nZBbOBPLSvA?si=1Meap-Yw8VXNn1TZ
https://youtube.com/shorts/bodSUXjx400?si=QnqhtYWeP_DwUWBT
Speechless. So horrifying. Thank you, Caitlin, for spreading the truth.
Well, if they weren't implementing a genocide why did Gallant say, no food, no water, no fuel. from the beginning of their assault? If you are committing a genocide why would you use discrimination since you want them all dead, which they have made very obvious. Everyone is a target, and they have a history of treating Palestinians in a dehumanizing way with little to no regard for their lives. It's a disgrace that the people of Israel are totally indifferent to the genocide being implemented in their own backyard. All they scream about is getting rid of Netanyahu and get the hostages back. Their whole history from the Nakba on says we don't give a good damn about your lives.
They've made us all victims in one way or another. I feel victimized as I watch the liars in the US state dept. defend these barbarisms with lame sophomoric excuses. But I recognize that my cross is nothing compared not only to Israel-America's direct homicide victims, but to the generations behind me. My cross includes the knowledge that those generations, which include my former students, will need to go on living in this shithouse country, to find some sanity in this degenerate society of bloody liars and murderers, this empire of death, that I'll be lucky to soon escape because I'm old.
When people, by people I mean strangers who I seem to be having conversations with lately all the time, start on about the human shield BS. I say “what would be the point of Hamas using women and children as human shields when IDF do not care about killing women and children?” There is this fallacy that IDF are decent soldiers who don’t want to do that. All lies, they have even killed some of their own people /hostages in the process of their invasion. They don’t care.
The terrorist state of Israel and the Zionist Nazi IDF know damned good and well that Hamas and the other resistance fighters are no where near the actual Palestinian people in the south. All anyone has to do to learn the truth is listen to Richard Medhurst (my favorite journalist) to learn that the IDF is getting its ass fed to it by the Freedom Fighters to the north!
It’s always been a lie! Who would have ever believed that it was true? Obviously the gullible and brainwashed - the ill-informed captured by a narrative so dishonest it became laughable to believe it could be anything otherwise than a lie. Israel is the global Pinocchio - always forever lying.
"The “human shields” narrative is just one more instance in which Israel pretends to be the victim while actually being the victimizer. They lied about beheaded babies so that they could get away with murdering babies. They lied about mass rapes so that they could get away with committing rape. They lied about Hamas using civilians as human shields so that they could kill civilians. They lie about being victims so that they can victimize".
Why were we aware of the truth of Caitlin's words right from the start - because we are not stupid. We have a modicum of intelligence. We are skeptical and can see through the lies of manufacturing consent and creating necessary illusions. We have unearthed how propaganda works. From Academia to Think Tanks, from experts to NGOs to media ,to lobby groups to "human rights", to linguistic manipulations, from capitalism to neoliberal economics. Everything is weaponised and we are lied to every minute of every day. And we know it. We have hearts and minds.
Yet the biggest lie we took time to unravel is the World Central Kitchen fiasco. It was heartbreaking to hear that the good people who risk their lives to help the starving Palestinians were targeted and killed.
And the puny men who rule over us were outraged and thoughts and prayers and messages of condolences were liberally expressed.
In the shock of it all we didn't stop to think why weren't there any outrage when UN, UNRWA and other aid workers, doctors, ambulance workers, good journalists, were targeted and killed? Why only the World Central Kitchen aid convoys were allowed in by the brutal Israeli military who have been blocking all food and other sustenance from getting into Gaza in order to starve the populace into submission and to death? Why?
Now we find out that this special World Central Kitchen is a Trojan Horse, a ploy to replace UNRWA, and have any food coming in tightly controlled. More truths are bound to come out. Israel lies about feeding the starving while starving them.
Man's inhumanity to man know no bounds.
Israel (& the west) are built on white supremacist ideologies. That’s why the murder of innocent people in Palestine is viewed with a shrug at best and at worst the murdered are blamed for turning the innocent and pure supremacists into murderers.. it’s how psychopaths protect their egos.
See operation Pied Piper. The US has a habit of buying these lies: Hiroshima and Nagasaki were “warned to leave” before the bombs were dropped. Go where? If Israel were serious they’d provide a camp outside Gaza for women and children. It is intriguing that what Hamas did happens a lot, the West never asks why. What Israel is doing is very rare. There is a reason we think it normal, we are old hands at it. It is an atrocity reserved for the superpower in the space.
I repeat: There are thousands of Palestinians locked up in Jail in Israel who have had NO trials.
It's time to start asking for these people to be set free. All I hear about are Israeli hostages!
They are kept manacled to the floor/sometimes 12 to a small cell with only a bit of cheese bread and some water. I wish I could remember where I saw this!
Even before we knew this, bullshit should have been called on the "human shields" trope. What's the point in Israel crying foul over "human shields" if they have zero compunction about just blasting through them?
They are not the “IDF”. Stop using their propaganda name. They don’t “defend”.
In fact they have been bombing other countries, violating the sovereignty of other countries, and invading and occupying and stealing Palestinian land for decades. Murdering people there. Now mass bombing civilians and using computerised systems to massacre entire famiiies in their own homes. That’s what these people actually DO.
They are the Israeli Genocide Force. IGF.
Genocide is what they do.