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Marwan's avatar

Missing half their head, missing their whole head, missing their body, missing their legs. I scream in my sleep these days.

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Saboohi Currim's avatar

Thank you Fatima Bhutto and Mehdi Hasan for brining to light the barbarism of the West.

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jose diablo's avatar

Thank you Fatima, for exposing the horrors and the anguish that has rained on the Palestinian people for the last one year. Their cry for help has fallen on deaf ears. The world looks on, hands wringing, yet does nothing to stop this injustice, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. How many more pounds of flesh and buckets of blood need to be shed before the colonial occupier’s hunger has been satiated and thirst quenched?

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Tristen S's avatar

By the way, I grew up in the suburbs of NJ where half the population was Italian/Catholic and half Jewish. The first time someone shared the tattoos on their forearms with me and told me what they meant, what happened to them, I understood that the devil was not that red horned-hooved creature they tried to frighten us with at church. It was man's inhumanity to man that had an insatiable appetite for cruelty beyond comprehension. "Never Again" has become nothing more than a "concept of a plan" thanks to Zionism and genocide apologists for Israel. The silence of our Holocaust Education Centers is in itself an atrocity. Shame on AIPAC. Shame on the ADL. Speaking of which, look up their Pyramid of Hate lesson plan and let me know how Israel is doing.

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nicholas Khan-roper's avatar

Beautifully written, hard to read, I would expect no less. @Paula, I understand that it is often too much to absorb and yes we are being battered by images and words daily. But this is the price we pay to help those battered and bombarded year after year by bombs and injustice. I no longer pay subscriptions to Western media, this is one way to fight back. And only support independents. Fatima is right, time is the enemy of Israel. All empires die for one reason, economics, the US is on its last legs and Brics will ensure US debt isn't replaced as readily, which will lead to its downfall and subsequently that of Isreal. On their last legs, they will lash out like the Nazis did in South Africa during apartheid, attacking neighbors left and right, but in the end, they will all run out of money and they will fall. We can all do our bit... do not buy Western products, do not spend money on Western holidays (except those that support humanity) ... day by day we will see their power erode.

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Joma's avatar

I can't thank you enough Medhi for your Zeteo platform & informing many of us about what's happening in this world - I live in a ' Liberal democratic country called New Zealand - if one got their news here from the mainstream media we would be totally in the dark about what is really happening - thankfully we have you & your guests to put us right - I share much of your content with my friends - I hope it will make a difference- keep on doing what you do !

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Patricia Olson's avatar

Could some talented person do a collage, or exhibit with individual photos and frames, of every child lost to this horrible war? Describe the lovely children with a nice photo, and mention that death came because of weapons "MADE IN THE USA"

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Tamsin brown's avatar

Yes, I am having the same thoughts - a holocaust memorial.

And weapons also made in the U.K...

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Valerie Howell's avatar

A tragic but splendid essay once again by Fatima Bhutto. You've gotten to the very heart of this genocidal rampage that Israel is on and made crystal clear what they are doing to the World. Thank you for your courage and clarity.

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Robert Heling's avatar

This last year really made me lose the last bit of faith I had for our political system, our societies and the media class. There wasn't much left anyway, granted, but still...

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Tristen S's avatar

From conversations in real life as well as content shared on social media and documentary films like Israelism, I'm convinced that Israelis and Jews worldwide are indoctrinated to hold Palestinians responsible for the crimes of Germany 70-80 years ago.

And like all indoctrination of hate, many grow out of it by engaging with a diverse group of people. I didn't know anyone by name of Palestinian heritage before Israel started slaughteting civilians en masse in Gaza, and now the West Bank. I also never knew anyone by name who disclosed they were in the IDF. The difference between them is stark. Shocking really.

The only way I could best share the comparison is if you've seen Jonathan Glazer's Zone of Interest. The casual, maybe even joyful way the Germans living next to the concentration camp speak of their newfound upward mobility vs the people who endure this behavior with endless, aching anxiety just hoping to live one more day. Most don't even have the impetus to kill their abusers. They just want to be free of them and the pain they inflict.

Normalizing a genocidal level of oppression isn't new to those benefitting tenfold from said oppression. What's shocking is to see just how long Israel has gotten away with this without it being taboo.

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Hank Greenspan's avatar

Atrocity olympics will get us nowhere toward resolving the contemporary horror of the ME. More hate, more horror, more demonizing on all sides. We are in it together. And until we know that and live it, we are all living with half our heads blown off.

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Mehrdad's avatar

If this is a "atrocity Olympics " then the Palestinians are the Jamaican bobsled team whereas Israelis are the US summer Olympic team, no contest.

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Haannaahjean's avatar

Except we’re not. My head is intact and I live in relative privilege compared with Palestinians

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Paula Williams's avatar

Seriously?! This whole situation is so disturbing and now this. Too much. I am stopping my paid subscription.

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Ruth's avatar

Really! In what parallel world do you live. I better not be confronted with the horrible reality of what my country is supporting. So I'm stopping my paid subscription. Come on woman stop being so pathetic.

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Paula Williams's avatar

Do you see pictures of murder and torture and think "Oh! This is great because it's a true depiction of the world?" I bet you sit around watching murder videos on the dark web because many of those are real too. You, who are not disturbed, are more pathetic.

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Lisa's avatar

There's a difference between wanting to KNOW the truth, and LIKING everything that's happening in the world!

Seriously! WTF? Accusing someone of liking snuff videos? As a reaction to the fact that they value the honest reporting of reliable information about a holocaust that needs to be STOPPED?

Accusing Ruth of not caring, when the fact is that she cares enough to INFORM HERSELF?

How can you do ANYTHING about problems if you refuse to see them? There's no argument that can turn wilful blindness into the honourable option. No matter how mad you are at Ruth, for calling you out.

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Mehrdad's avatar

How pathetic, you are disturbed by the reality so instead of working and helping to change that, you prefer self censorship.

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Sal's avatar

ZIOBOT detected

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Tristen S's avatar

Bye.

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Chris Voight's avatar

Some people just can’t handle the truth. Rather, the details of the truth. Because the truth is there clear as day and night. Dropping a subscription won’t change that.

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jose diablo's avatar

Why are you afraid of the truth? Remember, ‘the truth will set you free.’(John 8:32). You are fortunate to live in a time where genocide, ethnic cleansing, and subsequent war crimes are more difficult to be swept under the sand. It's a free country and I'm sure you won't be missed.

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Loredana Marchi's avatar

I believe the the cause of Palestine is not the cause of Palestinians, but is the cause of humanity and justice for the whole human kind. I do share every word, but I wonder if we are enough evoluted to avoid the repeating of worse predatorial and cruel historical happenings.

Can we ensure Palestine with a future of freedom and safety in their homeland, like South Africans and Vietnam or they wiĺl end up like native Americans, confined to a plot of land after being decimated? Ho can we avoid the repeating of a history of 500 yeats ago?

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RSV's avatar

When I see the Star of David I now see the Nazi swastika. For me both are now symbols of death.

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Ann Starr's avatar

"half of his head decimated, missing, gone" Medhi, I follow your writing faithfully. No one makes the story clearer; no one has the power you do with words. But I must point out that "to decimate" means to kill one in ten, or to kill a large part of a group.

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Leah Abram's avatar

I don't disagree with a thing you said, but I take issue with this:

> This is blazingly evident given that Israel’s army, like so many criminal and terror outfits around the world, is made up of tens of thousands of foreign fighters – nationals or recent immigrants from France, England, the US, India, and beyond.

At least those "nationals or recent immigrants from France, England, the US, India, and beyond" can trace their ancestry to Palestine. Would you say that Americo-Liberians can't trace their ancestry to Liberia?

That being said, I agree with everything else and that in both cases, they Jewish Israelis and the Americo-Liberians are brutal colonizers despite being in their ancestral land.

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