Surgeon Tom Potokar in Khan Younis says he’s ‘sick and tired’ of describing the horror on the ground to international media while seeing no action from Western leaders.
Televized slaughter for all to see.. My god, why is it that the world leaders cannot see the ongoing Genocide? Is it the AIPAC money that keeps their blinders on? Or it it the gruesome nature of this mass casualty that they love- I do not want to wish anyone on the receiving end of these horrors, I just wish that the perpetrators are punished so they are never able to do it again what they are doing to the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Justice is bound to happen, but it may be too late for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
I am still waiting for the so-called Peace President.
I will be forever grateful to these doctors and other health care workers who sacrifice their own safety to help civilians in Gaza. This is one of several such interviews I have heard, most of them accompanied by pictures that are difficult to see, and once seen are impossible to erase from memory. I know one of these brave physicians personally.
This doctor and his patients are relatively fortunate in that he and his colleagues are still working with medical supplies, inadequate as they may be. I’ve heard some who said they had to perform amputations with carpentry saws and without anesthesia. Their patients are mostly children, some of whom have been intentionally targeted by sniper fire.
One doctor spoke of “incinerated” children. These medical providers have played a large role in galvanizing me to do whatever I can to stop this slaughter and try to pressure our politicians to reverse course on a genocide. I hope we will all keep doing what we can. Not in our name.
Don't only blame the pig for behaving like a pig. Blame the people, who feed the pig and protect it from retribution. Israel has been behaving with murderous cruelty towards the Palestinian population under its occupation for the past 77 years at least, so nothing new there, and it has been able to this with guaranteed impunity because it has been fully supported, among others, by the bought governments of the USA, UK, France and, particularly shockingly given its past quite recent history, by Germany. Western MSM have also largely abandoned their duty to provide impartial information, acting in large part as apologists and PR representatives for Israel, manufacturing consent for the behaviour of a state which has gone full on homicidal. In the midst of this disgraceful situation, Dr Potokar appears like an angel of light in the midst of hell and helps, with his colleagues to restore our lacerated faith in human nature. Everlasting shame upon our wretched, complicit governments, who have since October 2023 continued up until today to enable and support this ongoing crime against humanity. This is a very long comment but I needed to get it off my chest!
Having just read about Yaakow Roth, I know this genocide is fueled by self centered opportunists who found a way to money and attention.
The slaughter on the ground is visible to all who decide to see. Roth, like Trump and so many others, look at this genocide as a pay raise in their "career" which consists of slaughts like this.
Jewish children were RAISED to watch Germans and RUssians carry out genocides.
They were "warned" of the signs of a rising Fascist movements, how the rich finance them, how the desire for self promote steals any kind of humanity.
And now? We can see in real time, the killing of children and families. Perhaps that has been normalized but normalizing a genocide? Let that sink in for a moment.
And never ever forget that the ones who were victimized, can and do victimize in return.
And that the first genocide gave birth to this horrible one we are seeing.
And no one on earth, this time, can say they did not know, did not see. We know, we see.
Did we loose all sense of humanity, because it was "worse for us than them?"
Gaza is a site of a genocide watched, supported and cheered on by a world that has lost all sense of humanity. Maybe genocides create people capable of creating another one? What possible excuse can be given for a slaughter of innocents?
Who can rest, when children die? Whoever that is? THey are a a monster
And the world sits back and worries about the price of petrol all the while this keeps happening and those that can do something do nothing.
All it would take is for America to say that they would stop their support for Israel if they continue this senseless slaughter. But Na, lets pretend that its because of Hamas being a huge threat to Israel or those kids throwing rocks at tanks or that old lady crossing the road to get home. And now they have Trump in charge and he obviously doesn't give a shit because hes even screwing his own country to line his pockets.
The west appears to be sitting back on their laurels and does nothing and why is this is wonder? Is it because they are too afraid to call Israel out for genocide because they still carry the shame for the genocide that happened on their own door step during WW2. Or is it because the lobbyist and put money into their pockets to remain silent. Or could it be that they don't really care because its not happening to them yet? Yet.
Or is it because it's easier to go with the status quo so as not to get caught up in the uncomfortable discussions that are bound to be tossed your way when you touch on those taboo words that should never be used in one sentences. You know the words, words like Israel, Palestine, Starvation, Genocide, Indiscriminate Killings, Mutilated Children, hospitals bombed, lies, war crimes, racism.
How about word leaders grow a set of balls and do the right thing and call it what it is, Genocide in the middle east. It's as obvious as the nose on your face. To think it as anything different means you're either insane, lying to yourself or your just think.
You would have thought that Israelis from their own collective history would have been more aware about the cause and effect of Genocide so as not to repeat it but obviously I was wrong.
In fact, they seem to have perfected it right down to the use of propaganda to justify what they are doing which is exactly what the Nazi's did during WW2. The problem now is that we don't just have posters, films or radio like the did in WW2 we have the internet pumping this shit out.
And the west is to scared to say boo because when they do the propagandist shout out and say it's antisemitic. It's not antisemitic to tell the truth it's calling it what it is, genocide. It's not a nice thing to say of a country but when its accurate then your calling it what it is. Anyone can be part of a genocide it just depends on who is in charge and what side you're on.
We have the gift of hindsight and can say that in WW2 the Jewish people were the victims of genocide and the Germans were the perpetrators. Nobody denies that. Well most sane thinking people anyhow. It's how the word genocide came to be used when describing the mass murder of people based on race and religion.
(ChatGPT) ..."Genocide" is a term used to describe the intentional and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. The term was coined by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, and it became a legal concept with the United Nations Genocide Convention in 1948.
As a species we tend to have a very sort memory and tend to take things at face value. If its on the news then it must be true sort of thinking. Most people cant be bothered to fact check what they hear or read about because to be honest I think most people just want to get on with their own lives and if it's not affecting them then who cares. Most people are just trying to feed and clothe their own families and don't have the time or the energy to worry abs happening on the other side of the world. From time to time they may think, oh isn't that sad and what can I do to help but really most people are focused on their own lives.
So Israel continues to do what they have been doing since they settled in the middle east just on a much larger scale as you can see most days on the news and then we sits back with our collective shame and say nothing just in case we get called out and reminded of we let happen in our own back yard 70 odd years ago.
Well folks it happening again and like before we are sitting back and letting it happen. It might be in a different part of the world and with different players but its the same thing there's no denying that. Whats that saying that came out of one of those World Wars, "Least We Forget". Well it looks like the world has forgotten because it could not possibly be that we know but we are doing nothing about it, surely?
Here's a suggestion from little old me, how about the powers that be grow a set of balls and do the right thing. It may not be popular but its still the right thing. Why, because sometimes doing the right thing takes courage which sadly most of our leaders in the west don't seem to have.
It is important to recognize that Israeli intention is to exterminate the Palestinian people, with the full complicity of the West and Arab states.
Israelis speak of wanting to expel the Palestinian people (ethnic cleansing), but if that were their true intention, they would build a detention camp along the Gaza-Sinai border, move all civilians there, then cede the camp to Egypt.
In 2024, DAWN urged the ICC prosecutor to investigate and prosecute former President Biden, State Secretary Blinken and Defense Secretary Austin for their personal roles in aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Gaza as part of his ongoing investigation into the situations in Palestine since 2014.
Let’s give them our support. Maybe they will expand their complaint to include this latest US administration, and include all the leaders of the western nations supporting this genocide.
We call on the newly elected, American Pope Leo XIV to do whatever it takes to save Gaza and stop the bombing, and end the starvation. Let him go to Gaza and stand with the suffering people who are being massacred by Israel and the Western posers. Is there anything more important in today's world than this?
History will judge the Israelis and this genocide being committed under the influence of lies ans racism very harshly as well it should!
So fuckin brave. This amazing humanitarian!!!
Televized slaughter for all to see.. My god, why is it that the world leaders cannot see the ongoing Genocide? Is it the AIPAC money that keeps their blinders on? Or it it the gruesome nature of this mass casualty that they love- I do not want to wish anyone on the receiving end of these horrors, I just wish that the perpetrators are punished so they are never able to do it again what they are doing to the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.
Justice is bound to happen, but it may be too late for hundreds of thousands of Palestinians.
I am still waiting for the so-called Peace President.
The “world leaders” see what’s happening in Gaza. Their indifference is sociopathy - corrupted by power and riches.
Like is the wrong rate for this. Horrific isn’t strong enough either.
I will be forever grateful to these doctors and other health care workers who sacrifice their own safety to help civilians in Gaza. This is one of several such interviews I have heard, most of them accompanied by pictures that are difficult to see, and once seen are impossible to erase from memory. I know one of these brave physicians personally.
This doctor and his patients are relatively fortunate in that he and his colleagues are still working with medical supplies, inadequate as they may be. I’ve heard some who said they had to perform amputations with carpentry saws and without anesthesia. Their patients are mostly children, some of whom have been intentionally targeted by sniper fire.
One doctor spoke of “incinerated” children. These medical providers have played a large role in galvanizing me to do whatever I can to stop this slaughter and try to pressure our politicians to reverse course on a genocide. I hope we will all keep doing what we can. Not in our name.
Don't only blame the pig for behaving like a pig. Blame the people, who feed the pig and protect it from retribution. Israel has been behaving with murderous cruelty towards the Palestinian population under its occupation for the past 77 years at least, so nothing new there, and it has been able to this with guaranteed impunity because it has been fully supported, among others, by the bought governments of the USA, UK, France and, particularly shockingly given its past quite recent history, by Germany. Western MSM have also largely abandoned their duty to provide impartial information, acting in large part as apologists and PR representatives for Israel, manufacturing consent for the behaviour of a state which has gone full on homicidal. In the midst of this disgraceful situation, Dr Potokar appears like an angel of light in the midst of hell and helps, with his colleagues to restore our lacerated faith in human nature. Everlasting shame upon our wretched, complicit governments, who have since October 2023 continued up until today to enable and support this ongoing crime against humanity. This is a very long comment but I needed to get it off my chest!
What has happened to humanity. The horror of what Israel are doing is beyond comprehension
Brave man!
Having just read about Yaakow Roth, I know this genocide is fueled by self centered opportunists who found a way to money and attention.
The slaughter on the ground is visible to all who decide to see. Roth, like Trump and so many others, look at this genocide as a pay raise in their "career" which consists of slaughts like this.
Jewish children were RAISED to watch Germans and RUssians carry out genocides.
They were "warned" of the signs of a rising Fascist movements, how the rich finance them, how the desire for self promote steals any kind of humanity.
And now? We can see in real time, the killing of children and families. Perhaps that has been normalized but normalizing a genocide? Let that sink in for a moment.
And never ever forget that the ones who were victimized, can and do victimize in return.
And that the first genocide gave birth to this horrible one we are seeing.
And no one on earth, this time, can say they did not know, did not see. We know, we see.
Did we loose all sense of humanity, because it was "worse for us than them?"
Gaza is a site of a genocide watched, supported and cheered on by a world that has lost all sense of humanity. Maybe genocides create people capable of creating another one? What possible excuse can be given for a slaughter of innocents?
Who can rest, when children die? Whoever that is? THey are a a monster
And the world sits back and worries about the price of petrol all the while this keeps happening and those that can do something do nothing.
All it would take is for America to say that they would stop their support for Israel if they continue this senseless slaughter. But Na, lets pretend that its because of Hamas being a huge threat to Israel or those kids throwing rocks at tanks or that old lady crossing the road to get home. And now they have Trump in charge and he obviously doesn't give a shit because hes even screwing his own country to line his pockets.
The west appears to be sitting back on their laurels and does nothing and why is this is wonder? Is it because they are too afraid to call Israel out for genocide because they still carry the shame for the genocide that happened on their own door step during WW2. Or is it because the lobbyist and put money into their pockets to remain silent. Or could it be that they don't really care because its not happening to them yet? Yet.
Or is it because it's easier to go with the status quo so as not to get caught up in the uncomfortable discussions that are bound to be tossed your way when you touch on those taboo words that should never be used in one sentences. You know the words, words like Israel, Palestine, Starvation, Genocide, Indiscriminate Killings, Mutilated Children, hospitals bombed, lies, war crimes, racism.
How about word leaders grow a set of balls and do the right thing and call it what it is, Genocide in the middle east. It's as obvious as the nose on your face. To think it as anything different means you're either insane, lying to yourself or your just think.
You would have thought that Israelis from their own collective history would have been more aware about the cause and effect of Genocide so as not to repeat it but obviously I was wrong.
In fact, they seem to have perfected it right down to the use of propaganda to justify what they are doing which is exactly what the Nazi's did during WW2. The problem now is that we don't just have posters, films or radio like the did in WW2 we have the internet pumping this shit out.
And the west is to scared to say boo because when they do the propagandist shout out and say it's antisemitic. It's not antisemitic to tell the truth it's calling it what it is, genocide. It's not a nice thing to say of a country but when its accurate then your calling it what it is. Anyone can be part of a genocide it just depends on who is in charge and what side you're on.
We have the gift of hindsight and can say that in WW2 the Jewish people were the victims of genocide and the Germans were the perpetrators. Nobody denies that. Well most sane thinking people anyhow. It's how the word genocide came to be used when describing the mass murder of people based on race and religion.
(ChatGPT) ..."Genocide" is a term used to describe the intentional and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. The term was coined by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin in 1944, and it became a legal concept with the United Nations Genocide Convention in 1948.
As a species we tend to have a very sort memory and tend to take things at face value. If its on the news then it must be true sort of thinking. Most people cant be bothered to fact check what they hear or read about because to be honest I think most people just want to get on with their own lives and if it's not affecting them then who cares. Most people are just trying to feed and clothe their own families and don't have the time or the energy to worry abs happening on the other side of the world. From time to time they may think, oh isn't that sad and what can I do to help but really most people are focused on their own lives.
So Israel continues to do what they have been doing since they settled in the middle east just on a much larger scale as you can see most days on the news and then we sits back with our collective shame and say nothing just in case we get called out and reminded of we let happen in our own back yard 70 odd years ago.
Well folks it happening again and like before we are sitting back and letting it happen. It might be in a different part of the world and with different players but its the same thing there's no denying that. Whats that saying that came out of one of those World Wars, "Least We Forget". Well it looks like the world has forgotten because it could not possibly be that we know but we are doing nothing about it, surely?
Here's a suggestion from little old me, how about the powers that be grow a set of balls and do the right thing. It may not be popular but its still the right thing. Why, because sometimes doing the right thing takes courage which sadly most of our leaders in the west don't seem to have.
Evil happens when good people people do nothing.
Thank you for covering Gaza so well.
It is important to recognize that Israeli intention is to exterminate the Palestinian people, with the full complicity of the West and Arab states.
Israelis speak of wanting to expel the Palestinian people (ethnic cleansing), but if that were their true intention, they would build a detention camp along the Gaza-Sinai border, move all civilians there, then cede the camp to Egypt.
Other students have been released, but not Mahmoud!
Petition for the immediate release of Mahmoud Khalil.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-the-immediate-release-of-columbia-student-pro-palestine-advocate-mahmoud-khalil-from-dhs-detention
In 2024, DAWN urged the ICC prosecutor to investigate and prosecute former President Biden, State Secretary Blinken and Defense Secretary Austin for their personal roles in aiding and abetting Israeli war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide in Gaza as part of his ongoing investigation into the situations in Palestine since 2014.
https://dawnmena.org/latest/
Let’s give them our support. Maybe they will expand their complaint to include this latest US administration, and include all the leaders of the western nations supporting this genocide.
We call on the newly elected, American Pope Leo XIV to do whatever it takes to save Gaza and stop the bombing, and end the starvation. Let him go to Gaza and stand with the suffering people who are being massacred by Israel and the Western posers. Is there anything more important in today's world than this?
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