It is the height of stupidity to claim that men who for a thousand years have had the power to berate us, to fleece us and to oppress us with impunity, will now agree, with good grace, to be our equals. – Jean Paul Marat.
The persecution and assassination of the Palestinian resistance under the direction of Israel assisted by the US in an attempt to murder the people of Gaza and the West Bank
WBT is being hit left and right by Israeli propagandists … from a designer in Sydney, an ex-ATO officer in Victoria, a woman in Maine Virginia who wants me dead, southern Baptists, religious scholars, and more. These social media activists are spreading lies printed daily in the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, the Australian, the Age, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Courier Mail, Channel 7, channel 9, the Australian broadcasting commission, the Times, the Daily Mail, Fox News, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and other Western news media.
Songs: Sounds of Silence – sung by Johnny Cash and written by Simon & Garfunkel. Overs – Simon & Garfunkel.
Image: Palestine and surrounds from the 7th century till European colonisation [the map adapted from Bilad al-Shamبِلَاد الشَّام Region of the Rashidun, Umayyad, and Abbasid caliphates 636–940s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilad_al-Sham]
The latest missive claims that Hamas are billionaires who are milking the sympathies of Westerners saddened by the deaths of children in Gaza. Some years ago Israel put out the lie that money from Save the Children was going to Hamas. The Australian government also claimed that Tim Costello’s NGO World Vision was diverting funds to Hamas. The Morrison government claimed that funds raised for an agricultural project in Gaza by Union Aid Abroad (Apheda) was going to Hamas. Several inquiries cleared these agencies of these vicious lies.
This week, I received this message from a person in Victoria. I think the ideas in it are not original nor even startling. What is strange is that the allegations in it would be accepted by any thinking person.
19 Jan 2024: Does HAMAS care about the children? They didn’t build bunkers for them. When the IDF told them to evacuate HAMAS stopped them, threw away their car keys, Gazans who waved white flags were shot or pushed off buildings by HAMAS When the In 2005 the IDF pulled all the Jews out of Gaza. the Jews even took their graves. the Infrastructure was ready to use, farmland, factories, green houses. the Palestinians destroyed everything, killed the animals. From 2007 to 2010 the international community gave $7.7 billion to GAZA. IN 2014 another $5.4B. FROM 2014-2020 GAZA received from the International Community $4.5 billion. $17.6 billion given to Gaza: approx. to the GDP of Iceland, more than the GDP if Jamaica. Why are these poor little bedraggled children dragging their little arses around? Where is the vibrant economy the Jews left them in 2005? Where has all the money gone?
No doubt Hamas leaders have been invited to Qatar for conferences and yes they may have been put up in expensive hotels by an oil rich Qatari oligarch. We know that al Jazeera is funded in part by the Qatari government. Its news service has many Palestinian journalists on the ground in Gaza and over 100 have been murdered by Israeli Occupation forces.
Scott Ritter, the former US marine and weapons expert who exposed the lie by the US government that Iraq had WMDs in 2003. Ritter, too, was asked go and speak in Doha, the capital of Qatar, and was feted in a 5 star hotel. But ask Ritter about his bank balance. It’s not in very good shape. If you go to rich countries and are put up in lavish hotel suites does not mean that you yourself are rich.
If Hamas leaders did have billions why would they just take the money and run? What’s keeping them in a struggle where their best prospect is to be assassinated by Mossad?
Is this yet another fiction invented by the Zionist Israeli propagandists like all the other lies:
- A land without people for a people without land
- Two state solution with Palestine an independent country
- Israelis invented Arab food like felafel, hummus, and so on
- The Bible, Koran and Torah are based on historical fact
- Israel bombs Gaza to wipe out Hamas not Palestinian civilians
- Israel accused Hamas of blowing up the al Ahlia hosptial killing over 500 people seeking treatment and refuge. It is far more likely that Israel attacked al Ahlia as it has done to all the other hospitals in Gaza, and the schools and the film crews and the al Jazeera offices and the UN offices and the residential apartment buildings, the sewerage works, the power stations, the water treatment plants, the fishing boats ….
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
Ian Curr
19 Nov 2024
My Victorian correspondent has sent me the following message:
“Thanks for publishing me in your paper. I get my info from The Australian, Th Age, Google, Reuters, CNN, Ryan Mcbeth, You Tube. I just copy it. I don’t twist it round to meet a political ideology.”
Reply
You may not twist the information you receive but your sources do.
Dr Strangelove has something to say about sources.
‘The Australian’ is a terrible rag put out by Mass Murdoch. For example the newspaper supports Israel for Zionist ideological reasons.
The Australian also opposed aboriginal people having a Voice in the parliament in the 2023 referendum.
CNN may not be the mouthpiece of the Democratic Party but it is aligned with the DNC US whose President Biden has blood on his hands by supporting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. But it is biased. As is Fox. For example CNN coverage of the Iraq war in 2003 was so biased its reporters actually believed the lie that Iraq had WMDs.
Ryan Mcbeth says his main sources of information on Palestine is the New York Times and Ha’aretz. He claims that the bombing al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza that killed over 500 people was most likely caused by a rocket misfire by Hamas (as reported in several of his sources).
However an investigation by Al Jazeera’s Sanad Agency reveals that Israeli statements seem to have misinterpreted the evidence to build a story that one of the flashes recorded by several sources was a rocket misfire Based on a detailed review of all videos, Sanad’s analysts conclude that the flash Israel attributed to a misfire was in fact consistent with Israel’s Iron Dome missile defence system intercepting a missile fired from the Gaza Strip and destroying it in mid-air. Source: Al Jazeera.
The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald uncritically published the NYT article Screams without words which was a lie claiming the Palestinian resistance using rape as a weapon of war on 7 October along with all the other disgusting stories that Palestinians beheaded babies, burnt them alive etc etc.
New York Post claims leaders of Hamas alone have a staggering fortune of $11 billion. They say Ismail Haniyeh, Moussa Abu Marzuk and Khaleed Mashal have been maintaining their luxury lifestyle in Qatar, a relatively small yet powerful emirate in the Middle East, which provided a safe haven for them. See the main article above that debunks that idea.
WBT main sources on Palestine are the people themselves: from Gaza and the West Bank. WBT gets info from al Jazeera but we do so critically. For military information Scott Ritter is a good source. For criticism of US strategic policy, John Mearsheimer is a good source. Ritter was the US weapons expert who exposed the US government lie that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction in 2003 using it as a justification for regime change resulting in the deaths of over 1 million Iraqis.
Ian Curr
20 Jan 2024
That’s a great map Ian, where is it from?
Regards,
John
Hello John,
The source is Wikipedia @ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bilad_al-Sham
It is the map of Islamic Syria and its provinces (ajnad, sing. jund, of Qinnasrin, Palestine (Filastin), Jordan (al-Urdunn), Damascus (Dimashq), Hims, al-‘Awasim) under the Abbasid Caliphate in the 9th century Note that borders varied somewhat over time (e.g. sometimes Amman was part of Jund Filastin, etc.)…
Ian Curr
20 Jan 2024