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Oct 20, 2023, 06:27AM

Propaganda is the Enemy

In answer to Chris Beck’s criticism of my article about Israel and Palestine.

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London rally in support of Palestine, October 14.

Language is a tricky business. It’s full of traps and snares. I refrained from writing about the conflict in Israel/Palestine for over a week. This is because there were so many conflicting voices and it was hard to make out what was going on. Also because, as a British person living in relative peace, not having seen any of the events that were taking place half way across the globe, I felt I wasn’t qualified to pass judgment.

At the same time I couldn’t think about anything else. It was everywhere, on my screen, radio, every front page. I was left stupefied, caught between two poles: unable to say anything, but unable to remain silent, with a growing sense of horror at what I felt was about to unfold in front of the world’s eyes. I’m sure I’m not alone in this.

That changed when I went on a march and rally in London in support of the Palestinians. Being there inspired me to want to add my own voice to the mix. I was proud of my nation for a day. So many people, of all ages and nationalities, all colors, all races, raising their voices in support for a people living under the yoke of violence and oppression. I was particularly pleased to see a number of Jewish groups there, loudly and proudly proclaiming their solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

I was right at the start of the march. I met Hugh Lanning, ex-Chair of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, and one time-parliamentary candidate for the Labour Party in my own constituency of Canterbury. He’s written for my online magazine, Whitstable Views. It was good to recognize a familiar face in that vast crowd, shake his hand and wish him well. He gave a rousing speech.

I can’t say how many people there were on the march. Estimates put it in the region of 100,000-150,000. I took my own measure. I stood on a wall outside the Canadian High Commission on Pall Mall, on the approach to Trafalgar Square, and watched as the procession passed by. It took about an hour and a half. Every so often a group would stop outside the Canadian Embassy and throw a few chants in that direction. The Canadian House of Commons had recently applauded an ex-Nazi member of the Waffen-SS as a freedom fighter, because he’d fought the Russians in the Second World War. Such is the strange nature of politics in our world right now.

There were a number of chants and slogans which I joined in with, but my favorite is this: In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians. It reminds me that we’re all in the same boat, mostly doing our best, scuttling about, unable to escape. At the moment it’s a hell for the people of Gaza, who, through no fault of their own—beyond born of the wrong race, at the wrong time, in the wrong place—came to be locked up in what is described by many as “the world’s largest open-air prison.”

Later I heard an interview on Sky News with someone I know: another Jew, Katy Colley. "The root of the violence is the occupation,” she said. “The root of the violence is apartheid. Palestinians have been screaming for decades about this and no one was listening. And in our silence they experience violence on a daily basis.” She ended with these words: “I grew up in the shadow of the holocaust. I grew up being told, never again. That means never again for anybody.”

The reason I emphasize the presence of Jews at the march is to show that the conflict is not about religion. The attack on October 7 wasn’t motivated by a hatred of Jews for being Jews, despite how the Israeli government likes to portray it. It’s about land and occupation. It’s about dignity and respect. It’s about freedom.

This is the background to the attacks on October 7. It didn’t come out of nowhere. There is a context which people ought to remember. We also need to know that the Israeli government lies. It lies regularly and with impunity, its lies being amplified around the world by a compliant media, and by the voices of politicians in power, almost exclusively, in the West. In the Arab world, in the Asian world, in Africa and South America, in the Global South, the voices say different things. It’s a pity we never get to hear them.

There are at least four atrocity stories so far that have turned out to be fake. Like the one about the beheaded babies, or the one about Shani Louk who was reported to have been raped and killed by Palestinian fighters, but who turned out to be alive and well in a hospital in Gaza. Currently there’s a recorded intercept purportedly by two Hamas fighters discussing the attack upon the Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in Gaza, claiming it was Islamic Jihad that did it. This is odd. We’re supposed to believe that, despite the fact that the Israeli intelligence services were unable to overhear the two-year-long preparations for the worst breach of security in Israeli military history, they somehow managed to intercept this particular conversation which apparently absolves them of all responsibility for the hospital attack, despite the fact that they’ve attacked hospitals many times before and will probably do so again. You can read more about that here.

This isn’t to say that atrocities did not occur on October 7. There almost certainly were, but there were other stories too. For instance, I heard one about a woman who said that the militants who invaded her home treated her with respect. She was afraid, but their leader reassured her. “We are Muslims,” he said. “We don’t kill women and children.” When asked if she had any food she gave them each a banana.

I do have this link, however. It focuses on an interview on Israeli radio, given by a kibbutz survivor, who says that the fighters treated her humanely. She also says that many of the civilians who died did so in the crossfire. That makes perfect sense to me. This is a common occurrence in war, and shouldn’t surprise us. It also fits in with Israeli policy, the so-called Hannibal Directive, which says that Israeli forces should fire on opposing forces who may be about to take hostages, even at the risk of killing them. “Better dead than abducted,” it says.

Does that mean that post-mortem atrocities were committed on the bodies of civilians by Israelis in order to incriminate the fighters? I’d hate to think so. But it’s a measure of the unacknowledged prejudice of the West that we’d rather imagine that the atrocities were committed on live bodies by Palestinians, than on dead bodies by cynical propagandists after the event.

The piece I wrote focused upon something I knew about and could discuss with confidence. It made an analogy between the way the BBC treated the notorious serial sex abuser, Jimmy Savile, and the way it treats the conflict in Israel/Palestine. That came about because I had just watched The Reckoning, a drama-documentary in which the corporation attempts to deal with its tricky relationship with the one-time star of its Saturday evening schedule. Savile managed to gaslight an entire population using the BBC as its means.

It seems to me that Israel is doing the same. And not just the BBC either, but every major news outlet in the Western World, and every leading politician. Why or how this happens, I can’t say except to quote another Palestinian-supporting Jew, Noam Chomsky, who said that the reason the world ignores the Palestinians is that they don’t count.

My article was written in the throes of emotion and I was rightly questioned on it. Particularly, I was questioned on one line that stated that Israel has the fourth largest army in the world. It was one of those facts that I didn’t check and it’s not true. It’s true however—at least according to the Times of Israel—that it is the fourth most powerful army in the world, a slightly different concept. I have since had the article edited to amend that.

After that I was surprised to see a piece in Splice Today that mentions me by name. You can read that here. The writer, Chris Beck, takes me to task on a number of points. To do this he repeats some of the atrocity stories, which you can find everywhere in the mainstream media, and reiterates at least one of the more obvious constructs of the Israeli disinformation machine: the one where protesters at Sydney Opera House can be heard chanting “gas the Jews!” Take a look at that video again. You’ll see that you never actually see anyone’s mouth moving. You’ll also see jump cuts where the chanting continues uninterrupted, despite the fact that the scene has changed. A more obvious piece of propaganda would be hard to find.

As someone famously said, “The first casualty of war is the truth.” The mere repetition of lies is enough. They lodge in your brain. They’re meant to elicit an emotional response and to short-circuit your critical faculties. There’s a history of propaganda lies, from the German troops who bayoneted babies in WWI, to the famous Nayirah testimony which led the United States into the first Gulf War. You can read about some of those here.

Analogies between October 7 and 9/11 have become one of the tropes of the current propaganda exchange, with Biden even warning Netanyahu not to make the same mistakes. So let’s remember those mistakes. Let’s remember the weapons of mass destruction, Abu Ghraib, the extraordinary rendition to black sites where torture was practiced, and the ongoing, still unresolved stain of prisoners held indefinitely at Guantanamo Bay. Let’s remember the up to one million dead, and the rise of ISIS, along with some of the other jihadist groups that were later utilized as allies to the United States in Syria. Let’s remember the lies that took us into that war and the consequences, still devastating, throughout the region. Let’s get our critical faculties back into gear and recognize that clever propagandists can manipulate us into thinking all sorts of things that are not true.

I don’t want to get into a slanging match with one of my fellow Splice Today contributors. Things probably look very different here in the UK than they do in the United States. I’ve been a long-term supporter of the Palestinian cause so I’ve watched this process develop over many years. As an ex-member of the Labour Party, once home to a vibrant and energetic anti-Zionist faction, I’ve been vilified as an anti-Semite and kicked out, along with Jeremy Corbyn and a large number of Jews. We’ve been subjected to a McCarthyite witch-hunt where a mere accusation is enough to get you banished. I was investigated specifically for being a member of a Facebook group that was later proscribed. I was a member before it was proscribed. In other words, my membership was rescinded retrospectively, a clear breach of natural justice. The group was The Labour in Exile Network, now The Socialist Labour Network. I joined it to show solidarity with friends who had been kicked out previously. Many of them are Jews. I’m not, and never have been, an anti-Semite.

I won’t answer Beck’s article point by point. Some parts of my piece could’ve been phrased in a different way, but I take none of it back. I was attempting to get people to use their imagination: to picture how it must seem to a young man who has spent his whole life incarcerated in a concentration camp, and what his reaction might be after flying over a supposedly impregnable wall on what he must’ve known was a suicide mission. I also think that some of the Israeli soldiers would’ve been just as scared, just as mad, just as capable of insane acts. Such is the nature of war. Beck points out that the Hamas operation took two years to plan, and he’s right: but the long-term plan of the Israeli government has been clear for years. They want to remove the Palestinian population altogether, by any means necessary, and the current rape of Gaza is just another move in that direction.

Governments around the world should call for an immediate ceasefire. There needs to be a peace process and, whether the Israelis like it or not, it’ll have to involve talking to Hamas. We have to see humanitarian aid to Gaza. Biden’s negotiation of 20 trucks is derisory given the scale of the devastation and the number of people involved. We have to see an end to the bombing and the reinstatement of the water, food and fuel supplies. We have to see the removal of all illegal Israeli settlements from the West Bank. We have to see equality and human rights for all the people on that grief-ridden patch of land. We have to see the end of Western compliance in Israeli war crimes. We can’t complain at Iranian or Russian or Chinese interference without acknowledging our own.

Beck makes a very telling and emotive point. He was right to do so. He says: “Maybe Stone, since he’s in the business of making complex moral calculations, could tell us how many children, given the level of oppression being redressed, Hamas is morally allowed to kidnap and murder. I want a number.”

I’ll do that. The number is none. Now I’ll ask the same question in reverse: how many dead Palestinian children will it take to satisfy the Israeli need for revenge?

Follow Chris Stone on Twitter: @ChrisJamesStone

Discussion
  • How is it you tell us that Shani Louk is "alive and well in a hospital in Gaza"? Her family has stated they have some information that she's alive in a hospital with a severe head injury. It's not clear if any of that is correct. Even under the best case scenario, she was taken by force and is an imperiled hostage. The video of her naked on a truck should have been enough to indicate that, even if alive, she's hardly "well."

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  • And disappearing the words "and well" as you did with your "fourth largest army" error in the other piece, will not suffice to make your description of Shani Louk's situation defensible.

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  • This reads like pure propaganda. I wouldn't know where to start with this one. But you actually believe that in this world, not the alternative one you live in, Israel will now sit down with Hamas? That is truly mind boggling. The next thing that would happen is that Hezbollah would attack Israel, expecting a sit down too. Also, a suggestion: read some history and learn about what a "concentration camp" is. The way you've twisted its meaning here is offensive, although I suspect you're not all that sensitive to that angle.

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  • "If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies." Moshe Dayan

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  • Do you know when he said that? In 1977, when Sadat was about to visit Jerusalem. Very different counterparty and situation. https://quote.org/quote/if-you-want-to-make-peace-you-236605

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  • As I said in the piece, I don't want to get involved in a slanging match. Here is my view on propaganda and how it works: https://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/war-stories I hope it serves to enlighten you.

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  • Thanks, but I've read enough of you. And reading something you wrote on propaganda would be the last thing I'd do. BTW, All of your info on this current war comes from Hamas, whether you know it or not, and you actually believe it. That's the amazing thing.I don't think you're a liar. You just trust the most untrustworthy of sources, whose leaders live in luxury in Quatar without a care for the Palestinians, and you dutifully parrot their talking points. There's a political phrase for that, invented by the Russians I believe, but I won't mention it. It must take a large amount of hatred to get to that point. I'll leave you with a quote from the Hamas Covenant, which I'm sure you'll be able to explain away: "Israel will exist and will continue to exist until Islam will obliterate it, just as it obliterated others before it." And you suggest Israel sit down with these people now.

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  • As a Brit, I'm well aware of the sort of pernicious nonsense CJ Stone spews, all in the interest of showing what a caring individual he is about a situation he's far removed from, and has minimal knowledge of. His ilk regularly remind us in the media that Israel is an apartheid country, revealing their total ignorance of what apartheid is. There have always been Arabs in the Knesset, which could not happen under apartheid. This isn't hard to figure out for those able to think for themselves. Stone mentions only the recording of Hamas voices discussing the "hospital bombing," which didn't even hit a hospital, and did not kill even close to 500 people, but he fails to mention all the other evidence proving Palestinians did the bombing. There were Jews at the emotional, pro-Hamas rally he went to after around 1300 Jews got executed, so anti-Semitism wasn't involved. A cliche similar to, "Some of my best friends are black." This march inspired the manipulable Stone to write about how Israel resembles Jimmy Savile, a child molester, because the BBC protects them both. The BBC has just taken six journalists in the Middle East off air as it investigates whether they posted anti-Israeli messages on social media, which of course they did. But remember, no anti-Semitism is involved here. This is all about "freedom." Christopher Stone describes Gaza as a prison. I didn't realize prisoners could go out to a restaurant for dinner, and then sleep with their wives. And isn't it interesting that Stone cites "Never again" in the wake of the worst atrocities against Jews since the Holocaust. Actually, it's despicable, coming from a useful idiot of Hamas.

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  • “I know first-hand that Israel has created an apartheid reality within its borders and through its occupation. The parallels to my own beloved South Africa are painfully stark indeed." Desmond Tutu.

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  • “We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians.” ― Nelson Mandela

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  • Gaza is a concentration camp: https://twitter.com/andrewfeinstein/status/1716440043705774256

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  • A growing number of reports indicate Israeli forces responsible for Israeli civilian and military deaths following October 7 attack: https://mondoweiss.net/2023/10/a-growing-number-of-reports-indicate-israeli-forces-responsible-for-israeli-civilian-and-military-deaths-following-october-7-attack/

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  • You need a dictionary.

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  • Follow the link to find out why.

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  • I watched the link. Lauren Booth has the perspective of someone who converted to Islam after attending an antisemitic conference in Iran with Klansmen and Neo-Nazis https://www.thejc.com/news/news/how-i-was-recruited-by-irans-goebbels-6OIHLB0pXxjC2gZIiEPfGT and who was removed from an Islamic charity for misusing funds. https://news.sky.com/story/cherie-blairs-sister-lauren-booth-stripped-of-peacetrail-trustee-status-11227702

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  • So the link was about as useful as the rest of his "information." Like this one: "The attack on October 7 wasn’t motivated by a hatred of Jews for being Jews." Oh really? Let's say a Jew from Chicago somehow finds himself in Gaza and gets discovered as a Jew. What happens to him? He gets murdered for being a Jew, even though he has no connection to Israel. But the atrocities Hamas just committed had nothing to do with hating Jews. Hamas tortured some Israeli citizens who just happened to be Jews.

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  • https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/volokh-conspiracy/wp/2015/05/04/mondoweiss-is-a-hate-site/

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  • WaPo describes Mondoweiss as a "hate site."

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  • Philip Weiss, who publishes Mondoweiss, said that the American establishment made a contract with the Jews to drive the economy in the 70s in exchange for the US government supporting the state of Israel. This is the crackpot that CJ Stone cites in telling us the IDF is responsible for many Jewish deaths after October 7.

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  • As I said earlier, there's a propaganda war going on. If you think that the Jewish Chronicle is an independent and trusted source, then you have been deceived. It has had to make retractions and apologies on a number of occasions for printing false stories. Here is just one example. I can find many more: https://www.carter-ruck.com/news/jewish-chronicle-apologises-and-pays-substantial-libel-damages-to-nada-al-sanjari/ I'm sorry that Beck couldn't bring himself to read my piece on propaganda as it includes one very well known example, the so called Nayirah testimony, when a bunch of lies took us to war. You can read about that here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nayirah_testimony No doubt you also remember the weapons of mass destruction which took us to war in Iraq which, if I remember, the Washington Post was happy to repeat, despite the fact it was all a bunch of lies. Just because you read something in a newspaper, it doesn't make it true.

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  • Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza right now. Cutting off water, electricity, food and fuel to a captive population, forced removal of up to a million people from the North to the South, while continuing to bomb the South, bombing hospitals, mosques, churches, schools, population centres, residential homes. This is not a war on Hamas, it's a war on the Palestinian people, who are dying in unprecedented numbers. These are a verifiable facts. There is a genocide about to take place, if it's not already underway. https://opiniojuris.org/2023/10/18/public-statement-scholars-warn-of-potential-genocide-in-gaza/

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  • On the hospital attack: https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-lying-time-again-never-learn

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  • If you don't like Jewish Chronicle, here are some other sources: Booth discussing her attendance of Iran's New Horizon conference in 2018. https://aboutislam.net/muslim-issues/europe/lauren-booth-iran/ German neo-Nazi Udo Voigt at same event. https://twitter.com/MarcGoldberg111/status/1534542157159272448/photo/3 https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/1593533307-german-intel-describes-iran-as-leading-state-sponsor-of-anti-semitism

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  • I was incorrect in saying she converted to Islam after the conference. The conversion was years earlier.

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  • Don't be sorry I won't read another thing you write, CJ. Already it's been way too much. I don't need your enlightenment on propaganda, which you're a participant in.

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  • If WaPo is to be discounted, why do you post link after link of unreliable sources? Weiss is a crackpot, as the quote from him I cited demonstrates. You rely on crackpots to make your case, while I've posted a single link, but you lecture me on buying into what the media says. Spare me. You also post out of context quotes from various luminaries, which you believe means something.

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  • For anyone who is interested, here are my latest thoughts: https://www.splicetoday.com/writing/the-empire-never-ended

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  • I'm sure your latest deep thoughts will be of great interest to your amen choir.

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  • Great speech by ambassador Majed Bamya at the United Nations. Pay heed if you have a heart: https://twitter.com/majedbamya/status/1717160785439281631

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  • This "if have a heart" line is so tawdry. People don't need to pay heed to your partisan political opinions to have a heart.

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  • It's not me, it's the Palestinian ambassador to the United Nations. How closed minded do you have to be to ignore the pleas of a wounded nation? Talk about partisan.

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  • I know, only you have a heart.

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  • You know I didn't say that. That's how you've decided to interpret what I said. I wonder if you've even listened to his words. You call me partisan but you can't even bring yourself to read something I wrote long before this conflict began or to listen to the words of someone whose people are being massacred even while we speak. Talk about projection.

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  • On your Jew from Chicago example, Norman Finkelstein, a Jew, not from Chicago but New York, has visted the West Bank many times until he was banned, not by the Palestinians, but the Israelis. Many other Jews have also visited the conflict zones, including, I think, Noam Chomsky. Other pro-Palestinian Jews include Ilan Pappe and Miko Peled. Maybe widen the scope of your reading a little?

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  • Here is Miko Peled: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8M0mYzD8ZY

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  • I didn't realize Chomsky hangs out in the 'hood when he's in Gaza,

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  • Opposition in Chicago: https://www.facebook.com/mohammad.rahman.927/videos/858192222353418/

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  • Chomsky was a regular visitor to Palestine, yes. No one goes to Gaza, in or out. It's a concentration camp.

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  • I know you never watch these videos Beck, but I want future readers to know that you were offered the opportunity but you refused. Here is another Jew talking about the situation in Gaza: https://twitter.com/caitoz/status/1718048169781797080

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  • You're a total idiot. Can't waste even a minute more on you.

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  • It so happens Chomsky did go to Gaza, Stone. https://truthout.org/articles/noam-chomsky-my-visit-to-gaza-the-worlds-largest-open-air-prison/ You seem to write from an abyss of ignorance, even regarding facts that align with your arguments. No one went in or out of that "concentration camp"? I presume you're unaware, or choose to ignore, that 20,000 Gazans were permitted to cross daily to jobs in Israel, under increasingly liberal rules in recent years. https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/middle-east/palestinian-territories/1648355550-israel-to-raise-work-permit-quotas-for-gazans-to-20-000 The Israeli government is to blame for much, and one thing Netanyahu is culpable for is propping up Hamas so that it would help his goal of preventing a Palestinian state, even sending funds to them through Qatar. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/netanyahu-israel-gaza-hamas-1.7010035 I don't expect any substantive response by you to any of this, Stone, as you've changed the subject again and again when confronted with points to which you have no response (eg Shani Louk being "well"). And with that my patience and willingness to fact-check you are over.

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  • Happy for you to fact check my piece KenSil. As you say, a number of your points align with my argument. Not suprised that Chomsky visited Gaza. He's always been a man of integrity in my estimation. I accept your point about the 20,000 Gazans crossing into Israel to work, although I still think the term "concentration camp" is valid, meaning an enclosed space where people of a certain ethnicity are concentrated. 78% of Gazans are refugees or the descendants of refugees from the enthnic cleansing of 1948. You are right about Netanyahu. What you don't say is that he's a Jewish supremicist whose latest pronouncements make it clear that he's willing to kill Palestinians for the crime merely of being Palestinian. As for the line about Shani Louk being "alive and well": it's a turn of phrase and you sound a little desperate trying to focus in on it as something which even needs to be fact checked. I'll leave it to future readers to decide upon the relative merits of our positions on the unfolding genocide in Gaza. Meanwhile here’s a Jew in Grand Central Station: https://twitter.com/WSWS_Updates/status/1718070195179188398

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  • By the way, Chomsky's visit to Gaza puts paid to Beck argument, above, about his hypothetical "Jew from Chicago", to quote: "Let’s say a Jew from Chicago somehow finds himself in Gaza and gets discovered as a Jew. What happens to him? He gets murdered for being a Jew, even though he has no connection to Israel." Chomsky is a Jew from Philadelphia, he was not murdered fro being a Jew, and indeed is loved and respected by the people of Gaza, and by Palestinians throughout the world, for his stance. The idea that this is a war of religions, of Jews vs Muslims, is an Israeli propaganda trope, which Beck has absorbed unconsciously. It has nothing to do with religion. It has everything to do with occupation. Once the occupation is ended and the people are given equal rights within their own land, then Hamas, as the armed resistance movement, will become unimportant, as the IRA are unimportant in Northern Ireland today, or the French Resistance are unimportant in France.

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  • Poor Chomsky, everything he says turns out to be wrong. First Cambodia, then Venezuela, now his generative theories are crumbling too (lingbuzz.net/lingbuzz/007180). He also confesses to being very naive (re Jeffrey Epstein), maybe that's his problem, poor guy.

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  • Update re Shani Louk. https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/30/middleeast/shani-louk-dead-israel-intl/index.html

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  • childe_harold commented a few seconds ago Shani Louk was beheaded, yet Stone, the leftist fraud, assures us she's okay. Chomsky traveled to Gaza as part of an academic delegation, and was greeted as a hero because he's a Jew who hates Israel. But Stone tells us nobody goes in or out of Gaza. Wrong again. He gives a false overestimation of the IDF's power. Wrong again.Such shoddy writing. Stone has no idea what danger a Jew in Gaza would be in because he's ignorant of it, which he doesn't let interfere with his pontifications. That's why he says it's "understandable" that Gazans paraglided into a music festival to kill people as if it were sport. Only an extreme hatred of Jews could provoke such actions, yet he tells us religion isn't a factor. He also redefines what a concentration camp is to further his specious argument. This, of course, is offensive to all the Jews who were murdered in concentration camps. Sounds like what anti-Semites do, but of course he isn't one. He's just a caring individual.

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  • Thanks for your continuing interest in my article folks. Things have moved on a great deal since this, of course, but it's nice to know that you are so fascinated by me.

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  • What really happened on 7th October? Evidence is now emerging that up to half the Israelis killed were combatants; that Israeli forces were responsible for some of their own civilian deaths; and that Tel Aviv disseminated false ‘Hamas atrocities’ stories to justify its devastating air assault on Palestinian civilians in Gaza. https://new.thecradle.co/articles-id/7985

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  • Israel writer: Gaza is a concentration camp. Israel has a plan to isolate the Gaza Strip and deprive it of its roots, it’s turned it in to a concentration camp, and it has nothing to do with Hamas, Israeli journalist Amira Hass wrote in Haaretz today. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190208-israel-writer-gaza-is-a-concentration-camp/

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