by Dave Holmes, LINKS, Feb. 20 https://links.org.au/discussion-about-hamas-october-7
We are constantly told by the Western corporate media that Hamas is a terrorist group, that the October 7 attack was a terrorist attack, atrocious, a massacre and so on. In the days following the raid pro-Palestinian interviewees in the media were repeatedly pressured: “Do you condemn Hamas?” But the reality is very different. On January 21 Hamas issued a powerful statement that puts the attack — Operation Al-Aqsa Flood — in the context of Israel’s long and violent subjugation of the Palestinian population, explains why they carried out the raid, and responds to Israel’s lies. One figure cited in the statement says a lot: “in the period between January 2000 and September 2023, the Israeli occupation killed 11,299 Palestinians and injured 156,768 others”. . . . Western leaders, including Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, regularly invoke Israel’s “right to defend itself”. But this right doesn’t exist. Israel is the oppressor entity; in 1948 and 1967 it violently seized Palestine, expelled a large part of the population, and reduced those remaining to the status of second-class citizens. As an apartheid state, as a state for Jews only, Israel has no right to exist — none whatsoever. The non-Arab Israeli people certainly have a right to exist but only in a democratic secular state which grants equal rights to all its citizens, whatever their ethnic or religious background. A “Jewish state” (just like an “Islamic state”, a "Buddhist state" or whatever) should be consigned to history’s rubbish bin. . . . We might also ask: If Hezbollah and Hamas are proscribed, why are not Israel and the IDF since they are carrying out a policy of terror on an industrial scale? And why doesn’t the US also feature since it is Israel’s key enabler, without whose support Israel could not exist? Obviously pigs will fly before we see Israel and Washington on any terror list. But today many people around the world are probably asking why not? # # # -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#29173): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/29173 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/104636195/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
