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> The Gaza Palestinians remain untermenschen for the Israelis, for U.S. officials, for establishment pundits, and for leaders of the E.U. As victims of a U.S.-armed and protected client state, they are “unworthy” and not classifiable as the victims of “genocide” or “massacres...
> Once again, we are back to the difference between Constructive, Nefarious, Benign, and Mythical bloodbaths...
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bs2Aug 20, 2024
> On December 27, 2008, Israel launched a military offensive against the #GazaStrip that from its first day on amounted to a wholesale slaughter of the Gaza Palestinians. By the date the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) announced a ceasefire effective as of January 18, approximately fourteen hundred Gazans had been killed, 850 of them civilians, and more than five thousand wounded, with women and children suffering 30 percent of the casualties.
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