Israel / Palestine

israel presenting a a handul of rifles and boots which wouldn't cover equipment for the armed police of a small london hospital and not having a translator able to decipher the days of the week in arabic, as reason they sieged a hospital, sniped patients through the windows, blew up ambulences and shelled the surrounding areas; wards. after claiming intelegence of complex tunnel networks, a constant stream of hamas using ambulences in and out of the location at all hours and a hamas command centre, really makes you think they might not be as "precise" and "informed" as they say.

might also make you doubt other claims.

one, taking a kinder reading than they deserve, might assume they've dehuminaised the palestinian people to the extent that that they're making assumptions based on a simulacrum of their own propaganda of what their oponent is/would be doing - that their military forces are far more used to a violent armed apartheid of a civilian population than it is intelegence gathering and millitary planning.

or on the other hand, the current government might be doing a 19th century style western colonialism in the present day.

shameful that our own government continues to arm these attacks, continues to allow them to justify this senseless collective punishment and ethnic cleansing under the guise of "sophisticated millitary operations".

should be noted their presenting of evidence mirroring that of the met or US police forces presenting small collections of weapons or contraband as justification for their continued harrassment and violence towards communities is no coincidence. the training is shared between all forces, the ideology, the racist subjegation that underpins the dehuminisation is shared between all forces, the ignorance towards solving the causes is deliberate accross all forces. the idf closer resembles a millitarised police force than it does an army, both operationally and tactically, which is why it is operating as such.

it also spurs images of iraq where america and the uk never found weapons of mass destruction, but they'd parade the vastly smaller, less advanced arsenals of a conventionally armed state as some form of "exceptionally violent tools" for western media. a veil to disguise why their children were dying abroard, why their children were killing the children of iraqi citizens. all so wester colonialist states could achieve their domestic interests at the expense of their own citizens, and the ones they senslessly, extrajudicially and illegally murder and invade.

shameful unjustafiable scenes, as the families of those who were kidnapped in the oct 7th attacks march for peace, make it clear a cesasfire is the only option. the violence we saw on that shocking day cannot be used to justify the actions of the israeli leadership in response. it was clear in the immidiate aftermath, and every day since it becomes painfully clearer yet.