Our Wednesday News Analysis | How an 'antisemitism hoax' drowned out the discovery of mass graves in Gaza

Palestinian paramedics carry away bodies of dead people uncovered in the vicinity of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City after the recent Israeli military operation on 17 April 2024 (AFP)

Precisely, the same dynamic is playing out in the United States, where the establishment - from President Joe Biden down - is painting peaceful protests on college campuses against the genocide
as hotbeds of hatred and antisemitism.

There, things are even more out of hand,
with the police, who called in to arrest students and faculty.

In both cases, the honest debate -
about why Britain and the US are still actively supporting the bombing and starvation of Gaza’s population after six months of genocide -
has once more been muffled by the Israel lobby’s fake news.

Establishment media have again seized on any pretext
to focus on a twig rather than the forest.

… all these claims have served a purpose.

They keep the Western public focused on evil humanitarian aid workers and evil anti-war protesters rather than the kind of evil that dares in broad daylight to kill 15,000 children,
destroy hospitals,
and hide bodies in mass graves.

A gruesome discovery was made in Gaza at the weekend. Some 300 Palestinian bodies - of men, women and children - were unearthed from an unmarked mass grave in the courtyard of the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis.

Even given Israel’s record of committing relentless atrocities in Gaza over the past six months - killing tens of thousands of Palestinians, most of them women and children - this one stood out.

Some bodies were reported to have been found with their hands and feet bound, and stripped of clothing, strongly suggesting they had been executed during a three-month invasion of the city by Israeli soldiers. Others were said to be decapitated, or their skin and organs removed.

Some 10,000 people had been sheltering at Gaza’s second-largest hospital when it was attacked back in February. At the time there were reports of patients and staff being picked off by sniper fire. The medical facility was left in ruins.

Another 400 people are still reported missing in Khan Younis. More mass graves are likely to be uncovered...

A gruesome discovery was made in Gaza at the weekend. Some 300 Palestinian bodies - of men, women and children - were unearthed from an unmarked mass grave in the courtyard of the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis.

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CRAIG MURRAY: WORSE THAN YOU CAN IMAGINE

Source: Consortium News
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/04/26/craig-murray-worse-than-you-can-imagine/?eType=EmailBlastContent&eId=ab6bdf76-7c5d-4a0f-9d4f-479c7df1a70b

By Craig Murray

Published April 26, 2024

The author has no doubt the Western political elite are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians at a much deeper level than the people have yet understood.

Sunak and Netanyahu in Israel, Oct. 19, 2023. (No. 10/Wikimedia Commons)

Governments cannot make big decisions quickly except in the most extreme circumstances.

If you believe all the spin from the White House about Biden trying to restrain Netanyahu, I suggest you look instead at the White House and State Department spokesmen refusing to accept any single instance of Israeli atrocity and deferring to Israel on every single crime.

The Arab regimes of the Gulf and Jordan are dependent upon Israeli and U.S. security services and surveillance for protection from their people.

The lack of really massive street protests against their regimes by Arab peoples is a direct testimony to the effectiveness of that vicious repression, particularly when states like Jordan actually, fight alongside Israel against Iranian weapons.

By promoting an escalation with Iran, Western politicians were able to default to a position of claiming the case for arming Israel was proven – and I think they were
genuinely perplexed to find the public did not buy it.

The political class across the Western world and the Arab world is utterly divorced from its people in Gaza.

We are seeing worldwide repression, as peaceful conferences are stormed by police in Germany, students are beaten by police on American campuses, and in the U.K. old white people like me suffer the kind of continual harassment long suffered by young Muslim men.

This is not the work of Netanyahu operating as a rogue. It is the result of the machinations of a professional political class across the Western world welded to zionism, with the supremacy of Israel as an article of fundamental belief.

Times are not this dark by accident. They were designed to be this dark...

Read more: Craig Murray: Worse Than You Can Imagine

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THE RAFAH INVASION WILL BE CATASTROPHIC

Source: Mondoweiss
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/04/the-rafah-invasion-will-be-catastrophic/

By MITCHELL PLITNICK

Published April 27, 2024

The impending Rafah invasion will be even worse than anything we've seen so far. And the U.S. is just going to watch it happen.

A CAMP FOR INTERNALLY DISPLACED PALESTINIANS WHO FLED FROM RAFAH AND NORTHERN GAZA TO WESTERN DEIR AL-BALAH IN THE CENTRAL GAZA STRIP, APRIL 23, 2024. (PHOTO: OMAR ASHTAWY/APA IMAGES)

"Jan Egeland of the Norwegian Refugee Council described what has already happened in Gaza. “Gaza has had a bigger bombardment than even Aleppo, even Raqqa, even Mosul,” he said.

The attack on Rafah promises to be the worst of all.

No government, least of all the one in Washington that has the power to stop it, is willing or able to do anything but watch it happen."

With the page seeming to have at least temporarily turned on a confrontation between Israel and Iran, the promised Israeli invasion of Rafah is once again looming large. On Friday, a “high-level” Egyptian delegation arrived in Israel to continue attempts to negotiate a ceasefire, as Cairo’s fears of a large exodus of Palestinians from Gaza into the Sinai have been renewed.

Chances of success are dim, to say the least. According to reports, Egypt’s strategy is to try to first negotiate a release of some of the Israeli hostages still being held in Gaza in exchange for the release of Palestinian prisoners held by Israel, another temporary “pause” in Israeli assaults, and an Israeli agreement to allow people to return to the areas they fled from in the northern part of Gaza. The idea is that if this agreement holds, it will delay the invasion of Rafah and hopefully lead to a permanent ceasefire.

Meanwhile, Israel has set up thousands of tents a few miles north of Rafah to which they propose to “evacuate” people ahead of their invasion. But let’s be clear, this is not a humanitarian gesture, as Joe Biden and other American officials would present it. Israel isn’t intending an “evacuation.” It is the forced displacement of people who have already been forcibly displaced, many of them multiple times, and in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law...

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