"Over 15 or 20 houses were bombed," says the interviewer, inviting a response. "Is this a human act?" "No," says the elderly Palestinian, "this is a criminal act.
As for the [Hamas] resistance -- they come and hide among the people. Why are they hiding among the people? They can go to hell and hide there."
The reporter immediately turns his back on the man. This is not what he is there to report.
This is one of many small acts of resistance inside Gaza that are either suppressed, or just go mostly un-reported.
For nearly a generation, media owned by Qatar and Iran have tag-teamed with Hamas to paint a false picture of ideological uniformity across Gaza. While Hamas quashed opposition to their rule, Al Jazeera and other mouthpieces platformed the terror group’s leaders and shills. ...
Western media largely goes along with this programme. Judging from most reportage out of Gaza, two million Palestinian victims of Hamas tyranny and corruption can name only one oppressor: Israel.
In 2019, brave Gazan youth tried to change all this by waging anti-Hamas street demonstrations under the banner “We Want to Live”—their way of showing that when Hamas dubs all Palestinians “lovers of death,” they lie. But as one protest veteran told us, “The movement was brutally suppressed.” He went on, “We found neither receptivity nor expressions of support from the outside world.”
In Arab lands where terror militias rule, the world should be listening not just to the few who hold a megaphone but also to the many who can only whisper.
The Center for Peace Communications has been trying to change that, one piece of reportage at a time. And it's now launched a video series Voices from Gaza, to give a platform on the current war to the many Gazans who do not support Hamas.
They include:
- a resident of Khan Younis describing how locals in a bakery spontaneously attacked a Hamas member who had come to buy bread
- a day after scores of civilians died in an Israeli air strike on a market in Gaza’s Jabaliya refugee camp, an eyewitness to the tragedy explained that hile Hamas and its allies persist in charging that Israel targets innocents, Gazans pin their own survival strategy on the understanding that innocents serve Hamas as human shields -- and their best methid of survival is to block their streets fom Hamas
- a Gazan woman who fears that this misery will needlessly be prolonged by Westerners who strive, in effect, to perpetuate Hamas rule
- another patient at al-Shifa hospital who explains “Every Palestinian knows Shifa hospital is full of [Hamas fighters], but nobody can talk: death by the Jews is better than death by ISIS”
- a resident of Gaza City who explains that when Hamas distributes the aid that does get in, "only Hamas members get the aid.” The same applies to Gaza’s healthcare system, where “Hamas families get preferential treatment” and even the most urgent needs of others “could be delayed for a long time so that Hamas loyalists are treated first.”
The stories are heart-breaking, and never-ending. And they give the lie to idea that Hamas speaks for these poor folk.
Free Palestine. From Hamas.
UPDATE: Following on from Liberty Scott's comment below, Robert Tracinski posts this morning on how their support for Hamas's war "exposes the 'woke' movement's reactionary progressives."
There has been a lot of speculation that the “woke” fad may already be fading, that it has reached its peak and even its own supporters or fellow travelers on the centre-left are getting sick of it. There is some evidence that this is true in academia. But if we’re looking for a moment that could mark a definitive turn away from wokeness in the culture at large, the Hamas war just might be it....
The left’s reaction—its defence and even outright celebration of a terrorist group’s campaign of mass murder—puts a giant asterisk in front of everything they ever said about “marginalised” people, about how “silence is violence,” and any rhetoric they have ever used about “liberation” or “justice.” That asterisk stands for the proviso: “Except for the Jews.”
This is not mere hypocrisy but reflects and reveals the tribalist ideology behind the contemporary “woke” left.
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The fact that the local useful idiots don't protest against Hamas, that Twyford mentions Hamas at a Palestinian hate rally (which is what it turned out to be) and gets booed, that in the UK, hard-leftist Peter Tatchell gets hounded out of a pro-Palestine protest for holding a sign demanding Gaza be freed from Hamas, shows how so few care about Palestine and Palestinians actually being free. Not free in the libertarian sense, but free from a totalitarian theocratic genocidal death cult.
So many Green politicians in NZ parrot Hamas talking points, accept Hamas narratives (because totalitarian theocratic fascists are morally equivalent to nationalist Zionists in a liberal democracy in their book), and it is either evil or moronic. Many of them have proven themselves to be the latter, but they aren't all that - which means they are the former. If you support a better future for Palestinians then it isn't going to come without confronting their greatest enemy, Islamofascists willing to sacrifice them for the glory of martyrdom, funded by Tehran while their leaders cower in Doha.
The thing is, I think even the useful idiots know this implicitly. They'll criticise Israel, hoping for better (conscious that Israel does at least have standards its claims to live up to, and aware that at least some of the world's criticisms get through) whereas they will be absolutely silent to the barbarity, misogny, cowardice and murder of the death cult. Because they know that, even if heard, their criticism (even if as mild as Twyford's) would have no effect aside from their own destruction.
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