by Eric Zuesse, The Duran:
All ‘news’-media say that around 33 thousand Gazans have been killed by Israel since — and in retaliation for — the 7 October 2023 attack against Israelis by Hamas and other militants in Gaza who had broken out of the world’s largest open-air prison, Gaza, and killed around 1,200 Israelis.
Originally (prior to that break-out), there were said to be 2.3 million Gazans; and, now, there are said to be around 1.3 million survivors in the town of Raffah in the far southwestern corner of Gaza bordering Egypt. All other Gazans except for the alleged 33 thousand who are publicly acknowledged to have been killed are being presumed to have somehow survived the approximately thirty thousand tons of American bombs that Israel has, thus far, dropped onto all of Gaza except for the town of Raffah.
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Click onto THIS to see photos and discussion of the results from that bombing throughout Gaza except for Raffah, up till now. None of the ‘news’-media has explained how this alleged miracle, of surviving that intense bombing and Israel’s equally intense siege that blocks almost all food and medicine from being allowed into Gaza, has happened. It didn’t happen. Everyone knows that there is now intense starvation throughout Gaza, resulting from that siege-blockade, on top of all this bombing. Nonetheless, the ‘news’-media say that only 33 thousand Gazans have been killed by Israel since the October 7th event. This would mean that underneath all of those buildings — many of them very tall and made of concrete — which those photos show having been bombed to hell and largely collapsed entirely from this extraordinarily intense Israeli-U.S. bombing — that underneath these piles of rubble, are somehow none of the probably around a million corpses of the people who were living and working, and trying to find shelter inside, those buildings. It’s just not rationally credible. Israel has already killed around a million of the 2.3 million Gazans; and, now, is preparing to finish the job, in Raffah.
On April 9th, RT News, which I have found to be the least unreliable — the most honest — of the mainstream media (even though, like all the others, it cites that ludicrously fake 33,000 estimate of Gazans having been killed by the Israeli-American bombing and blockade against Gaza, headlined “Date set for Rafah offensive – Netanyahu”, and reported that Netanyahu has now committed to finishing the job against ‘Hamas’ (actually against the 2.3 million Gazans) because, otherwise, his coalition will immediately break up and he’ll no longer be running the Government — maybe even prosecuted in his suspended corruption trials. RT also says that “US President Joe Biden threatened last Thursday to reconsider Washington’s support for Israel unless it changes its approach.” However, Biden has many times condemned even considering to place conditions on the $3.8 billion in annual U.S. taxpayer donations to Israel to spend ($3.3 billion of it) on buying U.S.-made weapons, and on ($.5 billion) other aid. For example, while Biden was campaigning for President, he made this non-conditionality of U.S. funding of Israel’s Government unequivocal, and Ben Jacobs headlined at Jewish Insider, “Biden: ‘Absolutely outrageous’ to condition U.S. aid to Israel: The former vice president says the move would be ‘a gigantic mistake’”, and reported his remarks condemning his opponents in the Democratic Presidential primaries, Senators Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, for their advocating that this annual $3.8 billion should be made conditional on Israel’s not doing anything with it that America’s official policy condemns and opposes. Then, on 2 November 2019, the Jerusalem Post headlined “Joe Biden opposes cutting military aid to Israel: ‘gigantic mistake’: Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders said on Monday that the aid could be used as leverage on the Israeli government”. Then, right after the U.S. Presidential election, Shmuel Leeb headlined on 11 November 2020, “What Would A Biden Presidency Mean For Israel”, and provided a 4,000-word-long detailed history of Biden’s statements on this, including his statements that had been made confidentially to billionaire donors to his campaign, and which as President now we have consistently seen to be guiding U.S. policies now, as the President; and among these statements there is one passage in Leeb’s article that has Biden explaining WHY he believes the way he does about the moral necessity to support Israelis against Palestinians:
Biden has attributed his lifelong support and respect for Israel to the moral and religious values he was taught by his Catholic parents as a young boy while growing up in Scranton, Pennsylvania. In a 2013 speech Biden made to an Aipac conference, he recalled, “We gathered at my dinner table to have conversation. It was at that table I first heard the phrase ‘Never again.’” Biden said he also “learned that the only way to ensure that it could never happen again was the establishment and the existence of a secure, Jewish state of Israel.” Biden’s father also once told him that one need not be Jewish to be a Zionist.
Biden recalled his father being baffled by the debate following World War II over whether or not to establish Israel as an independent state. “My father would say, were he a Jew, he would never, never entrust the security of his people to any individual nation, no matter how good and how noble it was, like the United States.”
The Bible has passages such as Deuteronomy 7:1-2, 7:16 and 20:15 -18, which have ‘God’ say that when the Israelites enter the promised land they are to wipe out the Canaanites, Hittites, Girgishites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, living there. Biden, as a Catholic, believes in that ‘God’, and so do Jews as Jews, because it is the same ‘God’; so, what Israelis and American weaponry and ammunition are now doing to the Palestinians who were living in Gaza is the fulfillment of God’s commands, and must therefore be done, as an obligation to that ‘God’, in that view of things.
