Janelle’s Reviews > A Genocide Foretold: Reporting on Survival and Resistance in Occupied Palestine > Status Update

Israel blames Hamas and the Palestinians for its war crimes. It insists that hospitals are Hamas command centers and legitimate targets. Israel rarely provides evidence.

Settler colonialism is built on the scaffolding of racism.

..most supporters of Israel do not have a desire to know the truth, ..that would force them to examine their own racism&selfdelusions about Zionist & Western moral superiority,like packs of famished dogs they lap up the lies fed to them by the Israeli government.The Big Lie always finds fertile soil in what Bernays called the“logic-proof compartment of dogmatic adherence.”

—the killing of civilians,dispossession of land, arbitrary detention,torture,disappearances,closures imposed on Palestinian towns &villages, house demolitions, revoking residence permits, deportation, destruction of the infrastructure that maintains civil society, military occupation, dehumanizing language, &theft of natural resources, especially aquifers—have long defined Israel’s campaign to eradicate Palestinians.

“The death mask of colonialism—too often of European extraction—does not change. Nor does the godlike authority of colonists who look at the colonized as vermin, who take a perverse delight in their humiliation and suffering, and who kill them with impunity.”