Katharine Frisk has asked the question that many billions of people have asked over the millennia, and she says her article is only an attempt, writing: “This is a difficult article for me to write. But the question has come up time and time again on many platforms: Where does evil come from? I am going to attempt to answer this question. And please note it is an attempt, so bear with me, be patient and what is more, feel free to contribute in the comments section below.”
The answer to the question is extremely simple, so simple that it hides in plain sight.
If you put a letter D in front of the word evil – Devil – you will instantly see where evil comes from. If you put another O in the word God – good – you will see where good comes from.
Yes, it IS that simple. The Truth usually is.
Lucifer now known here on Earth as Satan (the Opposer) and The Devil (Liar/Slanderer – John 8:35) has deceived and confused everyone using his organized religions, that he has deceived people into believing belong to God, when the opposite is the truth, that is that they belong to Lucifer (Revelation 12:9).
King of kings’ Bible – John 8:35Ye are of [YOUR] father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the Truth, because there is no Truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father (inventor) of it.
King of kings’ Bible – Revelation 12:9 And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out to the earth, and his angels (you – Luke 9:55) were cast out with him (Matthew 25:41).
Every normal Human+Being has two telepathic voices in their head – a good one and an evil one. They are God and the Devil/Lucifer respectively, speaking to you telepathically. Lucifer tempts you to do evil for temporary worldly rewards, and God tells you not to do what Lucifer says, because you KNOW it is wrong, because He tells you so. God is the voice you think is your conscience.
You are then allowed your free-will to decide whom to obey, and, sadly, most people obey Lucifer, whether knowingly or unknowingly, and that is why things are so bad, and getting rapidly worse, as more and more people become influenced by him and their music, screen and other idols, who have sold their souls to the Devil, for temporary, worldly fame and fortune, as some of them openly admit.
All of this is explained in detail, and so much more, in The Way home or face The Fire – the title of which is self-explanatory.
There are testimonials on the website, that you can read, from just some of the many people whose lives the Book has changed for the better. Hopefully you will become one of them. If you are truly a Truthseeker then this is what you are searching for – the unadulterated Truth.
“The Way home or face The Fire” is the most extraordinary Book on the face of this Planet (Earth). It shatters every lie since the beginning of the War in Heaven led by Lucifer and his Angels – a Testimonial.”
Peace be upon you,
JAH.
I tracked down the origins of this reblog. It’s a good question to ask but the explanation is long and drawn out as important subjects often are. But because I have been over this terrain many times, I feel I do have a good grasp of what was said by others and what can be said.
I want to cut to the chase. Evil is a result of spirit forces acting upon simple foolish people who were not prepared to make a good decision based on knowledge. The spirits with Satan as their leader, preyed upon people who were not at a stage that could have prepared them for their temptation as well as it could have been had these selfish spirits allowed some time as God no doubt suggested might be wise. God warned them of their fat should their decision prove to be in error. Death.
It is a lot in our “scientific” and godless society to suggest spirit forces but I assure you all that evil people know full well Satan is real. They worship him without hesitation.
But now about people, humans. I propose that humans deliberately neglect things like conscience, empathy, satisfying curiosity, ever as we do hunger. Curiosity is an intellectual hunger. We neglect the importance of acting properly, not appreciating that sanity and safety and even sanctity of life depend upon proper conduct, even as our lives depend on food, water, and air.
I further propose that neglecting or ignoring another human being as being as entitled as you and worthy and deserving of the same consideration from you, as you would give to yourself, is vital and its neglect inexcusable. Our conscience, were it not disturbed, would confirm that.
I lean upon psychology for the last part. If an infant is reasonably cared for, empathy will be natural. Were most of us not disturbed in the womb, in infancy, and early years, selfishness would not be a big problem. If our needs are well attended to in our earliest days, we would not be carrying around urgent selfish longings. Longings come from neglect unrecognized.
So I say that to ignore empathy and compassion toward others is the basis of evil. I say that in many people, maybe most people, they can ignore others that they maybe get more at others’ expense. And I say that they do not make this choice without causing great anguish and suffering inside themselves. It takes great amounts of brain energy to suppress the empathetic observations of suffering.
Denial expends far more energy output than as does empathy and kindness. But that does not stop them from expending that energy and getting what they want at the expense of a majority.
That is the essence of evil, says I! It is not an action of innocence or ignorance as some might suggest, The mind knows full well what it is doing on some level. We keep it well buried so that we can avoid feeling bad about it. We could being to change it tomorrow if we wanted. We do not want it.
God gave birth to the human race, so to speak. Now He watches us to see if some and how many, will choose the more sensible path of empathy as opposed to selfishness. Now all that waits if for each to clear show in their actions what they are and what they are made of and if they merit God’s sparing them from the mess that is now all around us. I do hope you will all be moved to do the right thing rather than the selfish easy effortless thing.
I got a challenge for one and all. If you disagree in anyway, say so and say why and even offer something better. To remain silent if you know better, would be to slight us all. Iron sharpens Iron. We sharpen one another or should!
I feel very uncomfortable with idea that evil is a “thing” in the same sense as a glass of water is, or that invisible evil spirits blow about the world as leaves on an autumn breeze. Humans believe in a lot of things. I have an acquaintance who treats football as a religion and players as gods. This does not mean that they are. We have to distinguish between subjective and objective opinions and often they may be confused. Similarly between the ‘internal’ emotional environment of perception, memory and feelings, with the ‘external’ physical reality in all forms and complexity. Even the rational scientist is not devoid of emotion and it is this that contrasts him with the most advanced computer. Evil is qualitative, it must be assessed against some objective standard. Historically this is where history and religion has played its part. Whether this emanated from god or a man such as Moses, can never really be determined. Our belief that its origins were divine and ethereal, does not make it so, although believing such, may help many to lead a ‘good’ life. When a lion gives chase to an antelope, we do not assume it is an evil act, even if we judge it to be a cruel one. We might apply the same criteria to the native tribesman killing it to feed his tribe. But what of the highly paid American dentist who shoots a well known lion? The act may be less cruel but surely less defensible, morally? Less good, in fact possibly positively evil? So we see how circumstances alter cases and what we consider to be good or evil. So to regard evil as just one ‘thing’, flowing from a formless inchoate being, can surely not be at all helpful. Rather we should subject the beliefs and the people that hold them to a rational and objective examination, when we will probably discover alternative explanations for them and the actions they support. The scriptures contain many wonderful stories and sayings that can help to transform a person’s life and make it more useful and fulfilled. It may even make a better person. But quoting from it selectively to support a particular view is very risky. The god of the Old Testament, and perhaps even of the New, is clearly not averse to torture, capital punishment and even mass genocide! This rather puts a question mark to the simplistic ‘good = god’ and ‘evil = devil’ hypothesis, doesn’t it? No, it is important that humans develop standards based on more objective criteria, that may or not accord with a biblical one. This was the revolutionary power of the teachings of Jesus and which Christians imperfectly seek to emulate. They may be boiled down to this one simple precept: ‘Love your neighbour as yourself’, later interpreted by thinkers in the injunction to endeavour to ‘do good and avoid doing harm’. Once applied it would of course cure all the ‘evils’ of the world. Conversely, that such hatred, selfishness and violence continues, indicates how little, and presumably how difficult, it is to fulfill and be fulfilled. All I know and feel is that cruelty, whether to humans or animals, is a personification of evil when it is carried out by those with, or who should have, a moral compass of right and wrong. Sadly there is much cruelty in the world and much of it is carried out by agents of Government at its instigation. If cruelty is evil, what does that say about much of government?
The Russell Brand take on spirituality: https://www.facebook.com/knowledgeParadise/videos/810940812365658/
Thursday, 2 May 2024
How an 'antisemitism hoax' drowned out the discovery of mass graves in Gaza
14.5.2024:
The One Video Israel REALLY Doesn't Want You To See.
What really happened on Oct. 7th? Israeli reports 'entirely untrue'.
Tim Veater Try looking a little deeper--if your anti-Semitism permits it. Have you noticed those who purportedly represent "besieged" Gazans making any effort to engage and fight out in the open? Instead they hide behind their masses gladly sacrificing those it claims to represent. Alas, your sympathies never extended to Israeli citizens of all persuasions slaughtered back on October 7 (and earlier by Hamas' indiscriminate bombings/missiles). Trust me, I wouldn't have thought someone of your ilk would be so moved. I just thought you would have tried better to hide your hypocrisy.
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Warren Meislin The vacuous nature of your argument is there for all to see. Just the statistics alone disprove your position without reference to the visual evidence of wholesale destruction and tens of thousands of dead. The Israeli/Jewish claim of victimhood and 'self-defence' will no longer work. Everyone can see it is Israel that is the terrorist aggressor, and has been so not from October the 7th but from the word go in 1948. Neverthe less it mastered the propaganda war, painting the invaded and expropriated the killers and 'terrorists', largely because Jews could speak better English than Arabs! Oct. 7th was discreditable but surely you are not naive enough to think it took the Israeli government - at least the part of it that matters - by 'surprise'. If it did it was the greatest security failure in its history, for which heads would have surely rolled. The fact they didn't - not even one - ominously rather like 9/11, which was actually alluded to by Netanyahu, a Pole moulded by American culture - is an indicator it wasn't, but was in fact a facilitated incursion to provide the pretext for a policy in long-term gestation, that even involved the cynical sacrifice of its own. The failure of the security apparatus to respond, the way in which many hunreds were killed by tank and rocket fire, the proved lies put out of cooked and beheaded babies and mass rapes, the mistreatment of hostages, the failure to accurately investigate and the Gaza offensive itself, all point to the same conclusion, also incidentally replicating features of the 9/11 attack in which Israel was deeply implicated. Of course none of this suits the Israeli and Western-alligned propaganda narrative, but it is far closer to the truth. Oct. 7th was orchestrated excuse for a policy of genocide, as all past history and stated opinion prove, not a justification for it. It facilitates the naked ambition to force the resident population, already displaced by earlier military action, to leave and appropriate – theft by any other name - the real estate, just as it has done elsewhere. As to your familiar trope allegation of 'anti-semitism', to deflect from a catelogue of perpetrated evils, I would remind you that it is the predominantly east European settlers that have factually been 'anti-semitic' for over seventy years and continue to be so, resulting in one of the most dastardly crimes of the modern epoch.
11.5.2024: The bombing of Rafah now proves these extremist, racist israeli jews hold morality, international law and public opinion in utter contempt. Their mad psychosis thrives on mass destruction and mass murder. They are undoubtedly psychopaths hell bent on genocide because the international community - for which read America - will not intervene to stop them. Palestinian blood is on the hands of all those politicians who have acted as apologists and defenders of that perverted regime. This criminal activity, in which the West is wholly complicit, indelibly stains the 21st Century as much as the holocaust did the 20th. It proves, as nothing else can, the hollowness and corruption of so-called western 'democracy', that refuses to acknowledge the will of the people and international law. We are governed by criminals, totally controlled by zionist international finance, not by humanity and morality. Wasn't that the gist of a certain dictator eighty odd years ago?
8.5.2024: Empathy and kindness are international human virtues that Israeli Jews demonstably seem to be bereft of - unless to their own tribe. How in the world, could Britain come to be such an avid supporter of that rogue state and its repellent actions? And why no condemnation from either Church or State? Sunak and Starmer are, as George Galloway coined them, "cheeks of the same backside", and just about as disreputable. Israel has proved to its eternal shame, it is immune to all entreaty and sanction, and is hell-bent on proving it is the very antithesis of human empathy and compassion. (TTV) https://veaterecosan.blogspot.com/search?q=Empathy
In confecting a media row about the policing of London marches against genocide, the Israel lobby
knew it would score a victory, whatever happened.
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)
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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.
Referring to some of the bodies, Yamen Abu Suleiman, a civil defence leader in Khan Younis, told CNN: “We do not know if they were buried alive or executed. Most of the bodies are decomposed.”
The revelations from Khan Younis fit a pattern that has been gradually emerging as Israeli troops have pulled back.
Last week, the latest of several mass graves were found at Gaza’s largest hospital, al-Shifa. Israel left the area earlier this month after destroying the hospital. Together, the graves are reported to have contained hundreds of bodies.
Further unmarked graves have been discovered in Beit Lahiya.
The United Nations human rights chief, Volker Turk, said he was “horrified” by the reports.
Groundswell of anger
Back in the 1990s, the identification of mass graves of thousands of Muslim men from the Bosnian town of Srebrenica led to the setting up of a special war crimes tribunal of the International Criminal Court. It ruled in 2001 that a genocide had occurred in Srebrenica committed by Bosnian Serbs - a judgment later confirmed by the International Court of Justice, sometimes referred to as the World Court.
In the circumstances, one might have expected the discovery of mass graves of hundreds of Palestinians to be front-page news - especially since the same World Court ruled three months ago that a “plausible” case had been made that Israel was committing genocidal acts in Gaza.
And yet, like so many other Israeli atrocities, this one barely caused a ripple in the news cycle.
Months ago, the establishment British media largely lost interest in reporting on the continuing slaughter in Gaza. The contrast with the media’s early coverage of Ukraine has been stark. The discovery of a mass grave containing some 100 bodies in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha - blamed on Russian troops - caused international outrage.
Israel-Palestine war: How a slogan became bigger news than the murder of babies in Gaza
Bucha quickly became a byword for Russian savagery, and the discovery sustained months of calls for Russian leaders to be tried for genocide.
The general indifference of British media outlets to the mass graves found in Gaza is hugely convenient for Britain’s two main political parties.
The UK has avoided pushing for a ceasefire to end Israel’s bloodletting in Gaza. It refuses to stop selling Israel weapons and components that have helped in the killing of Palestinians - and potentially aid workers too.
On Israel’s say-so, Britain has cut funding to Unrwa, the UN aid agency best placed to stop a famine Israel is wilfully inducing in the enclave by blocking aid. And a British abstention helped foil a vote in the United Nations Security Council this month to recognise Palestine as a state, something 140 other nations have already done.
The Labour Party has offered only muted opposition.
Bipartisan support in the UK for Israel’s plausible genocide has provoked a groundswell of public anger, including regular protests in London that attract hundreds of thousands of marchers.
Pro-Israel hoax
Once again, however, the British media has seemed far less interested in reporting Israeli atrocities than in imputing malign motivations to large sections of the British public incensed by what is happening in Gaza.
It was quite extraordinary that the discovery of mass graves in the enclave was almost completely drowned out by an all-too-obvious hoax pulled by an Israel lobbyist.
Gideon Falter, chief executive of the Campaign Against Antisemitism, has been trying to shut down the peaceful London marches calling for an end to the butchering of men, women and children in Gaza since Israel began its military assault more than six months ago.
In Falter’s words, the hundreds of thousands of people who turn out regularly to call for a ceasefire - including a large bloc of Jews - are “lawless mobs” posing a direct threat to Jews like himself.
He has found powerful allies in the government. Home Secretary James Cleverly has said the march organisers have “real evil intent”, while his predecessor Suella Braverman labelled the protests calling for a ceasefire as “hate marches”.
Both have put pressure on the police to ban the protests for being supposedly antisemitic.
There is precisely no evidence for any of these claims. In fact, according to police figures, Glastonbury music festival-goers were nearly four times more likely to be arrested than those attending the London marches.
Which has left the continuing mass marches a major embarrassment to both the UK government and the opposition Labour Party by highlighting their continuing complicity in what has become - with revelations like the discovery of mass graves - ever more clearly a genocide.
‘Crossing the street’
That is the proper context for understanding Falter’s latest intervention.
As the Metropolitan police are only too aware, Falter’s group, along with other pro-Israel activists, have every incentive to engineer a provocation to add to the already considerable pressure on the police to ban the London marches and further curtail a fundamental civil liberty: the right to protest.
A video on social media shows Falter being confronted by police in a previous incident in which he tried to drive a large van with pro-Israel messages down the march route.
But his breakthrough came this month when, accompanied by an Israeli-trained security detail and a film crew, he tried repeatedly to break through a police line along the route and walk against the flow of the march. Responsible for maintaining public order at large protests, Met officers stopped him.
A video on social media shows Falter being confronted by police in a previous incident in which he tried to drive a large van with pro-Israel messages down the march route
There are well-known rules imposed by the police surrounding large protests on highly charged ideological issues like this one.
The marchers are not allowed to stray from the route determined by the police, and opponents - whether Israel apologists like Falter or Islamophobic white nationalists - are not allowed to approach and antagonise the marchers. The job of the police is to keep the sides apart.
Blocked by officers, Falter had his script ready. He simply insisted on his right to “cross the street” as a Jew going about his business.
Given the way the public discourse about Israel and antisemitism has been malevolently manipulated by the British establishment over the past eight years - after the long-time Palestinian solidarity activist Jeremy Corbyn was elected Labour leader - Falter could not lose in this encounter.
If the police arrested him, he would have filmed evidence that he was being victimised as a Jew by an antisemitic police force.
If they refused to let him “cross the street”, he would have filmed proof that the march was indeed filled with Jew haters posing a threat to his safety.
And if the police failed in their duties and let him and his retinue walk against the flow of the packed protest, he - like anyone attempting to do this - would at the very least be jostled. Based on the established credulity of the establishment media in covering antisemitism, Falter was presumably confident that this could be spun as a hate crime against him.
Ugly politics
The police clearly seemed to understand Falter’s game plan. They appeared extremely reluctant to arrest him, even though a former chief superintendent, Dal Babu, observed that, in trying to push past them, Falter could have been charged with “assault on a police officer and breach of the peace”.
Instead, the officers patiently argued for at least a quarter of an hour with Falter, pointing out that he could bypass the march using a different route.
But in this lengthy, testy encounter, the Campaign Against Antisemitism boss finally got what he wanted. One officer made a slip-up, suggesting that the problem was that the skullcap-wearing Falter was “openly Jewish”.
A man walks past pro-Palestinian murals on the International Wall in support of Gaza in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on 9 March 2024 (Reuters)
As noted, lots of Jews attend the march and do so under banners declaring that they are Jews. Despite being “openly Jewish”, all say they are warmly welcomed by other demonstrators.
The officer’s mistake was understandable. Israel apologists and the British establishment spent years manipulating the public discourse to conflate Israel, the political nationalist ideology of Zionism and Jewishness in a blatant ploy to vilify supporters of Corbyn, the anti-racist former Labour leader, as antisemites.
The problem wasn’t that Falter is 'openly Jewish', it was that he is a vocal, openly Zionist supporter of Israel, one who makes excuses for its genocide
The problem wasn’t that Falter is “openly Jewish”, it was that he is a vocal, openly Zionist supporter of Israel, one who makes excuses for its genocide and vilifies those who are opposed to the bloodletting. It is not his ethnicity or religion that are a provocation, it is his ugly politics.
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But with the officer’s comment in the can, Falter released a heavily edited version of his confrontation with the police to an establishment media only too willing - at least, initially - to swallow two completely implausible ideas Falter was peddling.
First, that the police officer’s comment was proof that the Met is institutionally racist against Jews and that is why it has allowed the anti-genocide marches to go ahead. Falter called for the head of the Met, Sir Mark Rowley, to be sacked.
And second, and more importantly, that the officer’s comment was proof that the marches are indeed “hate marches” consisting of - as he declared to a BBC interviewer - “racists, extremists and terrorist sympathisers”.
Accusations of ‘fakery’
It may all have been fake news but it fitted an agenda the media has been promoting for years: that anything more than the lightest-touch criticism of Israel is evidence of antisemitism.
The political and media class have been increasingly struggling to credibly sustain that idea in the face of Israel committing a genocide - but Falter’s video served briefly as a shot in the arm.
From one police officer’s brief, verbal slip-up, he was able to fire up a national debate that took as its premise the idea that police were colluding with “antisemitic hate marches”.
Israel's killing of aid workers is no accident. It's part of the plan to destroy Gaza
On the back foot, the Met hurriedly agreed to meet Falter and “Jewish community leaders”, seemingly to get their advice on what needed to be done about the marches.
Sunday’s BBC evening news reported that pressure was growing on the Met “to get the balance right between allowing legitimate protest and cracking down on hate speech and intimidation”.
Good Morning Britain’s hosts fawned over Falter on Monday morning, accepting uncritically that the march posed a threat to him as a Jew and expressing concern that the police were not getting that balance right.
But quite unlike the years-long accusations of fake antisemitism whipped up by Falter and others to oust Corbyn, one that was enthusiastically amplified by the state-corporate media, the Met had powerful allies inside the establishment that pushed back.
Before Falter’s hoax could properly take hold, Sky released a much longer video of his confrontation with the police. It showed that they had blocked his way after identifying him as a provocateur. Police can be heard accusing him of being “disingenuous” and telling him to stop “running into protesters”.
Former police officers, including Babu, were invited on TV to offer a counter-narrative that cast Falter in a far less sympathetic light.
By Tuesday, the Met chief Rowley was feeling confident enough to go on the attack, praising the officer at the centre of the row and accusing pro-Israel activists of using “fakery” to undermine the Met.
Favourite tactic
But even wounded, Falter emerged decisively as the victor.
No one is talking - as they should be - about why groups like the Campaign Against Antisemitism, which regularly and so visibly meddle deeply in British politics in the interests of a foreign power, Israel, are treated as charities.
Instead, Falter has given the political and media class more ammunition to argue that the marches need to be banned, and has put police decision-making under yet more scrutiny.
Whatever bullishness Rowley exhibited in public, his battles behind the scenes against a government keen to silence the marches will have been made far more complicated.
But, more importantly, Falter has played an invaluable role in bolstering Israel’s favourite tactic. He has deflected attention in the UK away from its war crimes - including the mass graves in Khan Younis - to squabbles entirely divorced from reality about whether Jews are safe from the anti-war movement.
Establishment media have once again seized on any pretext available to them to focus on a twig rather than the forest
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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 called in to make arrests of students and faculty.
In both cases, the real 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 once again seized on any pretext available to them to focus on a twig rather than the forest.
Truth obscured
The pattern is hard to miss: the British establishment, including the government and the BBC, are working hand in hand to help Israel and its genocide apologists win the public relations battle.
Only briefly, when the honour of the police - the establishment’s fist - got a bloodied nose, was there a degree of pushback.
Take, for example, the day in January when the World Court ruled there was a “plausible” case made by South Africa’s lawyers that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. That same day Israel successfully sabotaged the devastating news with a scoop of its own.
It alleged that some 12 Unrwa staff members it had seized in Gaza - out of a total of 13,000 in the enclave on the agency’s payroll - had confessed to taking part in Hamas’ attack on 7 October, in which some 1,150 Israelis were killed.
How Britain dresses up crimes in Israel as 'charitable acts'
Israel demanded western states immediately cut all funding to Unrwa. It has been Israel’s long-term goal to eliminate the refugee agency and permanently erase the rights of Palestinians to return to homes their families were expelled in 1948 from what is now Israel.
Most western capitals, including the UK, dutifully complied, even though the decision was certain to plunge Gaza even deeper into a famine Israel has been engineering as part of its genocidal policies.
But the announcement’s timing was important too. Western media focused their coverage on a story about Unrwa that should have been marginal, even were it true.
The World Court’s finding that Israel was plausibly committing genocide was far more significant. Nonetheless, reporting on the ruling - especially the fact that the court suspected Israel was carrying out genocidal acts - was entirely overshadowed by the claims against Unrwa.
This week, months on, an independent review commissioned by the UN and led by the former French foreign minister, Catherine Colonna, found that Israel has still failed to produce any evidence to support its allegations against Unrwa.
But just as with Falter’s hoax, the goal of such accusations by Israel is never to expose the truth. The aim is to distract from the truth.
The same can be said of Israel’s still unsubstantiated claims of unprecedented savagery committed by Hamas on 7 October, from beheading babies to carrying out systematic mass rape.
None of these allegations, which have been widely regurgitated by the establishment western media, have ever been backed up with evidence. Whenever testimonies have been scrutinised, they have unravelled.
But all these claims have served a purpose. They keep western publics 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.
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LE GRAND CHIRURGIEN ORTHOPÉDIQUE ADNAN AL-BIRSH TORTURÉ À MORT PAR ISRAËL
Terrible news. What ugly terrorists those izraelis are. They must be shunned by the world. Western governments have completely lost their moral compass and we shall all suffer for it. Israel and Gaza should be the ONLY issue at the forthcoming elections.
We just learned of the death in custody of Pr. Adnan Al-Birsh, head of the orthopedic surgery service at Shifa Hospital, who was abducted by Israel at al-Amal hospital and tortured to death in one of the Israeli interrogation centers.
Despite the pressure, Pr Al-Birsh persisted to treat the wounded and went to practice at Al-Amal Hospital after the evacuation and killings at Shifa Hospital.
A few weeks later, Israeli forces advanced to Al-Amal hospital and arrested most of the doctors and medical staff, including Pr Al-Birsh.
He was a prominent surgeon on the Gaza Strip and had been constantly mobilized with the wounded during the Israeli massacres in Gaza for the past two decades.
Silence kills, let's react!
Rally this Saturday at the Fontaine des Innocents in Paris, in solidarity with Gaza and with the students currently occupying universities in many countries, including France
If you put a letter D in front of the word evil – Devil – you will instantly see where evil comes from. If you put another O in the word God – good – you will see where good comes from.
Lucifer now known here on Earth as Satan (the Opposer) and The Devil (Liar/Slanderer – John 8:35) has deceived and confused everyone using his organized religions, that he has deceived people into believing belong to God, when the opposite is the truth, that is that they belong to Lucifer (Revelation 12:9).
