Anna Mack

Aid workers in Gaza are trying to help the population survive but warn a generation - if they survive - will battle the effects of malnutrition for the rest of their lives. Slow starvation continues, with limits placed even on warm clothes entering Gaza. They need food, water, clothing, medicines, wheelchairs, prosthetic limbs. They need the killing to stop. They need everything that was taken away to be restored - schools, universities, housing, jobs. Instead the international community looks on.

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Still thinking about this beautiful girl. Holding back her tears, trying to be strong as she watches her family’s home be bulldozed to the ground. The weight of the whole world on her shoulders. I look at her and I see my babygirl. My babygirl who just turned 14, almost a woman but forever my baby. There’s NOTHING I wouldn’t do for her. NOTHING I wouldn’t do to avenge her heartache. NOTHING I wouldn’t do to right a wrong like this. Every fiber of my being screaming DON’T TREAD ON ME when I watch this video. Long live the Resistance.

This is what we see when we wake up every morning in Gaza; everything is rubble and destruction. Israel has made the city uninhabitable.

Israel’s general election last week unmasked beyond question the West’s much-cherished fiction of Israel as a “Jewish and democratic state”. That Israel’s democratic pretensions are taken seriously should in itself be astounding. For decades Israel has been given a free pass – revered even – as the “only democracy in the Middle East”. Israel’s birth as a so-called “Jewish” state in 1948 was only possible because its military expelled 80 percent of the native population, some 750,000 Palestinians, from their homes to areas outside Israel’s new borders – in what amounted to one of the largest acts of electoral gerrymandering in history. Israel was created as a “Jewish” state, with an overwhelming Jewish majority, through an act of mass ethnic cleansing. Once Israel’s leaders had secured a rock-solid Jewish majority – after rigging their democracy – only then did they consider giving the surviving Palestinian population the right to vote, and call them “citizens”. That was the key factor differentiating Israel from an earlier apartheid state, South Africa. South Africa’s white leaders dared not give the black population the vote precisely because it comprised a majority. In a one-person, one-vote system, black parties would have had more seats than white parties. Giving the black majority the vote would have been suicidal for the apartheid project. But in the apartheid state of Israel, the Palestinian minority presented no such electoral threat. In any given election, the number of seats gained by the political parties representing the Palestinian minority in parliament would always be vastly outnumbered by the legislators representing the Jewish majority. That demographic imbalance was set in stone through legislation: the 1950 Law of Return. It gave every Jew in the world the right to gain instant citizenship in Israel while at the same time stripping every Palestinian expelled by Israel – and all their descendants – of any right to ever return home. And as a bonus, giving the Palestinian minority the vote served as a propaganda coup. Unlike the old South Africa, Israel’s apartheid character could be better hidden from outsiders, especially given that western establishments were so ready to conceal what their key militarised client state in the oil-rich Middle East was really up to. This is an extract from my latest article Israel’s election shows its democracy is a sham, but the West can’t stop buying the lie. Find a link to read the rest in the reply post ⬇️

I make a cameo in this important film about the impact of Gender Ideology in Australia. I’ll be attending the premiere but if you can’t make it you can watch it live-streamed. See the website for details..