Alissa Azar

2024-10-22 17:53:47

In 2008, Israeli colonel Gabriel Siboni said that militancy coming from Lebanon, Syria and Gaza should be met with "disproportionate strikes" and that the goal should be to inflict lasting damage, no matter the civilian consequences, as a future deterrent, and that targeting rocket launchers and the source for other attacks are a secondary priority. Also in 2008, IOF commander Gadi Eisenkot commented on these regions saying “from our perspective, these are military bases”

They've called all Arabs animals, expressed how they view the entire population in these countries as terrorists, and view the countries themselves as military bases with zero regard for civilian lives. How can they care about civilian lives when they don’t even see us as human? They have been burning people alive in hospitals still tethered to their IV’s, burying people alive, bombing countless hospitals, attacking orphanages and refugee camps. They've completely leveled countless residential buildings. Mosques. Churches. Schools. Muslim neighborhoods. Christian villages. They've targeted children, medics, firefighters, people distributing food and aid, journalists, peace keepers. They target escape routes for forcibly displaced people so people are trapped with nowhere to go. Their evil has no mercy, and evidently no limits.

Israel continues to insist that they’re only targeting Hamas and Hezb targets while also making their plans for a greater Israel even more obvious than a decade or two ago. They’re openly stating what their plans and intentions are, they are often honest and upfront about their colonization and ethnic cleansing, but that doesn’t matter. The Dahiyeh Doctrine? All of Lebanon is being attacked. No demographic is spared. Ethnicity, religion, party affiliation? It doesn’t matter. We saw this play out first in Palestine and now the same thing in Lebanon.

Meanwhile western media is still reporting that it’s only (“only”) southern Lebanon being attacked to minimize Israel’s destruction and murder. They call hospitals with zero party affiliations “hezbollah hospitals” or “Hamas hospitals” to justify them being bombed, regardless of the fact that it’s still inhumane to bomb a hospital- no matter its religious or political affiliations. They’re still demonizing Arabs to justify genocide. They’re still underreporting massacres and deaths. There’s still no mention of the manufactured starvation, lack of aid, clean water, medical supplies. Syria is still getting bombed in the shadows as if nothing is even happening.

At this point there is no reality in which those in power don't see it for what it is. There is no reality in which the media doesn’t see and know the truth. Every single one of these massacres has been live streamed for the world to see. There are no excuses. Just a lot of people with blood on their hands. There will come a day when each and every one of them will have to answer for this and I hope I’m alive to see it. May each and every one of them forever be haunted by each persons screams as their bodies were buried under rubble.