Try Not to Become Another Prop-War Casualty
A CRITICAL UPDATE RE-POST FROM THE GOOD SHEPHERD COLLECTIVE
Good Shepherd Collective Newsletter
A critical update
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As the Israeli propaganda machine continues to spread lies and misinformation, we are working to counter it with cold hard facts - like the mass destruction of homes and the killing of children as a result of Israel's bombing campaign.
The Propaganda War
Some basic facts
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State-manufactured propaganda is a real thing. And right now, we are witnessing a relatively unsophisticated campaign unfold online with individuals proliferating this false information. Frankly, it’s bewildering and frightening that prominent organizations and well-known online personalities have been sharing Israeli state-manufactured propaganda. It’s critical that folks not only work to stop the spread of this misinformation but also hold folks accountable for sharing and taking part in the propaganda campaign. Here are just a few of the lies that have been being spread online related to the recent events by the larger Zionist movement and ill-informed individuals.
German girl who was allegedly killed is, in fact, alive.
The Daily Mail, the Telegraph, and the whole circus of Zionist outlets falsely reported that Hamas had killed Shani Louk. But in reality, she is alive in a hospital, according to her parents.
Babies beheaded!?
Even the Israeli military has been quoted on public record, stating to Anadolu News that they have no information that can confirm that anybody has beheaded babies. However, what is logged and reported in detail are the 260 children and 230 women the Israeli military has killed during the bombings of residential neighborhoods so far.
Several women were raped.
No mainstream Israeli media has confirmed this. The only source of evidence supporting this claim was an obscure article with an unnamed source. News outlets are now retracting those statements or adding disclaimers, like the Los Angles Times.
As we move forward, not just over the next few weeks but in the long pursuit of justice, it’s important that we think critically and not share information haphazardly. We see a lot of talks trying to take this moment to be the first to release new information, to be in-the-know, and as a result, it’s harming communities that are in real need of support and directly contributing to the genocidal attack on Gazans. If you see these false reports circulating, even if it will feel awkward, you have to confront the people and ask them to retract the misinformation. It is a very small but meaningful act of solidarity.
In solidarity,
Cody O'Rourke
Cody O'Rourke
Good Shepherd Collective
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War Porn, Slum Tourism, Oh Vaunted Westerners yammering about "them."
Edward Bernays, Freud, Milgram, all of those psycho psychos, engineering consent? Coups? Hate? Self-flaggelation? Self-harm?
Goebbels and Mossad and Unit 8200 and thousands of outfits manipulating nano-second by nano-second see, speak, hear evil and see, speak, hear NO evil, whenever it fits Fortune 5,000 CEOs and the Inverted Totalitarians.
Reality?
We remembered all the miseries, all the injustices, our people and the conditions they lived, the coldness with which world opinion looks at our cause, and so we felt that we will not permit them to crush us. We will defend ourselves and our revolution by every way and every means.
George Habash (1926-2008)
A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle, and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.
Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)
https://www.ebb-magazine.com/essays/the-palestinians-inalienable-right-to-resist
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In June 1970, after the Western-backed regime in Jordan had shelled Palestinian refugee camps in the country, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), under the leadership of its Secretary General, George Habash, took a group of nationals from the USA, West Germany and Britain – Israel’s primary sponsors – hostage at two hotels in the capital, Amman.
In return for their safe release, the PFLP demanded that ‘all shelling of the camps be ended and all demands of the Palestinian resistance movement met’. Shortly before the hostages were all safely released a few days later on June 12th 1970, Habash addressed them in person at the Jordan Intercontinental Hotel in Amman and thoughtfully explained the group’s actions from a Palestinian revolutionary perspective.
Habash’s words – published in full below – should be listened to very carefully, especially by those who sympathise with the Palestinian cause but waver in their solidarity when the Palestinians dare to fight back. The unprecedented armed resistance launched by the united factions in Gaza recently – of which the PFLP is one – must be understood in the context that Habash so eloquently describes:
For 22 years our people have been waiting in order to restore their rights, but nothing happened… After 22 years of injustice, inhumanity, living in camps with nobody caring for us, we feel that we have the very full right to protect our revolution. We have all the right to protect our revolution…
https://libya360.wordpress.com/2023/10/10/george-habash-on-morality-and-the-palestinian-revolution-our-code-of-morals-is-our-revolution/
Thank you to Cindy, for being a voice of reason, reprinting and amplifying this.
When I heard the Rape allegations - I immediately smelled a rat. Just as false rape allegations have been manufactured and used against Russia, by the CIA's Ukrainian Ministry of Truth ... Who can forget the completely fabricated CIA/MI-6 LIE - that Qaddafi had been arming his troops with Viagra - as part of a completely non-existent campaign of mass rapes - used to justify the overthrow of the most stable and successful Government on the African Continent. If Saddam Hussein actually had "Rape Rooms" installed in some Iraqi prison - you can bet that they were built by American contractors, after the CIA had suggested that they be installed.
I mean... You're.carrying a 50 lbs load of guns and ammo and explosives. You're actively engaging in armed resistance, and taking hostages... But who doesn't have time for some rape... It made 0 sense to me...Except as propaganda. As Mark Crispin Miller points out - that's ALWAYS highly emotionally charged material, and melodrama - frequently playing upon-, and amplifying- known stereotypes.
And if your plan involves the genocide and expulsion of 2.4 Million people...- you're going to need to dehumanize them, and call them all "animals". How better to sell that narrative - than accusations of Rape and Child Beheadings, in an era of #MeToo and ISIS (at least one of which, the Mossad has had a hand in creating and managing).