Beginnings of a change????

I once had almost every news channel on satellite, but then, in February 2022, the EU demanded that all EU-based satellites remove the Russian news channels. Still, I could get Qatar, Iran, and the PRC. Until 12 December 2022, when the EU denounced all non-EU/US news and said all must be banned.

I get a few news channels now, the ones fully approved by the government where I live, the government that provides all telephone and TV services. So, for reasons that escape me, I get BBC, CNN, Euronews, I24, and France24 for free (plus the local news channel, which is only local news). Nothing from Qatar or Iran, and only the PRC Arabic channel (I get all the other channels in Arabic, but I only understand English, so I'd say I don't get PRC, and that's almost but not quite true).

The biggest change is CNN. Last week, they had a report from Ghaza, their first. Before, all their news was the official Israel/US news from the US/Israeli spokespersons: every Palestinian is a rabid Antisemite who wants to kill every Jew in Palestine, so Israel is strictly acting in self-defence, and every civilian death was because a Hamas military unit held some civilian human shields captive as they tried their best to kill Jews, and when the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) returned fire, all those civilian deaths were entirely the fault of Hamas.

But then CNN was granted access to the UAE Field Hospital in Ghaza for the very first time, their first time in the Ghaza since 7 October, and CNN saw nothing but injured children (the UAE prioritises children). The UAE Field Hospital only has about 100 beds, while every other hospital in the Ghaza has been bombed. In many hospitals, all the staff were arrested as agents supporting the Hamas Antisemites in their goal of killing Jews. Israel say that every hospital in the Ghaza, except the UAE Field Hospital, is not a hospital but a Hamas military base disguised as a hospital, so a legitimate military target, and the US say they have verified that the Israeli statement is strictly factual.

CNN now say that the UAE Field Hospital is treating lots of children with war wounds, and is getting more children from other hospitals that are overcrowded, badly damaged, and without any medical supplies. The CNN reporter had a hard time blaming all the children, badly injured by Israeli bombs supplied by the US, on Hamas.

I was shocked, since before last week CNN just parroted the official US/Israeli line.

Driving through Ghaza to and from the hospital, CNN saw the massive damage: almost every building in the Ghaza destroyed, totally unsuitable for anyone to live in. The CNN reporter sounded totally shocked by what she saw, and she no longer seems to accept the official Israeli/US version.

I can also get Fox if I pay for it, and Fox remains with the official line: Hamas are all terrorist Antisemitic Nazis who intend to kill every Jew in Palestine, the line repeated by both Israel and the US; 7 October was a day when Hamas brutally murdered 1,200 innocent Jews who posed no threat, raping and murdering many women and children, beheading many children and burning many children in the ovens in their homes while their parents had to listen to them scream.

Of course, the Grayzone have ample evidence that the official US/Israeli version is completely false.

CNN have now stopped reiterating the official US/Israeli version. They haven't quite gone as far as to broadcast the Grayzone version, but at least they admit that Israel are bombing civilians and killing many children, and have destroyed just about every home in Ghaza leaving the Philistines in the Ghaza with nowhere to live. At least it's a start.

Are Hamas Nazi Antisemites?

The Israeli government keep telling us that they were at peace with Hamas. That the Jews came to Israel in peace, but were viciously attacked by the Arabs. Again and again, Israel offered the Arabs peace, and again and again, the Arabs attacked.

And now Hamas are determined to kill every last Jew in Palestine for starters, and, having killed every Jew in Palestine, they'll go after the Jews in neighbouring countries. And then they'll try to kill every last Jew in the world. And the Jews have never done anything to Hamas, Hamas are just rabid Antisemites who want to kill every Jew in the world.

Good story, strongly supported by the US, but not accepted anywhere except the US and Israel.

The Bible tells us the ancestors of the Jews were in Ur when G_d ordered them to go to Palestine, which was full of Philistines. The first letter of the Hebrew word was transliterated as φ (Phi) by the Greeks and P by the Romans. So the Hebrew word can be transliterated as Philistine or Palestine (Hebrew doesn't write the vowels). In the book of Samuel, G_d condemned Saul for killing thousands of Philistines, while David was praised for killing tens of thousands. So the land belonged to the Philistines before G_d gave it to the Jews.

In the New Testament, a Jewish boy leaves home, squanders all his money, and has to take a job at a piggery. Since no Jew would ever run a piggery, the owner must have been a goyim. So Palestine in the New Testament had a lot of Jews and a lot of goyim.

After 7 October 2023, a lot of the Jews in Israel were convinced that they need a land that has no goyim at all. So their goal is to get rid of all the Philistines, one way or another. If some other nations would take them all, all the women and children and elderly men could leave. If not, they all must be killed: most Israelis believe that all the Ghazans want to kill every Jew in Israel, so it is self defence, it is the only way for the Jews to stay alive.

The US say they have verified that everything the Israeli government say is true: the Ghaza have no hospitals, no schools, no churches, no mosques, all are Hamas military facilities disguised as hospitals, schools, churches, and mosques, so all are legitimate military targets. It is just self defence to bomb all the homes, all the refugee camps, all these people want to kill every Jew, so what else can Israel do?

Of course, only the US and Israel identify all the Philistines as Nazi Antisemites determined to exterminate all the Jews in Israel/the world, leaving all the Jews in mortal danger until they remove every last Philistine from Israel/Palestine. Most other countries think the Philistines would be happy to live in peace with the Jews if everyone had equal rights.

Israel kept Ghaza surrounded by a high wall and three battalions of Israeli troops. Food was limited. Fishing was limited. Water was limited. There was barely enough to keep the 2 million Ghazans alive. So Hamas tried to kidnap some Israelis to get Israel to make some concessions.

Israel ordered the battalions guarding Ghaza to stand down. Israel were warned by some Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) scouts that Hamas were coming. Israel ignored the warning for about an hour.

Then the IOF arrived and applied the Hannibal Principle: no Israelis should ever allow themselves to be taken hostage, they must fight to the death. So the IOF shot at hostage takers and hostages. They shot Hellfire missiles at villas and compounds where they knew Hamas were inside, killing Hamas and their hostages. Then the IOF reported that Hamas had burned many Israelis to death, roasted babies in ovens while their parents heard them screaming, when it was IOF Hellfire missiles that burned those babies.

And then, for two months, Israel attacked Ghaza, first bombing, then sending in the IOF ground forces to find and kill all members of Hamas. The ground attack did not go as well as hoped. The Hamas spokesperson who calls himself Abu Obeida and who may be seen on Rumble (he's banned by Alphabet and Meta) reports hundreds of IOF tanks destroyed. So Israel called for a week's ceasefire if Hamas would release hostages.

The families of the hostages had been demanding that the government negotiate for the hostages, but this is not a priority for the Israeli government. But the Israeli government demanded that Hamas release at least 10 women and children hostages a day for the ceasefire to continue, and, after a week when the IOF had reviewed tactics and strategy and were ready to resume attacking Hamas, the ceasefire ended, but at least Israel had convinced Hamas to release 100 hostages, placating the families of the released hostages.

As the IOF ran over Ghaza, three IOF hostages came out, obviously unarmed, speaking Hebrew saying, 'We are IOF hostages,' and the IOF were ordered to kill them all, since they should never have surrendered, they should have fought to the death instead of allowing Hamas to take them hostages. The Israeli government have no interest in recovering the hostages, they just want Hamas exterminated and every Philistine in the Ghaza deported to some other country, or, if no other country will take them, killed, since the official Israeli position is that all the Ghazan Philistines want to kill every Jew in Israel, so it is not possible to allow even a single Ghazan Philistine to remain in Israel.

But now Abu Obeida reports losses by the IOF, and the IOF have asked for another week's ceasefire, meaning the IOF want a week to revise tactics and strategy since their campaign against Hamas is not going as well as they'd like.

But, so far, Hamas have refused another week's ceasefire. Clearly Hamas are being unreasonable refusing the week-long ceasefire because they want nothing but war with Israel, nothing but to kill every last Jew in Israel.

So Israel will continue to kill all those baby terrorists before they can grow up to be big terrorists. What else can they do? And anyone who questions Israel is a rabid Antisemite.

Truth, what does that mean?

 Israel admit that 115 Israeli soldiers fighting in the Ghaza have been killed, and this number is in all the mainstream media. But is it real? Probably not: Israel has shown that it is not interested in rescuing any hostages, Israel has shown they believe in the Hannibal Principle: never let any hostage be taken, if there is no other way, kill the hostage and as many of the hostage takers as possible. When three Israeli hostages managed to get free, the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) killed all three, even though they were shouting, in Hebrew, that they were freed hostages.

The break 'to free hostages' seems to have been because the war was not going well, and Israel wanted a week-long ceasefire to review and revise their strategy and tactics.

One can find Abu Obeida on Rumble, showing many Israeli tanks being destroyed in Ghaza. Google searches are useless, Alphabet do not support finding Abu Obeida videos. Google can find sites that say 'Don't believe anything Abu Obeida posts!' But Rumble has some very realistic looking videos that claim they are proof that many IOF tanks have been destroyed.

And the week-long ceasefire fits with the war going badly and the IOF needing a break, and they used the break to get about 90 women and children hostages freed, but the IOF have shown that they are not interested in getting back hostages alive, but since they needed a break, why not use the break to get back as many hostages as possible without having to do much in return?

The New York Times vs The Grayzone

 The New York Times of 13 December had an editorial column by Jill Filipovic, "Confront the Evidence of Sexual Violence on Oct. 7. The Horrors of This War Are Not Either/Or."

Basically, it is taken as proven fact that the Hamas terrorists raped many women and murdered many women and children on 7 October 2023. But The Grayzone say that those 'rapes' and many of those children's deaths were all manufactured by two Israeli government offices for spreading disinformation, ZAKA and United Hatzalah. The article focuses on claims by ZAKA and provides rather convincing evidence that all are false.

However,our reliable establishment media all reiterate those crimes of Hamas are all true and Israel have no choice but to exterminate all of Hamas, and if that means Israel must kill everyone in Ghaza, they have every right to self defence.

Or we can blame other Arab countries for not accepting all the women and children in Ghaza, but we cannot blame Israel for their deaths.

What Is Really Going on in Ghaza????

We had a few brief videos of hostages being handed over to the Red Cross by armed Hamas guards, and the hostages shook hands with the Hamas guards and those hostages who spoke said they were well treated. We got another very brief video as the hostages were transferred from the Red Cross to Israeli teams. Then the hostages disappeared in Israeli hospitals, incommunicado. When they emerged, they either refused to say anything or said they had been brutalised by Hamas. It is understood that all hostages had to sign an agreement not to say anything of which the Israeli government would not approve.

So were they well treated or brutalised? No idea.

Meanwhile, Abu Obeida has videos showing Israeli tanks being blown up, and Hamas claim to have killed more than 1,000 members of the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF), while Israel say they have lost about 100 soldiers killed by the Hamas terrorists, but have killed hundreds of members of the senior Hamas leadership. So which is true? No idea.

There is a strange video distributed by Israel showing some captured Hamas militants, stripped to their underwear, forced to hand over their weapons. Many ask, 'You made them take off all their clothing but keep their guns, then, after they stripped, you made them hand over their guns????? This makes absolutely no sense.' So is the video a real video showing a group of senior Hamas terrorists captured, stripped to their underwear, then forced to hand over all their weapons, or is it all a staged video with no relation to the reality on the ground? No idea.

Israel say they had a decisive victory over Hezbollah in 2006, and would like a quick repeat to take Hezbollah completely and permanently out of action, but the US refused permission, saying they do not want the cleansing of the Ghaza to spread to a regional conflict, so, for now, Israel's hands are tied. Other versions are that Israel lost badly in 2006, and Hamas could do extensive damage if a full-scale conflict broke out, so both Israel and the US are hoping the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah will remain at a low level, a few rockets fired by Hezbollah doing little damage to Israel, a few Israeli bombing runs doing little damage to Hezbollah. So which is it? Again, no idea.

The one thing that is clear is that anyone in the US or UK who speaks out against the Israeli cleansing of Ghaza to remove all the Philistines, either by their removal to some other country or killed—Israel, the US, and UK don't really care which—is a heinous Antisemite who must be fired from any job they might have, and many who spoke out against Israel's self-defence actions in Ghaza have been removed from their jobs and all media, both mainstream and social, have been banned from carrying any such Antisemitic ideas. In the US and UK, everyone must fully support Israel's actions in the Ghaza. Or else.

The Horrendous Crimes of ????

 The MSM news I've been watching say the Hamas attack on 7 October involved rapes of just about every captured female (and some males) followed by murder of many of them, an attack that must be condemned, and all must hope flooding the tunnels with ocean water will finally give those Hamas captors the treatment they deserve. (They don't expect to get any more hostages back, the price of the women and children was far too high, and many think it should not have been paid. In any case, the ocean water should eliminate all the remaining hostages and the Hamas leadership, so no further price need be paid by Israel to get any more hostages back.)

Only The Grayzone says those rapes, those babies burned in ovens while their parents had to listen to them screaming, were all lies created by some Israeli experts in lying about Philistine atrocities. One of the Hamas 'rape victims' was a Kurdish woman raped and killed several years ago.

So whom should we believe? The Israel Occupation Force (IOF) spokespersons, as all the MSM say we must, or The Grayzone, who have a record of reliable reporting and videos that support their stories?

Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo Have an Interesting View

 In Ghaza, there are two main versions of what is happening: West and non-West.

In the Western media, Hamas are all antiSemitic terrorists who are determined to kill every last Israeli, so anyone who is not a fanatical antiSemite knows Israel must exterminate Hamas, and if that means killing every last Philistine in the Ghaza, Israel have no choice but to do so if they do not wish to have Hamas kill every last Jew in Israel. And anyone who does not fully support Israel in everything is an antiSemite who makes Adolph look like a peacenik. Fortunately, Israel are winning. If the Arabs do not want to see Israel kill every last Philistine in the Ghaza, they must agree to take the women and children, since not one Philistine can be left alive in the Ghaza or that one Philistine might annihilate all the Jews, and anyone who suggests that Israel leave even one Philistine in the Ghaza is a rabid antiSemite.

In the Eastern media, e.g., in the writings of Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo, one gets a different perspective. Not only are the Philistines acting in self defence, they are winning. Mr Baroud and Ms Rubeo suggest one follow "Abu Obeida and Abu Hamza, military spokesmen for the Al-Qassam Brigades and the Al-Quds Brigades respectively". They say  Abu Obeida and Abu Hamza "provide very careful accounts of the nature of the battle and the losses of advancing Israeli military forces in their regular, much-anticipated statements."

They write, "And, while Abu Obeida’s statements are almost always followed by well-produced videos, documenting the systematic destruction of Israeli tanks, no such documentation substantiates Israeli military claims." 

Naturally, I tried to look up Abu Obeida’s statements and found he was on Twitter, now X, but his account has been suspended for being antiSemitic. So I'm not sure where one can find Abu Obeida's postings, and, if I posted a link, I'm sure it would soon be deleted.

I heard one Saudi say, 'But we Arabs are also Semites, so how can we be antiSemitic?'

Of course, Israel say those Jews who do not fully support Israel are antiSemitic Jews, so Israel assume most Arabs are antiSemitic.

Still, the claim that Israel are winning easily in Ghaza, that they have killed 15,000 Hamas terrorists and very few, if any, innocent civilians, does seem to be rather convincingly disproven by Abu Obeida's postings (if one can find them).