War Breaks Out In The Middle East

An evergreen headline, because the war basically never ends.

If you google for “Israel killed journalist” it doesn’t know if you want contemporary results, or ones for the infamous incident where unpunished Israel snipers killed a journalist last year.

The situation isn’t complicated. There’s a repressed population in Gaza, and they recently attacked Israel using guerrilla tactics used against the Russian oppressor in Ukraine. As well they took many hostages who were Israeli civilians. Israel in response threatened the Palestinians with genocide, the PM pledging to turn their civilian buildings into “islands of ruin”. Canada’s PM expressed full support for the Israeli PM’s call for genocide, possibly making Trudeau an accomplice if it’s ever prosecuted as a war crime.

There is nowhere for Palestinians to flee to; their border is controlled by the Israeli PM who threatened them to leave. Many people on both sides of the conflict have died already, and an end to the bloodshed won’t come from bombings and rocket attacks from either position.

Keir Starmer supports cutting off water and power from Gaza, while saying he supports actions within international law.

That makes no sense. Collective punishment is illegal: it’s a war crime. That’s what Starmer backs.

In a functioning democracy, this would be a major scandal. https://t.co/vOdd9j7Pjj

— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) October 11, 2023

Appalled by how rich countries like Canada, the US and those of the EU are reverting to simple-minded, one-sided Israel-right-or-wrong-ism.

The dead and the rubble piling up in Gaza are the bitter fruit of this cynical, simple-minded worldview. 3/8

— Avi Lewis (@avilewis) October 11, 2023

If you'd like to see how absolutely nothing has changed in the conversation around Israel & Palestine despite decades of violence, here's Jon Stewart doing a bit that could literally air today without a single change. pic.twitter.com/D0yrtaAsac

— Cooper (@Cooperstreaming) October 11, 2023

Evergreen Jon Stewart Daily Show sketch from more than a decade ago