As the official death toll in Gaza passes more than 42,400, the true number may be impossible to know until Israel’s war is over. But medical workers who witnessed the carnage in Gaza’s hospitals are speaking out. We speak with Dr. Feroze Sidhwa about his op-ed in The New York Times that features harrowing stories from dozens of healthcare workers and CT scans of children shot in the head or the left side of the chest.
The Times called the corresponding images of the patients too graphic to publish. “I personally wish that Americans could see more of what it looks like when a child is shot in the head, when a child is flayed open by bombs,” says Sidhwa. “I think it would make us think a little bit more about what we do in the world.”
We also speak with Palestinian nurse Rajaa Musleh, who worked at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City. “I will never forget the dogs were eating the dead body inside Shifa Hospital at the front of the emergency department.
This will be stuck on my mind for my whole life,” says Musleh. “My message for the whole world: We are human beings. We are not numbers. We have the right to receive healthcare inside Gaza.”
The Times called the corresponding images of the patients too graphic to publish. “I personally wish that Americans could see more of what it looks like when a child is shot in the head, when a child is flayed open by bombs,” says Sidhwa. “I think it would make us think a little bit more about what we do in the world.”
“democracy dies in darkness”, yet there is seemingly no journalists with any integrity, capable of showing the world the reality of the war machine. “Out of sight, out of mind” enables war and genocide.
Maybe because the IDF has a cute little habit of straight up murdering journalists
Israel was responsible for all this a few months ago
Now the whole world is because we’re all just standing aside, watching all of it happen and do absolutely nothing … we are all complicit now.
Fuck that, none of us can do anything to stop it. Blame the actual people doing it.
We can help protest to change the current administration’s policies and be part of the resistance, whether small or large, money or time, everything helps. Collective action is the best tool we have, even if we have little power individually.
https://uscpr.org/take-action/
History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it.
- “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Martin Luther King, Jr. 1963
The unfortunate truth is protesting will do nothing. Just last year the massive college campus protests were brushed off as “kids who haven’t grown up yet” by Democrats.
It’s a pretty hot take but imo the only path forward in the US is a regime change if you catch my drift. At the end of the day you won’t get a group of politicians to all agree to light their paycheck on fire. (AIPAC)
I don’t really disagree, except for that protesting does nothing. America is a dying empire, a regime change is bound to happen eventually in some way.
Protesting has moved the needle on public sentiment and expanded the influence of the BDS movement.
People are so used to being expected to take personal responsibility for large scale crimes they have zero chance of impacting individually, like recycling or climate change, it’s their default setting now just like their owners want it.
But you’ll never hear these self flagellates take personal responsibility for Myanmar, Sudan, Iraq, Syria, China, or the Central African Republic because they only see Palestine in the news. They don’t actually care about human suffering, only insofar as it is used to make them uncomfortable.
People absolutely should take responsibility for recycling and climate change.
We should definitely act in meaningful ways but we are not in any way responsible for the actions of others.
You do if you give them the bombs.
Only insofar as their choices in elected officials and their demand (or lack thereof) of actions of those to regulate the industries that actually cause pollution and climate change.
Biden’s the one giving out the bombs.
Never before in human history have such heinous war crimes been so thoroughly documented.
And the world stands by and does nothing.
Tbf, anyone who tried would be liberated back into the stone ages. They’d be liberated so hard, their great-grandchildren will still be hurting from it.
Ireland and South Africa have already done great work, and nobody is going to invade them
Probably a quarter of the countries at the UN have done something. Hell, like 20 countries at the UN don’t even recognize Israel as a State
The problem is that the US blocks everything with veto power. This is why the ICJ case for genocide is so important; the US can’t veto in the ICJ, and even the judges at the ICJ are independent. They don’t represent the US
Of course, where else would you shoot someone after you’ve already captured them and made sure they weren’t a threat? Honestly it’s almost wholesome that they’re offering the children a clean death, I’m sure many of the Israeli soldiers would prefer to do much worse. The war crimes they’ve gleefully filmed themselves committing have shown me that the IDF is made entirely of fucking animals.
Neoptism is the reason for this. Even if a politician wanted to end this, nobody can say so upfront and outright. All of the people installed that have ties to Israel will not allow it to happen. Religions and groups the world over pull this shit, from Scientologists, to Christians, to Judaists. Democrats and Republicans literally fight over who can suck Israel’s cock the hardest. And now, Israel is committing genocide - and it’s not that nobody cares - it’s that our governments are packed with so many people who have a direct benefit in it happening that nobody can speak up without being silenced.
It’s not even surprising that Israel is doing this, they’ve been saying they wanted to for decades now.
At a certain point, each and every one of those politicians and likely their families too, unfortunately for all of them, are going to be swallowed whole by the collective response.
Here’s hoping that if any of them make it to old age they get tried like the nazi-esque war criminals that they are.
Kissinger died free.
The world sucks.
I think you mean Cronyism, which unlike Nepotism isn’t limited to family.
Looking at my own country, which has a massive culture of Cronyism, some years ago I concluded that Corruption is really just Cronyism in exchange for money hence why it’s so easy for it to develop in countries with a culture of friends using the power and money entrusted to them by others to help their friends.
It seems to me this also applies to the US were “campaign contributions” facilitate the buying of active politicians in a way which is not legally treated as Corruption, just things like the “speech circuit”, non-executive board memberships, funding of foundations and gold-plated “consultancy” are used to reward “friendly” policians after they retire from Politics in ways that completely obscure any Qui Pro Quo involved hence do get treated as Corruption even when they most definitelly are that (i.e. when a politician has explicitly agreed to use their power in a specific way when given a overt promise of such a reward at a later stage).
Want to see who politicians benefit, start by looking at whose parties they go to and which people do they socialize with.
Neoptism isn’t limited to family. Nepotism is defined as: the practice among those with power or influence of favoring relatives, friends, or associates, especially by giving them jobs.
You’re right.
I checked the dictionary definitions and the words have indeed a somewhat different meaning than I thought, including in the detail that Nepotism is familiy and friends whilst Cronyism is only friends.
So thanks for that correction!
This is crazy. But its especially crazy that they’re doing child headshots from sniper drones.
I repeat “Sniper Drones”. Let that sink in.
Zios gotta bomb more hospitals so this evidence doesn’t get out.
(I’m being sarcastic ofc but they’re not.)
Quite messed up of Israel.
It’s fucked up actually, backed by the US, state of freedom.
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