IF HAMAS HID IN ISRAEL WOULD CIVILIANS BE BOMBED?

If you want to understand how Palestinians are being dehumanised, have a listen to this. A caller on UK talk radio station LBC complains Israel’s bombing of Gaza is not murder. He is then asked if Tel Aviv would pursue the same brutal tactics if Hamas hid in an Israeli hospital. The caller finally concedes Israel wouldn’t because it values more the lives of its own citizens.

This stark admission is a result of years of propaganda. Dehumanising Palestinians has paved the way for their oppression and destruction. At the onset of this latest escalation, an Israeli military official referred to them as ‘animals’. The Prime Minister, Netanyahu, evoked a Biblical analogy, likening Palestinians to Amelekites, who Israel was ordered to destroy. An Israeli website tracking deaths has labelled killed Palestinians ‘terrorists’. In recent days, Israeli plans to annex Gaza and evict Palestinians to the Sinai desert in Egypt were exposed. This after Netanyahu showed a map to the UN where Palestine had been completely erased - just before the Hamas attack on October 7th.

The result of all this? People ringing radio stations and happily calling the massacre in the Gaza Strip ‘collateral damage.’