Dozens Of Palestinians Massacred To Rescue Four Israeli Hostages
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Owen Jones
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🗓️ 19 June 2024
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n unspeakable war crime is being glorified by Western politicians and media outlets.
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| 0:00.0 | The last eight months have brimmed full of unspeakable and indescribable horror. |
| 0:04.8 | I say that literally as a writer, the words simply are not there to describe atrocities of this magnitude. |
| 0:10.3 | Even for those of us who have no illusions in the West's political and media elites, |
| 0:15.0 | it is this that has shocked us to our very core. |
| 0:17.4 | I mean this, of course, as well as the daily live streaming of horror, |
| 0:21.2 | the mass slaughter of tens of thousands of Palestinians, the maiming of so many others, |
| 0:25.8 | so many dead, killed, slaughtered children, the suffering, the grief of so many of their loved |
| 0:32.0 | ones being so savagely butchered. I'm not talking |
| 0:36.2 | about the life of a Palestinian not being treated as having equal worth to that of an |
| 0:40.6 | Israeli or a Westerner. We're not even close to an approximation of this. |
| 0:45.7 | It is the lack of pretense that Palestinian life has any real meaning at all. |
| 0:51.2 | Now the first video I made about this horror on the 9th of October had a very simple title. |
| 0:56.2 | Palestinian lives matter. That's because it was clear from the beginning that the decades |
| 1:01.6 | long dehumanization of the Palestinian people was now going to have |
| 1:05.3 | its most hideous expression. Let me just give you a hypothetical scenario. |
| 1:10.7 | Four Palestinians have been arbitrarily held by the Israeli military. |
| 1:14.0 | Palestinian fighters stage an armed intervention and free them. |
| 1:18.0 | In the process they slaughter over 200 Israelis, many of them children. |
| 1:22.0 | Huge numbers of Israeli civilians are maimed. |
| 1:25.0 | Footage shows Israeli mothers screaming over the bodies of their slaughtered Israeli children. |
| 1:37.0 | How would this be reported by the Western media? As a daring operation to release unjustly held Palestinians, |
| 1:41.0 | no, let's be clear, it would be treated as a massacre rightly as a |
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