You'll have heard this narrative many, many times expressed by

apologists for Israel's genocide of rampage.

Every time you call for a ceasefire,

they respond something along these lines.

There was a ceasefire on the 6th of October October and then the next day Hamas broke it.

Now this narrative basically goes like this.

Israel, a democratic oasis, was just casually mining its own business and living peacefully, doing nothing to inflict violence on anyone else.

When out of a clear blue sky, lightning struck.

The tranquility Israel had so carefully respected being blown apart by war regression which came from nowhere.

This narrative is a lie, a total raging lie and it is dripping with racism as I explain.

None of this by the way is to defend war crimes committed on the 7th of October.

As I've said from the beginning no cause on earth justifies violence against civilians

whether that be maiming, killing or kidnapping.

That doesn't mean Israel's claims of a broken ceasefire are true.

They're not at all.

Now that goes without even, including the very basic historical context of what the Palestinian

people have been subjected to for many generations. This itself is intolerable and you can

easily establish it was intolerable by flipping it. would the people of Israel or indeed any

people on earth tolerate what the Palestinians have endured. Now when the

Balfour declaration named after the then British Foreign Secretary

Alphal for himself profoundly anti-Semitic, promised to establish

the Jewish homeland in Palestine in 1917, the Jewish population of Palestine was only 10%,

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