It was always about ethnic cleansing
JVL Introduction
This piece includes fury at Trump but also at the western leaders and media who enabled the pulverisation of Gaza for more than 15 months but are now shocked at Trump’s ‘plan’. Surely ethnic cleansing was the plan all along as it has been for many Israeli politicians for decades? If the ceasefire was fully meaningful then not only carpet bombing but snipers and other attacks would have stopped completely and there would not be the dramatically increased attacks on the West Bank using the wholesale destruction and evacuation techniques that have been used in Gaza.
The article, published here with permission from Middle East Eye, contains three videos that we recommend watching, including the ever impressive Francesca Albanese. And we must not forget the legendary resilience, the Sumud of the Palestinian people who are certainly not going anywhere!
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This article was originally published by Middle East Eye on Thu 6 Feb 2025. Read the original here.
The Gaza 'war' was a lie, as is the ceasefire. Trump just told you
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Can someone start a discussion about what we can do to resist and fight back? I am clear-eyed, if red eyed and I do not need to be told all the time what I know. I need to discuss what to do next to help Palestinians.
Accurate. Israel ,America and the UK have been lying, gaslighting and comitting genocide on behalf of the Zionist Empire. This Normalisation of the murder of Palestinians by Trump is disgusting, as though the demolition of Gaza was a natural disaster as opposed to deliberate Ethnic cleansing using Billions of dollars worth of US bombs. Shame on them and the complicit western media.
“Middle East Eye” reported 5 hours ago (7.2.25) Israel’s ban on lawyer’s visit to heroic Dr Abu Safiya (in Israeli detention for 40 days during which witnesses said he’d been tortured) has just been lifted.
The depravety of those comitting, ordering, facilitating genocide and ethnic cleansing knows no limits.these people have not been taught that actions have consequences and therefore we need to see the arrest warrants being acted upon besides actions such as DBS, demos or plastering the whole of Europe with wanted posters. We cannot let them get away with it.
Jonathan says the following in his article (referring to Trump):
Palestinians, he said, would be “settled” in a place where they would not have to be “worried about dying every day” – that is, being murdered by Israel using US-supplied bombs.
And also this:
Trump may even have let slip inadvertently the true death toll inflicted by Israel’s rampage. He referred to “all of them – there’s 1.7 million or maybe 1.8 million people” being forced out of Gaza.
The population count before 7 October 2023 was between 2.2 and 2.3 million. Where are the other half a million Palestinians? Under the rubble? In unmarked graves? Eaten by feral dogs? Vaporised by 2,000lb US bombs?
Anyway, about six/seven months ago now I did a search re >gaza 2,000lb bombs< so as to check out if any of the British MSM had covered the fact that Israel was dropping, and had dropped thousands of 2,000lb bombs on Gaza AND – if any of the msm HAD mentioned them – if they ALSO mentioned how lethal they were (several US major news outlets had done so). And there was absolutely nothing, apart from one Guardian article which just mentioned them in passing.
So, anyway, I just did another quick search and, in the process, came across the following, which appears to have been posted/published in October last year:
Are hospitals collateral damage? Assessing geospatial proximity of 2000 lb bomb detonations to hospital facilities in the Gaza Strip from October 7 to November 17, 2023
… We identified 592 M-84 bomb craters. Of the 36 hospitals across the Gaza Strip, 25% (n = 9) had at least one bomb crater within the lethal range (360 m) and 83.3% (n = 30) within the infrastructure damage and injury range (800 m) of their facilities. The shortest distance of a bomb crater from a hospital was 14.7 m…..
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39387878/
And THAT was within just the first six weeks! Please check it out, it's relatively short.
I also came across this piece (when I did a search re gaza 2,000lb bombs), posted on October 10th last year. Here’s the headline and sub-headline and a couple of passages:
They Now Know What Real Bombing Means: The Forty-First Newsletter (2024)
Over the past year, the United States has provided Israel with a record $17.9 billion in military aid as it commits genocide against Palestinians.
These sales amounted to the transfer of at least 14,000 of the 2,000 pound MK-84 bombs and 6,500 500-pound bombs that Israel has used in both Gaza and Lebanon.
In Gaza, the Israelis have routinely used the 2,000-pound bombs to strike areas populated by civilians – who had been told to take refuge at these locations by the Israeli authorities themselves…
https://thetricontinental.org/newsletterissue/what-real-bombing-means/
And Reuters posted this on June 29th last year:
Exclusive: US has sent Israel thousands of 2,000-pound bombs since Oct. 7
Between the war’s start last October and recent days, the United States has transferred at least 14,000 of the MK-84 2,000-pound bombs… and other munitions, according to the officials, who were not authorized to speak publicly….
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-has-sent-israel-thousands-2000-pound-bombs-since-oct-7-2024-06-28/
And here’s a link to a CNN piece/analysis posted on December 22nd, 2023, which I expect most people who follow JVL have seen, but I’ll post it anyway:
‘Not seen since Vietnam’: Israel dropped hundreds of 2,000-pound bombs on Gaza, analysis shows
In the first month of its war in Gaza, Israel dropped hundreds of massive bombs, many of them capable of killing or wounding people more than 1,000 feet away, analysis by CNN and artificial intelligence company Synthetaic suggests.
Satellite imagery from those early days of the war reveals more than 500 impact craters over 12 meters (40 feet) in diameter, consistent with those left behind by 2,000-pound bombs.
https://edition.cnn.com/gaza-israel-big-bombs/index.html
And the NYT posted this on December 21st, 2023:
A Times Investigation Tracked Israel’s Use of One of Its Most Destructive Bombs in South Gaza
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/21/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-bomb-investigation.html
Ethnic cleansing of Palestine (and Jewish “re” colonisation), has always been more important to CHRISTIAN Zionists and Evangelicals – around the world, but particularly the USA who can fund it and defend it on the international stage. “I am the way and the truth and the life” No-one comes to the Father except through me”. (John 14.6) When Jesus returns, Jews will convert or Perish and “Israel” will be no more.