The 'Only' Democracy In The Middle East

I saw a Tweet on X by Max Blumenthal. I would rather not post such unpleasant material, but evil must be addressed and terminated.

It’s strange how live backwards is evil. You could ponder love backwards is evol; not so phonetically different. We in the UK have Assange incarcerated while they do this. So many times I have heard it said that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East. The Israeli Lobby; some are more equal than others.

On first reading, I scanned through very quickly, not wanting to dwell and absorb too much detail. I imagined a chair, an electric chair of sorts. In fact it states floor, but it makes little difference; it’s evil.

This is the Tweet on X
https://x.com/MaxBlumenthal/status/1798593664752783750
Blumenthal is Editor in Chief at The Grayzone
https://thegrayzone.com/author/max-blumenthal

Inside The Base Where Israel Has Detained Thousands Of Gazans
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/06/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-detention-base.html

From 2019
'Endless Trip to Hell': Israel Jails Hundreds of Palestinian Boys a Year. These Are Their Testimonies
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2019-03-16/ty-article-magazine/.premium/israel-jails-hundreds-of-palestinian-boys-a-year/0000017f-e58d-da9b-a1ff-edef57b50000

Political analyst and commentator Ryan Dawson was probably my initial source to learning about the more macabre details of the Abu Ghraib story than the one reported by my BBC radio. Apparently the recordings of child rape were played to parents also captive and those same recordings eventually shared with a closed US Senate Committee hearing, including John McCain. Ryan has Tweeted this, about the current situation, on X:

I have two books by Thomas Goodrich, Hellstorm and Summer 1945. I haven’t read them and have no urgency to do so. I bought them for the record; to have in my library. I have listened to several hours of Goodrich speaking, so am very aware of the content of the books. The material is so dark and unpleasant, I don’t want the imagery in my mind.
www.thomasgoodrich.com
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10508578-hellstorm
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39680164-summer-1945

I have read The Myth of German Villainy by Benton L. Bradberry and had to skip over paragraphs because the content was so unpleasant.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/15889835-the-myth-of-german-villainy

In the last 24-48 hours the BBC have reported on 4 Israeli hostages being released from the clutches of Hamas.
How Israel's hostage rescue in Gaza unfolded
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp334z7rxxmo

The BBC do not appear to give the same emphasis or weight to the 40,000 or more Palestinians thus far murdered since 07 October 2023, nor the Palestinians detained and murdered before 07 October.

Is this true?
Israel kills over 200 Palestinians to rescue 4 captives; U.S. allegedly involved in operation
https://mondoweiss.net/2024/06/israel-kills-over-200-palestinians-to-rescue-4-captives-u-s-allegedly-involved-in-operation

Further developments.
https://x.com/RealScottRitter/status/1799819892306117091
Israel, with U.S. assistance, launched a so-called “hostage rescue” mission in Gaza. Four Israeli hostages were rescued.
Three others, including an American citizen, were killed. Along with more than 200 Palestinian civilians.
The IDF force took casualties, with at least one senior commander being killed. In any normal society, this operation would be classified as a failure, and investigations launched.
In Zionist Israel, they are celebrating. A question for Biden: what role did the U.S. military/intelligence community play in facilitating the murder of an American citizen at the hands of the IDF.
And is it acceptable practice for the U.S. to support military operations that kill hundreds of civilians to recover hostages whose release could have been secured simply by implementing a viable ceasefire?

https://x.com/afshinrattansi/status/1799467572741505393
Israel used the US-built ‘humanitarian pier’ to sneak in a unit of Israeli soldiers, and reportedly American soldiers.
The soldiers boarded a humanitarian aid truck and drove to Nuseirat refugee camp. Once inside, they were discovered by Palestinians, which resulted in nonstop Israeli aerial bombardment and the soldiers opening fire inside the central market, killing over 210 Palestinians and injuring hundreds.
The ‘humanitarian pier’ gets exposed to be an occupation, assassination, and massacre pier.

07 October continues to be cited as an excuse.
An earlier artwork.

Edit. Did Hamas treat the hostages well?

Edit 12.06.2024
The UK Column News featured this Substack and post at the end of their show:
https://www.ukcolumn.org/video/uk-column-news-12th-june-2024

#StopStarmer
#TellThePartiesThePartysOver
#4thJuly
#IndependentsDay

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