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Even Mandela was Pro-Palestine

20 Jul 2014 at 21:28hrs | Views
He who controls the media can commit war crimes and get away with it.

Israel for one. On Sunday 20th of July they refused a 3 hour humanitarian ceasefire requested by the International Red Cross. Bodies litter the streets and households are shelled. In Hebron a large group of drunk and rowdy settlers forcefully attempted to enter a Palestinian home. There were Israeli soldiers nearby. The settlers attacked and threw stones at the family of 5. When the Israeli army details did intervene it was by throwing tear gas grenades and pepper spraying the Palestinian family.

Recently a hospital in el-Wafa was bombed, it is my assumption that they took it that ill innocent Palestinians did not deserve medical attention, and the invalids therein needed help in dying. These incidences and more of equal or worst proportions occur daily, but do not make it to the news. Only one word does: Hamas.

The massacre of the people and state of Palestine is being played out in the media as a justified act. With the Zionists and their apologists sending out pronouncements like 'Palestine was a land without people', 'Israel is about to be pushed into the sea', 'Israel wants peace for all', 'The mass exodus of Palestinian refugees in 1948 was a voluntary mass relocation', 'Moslems hate Christians and want to kill them off', 'Moslems are ungodly suicide bombers who thrive on terrorist platforms' and others from mainstream media, their acts find moral value. After all 'they are defending their land', yes? But why not just tell the truth? No one would tell the truth. No one dares because the truth about the Israelite expansionism agenda would lead a few more people to open their eyes and question the American 'war on terror'. It would be an embarrassment, and certain 'untouchables' would be required to attend hearings at the International Court of Justice where mostly African former heads of state who fell out of favour have been tried and convicted. But that was after they had been indicted and tried in the media. Political leaders have always known that one needs propaganda to earn the right the despicable, to consolidate power, to terminate enemies, and so forth.

It has always been a handy tool, and we see it being utilised to justify the rising death toll of Palestinian women and children and unarmed males. But these individuals' stories do not make it to the world's most influential western media bodies because of the negative effect they will have on the campaigns.

In the 1970s liberation movements in South Africa and Rhodesia were labelled as terrorist organisations, and the UN only imposed sanctions on apartheid governments after they had fallen out of favour. The international body was and still is a morden while useless version of its predecessor the League of Nations. Otherwise it would have stepped in into this tragic mess being created by the Zionist government in Tel Aviv. They would rather be seen speaking out against Iran and other Muslim countries, because like the Communists of the 50s and 60s they want to take over the world and kill christians in the process, do away with judicial law and introduce sharia law world wide. We are told that the Muslims on the Israeli side of the border are quite happy and content, but it is the group on the other side and in poorer Muslim countries like Egypt and others that would like to destabilise the Zionist state because they can not join the others. We are told that Israel is defending itself, but Noam Chomsky puts it rather succinctly: When the Israelis in the occupied territories say that they have to defend themselves, they are defending themselves in the sense that any military occupier has to defend themself against the population they are crushing... You can't defend yourself when you are militarily occupying someone else's land. That's not defense. Call it what you like. It's not defense.

This is really not different to liberation movements fighting for majority rule being called terrorists. I can not take over the affairs of your home and then claim defense of my property when you attempt to reclaim what is yours. It beats all logic. But the media would rather chocolate coat such material in support of their own. Thus it is left to social media networks for one to get a picture that does not claim lies as truth. Very few governments are willing to speak up against these acts of crime against civilisation because they know where their bread is buttered. No one wants to fall out of favour with the powers that be. Even in the recent tragic event of yet another Malaysian aircraft that was shot down over Ukrainian airspace, the media has found its culprit. Now what is left is for heads of states to echo its sentiments. In September 2001 the media suspected, indicted and found Osama bin Laden of the Twin Tower tragedy before any investigation had taken off. George W. Bush acted on that information and invaded Afghanistan.

I am loath to lay the blame on any religious sect, this path has been trodden by far too many for the wrong reasons. Instead I point to where the problem arises from: Godless greed, power and the need to feel superior like in the Nazi era. Mandela once said "Our Freedom is not complete until Palestine is as free"....



Source - Ashirai Mtirikwi Mawere
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