Despite the policy’s pathetic failure, one Israeli government after another believes that if you just kill enough Gazan civilians the armed resistance will go away:
“[T]he Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) disclosed … that 217 protesters were injured, including 35 shot by rubber-coated metal bullets and 182 subjected to suffocation after inhaling tear gas”:
- Israel Forces Wound Hundreds of Palestine Protesters in West Bank (Middle East Monitor)
The arrest of the escaped Palestinian prisoners has shocked, but not discouraged the Palestinian public which has raised their spoons in tribute to the daring escape:
- Israel Rearrests Last Two Palestinian Jailbreakers (Middle East Eye)
- Shock and Pride: Palestinians React to Re-arrest of ‘Heroes’ (Aljazeera)
Roger Waters says that when he saw 60,000 ecstatic fans turn into “lobotomized” robots “just because I suggested that they should stop treating the Palestinians like … swine” he realized that he “shouldn’t even have a cup of coffee in Israel”:
- Roger Waters on Julian Assange, Jeremy Corbyn and Palestine (Truth to Power with Lowkey)
“Where once films showed Muslims as rulers, poets and aesthetes, they are now often portrayed as terrorists, gangsters and despots. To that list has been added the Muslim quisling – the kohl-eyed, generously bearded betrayer who aids the efforts of the Pakistani security establishment to attack India”:
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