A new low for Israel. How low can they go?

[Cheasty]

https://twitter.com/PhilipProudfoot/status/1848708103212085373

[glasagusban]

They’re targeting branches of a Hezbollah linked bank. They issued warnings to people telling them to get 500m away from branches of the bank then started strikes on them. A bank is not a legitimate target. They didn’t even bother to pretend there were arms caches in the banks or tunnels under them or fighters or whatever other bullshit.

They are absolutely out of control and there is no restraint on them.

[cowpat]

When will we see all these tunnels in the Gaza strip?

[Cheasty]

The whole of this segment is well worth a read or a watch beyond the bit I’ve quoted here.

Israel itself is trivialising the Holocaust for cynical, genocidal gain.

Naomi Klein: Israel Has Weaponized October 7 Trauma

I think the first thing that we — what we need to understand, and I think we have seen this in the clips and in your previous interview, is that though the Israeli government likes to frame everything that is happening now as a response to October 7th, this is a preexisting agenda. I mean, this is the settler movement, Ben-Gvir. I mean, all of these figures have always wanted Gaza depopulated. They’ve always wanted to settle Gaza. They’ve always believed it is part of so-called Greater Israel. So does Netanyahu. It’s part of their coalition agreement dating back to 2022 — right? — that they want the whole thing, and also the West Bank, by the way.

So, you know, I’ve written before about how states of shock are often exploited very cynically to ram through a preexisting agenda. And I think that’s absolutely what we’re seeing. But in order for that to work, the state of shock needs to be continued, heightened. There can never be a recovery. So the Israeli society needs to be reshocked and kept in this kind of trauma loop. And that’s what this piece about the kind of trauma industry is about.

And I want to be very clear: People have a right to grieve their loved ones. This is not about families gathering in grief. This is not about the right to remember and honor. It’s about state-orchestrated and -manipulated trauma. It’s a memorialization from above — right? — not from below, for a very specific end. And people in the Netanyahu government have been very clear that really what they’re doing with the way they are telling the story of October 7th is creating what they call a new national identity. And it’s a national identity that uses the trauma of that day to create a story that fuses October 7th with the Holocaust, and then uses that as the excuse for the genocide that we’re seeing right now.

So, you know, when we think about the horrors, that you’ve already outlined today on the show and, frankly, every show — right? — the deliberate starvation, the torment of an entire population, the torture of an entire population, the deliberate humiliation — how do you — and I think we all ask ourselves this question: How are people able to rationalize it? Right? And they’re able to rationalize it because within their information bubbles, they are being fed this constant story of “this is what they did to you,” a whole industry of reexperiencing it.

I mean, what I write about in this piece is all of these immersive, so-called memorialization kind of technologies, so it’s not only people in Israel, but in the diaspora, who are encouraged to put on VR goggles and reexperience October 7th as if it happened to them, immersive tunnels where you can go into the Gaza tunnels. It’s really an attempt to transfer trauma far and wide.

And in a state of trauma, you don’t really think. It’s pure emotion. It’s pure reaction. You can’t be analytical. You’re not going to be empathetic towards others. It’s about monsterizing the other and fusing your identity with the people in those houses, at the Nova music festival, in the tunnels. It’s very deliberate. It’s extremely manipulative. And it’s how you turn off any compassion or empathy or sense of ethics or morals.

[BruidheanChaorthainn]

Kamala Harris is the only person that’ll put manners on these cunts

[Cheasty]

This tweet sums up up one of the extremely disappointing knock on effects of Israel’s genocide. The silence of scholars of genocide themselves. Timothy Snyder is clearly one of the people being referred to in it.

https://twitter.com/leahmcelrath/status/1848411070991417644

@Cheasty

I always thought this passage from Timothy Snyder’s “On Tyranny” was very good, especially the bit about Eugene Ionesco’s play “Rhinoceros”. It was written in the immediate wake of Trump getting in in 2016. You can see how it’s now applying to Ireland.

The brilliant passage I quote in the above post could nearly now apply to Timothy Snyder himself as regards his silence on Israel.

[Perez2017]

Anyone watch the Al Jazera documentary on war crimes in Gaza? Harrowing stuff.

[Batigol]

Has the banning of BN from both Cork and Galway had much of an effect on the ground?

[StoneCold]

I’m willing to believe this

https://twitter.com/IranObserver0/status/1848778449583833430?t=z7Bcy3ECPlAV-xfDuPWKzA&s=19

[TreatyStones]

Gaza yesterday

https://twitter.com/BZKanging/status/1848778070150550008?s=19

[Mac]

Fierce sophisticated stuff

[TreatyStones]

https://twitter.com/SaulStaniforth/status/1849728996147331425?s=19

[Julio_Geordio]

Some boyos

[TreatyStones]

The IDF investigation will be thorough.

[TreatyStones]

https://twitter.com/UNIFIL_/status/1849776733517434997?s=19

[Mac]

Why are the peace keeps so anti Israeli?

[Julio_Geordio]

Any chance they’d fire back at the cunts

[TreatyStones]

@Julio_Geordio

Any chance they’d fire back at the cunts

Israelis are only waiting for it I’d say.

You now have the US resolutely backing a country who are openly attacking UN Forces.

The whole thing is fucked up.

[Massey]

@TreatyStones

Israelis are only waiting for it I’d say.

100% that’s exactly what they want

[jellyfish]

Another 70+ people killed since last night in Gaza and the UN saying it’s heading into crimes against humanity territory and now they’re shooting at the UN. It’s been some day for the Israeli savages.