I swear never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. -.Elie Wiesel
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By Renán Vega Cantor: “Killing or injuring Palestinians should be as easy as ordering a pizza. It was the logic of the app developed in 2020 by the Israeli Army that allowed a commander on the ground to send, through an electronic device, the data of a target to the troops who would then quickly neutralize that Palestinian. Oren Matzliach, the colonel who was working on the project, told the Israel Defense website that the attack would be 'like ordering a book on Amazon or a pizza from a pizzeria using your smartphone.' This kind of dehumanization is the inevitable result of an indefinite occupation. It is also an export good. -Antony Loewenstein, The Palestinian Laboratory. How Israel exports the technology of the occupation to the world.
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The genocide that Israel perpetrates with impunity in Gaza is accompanied or, rather, is the product of an aberrant degree of hatred and dehumanization, shared by the majority of the inhabitants of Israel. In this regard, there are thousands of visual testimonies in which the occupiers and colonialists boast, with extreme doses of sadism, of the pain and suffering of the Palestinians and shamelessly delight in the destruction caused by the bombs dropped against the Palestinian territory. Just one example is enough. Israel's Minister of Social Equality (sic) and Women's Affairs, May Golam, said in Parliament on February 23: “I am personally proud of the ruins of Gaza and that every baby, even 80 years from now, counts their grandchildren what the Jews did.” Days before, in a television program, he justified the Gaza genocide by saying that “I wanted to see corpses” and, despite the fact that “some fragile souls are explaining that the majority of Gaza residents are uninvolved civilians, so they cannot we must hurt them. Nothing of that. We have to destroy them to the core”[1].
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Not only is it the dehumanization of Palestinians, there are those in Israel who proclaim that they do not exist. Indeed, the Minister of Settlements and National Missions of Israel, Orit Strook, stated on February 22: “Every civilized person in the world knows that this land is ours, it is for the Israeli people and only for us. Every educated person in the world knows that we were displaced from it (the land of Palestine), and we learned over the years in the diaspora and our enemies and those who hate us also knew that we would return. "There will never be a Palestinian state in the land of Israel." This colonialist, who lives in an illegal settlement in the West Bank, pointed out that a Palestinian state would be an "existential threat" to Israel and the "peace and order of the entire world." And that is why, "The vast majority of the people of Israel oppose the establishment of the Palestinian State"[2]. This denial is old among Zionist circles, since Golda Meir maintained that Palestinians did not exist. And with that they revive the European colonialist denialism that always assured that the territories were empty, no one lived there, and the “whites” had the right to civilize them through brutal incorporation into their domains.
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The images of the genocide number in the thousands, they are the ones that show the magnitude of the crime against humanity underway. But there are also images of genocidaires, which represents a change in the history of wars, because, although before criminals could flaunt their crimes (showing, for example, as was done in the United States the number of ears or scalps cut off from indigenous peoples), this could not be carried out in such a massive and direct way and, much less so that it could be transmitted immediately and disseminated instantly through virtual networks. Now, genocidaires have no problem killing, torturing, massacring in daylight and that is why they circulate images of their crimes, which reveals their moral decadence and their level of dehumanization. It has become normal to see Israeli soldiers, men and women alike, mocking the Palestinians, dancing on their ruins, rejoicing at the destruction of their schools and universities, abusing and torturing them without any remorse. These images, videos and photographs are proof of the cruelty with which the Zionist occupiers humiliate the Palestinians and graphic and imperishable evidence of the colonialist and capitalist barbarity in the 21st century that, of course, challenges all suffering humanity. .
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The Palestinians, all of them, including their children and women, either do not exist or have been reduced to the status of animals, worse than the domestic ones, who must be eliminated, extirpated from the face of the earth, as the genocidaire in chief proclaims. , the Führer of Nazi-Zionism Benjamin Netanyahu, with the full acceptance of the United States, the European Union and a large part of the corrupt dominant leaders of the Arab countries. In this context, thousands of genocidal practices are accumulated by the inhabitants of Israel, starting with the military. Among them is a rather “humanitarian” selfie. It was made by a group of female soldiers from Israel, whose macabre backdrop is the ruins left by the bombings and cannon fire for which those same women are responsible. The soldiers pose smiling with the decorated ruins that adorn the photo. While the soldiers were taking selfies, they were, in turn, photographed by Tsafrir Abayov. The photo was immediately sent to social networks by Emilio Morenatti, head of photography at the Associated Press News Agency, who only managed to say: “This photo…” and further down he added that in the ruins of Gaza a group of Israeli female soldiers took a selfie.
Israeli female soldiers take the selfie of hate with the ruins of Gaza in the background
5 This infamous selfie is an expression of cruelty, because in the midst of the destruction and death produced by the Israeli military, there is no feeling of empathy or compassion with those who suffer, but rather a sadistic joy on the part of those who generate suffering and pain. The female soldiers pose as if they were models being photographed before the parade on a catwalk, only this time the catwalk is one of death and desolation, it is Gaza that is outraged, bombed, martyred. It is a pornographic selfie, because it exalts death and destruction and those who took it, and then sent it to their friends on their cell phones, exult themselves in the Dantesque spectacle that is in the background. These women, without experiencing the slightest sign of shame, rejoice at the destruction of Gaza's infrastructure, which is clearly visible, and they also rejoice at what is not perceived in the photo, which is hidden a few meters away and covered through the rubble: corpses of children, women, elderly, young people...
It is a graphic document of genocidal barbarism that characterizes the majority of the inhabitants of Israel, its rulers and its armed forces. The genocide in Gaza shows where the moral rot of Israel and the “International Community” of criminals is reaching. It indicates that we have reached the limit of a process of decivilization, in which it is not about hiding, or even disguising hatred and dehumanization, but rather smiling at the death and murders caused by the same things that appear in the selfie. . What is clear is that events like this selfie demonstrate that hatred eliminates what could remain of humanity in the Israelites. There are no images of those who have been murdered, persecuted and expelled from their homes as if they had never existed and in their place are the murderers with bright selfies to distribute among friends. They limit themselves to saying “I like it” and adding something like this: “what an original photo you have taken, you must be happy, because your strong personality shows everything you are capable of.” “I would like to be in your place and enjoy and enjoy the glorious destruction and pain we cause, which makes us proud.”
You might think that what we say is exaggerated. Unfortunately, in reality it is little compared to what is happening, in terms of hatred and dehumanization by the Zionists, in historical Palestine. Thousands of scenes confirm it. Among them are those in which soldiers appear in front of a camera in which they say in front of a door, as if it were a great joke, "why is there no education in Gaza", before showing that only that door and a university remain. piece of wall In another video, an Israeli soldier appears allegedly dipping some bullets in lard, and where this announcement can be read: "Exterminating the cockroaches, the rats of Hamas. He shares this beauty »[3].
Explosion of a school in Gaza and celebration of the Israeli soldiers who demolish it
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The commented selfie and the videos spread by Israeli troops are part of what can be called digital militarism, which promotes the patriotic mobilization of Israelis with racist and, apparently, comic messages, in which Palestinians are animals or beings. subhumans who can be killed and tortured, as if something great and worthy of being applauded and spread by antisocial networks were being done. They are, at the same time, a sample of the colonialist and genocidal mentality, with the traits that characterize the sociopaths and psychopaths that Israel is full of[4].
The selfie expresses individualism, vanity and egoism. When it comes to doing it, what has happened is not of interest, but rather who was there at the scene of the crime, something that is trivialized, as if it were something unimportant, because it is not the others that are of interest but the narcissistic self. To Israel's soldiers, if they are never concerned about the Palestinians - considered as cockroaches or rats to be crushed - what will they care if they are dead, crushed by the ruins of the buildings. That cannot spoil the “beauty” of the selfie in which they appear smiling, as if they had come from a party and were not the protagonists of a genocide against an unarmed people.
In selfies, external reality practically disappears, this is a simple pretext, since what is interesting is the subject that appears in the foreground. In the case mentioned, the destroyed Gaza is a minor fact for those who take the selfie, except that it gains prominence to presume that a photo was taken that was never intended and whose instant audience breaks records among the genocidaires of Israel, by visually expressing their own feelings. of hatred, of racism, of alleged superiority and, above all, their desire to participate directly in the crimes, if they have not already done so.
Such thresholds of barbarism have been reached that photos, videos and selfies are taken with the purpose of boasting on social networks of being a co-participant, live and direct, in a genocide. Not even the Nazis did something of this style and in such a cynical way, because they always hid the genocide they were carrying out during the Second World War and even tried to erase the traces that would give them away, although they were not able to do so fully. .
If the American Psychiatric Association of the United States has classified excessive selfie-taking as a mental disorder, to that disorder let us add the genocidal derangement of the soldiers and society of Israel who, in addition, believe themselves to be bearers of a civilizing mission. the European one and think that the crimes they commit are the product of an alleged moral superiority that, in addition, should grant them universal recognition. In that they are not completely wrong, because the genocide underway shows the moral conscience of a large part of humanity how far the visceral and criminal hatred of the colonialists of Israel reaches, in their intention to exterminate every last Palestinian and erase their history and culture.
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