Regular people have figured out the truth about Israel, Gaza, and the Palestinians. Thus, they’ve figured out that they have been lied to nonstop by their government. From Jonathan Cook at unz.com:
Starmer’s government constantly sells us red herrings to throw us off the scent of the UK’s complicity in Israel’s genocide
The British government is being rocked by a growing public backlash to Israel’s 21-month slaughter in Gaza and the UK’s active collusion in it.
That fallout came to a head over the weekend, when punk group Bob Vylan led Glastonbury’s crowds in chanting: “Death, death to the IDF,” referencing the Israeli army – a performance aired live on the BBC, which later expressed regret for not cutting the feed.
The Irish band Kneecap then focused audience rage towards British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, leading the crowd in a chant cursing his name.
Other musicians used their sets to vent indignation at British complicity in what the International Court of Justice ruled in early 2024 to be a “plausible” genocide.
Their grievances are well-founded.
The UK government is still supplying parts for the F-35 fighter jets dropping bombs on Gaza’s people. It has massively increased UK arms exports to Israel, even while stating that it cut them, while shipping US and German weapons through RAF base Akrotiri on Cyprus. It is operating spy missions over Gaza on Israel’s behalf.
And to top it all, Britain is still providing unstinting diplomatic cover for Israel, even as it has butchered tens of thousands of civilians and continues to enforce the starvation of more than two million people.
Starmer isn’t budging. In fact, he’s entrenching, labelling any criticism of Israel as “antisemitism” – and increasingly as “terrorism”.
Depraved values
This is such a glaringly inverted way of understanding the world that it has required impressive amounts of ingenuity and creativity to prevent levels of popular anger from spiralling out of control.
What Israel, Washington, the UK and others have been forced to do to sustain the genocide is to create theatre – in a series of deflection dramas – to distract from the central crime.
Hollywood’s master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, the film director who specialised in what he termed “MacGuffins” – narrative dead-ends to throw viewers off the scent – might have appreciated the skill with which this has been done.
The aim has been to get the western media to focus on, and therefore western audiences to think about, not the main drama – either the genocide itself, or the inherently violent, apartheid nature of the Israeli state carrying it out – but to invest instead in separate plot twists and turns. Ones, of course, that don’t make western capitals look so obviously complicit and depraved.
What kind of army kills women and children indiscriminately?
Soldiers in uniform standing by gear then have at it but not women and children or those that are starving.