Lorraine Ali – Los Angeles Times Apr 29, 2024
The mention of mass graves is so deeply disturbing that it’s preferable to think of such wartime horrors as dark remnants of another era, chapters of history we’ll never repeat. The Armenian genocide, the Bolshevik revolution, Nazi Germany, El Salvador, Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The fairy tale that the human race has evolved beyond such barbarism was shattered (again) last week when reports surfaced that three mass burial sites had been unearthed in Gaza. The shocking development should have made headlines, but it barely made it onto most people’s radars.
The media are instead hyper-focused on how we protest atrocities rather than the atrocities themselves.
Anti-war demonstrations on college campuses dominate conversations and coverage about the Israel-Hamas war. Every imaginable news source — legacy print outlets, user-generated posts, broadcast and cable news — has its sight set on the encampments and rallies breaking out on campuses across the nation.
The protests are worthy in their own right for drawing attention to critical issues. They’ve raised awareness (and hackles) around the staggering Palestinian death toll, antisemitism, occupation, the oft-forgotten hostages and free speech. The largely peaceful demonstrations, dealt with ineptly at best by university heads and law enforcement, are rightfully the leading national story, and its stars are a generation that many older folks had written off as apathetic.
In SEO terms, the protests present the perfect setting for a media blitz. They’re taking place at colleges and they come with powerful images and ample social media content. As an example, protests at USC unfolded live on television across various local stations, with choppers capturing the action from every imaginable angle. They’re also an easier way into the war, bringing the Mideast conflict home to America without the horror of witnessing a real battle.
But blanket coverage of the uprising by students is so omnipresent, it’s overshadowed news from the very war they’re protesting.
There’s been a stunning lack of coverage and outrage following an announcement Friday by Palestinian authorities that they’d uncovered 390 bodies from mass grave sites around Gaza’s Nassar and Shifa hospitals, facilities that were raided and destroyed in Israeli strikes. The bodies were reportedly found in the pits, buried by bulldozed debris, after the Israeli Defense Forces ended operations in the region.
Women and children are among the deceased; the majority are still unidentified. Some of the dead were allegedly found stripped naked with their hands bound behind their backs. “It indicates serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and these need to be subjected to further investigations,” said Ravina Shamdasani, a chief spokesperson for the U.N. high commissioner for human rights, Volker Türk.
The sheer barbarity of these scenes may explain why they haven’t garnered more attention. It’s simply too awful to process, so we turn away.
And if the discovery of mass graves is a hard story to watch, it’s an even harder one to cover. Israel continues to restrict international journalists’ access to Gaza, so there are fewer reporters there to bear witness. For those who are there, it’s one of the deadliest wars on record for media workers, and civilian casualties are more than 34,000. If reporters do survive, they’re faced with intense investigative digging to get to the truth. And when their stories are finally reported, they’ll be lambasted, trolled and harassed by one side — or both — for their perceived bias.
But we need answers, and short of an independent investigation (the Biden administration has left it up to Israel to investigate itself), we’re left to guess whether war crimes have or have not been committed.
The dearth of information is partly due to the contraction of American newsrooms. Journalism outlets big and small have lost the resources, access and the expertise to cover wars like they once did. It’s also up to elected officials to draw attention to potential war crimes, especially when the U.S. plays such a central role in the conflict.
Politicians like Mike Johnson have instead been busy raising their profiles by inserting themselves into the Palestinian-Israeli mire. Painting himself as a defender of student safety, the Republican House speaker instead put hundreds if not thousands of anti-war protesters in danger — Jewish students included — by conflating their pro-Palestinian stances with sympathy for Hamas. “The things that have happened at the hands of Hamas are horrific, and yet these protesters are out there waving flags for the very people who committed those crimes. This is not who we are in America,” Johnson posted Thursday on X, formerly Twitter.
It was refreshing to see that ABC News didn’t just quote him and move on, as many other news outlets did. The network reported that there had been no documented cases of demonstrators waving Hamas flags. Such details matter when the safety of students is at stake.
But critical questions remain around Gaza’s mass graves, and there’s the matter of accountability.
“The grave in question was dug — by Gazans — a few months ago,” tweeted Nadav Shoshani, a spokesman for the Israeli Defense Force. “This fact is corroborated by social media documentation uploaded by Gazans at the time of the burial. Any attempt to blame Israel for burying civilians in mass graves is categorically false and a mere example of a disinformation campaign aimed at delegitimizing Israel.”
Israeli officials said the corpses buried near Nasser Hospital had been exhumed to check whether they were those of Israeli hostages. An Israeli military official said that all remains were then “respectfully returned to their place.”
Gaza authorities affirm that graves were dug before the Israeli military’s arrival, but allege that the IDF added bodies to the site. Gaza Civil Defense said that only about 100 people were buried in graves before the IDF raid, and that 390 to 392 bodies (accounts vary) had since been recovered.
The widely reported slaughter of innocent Israelis and Palestinians, and the taking of hostages, prompted the protests in the first place. Now, the cries of demonstrators are the story. But we can certainly pay attention on both fronts, even if one of them requires a lot more work and emotional girding. It’s our moral imperative to pay attention or risk becoming bystanders as another dark chapter on wartime atrocities writes itself.
See the fake bullshit in the fake news?
It’s not just the mass graves, it the fact the Joos have stolen their organs. They simply can’t refuse an opportunity to make a few Shekels.
As for fecking wokey woke students. They are being worked by the Nazi deep state, especially in the US, because the US Nazi regime doesn’t want to be bogged down in the Middle East where there’s no gain, so student protests, along with arrest warrant for leading Israeli Nazis is one way to exert pressure.
Of course, there are no wokey woke students protesting about all the Nazis being thrown under the Russian military juggernaut.
And don’t forget, there been no Nazi regime funded and organised peace protests in the UK, so just run through your mind who would lead such protests, and ask yourself why they’re on their arse doing nothing? Hint, UK Nazi protests are organised by the Nazi one party state.
I had to look up SEO because the author didn’t say what it was, search engine options. I forgot I’ve had to look that up once before, but having left the article I lost interest in it and never went back to it. If people don’t know what you’re talking about your writing fails to inform and can leave the reader frustrated. Nurses and military people are particularly bad for using in-shop acronyms, and for people who train as specialists yet not grasp we don’t know what all these uncommon acronyms stand for is so irritating.
Some know it, some don’t, so write it out once then we’ll all know it.
I just want to say that I am very pleased to read many comments now using the term ‘Nazi, Nazis’.
This term is the best we have, and it’s a term used for decades by the Nazis to promote their Imperialist war mongering activities since WW2, when Nazism died, long live Nazism.
We see it on US universities, Nazi UKs Rowanda plan, to the sick getting vouchers, and the last I heard, Nazi Starmer was setting out his woke agenda. The reason why no one has a plan to save the UK and it’s economy, is that the plan, even if its a fantasy plan, is up and running. The City Crime Cartels control of Russian resources, is the only Nazi plan.
The UK is solidly behind palestine
there is a petition going around that all these troublesome jerws like grant shapps
should be sent to rwanda
too damn right !
I stopped reading at “Nazi”.
Speaking of making everything about Nazis Nazis Nazis Holocaust Holocaust Holocaust. Soros Inc. funded (((Antifa))) places Jews at the head of the Palestinian protests and are certain to have instigated the break-in at Columbia University. That gives the totally Jewish government of NY, with the totally Jewish Columbia administration the excuse to declare a riot and clear the protesters. Next come the expulsions of ‘anti-semite’ students and even more ‘hate’ legislation. The right to protest? Not against Jews! They did anuddah Hamas psyop at Columbia. So, yeah, two birds with one stone. Don’t look at us wiping out Gaza, goy, look at the Campus Hate in America.
You won’t find this surprising but the posters at a Palestinian demonstration not far from here were about Palestinians as the real victims of “The Holocaust”, Netanyahu was depicted with a Hitler mustache. On another placard: “We’re Anti-Zionists, not Anti-Semites”. Jews infiltrate a protest and make it all about themselves. Jewish media knows who to interview and what to make it all about. Holocaust Holocaust Holocaust Holocaust Holocaust Holocaust and Oh My Gawd, they’re killing the Six Million yet again.
Will our suffering never cease?
Where was God?
Why did the sky not darken?
Is there poetry after Auschwitz?
Is it any wonder we cannot sleep?
Who are these assholes in the picture wearing masks??! Really?? What IS that? WHY?
Of course, the Jew media will do anything to distract from Gaza. Lies don’t work like they used to, so distraction will have to work for now…
I have been asked to share this –
“ROTHSCHILDS ENGLISHMEN”
The MI5 double agent that betrayed secrets to the Soviets may have also been leaking information to the Nazis
British spy and Soviet traitor may have also shared secrets to the Nazis, leading to the deaths of thousands of Allied troops, a new book has claimed
Anthony Blunt, one of the Rothschild apostles, and serial child abuser could be the traitor who leaked details of Operation Market Garden to the Germans in 1944 – the largest airborne operation of all time Code named Josephine, the spy’s betrayal resulted in the failure of the Allied airborne invasion, causing the deaths of thousands of British, American and Canadian soldiers.
The operation aimed to outflank the German defences along the Rhine to allow the Allies to advance into Germany. However, when they parachuted in, they were met with unexpected resistance.
However it is known thSIR ANTHONY BLUNT NEWS
at in Blunts pedophile group Lord Mountbatten was being blackmailed, and kept insisting on all moneys being spent on warships
when high command wanted it spent on the RAF.
Blunt spied on the Royal family for long after he admitted, Rothschild had got rid of other royals like in France and Russia, Blunt claimed Rothschild finally decided to leave the British Royals in place
as they were secret jews
Rothschild had long promised Blunt that he would be art curator after the war and Buckingham palace would be a huge art museum for the huge Rothschild art ‘collection
The book Spycatcher by Peter Wright had to remove the first chapter which covered Rothschilds Englishmen, as this did cover much of the perversion and spying
it was said that these socialist traitors known as the Apostles, could get information to ‘Stalin’s desk in Moscow before it was given to Churchill
Cambridge was rotten to the core in w w 2, many “intellectuals” were duped into the communist fold, Rothschild promised them fame and money after the war
no one saw any of it
Blunt said at Rothschilds meal table an extra place was always set in case the devil should call
Blunt was a familiar figure trawling londons late night lavatories such as Kings Cross looking for boys to take back to his flat
Blunt was involved with Guy Burgess the same time as Churchill was
Have been asked to share this –
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> ROTHSCHILD PLEADS POVERTY
> British taxpayers are to fork out £85bn to cover Rothschilds bank of England losses
> losses are mounting from an astonishing £895bn bond-buying scheme carried out between 2009 and 2021, which was designed to support the economy from the worldwide malaise triggered by the Lehman Brothers collapse and then the Jew-jab pandemic
> Taxpayers will also have to cover £85bn of losses made by the Bank of England on its quantitative easing programme which began during the global financial crisis, according to the latest estimates.
> according to the latest estimates.Quantitative easing will lose about £20bn a year until the early 2030s, according to the latest estimates by the Bank of Englands interest rates have reversed that effect.
> British people will pay more in VAT and taxes to make good the loss
> Mr Rothschild says
> The Bank of England is in the process of getting the bonds off its books but £704bn of gilts remain.
> Why the hell should we bail out Rothschild ?
> we fought ww 2 to give Germany back to the bankers
> and possibly ww 1 as well, and now this ?
the whole western world is false by intelectual
decadence + perverted fantasies . most universities
produce unproductive parasites by jewish model .
society must find way back to simplicity . all media
kanailles,police,military,akademicos,politicians,
judges.lawyers.artesans + other intelectual idiots
are superfluous . everybody a gun +his own judge
cleans society best way . no nukemissiles necessary .
all kinds of mafias roam streets only first time later
they have no chances anymore . NO GOVERNMENTS
ANYMORE !
It’s only propaganda .. but it makes fake “headlines” ..
Nothing real is communicated ..
who is this nut with the natzis natzis
does he not know the war ended in 1945
whata pillock
Rixon can we ban all socialists shirt lifters and fifth columnists staring with carl jones please ?
thankyou
where are these natizis naztzis
this chap keeps banking on about
we never seen any any
The supposedly wonderful deal Blinken & Netanyahu are proposing is more like a list of demands. Netanyahu in his arrogant attitude, or maybe in a slip of tongue, said he intends to invade Rafah anyway. What kind of professional army invades a refugee camp? Thus the only thing they have to offer is 40 days cease fire when the Jews in fact need a pause to regroup. Also they have to wait for the new arms package from Amerika to resume their ethnic cleansing.
A forty days pause is also necessary to wear down the students’ protest. It’s starting to annoy the U.S. establishment, in an election year.
Ho Chi Minh comes to mind. His strategy won the Vietnam War not in the battlefield. The Vietnamese were suffering terribly in the war, 20 to 1 casualty ratio, not to mention civilians. He kept sending, under the barrel of a gun, more bodies to the front. Exactly what we are watching in Ukraine today. As a side note Zelensky is preventing people from fleeing the place, which is typical of Communist regimes. Is there any other regime in History that treated citizens/subjects as prisoners? Don’t think so, unless you were a serf/slave. Sounds craze but Zelensky regime is actually a Soviet one, despite deceptive optics involved.
Therefore the hostage issue is the only bargaining chip Palestinians have, it imposes restraint on indiscriminate bombing. Give away the hostages for what, to be carpet bombed after the truce? Remember ‘Israel’ have 8000 Palestinian hostages arrested, without a semblance of due process, or Geneva Convention for POWs. Besides, the hostage issue is creating o lot of tension in Israhelli society, which is good for the Palestinian side, the side being massacred BTW.
Marco Sieira beat me to it in his comment above. The first thing that struck me was the photo at the top. While I certainly agree with the banner “Zionism is Terrorism”, my overriding thought was, “Get a load of those f*cking imbeciles…what is with the face diapers?” There’s no caption on the photo to indicate where that was, and I can’t quite read the fine print on any of the sign in the background to identify a location. I’m stunned that people are STILL falling for that shit anywhere. Face diaper muzzles lasted about a month where I live, during the height of the Convid-1984 hysteria, and even then there were plenty of people in my area (yours truly certainly included) who realized right away it was a mind-f*ck farce and refused to muzzle up. Anyone strapping a diaper to their yap, without the presence of large toxic particulate matter fogging the air, is either dangerously stupid, dangerously paranoid, or a bleating coward, and most likely a mixture of two or more of those.
Anyhoo, I know there are a lot of valid criticisms and suspicions of the protesters, but I feel that anything that raises awareness of the satanic psychopathy of Jewry is a good thing.
what they don’t tell you is that its actually so-called ‘anti-zionist’ Jews organizing these ‘protests’. So we see that jews are actually managing these mobs of marxist scum to advance their own Jew agenda…
University protests dominate media coverage, obscuring the true horror of Gaza war in hideous jew type fashion; look here, not there.
one can learn from Carl Jones if you want !
nazi ways + communist ways dont come
separated today . jews have mingled both
ways + use the state systems for their meens .
therefore STATE MUST BE DESTROYED !
already Nietzsche discovered .
@UMBRA BELLATOR
since in our times police, snitches + internet
terrorists all have smartfone cameras it is
recommended to have masks on political
demonstrations !
@GUY REID BROWN
all Rothschilds Rockefellers Soros + rest
of international jewish wallstreet plutocraty
has to be expropiated as their communist
created ideology already mandated all those
scums zionists,talmudists or secular reformed
have to be the poorest assholes on earth every
nigger, goy can shit + piss on them ! all their
riches belong to the people of the world they
have suck + plundered for centuries and never
stemmed from honest constructive work but
by evil crime against humanity .
Zionist WHORE DJ TRUMP says anti-Israel protests must stop. What say you MAGA retards? Trump is endorsing Jew genocide and is anti-first amendment. Like we said a million times over, Trump is a fraud.
https://infostormer.com/trump-calls-for-an-end-to-the-anti-israel-protests/
https://infostormer.com/ucla-armed-zionists-freely-attack-pro-palestine-protesters/
https://www.unz.com/article/the-interlocking-of-strategic-paradigms/#comment-6543300
https://www.unz.com/comments/all/?commenterfilter=Yukon+Jack
Bob Smith– Excellent comment ,you nailed it.
JWO operatives create / infiltrate protests so they can control the narrative.
‘Zionism is Terrorism ‘ sign — This is classic limited hangout. Zionism is just one aspect of the greater construct of the supremacist doctrine of Judaism, They don’t allow the criticism to escalate to the point where JWO agenda is openly discussed.along with the wildly disproportionate weatlh and power wielded and institutional crimes committed by their tiny minority.
Typical M.O. using agent provocateurs to break the law in order to justify further crackdowns on free speech along with additional tightening of hate crime / anti-semitism laws.
Another often overlooked function of controlled opposition agents and organizations is to draw out and identify their real opposition who unknowingly join and participate in the contrived game . The Protocols of Zion refers to this as forcing your opposition to ” show their cards.” JWO infiltrators can keep an eye on legitimate protesters and either steer them in the preferred direction or have them removed if necessary.
BTW , did anyone else notice the address on corner store facade behind photo — 911.. wink , wink.
I dont read anything with Nazis Nazis in the title
and neither should you
we do not need bullshit in the comments
@Umbra Bellator
Fantastic comment as always … with respect to the face diaper issue, I believe they (the naive, and some well meaning, protesters) fear doxing, etc. It’s to remain “anonymous”.
Carl Jones–your use of the term Nazi, which you say you are pleased to see spreading, piggy-backs on all the Jewish propaganda against Race nationalism in Whites, so it is anti-White and Commie and means you have given up as a White person, probably because of a Class War ideal, which was planted in Europe especially around 1848, (when they were already trying to enforce it, actually)
The protests are being infiltrated for sure, by the CIA and their operatives, including Jewish groups. But most of the students are sincere I suspect, for the real nature of Jewry and its lackeys (politicians, police, and, soon, the military) is being exposed and made undeniable by all but the most willfully ignorant (Zionist “Christians” for example). So we who understand more fully and have understood for a long time now have new arrivals to our camp…they are young and naive and still have much to learn about the real nature of this world, so let’s be a bit more welcoming.
lewis jones
commie carl jones is a putintard..likely a soviet plant on here. The Admin of this site is also a Putintard, that’s why he allows these anti-nazi commies/putintards on here..
@ antiJHWH and Mike D … Thanks! And you both are probably correct. The mask to partially hide their identity angle hit me right after I hit “send” on my comment. It’s just that the Convid-1984 face diaper has such a reeking stigma in my mind, or what’s left of my mind 🙂 Personally, I wold have went with the rubber nose and glasses gag, maybe an appropriately hooked-nose version, and perhaps a false beard, like “Michell” Obunghole.