Blindfolded Palestinian prisoners in Gaza.
Jonathan Cook – jonathan-cook.net Oct 7, 2024
If you can’t see the causal link between the Israeli abuse of generations of Palestinians and Hamas’ crimes, then you have no insight into human nature. You don’t understand yourself
For many years I lived just up the road from Megiddo prison in northern Israel, where new film of Israeli guards torturing Palestinians en masse has been published by Israel’s Haaretz newspaper. I drove past Megiddo prison on hundreds of occasions. Over time I came to barely notice the squat grey buildings, surrounded by watch towers and razor wire.
Footage uploaded to Israeli media depicts Israeli occupation forces collectively torturing Palestinians held in Megiddo prison.
The video shows prisoners lying face down on the ground, hands tied behind their backs, while being terrorized by dogs. pic.twitter.com/mZOIC1Glj8
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) September 6, 2024
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There are several large prisons like Megiddo in Israel’s north. It is where Palestinians end up after they have been seized from their homes, often in the middle of the night. Israel, and the western media, say these Palestinians have been “arrested”, as though Israel is enforcing some kind of legitimate legal procedure over oppressed subjects – or rather objects – of its occupation. In truth, these Palestinians have been kidnapped.
The prisons are invariably located close to major roads in Israel, presumably because Israelis find it reassuring to know Palestinians are being locked up in such large numbers. (As an aside, I should mention that transferring prisoners out of occupied territory into the occupier’s territory is a war crime. But let that pass.)
Even before the mass round-ups of the past 11 months, the Palestinian Authority estimated that 800,000 Palestinians – or 40 per cent of the male population – had spent time in an Israeli prison. Many had never been charged with any crime and had never received a trial. Not that that would make any difference – the conviction rate of Palestinians in Israel’s military courts is near 100 per cent. There is no such thing as an innocent Palestinian, it seems.
Rather, imprisonment is a kind of terrifying rite of passage that has been endured by generations of Palestinians, one required of them by the bureaucracy managing Israel’s apartheid-occupation system.
Torture, even of children, has been routine in these prisons since the occupation began nearly 60 years ago, as Israeli human rights groups have been regularly documenting.
The imprisonment and torture of Palestinians serve several goals for Israel. It crushes the spirit of Palestinians individually and collectively. It traumatises generation after generation, creating fear and suspicion. And it helps to recruit a large class of Palestinian informants and collaborators who secretly work with Israel’s secret police, the Shin Bet, to foil Palestinian resistance operations against Israel’s illegal occupation forces.
This kind of Palestinian resistance, we should note, is specifically permitted in international law. In other words, what the West denounces as “terrorism” is actually legal under the principles the West established after the Second World War. Paradoxical, to put it mildly.
The humiliation and trauma systematically inflicted on these hundreds of thousands of Palestinians and the wider Palestinian society – and the complete lack of concern from the so-called “international community”, or, worse, its complicity – have inevitably fed into growing religious extremism among parts of a Palestinian society that was once largely secular.
If there is no justice, no redress to be offered by the international institutions created by a West that both trumpets its secularism while also flaunting its Christian values, then, Palestinians conclude, maybe they can find justice – or at least retribution – not through futile, rigged “negotiations” but through greater commitment to violent resistance carried out in the name of Islam.
That explains the emergence of the group Hamas in the late 1980s and its relentless growth in popularity. Hamas’ unapologetic Islamic militancy contrasted with the more accommodationist secular nationalism of Fatah, long led by Mahmoud Abbas. Support for Hamas was something Israel was only too happy to cultivate. It understood that Islamism would discredit the Palestinian cause in the eyes of westerners and further bond the West to Israel.
But Israel’s system of torture – whether in “normal” prisons like Megiddo or in the giant open-air prison that Israel made of Gaza – also led to an ever greater determination among groups like Hamas to liberate themselves through violence. If Israel could not be reasoned with, if it only understood the sword, then that was the language Palestinians would speak to Israel. This was precisely the rationale for the atrocities of October 7.
If you were horrified by October 7, but are not more horrified by what Israel has been doing to Palestinians for more than half a century in its prisons, then you are either in a state of deep ignorance – hardly surprising given the lack of media coverage of Israel’s despotic rule over Palestinians – or in deep denial.
If you cannot see the causal connection between the barbaric abuses of Palestinians generation after generation and the crimes committed on October 7, then you have no understanding of human nature. You have no inner awareness of how you would act had you, your father and your grandfather been tortured in an Israeli prison, a trauma passed down through families little differently than hair colour or build.
The message of Israel’s torture chambers is directed at all of us, not just Palestinians. ‘Black sites’ are about reminding those who have been colonised and enslaved of a simple lesson: resistance is futile.
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— Jonathan Cook (@Jonathan_K_Cook) May 24, 2024
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The scenes filmed at Megiddo. The images of emaciated men, broken from their beatings in prison. The disappearance of hundreds of doctors into Israel’s torture chambers. The video of a Palestinian man being raped by Israeli prison guards. The findings by Israeli and international organisations that this is going on systematically. The horrors are staring us in the face. But too many of us are looking away, reverting to the magical thinking of our babyhoods in which, when we cover our eyes, the world disappears.
The horrors of Israel’s prison system aren’t new. They have been going on for decades. What’s new is that Israel has intensified the abuse. It now relishes atrocities it previously hid away like a dark secret.
Israel is lost. It is deep in a black, genocidal hole. The question is, are you going to allow yourself to be sucked into the same void? Are you going to keep covering your eyes? Does the torture end just because you prefer not to see it?
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These jew scum are testing the Palestinian people to see how much they will take. The jew scum hope to do the same to the rest of humanity in time.
“Before October 7th Gaza was a concentration camp. After October 7th Gaza became an extermination camp.” Former US Ambassador Chas Freeman.
The Uk has been supplying leg chains and braces and other torture equipment to israel
so starmer is going to stop many well off pensioners from their pensions
and tax those elderly folk who have money in the bank
Those who have a rental property, will be forced to sell
then when the money goes in the bank, wallop ! starmer will grab it
We will be robbed to pay for all his migrants
the Israelis kidnap children often at dead of night they tell the parents their child will be tortured starved and buggered if they do not inform on their neighbours
They say their kids will be tuned into homosexuals, many of these kids are never returned
palestine is a living hell, and its all done with USA compliance
Many folk saw Hamas breaking into the childrens prison and freeing the kids it had me near to tears, and that IDF guy saying the children are kept there for the sexual comfort of the soldiers was the most evil thing i ever heard
Only problem is Oct 7 was a hoax/psyop. There are no ‘hostages’, no Jews died in Gaza nor have 40,000 Palestinians been iced. ‘Hamas’ exists in name only. Since the IDF-Mossad staged Oct 7 then everything that proceeds/develops from that hoax, must be calculated & progressing according to plan as well.
What does he mean, “Hanas crimes?”
Hamas did nothing wrong!
mainguilty are the zioamericans with their Rothschild-
jewmedias keeping the world stupid with their jewCIA
propaganda and giving armsaid to israel wich by the way
in reality is Chasarsael of AshkeNAZIs . only jews are sephardim !
When Rothschild wanted the land lumber water and mineral rights
of the USA, the indians had to be cleared off the land
they sent them blankets infected with small pox
killing huge numbers.
In the great plague of the UK, Nostradamus a jew claimed he could go among
all of london without fear of contacting the disease
because he knew which wells had infected rats dropped in.
This did not kill enough people so the next year
they had the great fire of london
which we now know from excavations did not start at a bakers in pudding land but at several places simultaneously.
Rothschild needed the space in central london to build his bank of England.
Only a fool would hand their kids over to jews for ” polio ” shots
Well it is nothing new for the jews….think how many Russians were tortured from 1917 onward.
Hatred for jews didn’t arise out of thin air…..they’re natural born killers…by stealth.
For about eighty years they’ve been basking in victim status….but it’s all turned to shit since they started openly massacring Palestinians….so now everything is returning to “normal”….no one likes the mofos…..just like in the good old days.People are seeing through their lies and arrogance.
Unusually blacks in the US are ready to call them out….and are now being targeted….which will only get them angrier.Whereas Europeans stay silent.
The jews are of course hoping for war to get them off the hook again.
7 October 2023…..?
5 September Diane Francis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jsq8l_IHsPI “Paranoid P. desperately trying to extend his life to prevent being overthrown | Diane Francis”
0.49 “…he is about to turn 72 on 7 October / which is the day btw the terrorists attacked (…) & they were trained by Wagner mercenaries of Russia…
26 April Bill Browder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMu2NhK11sI “Putin is a “Small Pathetic Man” Who Needs More Wars to Survive”
https://www.businessinsider.com/bill-browder-vladimir-putin-psychopath-since-childhood-2022-6
Browder´s first encounter with P. & his criminality was the Sergei Magnitsky story / the latter a friend of Browder discovered a massive Russian govt. corruption scheme involving 30 million dollars Browder had paid to the Russian govt. / Magnitsky was arrested / tortured & killed…
P. in St Petersrsburg that time / did not care that they stole the money but cared about Magnitsky exposing them….P. helped to cover up the murder…
“Browder explains the “psychopathy” and “depravity” of P. What motivates P. ?
”P. is a little man, who has stolen too much money / is terrified of losing power. If he loses power he will go to jail, lose his money, and die. So you’ve this little man who is scared of losing his life. So what does he do?”
He creates “a foreign enemy. That is what the Ukrainian invasion is all about…..
P.’s ability to survive, having stolen hundreds of billions – probably a trillionaire says Diane Francis – from his own people, depends on him being able to portray himself as a war president keeping his nation safe.”
Right / yet another reason imv is P. is a crypto ( fake / gj) j.* / chabad laptop- cq – dog and has close ties with RotSchild…so Ukraine & 7 October fit the Greater Israhell > jwo picture.
P. – just like maga crypto fake j. Mac Donald T . – as crypto talmud/tanya j. is not loyal to Russia thats of course only a facade… reason why he stole his “beloved” Russia blind…. surrounded by talmud mafia j. oligarchs….
8 September Faron Cousins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16Rlcy2r6coBalanced “T. Goes Nuts After DOJ Identifies Russian Influence To Help His Campaign” / not the first time:
Trump’s Russia Ties https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9yxvYP8SXU “Former Celebrity Apprentice Staffer Noel Casler Reveals All” by Meidas Touch Decamber 2020
CIA O
picture above : I remember Pharao + Assurbanipal
once upon a time did this but treated them better .
@ antiJHWH “only jews are sephardim ” Sefardis were brought to Spain already after Nebucadnazer´s invasion of the presentday 1948 israhell area….Benaya Israel quotes old books of European writers who brought this vorher unknown – at least to me – fact up in one of his docs….
+ he informs the viewer- following the same m.o.- that a few yrs prior to 1492 the negro / swarthy Sefardi j.´s of Portugal were brought to the island St Thomas near the west coast of Africa….
Later on exactly a main place from where they were cruisehipped to the Americas…
“Israel, Igbo, Bantu, & the E1b1a1 Genetics” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rv9hUEL_axI December
2013 ago by Judah The Hebrew
“This vid proves that the Igbo*, Bantu and Yoruba peoples of Africa and the diaspora are the 12 Tribes of Israel”
“African History of Black Jews in Africa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ge3hxJftoo Are Bantu People the Lost tribes of Israel in Africa?”
“…..African History of the lost tribes of Israel in Africa has been mostly hidden by Africa’s Enslavers & Colonizers. The Bantu tribes located in central & southern africa are among the african lost tribe of israel. History books by Anthropologist record strong evidence of Jews in Africa & among them are the Bantu who claim to be of the twelve tribes of israel after they were taken captive in Babylon. ”
1.30 : https://ia800503.us.archive.org/8/items/the-land-of-the-heart-of-livingstone/The_Land_of_the_Heart_of_Livingstone.pdf by Rev. B.N. Ghormley 1920
@BonsuBigWhale 6 months ago “All Bantus share the same e1b1a dna haplogroup that Pharoah Rameses III and son belonged to…-.another Kemetic connection.”
* Kissingers memo to the Nixon WH / January 28, 1969 https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/sites/default/files/virtuallibrary/releases/may16/may16/biafra.pdf
page 2 ” The Ibos are the wandering Jews of west Africa….” (second paragraph from the bottom)
https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/nixon/e5/55258.htm
How the USA Created Benjamin NetanyaWhodid911 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTZXHKArvuU
00:00 Intro: Does Israel Drive U.S Foreign Policy?
05:47 How the American Media Elevated Netanyahu *
14:32 How the Republican Party and Christian Zionists Shaped Netanyahu
20:43 Conclusion
( *fake j. Meilikovky aka netanyaWhodid911 )
Christ-all-clear Week Every Body Stay Healthy & Strong
CIA O
For me the worst aspect was the vid of hamas rescuing the kids
from that prison, knowing they were being used for sex
what animal would do this to children > and then learning it was happening in tunnels under synagogues here in the USA
as if 9 11 was not enough
The only solace I can find amid this mayhem, is the fact that these deeply soiled perpetrators walk amongst their society. They are their fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters and friends. Their communities are thus eternally broken, and they are doomed to fail. May that day come soon.
@mr.gabreal jones.could it be that amaruca was the ancestral land of the so called ‘afrikan americans?they were never shipped there from africa,they were already there.
Liar: Spreading more bullshit about? Your self-chosen moniker is apt.
Mr.gabrealjones.https://russiahousenews.info/images/stories/Pictures_10/sobchak_putin_elcin.jpg.putin gopnik.he looks like a bad guy from the bassie &adriaan ,clown and acrobat duo tv series .it was very difficult to find this foto.it has been scrubbed.you will find this foto in black ‘n white, the Adidas jogging-pants and too big clown loafers cut out.
https://russiahousenews.info/images/stories/Pictures_10/sobchak_putin_elcin.jpg.the correct link
https://russiahousenews.info/images/stories/Pictures_10/sobchak_putin_elcin.jpg
@ Liar 5:33 pm
Both are true Africans – with dna links to the real Hebrews of 2000+ yrs ago were cruiseshipped by mainly askenazi j.´s to the Americas / but black American were already there….
I posted yesterday ancient giant skeletons found in alaska / reported in beginning 1900 newspapers but I can´t find the comment or my wp notes now they were native American / not white European…
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/winstonlloydsr/ ( < this one works but not the main stream news papers on the ancient skeletos yet….)
this one gets close: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/672936369353462463/
https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/672936369353462459/ "9 feet high & probably a Californian Indian…the mummy is that of an Indian & almost certainly prehistoric…."
Buth there was one found in Alaska in 1900 with newspaper name & exact date / also "prehistoric" & native American Indian / black humans were in the Americas prior to the Mongloid Indians…
This prehistoric finds were even before "Luzia"…
The bones were brought to Smithsonian but no news since then…Way too heavy for the "established" theories of course…
I have to do other stuff now / tomorrow…
Good Week Every Body ( no skeletons yet)…
CIA O
Gabreal Jones–everyone wants to be Israel, but do they want to follow all the special rules? Certainly not
Oct 7 is a day of the year and we see it every 365-and-a-quarter days, and mine are usually good. Why let the Yids keep stealing another day for their bitch-my-tits-off diary?