Mike Whitney – The Unz Review Sept 13, 2024
According to CNN:
The Israeli military has desecrated at least 16 cemeteries in its ground offensive in Gaza,… leaving gravestones ruined, soil upturned, and, in some cases, bodies unearthed…
In Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, where fighting escalated earlier this week, Israeli forces destroyed a cemetery, removing bodies in what the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) told CNN was part of a search for the remains of hostages seized by Hamas during the October 7 terror attacks. CNN
Why are they doing this?
The IDF has produced no evidence of hostages, land mines, tunnels, weapons-caches or Hamas militants. It’s all an excuse to destroy the plots of land where people bury their loved ones. But, why? These graveyards pose no security threat to the IDF or to the Israeli state. They’re just cemeteries.
CNN has reviewed satellite imagery and social media footage showing the destruction of cemeteries and witnessed it firsthand while traveling with the IDF in a convoy. Together the evidence reveals a systemic practice where Israeli ground forces have advanced across the Gaza Strip.
The intentional destruction of religious sites, such as cemeteries, violates international law, except under narrow circumstances relating to that site becoming a military objective, and legal experts told CNN that Israel’s acts could amount to war crimes. CNN
You can tell that the journalist covering this story is disturbed by what he’s seen. He’s disturbed because plowing up the withered remains of loved ones –and leaving them to rot in the sun among clods of dirt and broken headstones– is a shockingly callous and evil thing to do. We don’t expect humans to behave this way. We expect them to show some small amount of respect for the dead. But, here, we see the exact opposite. Here, we see corpses treated like garbage that must be disposed of so the settlement project can move ahead.
Here’s CNN‘s televised report:
The israelis have destroyed 16 cemeteries in Gaza, & unearthed dozens of bodies, under the pretext they were looking for the remains of israelis pic.twitter.com/1LZMxyE4oy
— Sarah Wilkinson (@swilkinsonbc) January 19, 2024
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It’s worth noting, that other cemeteries in Gaza, that contain the bodies of Christians and Jews, have not been disturbed, which suggests that the policy is directed at a particular ethnicity, Arabs.
It’s also worth noting that the destruction of cemeteries is a clear violation of international law under the Rome Statute. This reinforces the claim that Israel is conducting a genocide, in fact, South Africa has referred to the IDF’s destruction of cemeteries in Gaza as evidence of genocide in its case at the International Court of Justice. Keep in mind, the definition of genocide goes beyond the mass killing of a particular ethnic group. It refers to “a policy to destroy a group, in whole or in part.” Raphael Lemkin’s Definition of Genocide helps to clarify this point:
… genocide does not necessarily mean the immediate destruction of a nation…. It is intended rather to signify a coordinated plan of different actions aiming at the destruction of essential foundations of the life of national groups, with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves….
The crime of genocide should be recognized therein as a conspiracy to exterminate national, religious or racial groups…. The formulation of the crime may be as follows:
“Whoever, while participating in a conspiracy to destroy a national, racial or religious group, undertakes an attack against life, liberty or property of members of such groups is guilty of the crime of genocide.” Raphael Lemkin’s Definition of Genocide, genocidewatch.com
Does the deliberate destruction of Palestinian cemeteries “signify a coordinated plan (aimed) at the destruction of essential foundations of the life….. with the aim of annihilating the groups themselves?
It does.
And is the destruction of cemeteries “an attack against life, liberty or property” of the Palestinians with the intention of “destroying the group in whole or in part”?
Yes, it is.
Then Israel’s actions meet the legal definition of genocide. This is from an article at The Atlantic Council:
When the IDF razes Gazan cemeteries, it also razes Palestinian heritage, culture, and claims to the land…..
white settlers in the United States frequently desecrated Indigenous burial grounds in a centuries-long campaign of cultural destruction and ethnic cleansing. Likewise, Nazis desecrated and destroyed countless Jewish cemeteries during the Holocaust, often using headstones as construction materials in a blatant effort to excise both Jewish people and Jewish heritage from occupied German territories….
the IDF’s alleged treatment of cemeteries outside of direct conflict with Hamas is also noteworthy, given cemetery desecration’s well-established place in the history of genocide. Cemetery desecration and genocide are so intimately linked that Raphael Lemkin, coiner of the term “genocide,” even recommended outlawing the practice in early drafts of the 1948 Genocide Convention. Razing the dead: Contextualizing IDF cemetery desecration in Gaza, The Atlantic Council
The desecration of cemeteries is such a malignant act, it’s hard to fully grasp. What sinister impulse motivates a nation’s leaders to direct their troops to obliterate their adversary’s burial grounds? It’s an act of pure barbarism bordering on criminal psychoses. The only conclusion we can draw is that Israel is not satisfied with merely obliterating the schools, hospitals, universities, mosques and vital infrastructure. They are not satisfied with merely slaughtering tens of thousands of civilians who are not connected in any way to the attacks of October 7. No. They are determined to eradicate any trace of the people who have occupied the land for the last two thousand years in order to concoct a fabricated history in which Zionist Jews are at the center of the narrative. This is from an article titled Necroviolence in Palestine:
….Jason De Leon brought forward the concept of necroviolence ..He defines it as:
“Violence performed and produced through the specific treatment of corpses that is perceived to be offensive, sacrilegious, or inhumane by the perpetrator, the victim (and her or his cultural group), or both.” – Jason De Leon in The Land of Open Graves, p.69[2]
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The Zionist regime’s use of necroviolence…. Demolition of historic gravesites
The Zionist regime has made the demolition of cemeteries a key arena for necroviolence to facilitate colonial expansion and historical erasure…. The regime has not only prevented the burial of Palestinian bodies, it has also gone to the extent of attacking the already buried, violating their bodies for further territorial expansion.
This also marks a step towards the complete erasure of the Palestinian experience, as many of these grave sites are centuries old, holding within them not only a history of Palestinian belonging, but one of resistance through the presence of martyrs who resisted decades of occupation. The Zionist regime thus denies Palestinians agency in one of the few forms it has left to exercise; that is, the traces of their heritage, identity, and history on ground.
Conclusion
Here, we gain insight into the logic of Zionist colonialism, which necessitates full control over every aspect of the Palestinian individual, both in life and death; in all forms of existence…., the regime’s exercise of necroviolence is a confirmation that Zionist colonialism continues long after death… Erasing all traces of Palestinian culture, heritage, and identity works as an attack on the legitimacy of the Palestinian experience…. Necroviolence in Palestine, Words of Solidarity
That pretty-well sums it up. Israel’s destruction of Palestinian cemeteries is a critical part of the ethnic cleansing campaign the goal of which is not simply to physically remove the native population but to expunge any trace of their historic existence.
It would be hard to imagine a more diabolical plan.
My MP says the country must brace itself for a huge wave of
people fleeing jewish persecution
Palestinians Syrians Iraqis Lebanese etc
are being pushed by Nutenyahu to come to ireland and the UK
i hear these numbers will be in the millions
and this is behind the huge house building programme in the UK
A proponent of Russia’s special mission in the world, Solzhenitsyn often expressed how the Jews have negatively impacted on Russia’s destiny.
A predominant focus of Solzhenitsyn’s vision for Russia’s special mission in the world is the Russian Orthodox Church’s call for its people to forego the West’s materialistic pursuits. In a 2007 interview with Der Speigel, Solzhenitsyn outlined the role of the Orthodox Church for Russia over against the West’s materialism:
— “The faith of our Church is the foundation and support of one’s life. And don’t forget what a horrible human toll the Russian Orthodox Church suffered throughout almost the entire 20th century. The Church is just rising from its knees.” — Here.
This suffering of the Russian Orthodox Church is one of the topics Solzhenitsyn discusses in his magnum opus, “Two Hundred Years Together.” Labelled by Jews as “Anti Semitic” and banned from publication in English by the Simon Wiesenthal Centre, (that wicked enemy of free speech), the book charges Bolshevik Jews with the guilt of the Church’s suffering in the 20th century.
The Jewish attack on Solzhenitsyn has its roots in the ongoing battle of the synagogue against the Church. In his 1995 essay, “The Russian Question At The End Of The Twentieth Century,” Solzhenitsyn wrote:
— “Russian nationality is not about blood but about spirit. The greatness of our people is to be sought in its inner development, in its breadth of soul. The Russian spirit and Russian culture have existed for centuries. All those who feel themselves part of this heritage in spirit are true Russians
source : https://www.realjewnews.com/?p=249
the true nature of Jewish supremacism is essentially SATANIC, and the stupid Goyim who’ve always been and still are in support of their Jewish Masters, haven’t seen anything yet…
Israel’s Diaper force has nothing better to do. It’s not like they are any good in a fight now is it??
“It’s directed only at Arabs”–you mean Moslems, and I am no longer pretending to respect them. They pretend to like Jesus but they abandoned the Jesus philosophy for a new one
Genocide is one this, but what Israel wants to do is delete and reformat the hard drive. It’s a big, audacious, criminal plan, let’s hope the space will never be Israel.
Video? Pallies are turks,brought there as actors in a long running soap opera,with a celestial reach.the ‘land’ was uninhabited by any body or flock of sheep.it was a desolate wasteland,as can be seen in photographs from 1850 on.mark twain wrote a travelogue titled ‘innocents abroad ‘”….. A desolate country whose soil is rich enough, but is given over wholly to weeds… a silent mournful expanse…. a desolation…. we never saw a human being on the whole route…. hardly a tree or shrub anywhere. Even the olive tree and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country.” (The Innocents Abroad, p. 361-362)
Historical photography says more than a bazillion words out of some ‘learned’ judahist’s beak.the med was a post apocalyptic wasteland,italy and greece were in ruins.they were not even countries /states yet .north Africa is still a wasteland.it was not until the advent of ‘great’ Britain in northeast Africa (the arab gulf and the levant) that this area would be reinvigorated.a sense of greco-roman history was marketed , following the ‘egyptomania’caused by Napoleon.the upper class started travelling to these ancient ruins as a pilgrimage to the origin of their greco-roman weltanschauung.these voyages were organised by cook travel agency.this is also the time the Olympic games were reinstated.
Over time,with tourists and pounds sterling flowing in ,these ruins were rebuilt to their former splendor. Looking at modern rome or athens ,would make one assume that these cities have always been inhabited and preserved,by generation upon generation of greeks and italians in a line going back to ancient rome or Athens.same with the holy land.
For those interested;there is a channel that collects and republishes historical photographic collections from musea and libraries.’jarid boosters’ yewtube. ,you would be amazed
Looking through photographs of Jerusalem of a later date ,post 1900,i could not find any sign or symbol of the ottomans.not a flag or sign could be seen anywhere, evidencing an ottoman presence.looking really deep, i found a sign directing to the cook travel agency,in english.and directions to the jaffa gate.in a period where the holy land was still part of the ottoman reich ?
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Why do people keep quoting international agreements on human rights.
These fiends think humans are animals….THEY ARE FANATICS.
That’s why cretinyahoo is still at large.
On one had jews introduce laws to protect themselves from retaliation….and then introduce laws to make criticism of them illegal!.
The journalist does not know those are Arab Christians. And Arab Jews. Whose cemeteries are undisturbed.
the Chasar/AshkeNAZI mix of asian/european origen
want to falsify their history for future !
so we see here a division in the jewish mafia :
the zionists hate arabs calling them terorists + using
them by Mossad and the orthodox rabbis nearly lick
the asses of moslems hoping they once they can lure
them to kill all european whites . so, there are two
strategies by the jews . the real jews anyway are the
sephardim but not better as they were the most
slavetraders in atlantic slavetrade . they live most
in southamerica but return more + more to spain .
Liar get it straight. The 1931 census found over one million people in Palestine, 750,000 of them Muslims.
Palestine and Jordan and Lebanon were all part of Syria in Ottoman times. Syrians can move around in their own damn country.
@mr.timothy dunlap. censor (n.)
1530s, “Roman magistrate of 5c. B.C.E. who took censuses🚦and oversaw public manners and morals,” from French censor and directly from Latin censor, from a censurer.”
From 1640s as “official empowered to examine books, plays (later films, etc.) to see they are free of anything immoral or heretical.” By the early decades of the 19c. the meaning of the English word had concentrated into “state agent charged with suppression of speech or published matter deemed politically subversive.”.
Btw,turks are ‘the jews’,before they set up camp in western rome.https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fuojil14dnua31.jpg. https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fqberphting931.png. https://66.media.tumblr.com/47b7d58f552b161a6abbff114f0ad74d/tumblr_mqerqhHIWW1sp9bo3o1_1280.png
Sabbatai zevi 1666 was a turk,➡️sabbatean-frankism https://www.britannica.com/biography/Shabbetai-Tzevi