Courtesy of Pam Martens
Patrick Galey, Reporter for AFP, Tweets this Split Image on May 14, 2018 as U.S. Embassy Opens in Jerusalem
Donald Trump’s lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, made the bizarre remark on Fox News recently that Jared Kushner might be “disposable” because men, in general, are disposable. Kushner is Trump’s son-in-law who was safely protected as he delivered a speech at the opening of the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem yesterday. What played out in Gaza yesterday was very different: under the Trump administration, all Palestinians in Gaza are “disposable,” even children.
According to news reports this morning, more than 60 Palestinians died in Gaza yesterday with more than 2,000 injured. The United Nations reports that eight of those dead are children under the age of 16. The massacre was the direct result of the Israeli military firing live bullets at protesters.
But Donald Trump’s White House doesn’t see it that way. At a press briefing yesterday, White House Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah was asked about Israel’s “kill at will” policy toward the demonstrators. Shah replied: “We believe Hamas, as an organization, is engaged in cynical action that’s leading to these deaths.”
As the outrage grew in the U.S. and internationally against the grotesque images yesterday of Ivanka Trump leading the celebrations occurring at the U.S. Embassy and the dead children being carried out in Gaza, anger spilled out across social media.
Israel has been successful heretofore in effectively using a propaganda sound bite to brush away those who challenge its most horrific human rights violations. If you are a journalist criticizing its massacres, you’re an “anti-semite.” If you’re a prominent Jew criticizing it, you’re a “self-hating” Jew. If you’re a human rights organization assessing its massacres of unarmed protesters as a violation of international law, you’re opposing Israel’s right to defend itself. But after Israel’s outrageous conduct yesterday, challenges to its propaganda war have gained momentum.
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