What is happening is, quite simply, annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize it<\/p>\n
Where do I even start? In recent weeks I\u2019ve sat down to try and write about Gaza<\/a> and, every time I steel myself to write about one atrocity, another atrocity is committed. Palestinian journalists have been burned alive<\/a>, babies have frozen<\/a> to death, medics have been executed<\/a> and buried in mass graves, kids are being killed in their sleep. Meanwhile, in the US and Germany<\/a>, speaking out about dead Palestinian babies can land you on a deportation list<\/a>. Arguing that international human rights law should be respected can put you at risk of being snatched off the street<\/a> and stuck in a detention centre.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t know where to start and I don\u2019t know what is really left to say at this point. After 18 months of endless carnage, it should be clear to everyone that this is not a war. That this is not self-defence. What is happening in Gaza is, quite simply, annihilation. A litany of genocide experts<\/a> have stated this. Respected international organizations like Amnesty International<\/a> have concluded that Israel is committing genocide \u2013 and yet our politicians are still funding this.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is happening is, quite simply, annihilation. Yet our politicians keep funding it and media outlets normalize it Where do I even start? In recent weeks I\u2019ve sat down to try and write about Gaza and, every time I steel myself to write about one atrocity, another atrocity is committed. Palestinian journalists have been burned … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}