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   From: void@invalid.noy   
      
   Israel’s genocidal moral depravity keeps plunging into new depths.   
      
   On Tuesday, Israel’s Kan public broadcaster ran a news program for   
   “the 130th day of the war” hosted by the veteran Ayala Hasson. During   
   the program, she interviewed former Mossad official Rami Igra, who had   
   been head of the spy and assassination agency’s “Captive & Missing   
   Division.”   
      
   Igra echoed President Isaac Herzog’s claim that there are “no   
   uninvolved [civilians] in Gaza.” Igra emphasizes the point by saying   
   “There is no such thing,” as Hasson disrupts him in agreement with an   
   affirming “You’re right, you’re right.”   
      
   Igra then goes on to specify this genocidal axiom in a bizarre manner,   
   exempting children below age four:   
      
   “In Gaza, everyone is involved. Everyone voted Hamas. Anyone over the   
   age of four is a Hamas supporter. And our goal at the moment, and this   
   is in continuation of what you said, is to turn them from Hamas   
   supporters to Hamas dislikers.”   
      
   This unhinged, delusional message is coupled with a supposedly   
   “humanitarian” approach:   
      
   “And the way is supplying the humanitarian aid, through us.”   
      
   So, this enlightened colonialist is saying that if Israel, rather than   
   UNRWA (which Israel is harassing, tarnishing, and lobbying to defund),   
   will be the supplier, then the Palestinians will learn to love Israel!   
   Within the Israeli genocide machine, everyone knows that the phrase   
   “everyone is involved” means that everyone can be killed. Everyone   
   knows that. So Hasson finds a need to moderate the message a bit, but   
   she first points to her general agreement with the message:   
      
   “OK, so look, regarding the uninvolved, every house in Gaza is a Hamas   
   HQ, weapons, Al Aqsa, everything, all the signs are there.”   
      
   Hasson actually gives him that. This is not in question. “Every house   
   in Gaza.”   
      
   But now, some liberalism:   
      
   “And still, how did you say, children from the age of zero to four?   
   They are uninvolved – maybe when they grow up they will be [involved].   
   In the meantime, you cannot starve them – they are children, there’s   
   nothing to do.”   
      
   So let’s just summarize this mind-boggling logic. Hasson understands   
   that Igra is speaking about genocidal collective punishment – using   
   starvation as a weapon of war – but argues that those under four   
   should not be starved because “they are children.” Ergo, a toddler who   
   hits age four, is no longer a child and, therefore, may now be   
   starved.   
      
   “I agree with you,” Igra states   
      
   “This is in the interest of us all,” Hasson adds.   
      
   “It’s also against our interest,” Igra confirms.   
      
   “Yes, exactly,” Hasson concurs.   
      
   One could almost cry from emotion about the amazing consensus that   
   these two liberals arrive at. They started from the mainstream view   
   that all Gazans are fair game for genocide, but now they have managed   
   to find common ground in a more nuanced view that children under the   
   age of four should be considered children.   
      
   Israelis have no idea as to the depth of the moral abyss they have   
   sunk. This is a genocidal culture that is so deprived that you can’t   
   make it up, and they still believe they are on top of things. They are   
   certainly on top of Palestinians right now, but they have completely   
   lost it. And so have those who continue to support this abomination in   
   the name of democracy and shared values.   
      
   https://mondoweiss.net/2024/02/former-mossad-official-children-i   
   -gaza-over-the-age-of-4-deserve-to-be-starved/   
      
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