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Topping the Olympic table for hypocrisy and amorality

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07.08.2024

Is everyone lying and only Israel can be relied on to tell the truth? Is that it?

Amnesty lying? Médecins Sans Frontiéres? UNWRA? The International Criminal Court? The International Court of Justice?

That’s how it’s coming across. Just watch US President Joe Biden and British PM Sir Keir Starmer offer excuse after excuse for easily the worst atrocity I have seen in my lifetime.

Israel, they tell us time and time again, is ‘only defending itself’ and they’ll give iron-clad support to the only good guy in the Middle East conflict.

Topping the Olympic table for hypocrisy and amorality – Pat McArt

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I know you have heard it all before but let’s get it on the record one more time what ‘little Israel’ is doing to defend itself.

Up until the end of last month, 40,000 Palestinians have been killed. This includes 108 journalists and over 224 humanitarian aid workers, including 179 employees of UNRWA.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed or injured since Israel's assault on Gaza began (Jehad Alshrafi/AP)

Israel seems to have disproportionately targeted both groupings, probably for having the nerve to speak out against them.

It’s believed there are around 15,000 children dead, with possibly thousands more bodies under the rubble.

Nearly two million people have been displaced,........

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