It says much about the institutional racism of the BBC that it thinks Surviving October 7: We Will Dance Again is a suitable title for its documentary marking the first anniversary of the massacre of Israelis at the Nova rave.
Presumably the programme-makers believed it suggested healing and empowerment for those who survived October 7, rather than, as it does, continuing indifference to the horrifying plight of the people of Gaza who live – or, in so many cases, have died – just a stone’s throw from where the Nova festival was held.
At the time of the rave, Palestinians were trapped in the concentration camp of Gaza, under a medieval-style siege by land, sea and air that Israel had imposed on them for 17 years. Until, that is, Hamas broke out for one day, on October 7, briefly spreading carnage in its wake.
Like most other Israelis, the partygoers at Nova either did not know or did not care that so much suffering was happening just out of view in Gaza.
They know now. As do the programme-makers. Tens of thousands of Palestinians, most of them women and children, have been slaughtered by Israel's bombs over the past year. The rest are being starved to death by an intensified Israeli siege.
The International Court of Justice has ruled that a “plausible” case has been made that Israel is committing a genocide. Though no western politicians or media ever mention it, Israel is, in fact, on trial at this very moment at the world’s highest court, charged with the ultimate crime against humanity.
So what is the title "We will dance again" meant to convey? That Israelis can get back to partying because the deaths and suffering they experienced at Hamas’ hands lasted only a day?
There is no end in sight, even a year on, for Palestinians who have been slaughtered in far, far bigger numbers and have experienced suffering on an incomparably greater scale at Israel’s hands.
Will Israelis dance again because they still have homes and families to go back to? Whereas Palestinians have nothing. Their communities have been wiped off the face of the earth, and whole families disappeared into mass graves. Gaza’s orphans will never be reunited with their parents.
Will Israelis dance again because they have food on the table and water not only to drink but to bathe in, even swim in? Because the lights work at the touch of a switch, as do their televisions and fridges?
Gaza’s children have none of that. They must scour for whatever scraps are left, fight off the feral dogs for any tidbit they can grab, eat weeds if they can find them among the rubble.
They must walk hours or days to find water. There are no televisions or fridges. There are no walls or roofs to protect them. And without walls, there are no light switches or light fittings. And even if there were, there is no electricity to turn on. The wires are dead.
Will Israelis dance again because the BBC and the rest of the western media are so invested in amplifying their voice, in making documentaries to record and honour their pain?
Gaza’s children have no voice. Their cries go unheard. Their tears evaporate in the summer heat, and merge with the winter rain. No one comes from outside to make a documentary about them. No one comes at all.
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Re: Israelis will dance again, vows BBC film. Will Gaza's children ever get to dance?
Doesn't mention once the reasons for the attack or in fact the word "Palestine" or "Palestinian" is not in the article once. Also not mentioned is the fact that the IOF killed a lot of the people themselves. Then, near the end, it sneaks this nudge nudge, you know what I mean, couple of graphs in:
That the Israeli authorities didn’t come to their aid for so long – we are told the first police reinforcements arrived six hours after the rocket fire started – was similarly surreal. Such was the silence from the police and the army that one woman thought they no longer existed – that Hamas had conquered Israel.
This delayed response is not explained. In fact, there are countless things that the film opts not to discuss. The footage we see – while graphic and extremely disturbing – does not convey all the dimensions of the atrocity that occurred that day.
Which is their snidey, oxbridge way of saying "mass rape" without having to actually print it and be caught lying. It's also an equally snide way of trying to obfuscate the IOF's role in killing a large numbers of the casualties with their indiscriminate Appache attacks.
Is there nobody with a functioning moral compass or at least some idea of fucking tone at the BBC and the fraudian? Imagine packing the body parts of your family into a plastic bag in the ruins of your house in Gaza and hearing they've made a film about.....the Israeli ravers and how terrible it all was for them. For fucks sake....
The next time I hear some apartheid state stooge bleating about bias against their genocidal regime I might become homicidal.
...no amount of cajolery, and no attempts at ethical or social seduction, can eradicate from my heart a deep burning hatred for the Tory Party...So far as I am concerned they are lower than vermin.
One wonders when the likes of the BBC will finally admit that the vast majority of the killing was undoubtedly Israel killing it's own citizens: as evidenced in the media itself which interviewed the Israeli pilots at the time and as stated here long ago by:
"...the twenty-eight no-less Israeli combat helicopters that fired all of the ammunition they were holding: which included hundreds of 30 mm cannon shells and Hellfire missiles on targets whose status: civilian or Hamas they had absolutely no idea whatsoever about, nor that they apparently restocked and returned with more."
There were no Hamas helicopters blasting their full armoury repeatedly at everything which moved and no Hamas tanks either.
It wasn't just that the Israelis expended more firepower, but that the firepower they had avalable and indeed used pretty indiscriminately and in terms of weaponry was far more lethal than anything available or used by Hamas.
Do they just repeatedly resurrect this fantasy to avoid facing the shame of this truth which has been pretty self-evident since the first reports came in?
on September 26, 2024, 11:08 pm