Israel’s tactic is tried and tested. Before or after it has attacked, maimed or killed anyone it wants to ‘take out’, it calls them Hamas. As these lines are written, Israel is deploying the same smear campaign against the Global Sumud Flotilla, the magnificent people – including doctors, lawyers, journalists, students, workers and parliamentarians – who are sailing toward the blood-soaked Gaza coast to break Israel’s siege of a devastated land on which its genocide of two million Palestinians is proceeding at a mechanical, ruthless, calculated pace.
Unsurprisingly, as dozens of boats converged from all over the Mediterranean on a common course toward Gaza, the Israeli propaganda machine began to scream ‘Hamas!’ at the top of its lungs, plastering in red the words ‘HAMAS FLOTILLA’ on photographs depicting its boats. “This is not humanitarian. This is a jihadist initiative serving the terror group’s agenda,” screeched Israel’s Foreign Ministry. But that’s not all…..more
