As the world is trying to come to terms with the catastrophic results of the creation of Israel, the actual executioners, those charged with committing the crimes, are hard at work to show themselves as heroic, caring, friendly and humane. The Israeli military public relations campaign on the different social media platforms is sickening. Young men just back from committing heinous crimes are asked by a young military reporter, “What is the first thing you will do when you get home?”
“Hug my mama,” one said. Another answered, “See my girlfriend,” while a third said he would get his hands on a juicy steak. How normal! In another scene, the Golani Brigade members compete to see who has the most Golani-loving family. Photos of generations of Israelis who served in the murderous brigade swell with pride as they all admit to having been part of the atrocities taking place for generations.
“Give Respect to the Nahal Brigade” is yet another campaign where one can see members of that particular terrorist unit committing crimes against humanity, attacking and destroying people and infrastructure like the genocidal maniacs that they are. At the same time, they are made to look heroic and friendly.
The campaign goes on and on, and another particularly cynical one shows young women in IDF uniform, ranging the entire racial spectrum and attractive to the Western eye, talking about their role in the genocide and terrorizing of Palestinians. They are commanders, teachers, clerks, observers in observation towers and on and on, and they pretend to take pride in their despicable work.
The Israeli military pages on the various platforms are all in violation of community guidelines because they promote hate and genocide. There needs to be a campaign to report these pages on a massive scale so that they are all taken down. A short list of names of these pages includes idfonline,idf_tsanhanim,idf, golani_1, shakedgdud424, idf_nahal, givati.official, shaytet_13, and sayeretgivati846.
Joe Biden’s comments on Gaza during the State of the Union address were nothing short of a grotesque attempt to claim the U.S. cares about the people of Gaza — who are subjected to genocide — while supplying weapons to the very perpetrators of the genocide. Israel is committing genocide throughout Palestine, and while the world’s attention is on Gaza, human rights abuses of Palestinians have reached unimaginable proportions. Mass murder, arrest, torture, sexual abuse in prisons, and other forms of abuse have become more commonplace than ever. Joe Biden, however, is focused on building a pier.
Never mind the fact that the pier will serve Israel and not the Palestinian people, the notion of a pier as the answer to the intentional starvation of millions of people who can access food and medicine within a five-minute drive but are denied access because of Israel, is nothing short of sadistic.
All of this is to emphasize that there is something every person can do. Social media platforms are there for us to consume, and sadistic Israeli perpetrators of genocide are right there trying to portray themselves as friendly fighters of evil. It is time to report these pages and their posts on a daily basis.
Miko Peled is a MintPress News contributing writer, published author and human rights activist born in Jerusalem. His latest books are»The General’s Son. Journey of an Israeli in Palestine,» and «Injustice, the Story of the Holy Land Foundation Five.»
