They call them animals.
The last hostage exchange saw just over 600 Palestinian Hostages released. I know the governments and media of the West like to refer to these hostages as “prisoners”, but being held without trial, interrogated in a language that is not your own, being denied legal counsel, and being subject to torture sounds like hostages to me. Of these hostages, 107 were children.
While Western Media and governments have been amazingly vocal about the tragic fact that the Bibas family were killed by the IOF bombardments whilst in captivity, it was remarkably muted on the Israeli hostage who bestowed kisses on the foreheads of his captors as he was released. Funnily enough, they were silent on the state of the Palestinian hostages. Emaciated bodies, missing limbs, faces gaunt with terror. B’tselem; the Israeli Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, issued a report last year called, “Welcome to Hell”. This report documents the abuse and inhuman treatment of Palestinians held in Israeli custody since 7th October 2023.
This was of course happening for decades before the 7th October 2023 and there are thousands of Palestinian Hostages languishing in torture camps. I know it is important to bear witness, but for the first time I had to put my phone down and leave the room as I could not listen to the testimonies of some of the Palestinian Hostages. To sum it up, there was no torture that was not tried.
Zionists, past and present love using the word animals to describe the people they want to erase in their devastating pursuit of supremacy. At this stage in the game, there is no greater compliment they could use.
They call them animals
to slur and dehumanise.
Yet when ‘humanity’
becomes too loud,
too cruel,
and too unkind,
I seek solace in
the silence and serenity
of animals.
How right they are.
When anything ‘human’
has left ‘humanity’
I know who I would rather be.
They call them animals.
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