As concise and complete a counterpoint to this colonist as one could imagine Ali! But what can one really hope for when the most basic of questions is posed to middle east "experts", or just no nothing's who are somehow positioned to be asked; what hope is there when the standard answer to "can you tell us how this all started wise one" is "it's the missiles from Hamas, no civilized country can tolerate such thing".
That's as far as our mass media goes, they're satisfied with a complete distortion of the recent series of events and not a word about what responsibility Israel must assume for the inevitable repercussions of its illegal occupation and genocide through harrasment and attrition of Palestine.
"Not out of proportion", "a work in progress", says our President. Putting it all together, I'm beginning to think Trump's lies were child's play compared to the ones coming out of the Deep State.

Whenever Ali Abunimah has access to the airwaves, listeners and viewers are granted all too rare access to the truth about Israel/Palestine. In his response to the charge that Palestinian guerillas launch their munitions from apartment buildings which then have to be blown up by the IDF, he pointed out that a video recently posted by Netanyahu's senior spokesman claiming to show this use of "human shields" wasn't from Gaza at all, but was recorded in Syria in 2018. Neither Israeli interviewee promoting this racist rubbish even bothered to acknowledge the fact that their government circulates false material of this type to justify war crimes. And when he added that Israel with all its surveillance capability has failed to provide any visual evidence to back up its "human shields" canard, they behaved as though the question hadn't even been raised. That's a measure of both the arrogance and ineptitude of these colonial propagandists. There's something depraved about an opponent who when exposed in this way merely moves on to the next lie.

I’m sorry for taking up space with multiple postings but the cynicism and, not hypocrisy, it’s something more pervasive, make that the evil that’s driving Israel runs so deep that bits and pieces of it keep rising to the surface of my consciousness like buoyant turds.
As Ali say’s it’s incomprehensible that Israeli propagandists wouldn’t have slam dunked their bull with footage by now if there was anything to run. Maybe we’ll get a Golan-Globus production soon. But as we all know, the Israeli leadership would have to invent the rockets if Hamas didn’t have them. They know the rockets are there and will be launched, they have to be, they’re a pathetic show of resistance but they’re at least something, some exercise of a will that won’t be crushed.
So with Israel's provocations, which even the mainstream is beginning to recognize as evident, with that, who’s really using their populace for tactical advantage? I think that's been pointed out before but it bears repeating in this repeating nightmare.

Not only does Israel use this lame excuse - without evidence - every time they level an entire residential building (or ambulance etc etc etc), but it is an especially cold-hearted way to Blame The Victim. If Israel had anything BUT joy in murdering families of the people it displaces and locks up, and if it had any conscience, it would NOT bomb a building full of families... in other words, there is NO SUCH THING as a Human Shield to the IDF. They do it no matter what, and after all these years, it appears that they target families and feel nothing. except maybe joy?

But it is Israel's bombs, Israel's military, Israel's crime. Excuses don't change who is at fault.

Also, I understand they wait until midnight just to make sure there are as many people home in their residence as possible.