Several sources have carried out thorough investigation into the US/Zionist accounts of what took place during the Palestinian Resistance's Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7, 2023. They present irrefutable evidence that the US/Zionist account used to justify the Israeli atrocities against the people of Gaza and now also the West Bank and Lebanon is disinformation based on a flagrant lie. It is designed to present the Resistance fighters as terrorists and the Israelis as victims. In some cases, both are presented as committing crimes for which they deserve to be punished.

Despite the irrefutable evidence that those accounts are based on lies, the countries which make up a genocide cartel including the US, Britain, Germany and, of course, Israel, among others, carry on repeating them with no sense of shame. This is because they can, but it does them no good. In the past year their Zionist narrative has contributed to their own isolation and lack of credibility while it also provides evidence of their complicity with the US/Zionist genocide. In this regard, it has given rise to the consciousness that they must be held to account.

The reports on what took place on October 7, 2023, do raise one of the lessons that those who support the justice of the Palestinian cause have learned in the past year of the Al-Aqsa Flood. In reporting on and discussing the events which took place that day, it is important not to make an equivalence between a military operation of the forces engaged in resistance to occupation which does not target civilian forces and the activities of the occupiers for whom civilians are fair game. Deaths which occurred on October 7 when the resistance fighters defended themselves cannot be compared or put on par with the brutal deaths at the hands of the Zionist soldiers under orders to kill everything that moved.

Actions of resistance forces which have a political aim are legal and justified under international law. The actions of the occupiers are illegal and cannot be justified under any law worthy of the name. To put the actions of resistance forces on a par with actions of the occupiers whose aim is to perpetuate the occupation, eradicate the resistance and, even more, commit genocide against an entire people, reveals a liberal bias. It is based on the outlook of the genocide cartel of countries which considers resistance tantamount to terrorism. Reporting based on this outlook conciliates with those who say the actions of the occupiers are in self-defence which provides them with impunity.

The aim of discussion and reporting must be to contribute to getting to the heart of the matter. In the case of the Al-Aqsa Flood launched on October 7, 2023, most important to an informed discussion is the account provided by the Resistance Forces themselves about the aim of the mission. A warranted conclusion which can be drawn from what took place that day is that it was a very bold and courageous action by the Palestinian Resistance Movement and forces not to permit the status quo imposed by the big powers on the Palestinian people to continue. For years and years the Palestinian people have been abandoned and forgotten, left to die, while the US and Israel commit genocide against them so as to realise their plan of a Greater Israel. The Al-Aqsa Flood Operation broke that status quo.

(TML In the News)

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