Israel is so Evil That It Has a Military Unit Dedicated to Excusing Atrocities (and hiding its atrocities)
Posted on: August 22, 2025
| Caitlin Johnstone, Aug 17, 2025 |
Israel is so fucking evil that it has a military unit dedicated to coming up with excuses for the IDF’s atrocities.
+972 reports that the IDF has a special unit it calls the “Legitimization Cell”, because it is tasked with finding justifications to legitimize the assassination of journalists and other war crimes for the purpose of “public relations”.
If Israel was on the side of truth and morality it would not have a military unit dedicated to manipulating the public narrative about actions which normal people would see as extremely evil.
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Israel: We can’t allow Palestinian journalists to remain alive in Gaza because all the Palestinian journalists are Hamas.
Western journalists: Okay so let us in, that way there can be journalists documenting what’s happening in Gaza who aren’t Hamas.
Israel: [long pause] … No.
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I have never been less open to people with different opinions than I am with Gaza. I am simply correct, and if you disagree with me you are wrong and I hate you.
I have alienated various readers and online factions over the years with what I have written, but that has usually been unintentional; normally I don’t like to alienate people who resonate with my work.
Gaza was the first time I’ve been happy to lose anyone who disagreed with me. It was like, You’re leaving? Good. Get the fuck out. I’m going to keep saying what I’m saying and if you don’t like it then I don’t like you. If you don’t leave then I’ll kick you out myself.
I like to stay open to different perspectives, and I like to have people with different perspectives stay open to me. But Gaza is such an easy and obvious moral question that I stand nothing to gain from any contact with anybody who answers that question incorrectly. I’ve never been so fast and so confident in making enemies than I have over this issue.
I’m nearly as impatient with people who haven’t taken a forceful side on this.
It’s a sign of developing maturity to be able to see both sides of an issue, but it’s a sign of further maturity to understand that just because you can see both sides doesn’t mean you shouldn’t take sides on important and relevant moral issues with a clear right and wrong side.
Stop fence-sitting on a genocide and grow the fuck up.
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