MAHMOUD JAMAL HAMDAN(2002-2023)

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Yesterday Israel's occupation forces' soldiers

in the Aqbat Jeber refugee camp near Jericho,

on Palestine's Israeli occupied West Bank,

stopped Palestinian medics from resuscitating

Mahmoud Jamal Hamdan, aged 21 and in cardiac arrest

after being shot by Israeli occupation troops,

and instead  took off his oxygen mask, and put him

at the back of their army jeep, to die.

Why? Because they could.

Opportunity combined with total impunity

is enough to corrupt a human being

and remove their own humanity.

You don't need any bigger reason or excuse

to commit war crimes than that knowledge -

that you can commit those acts

and suffer no consequences;

a human confident of their total impunity,

when it comes to actions they can take

against their fellow human beings,

is by far the worst predator on Earth.

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This killing of Mahmoud Jamal Hamdan, aged 21,

 is considered to be both normal and proper by all

who matter in the 'West', as was keeping him under

military occupation for his entire short life.

In the dimming 'West',

everybody who is considered respectable

and having a modicum of power and influence,

from government and opposition politicians

to remaining journalists and business leaders,

declares that all criticism, all opposition

towards these endless killings means

to be guilty of 'Antisemitism'.

They all send those occupation soldiers

to shoot Mahmoud Jamal Hamdan, to deny medical

aid to him, and end his life at the age of 21.

They are all guilty.

02.03.2023

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