JOHNSTONE

Bombing Hospitals Is Bad Again


Listen Later

Israel and its western allies are crying and rending their garments about an Israeli hospital that was damaged in an Iranian missile strike. Western media outlets like the BBC and New York Times have suddenly remembered how to write headlines which assign blame to the attacker after deciding that hospitals getting bombed is a newsworthy event again.
The Iranian attack didn't even kill anybody, and the damage to the hospital was reportedly the result of a shockwave from a strike on a nearby Israeli military facility. That's right: the Israeli military was using the hospital for human shields. As always, every accusation is a confession.
Israel, as we all know, bombs hospitals constantly. Israel bombed an Iranian hospital just the other day to almost no coverage from the western press. Israel has attacked healthcare workers and healthcare facilities in Gaza around 700 times according to the World Health Organisation, and the IDF has repeatedly been documented entering the hospitals it attacks to destroy individual pieces of medical equipment. Israel, unlike Iran, is deliberately targeting healthcare facilities to make Gaza unlivable.
Israeli defense minister Israel Katz is now saying that because of the hospital strike, Iranian Ayatollah Ali Khamenei "cannot continue to exist." Knowing what we know about Israel's track record, saying that people who bomb hospitals should not be allowed to exist can only be interpreted as an extremely antisemitic statement.
Reading by Tim Foley.
...more
View all episodesView all episodes
Download on the App Store

JOHNSTONEBy Caitlin Johnstone and Tim Foley

  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7
  • 4.7

4.7

174 ratings


More shows like JOHNSTONE

View all
The Electronic Intifada Podcast by The Electronic Intifada

The Electronic Intifada Podcast

324 Listeners

The Katie Halper Show by Katie Halper

The Katie Halper Show

1,473 Listeners

Scheer Intelligence by Scheerpost

Scheer Intelligence

384 Listeners

Empire Files by Empire Files

Empire Files

721 Listeners

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté by Useful Idiots, LLC

Useful Idiots with Katie Halper and Aaron Maté

4,427 Listeners

Bad Faith by Briahna Joy Gray

Bad Faith

2,689 Listeners

The Socialist Program with Brian Becker by The Socialist Program

The Socialist Program with Brian Becker

528 Listeners

Rania Khalek Dispatches by Rania Khalek

Rania Khalek Dispatches

217 Listeners

Geopolitical Economy Report by Ben Norton

Geopolitical Economy Report

293 Listeners

Antiwar News With Dave DeCamp by Dave DeCamp

Antiwar News With Dave DeCamp

146 Listeners

The Grayzone podcast with Max Blumenthal by Max Blumenthal

The Grayzone podcast with Max Blumenthal

278 Listeners

System Update with Glenn Greenwald by Rumble

System Update with Glenn Greenwald

1,141 Listeners

Colonial Outcasts by Colonial Outcasts

Colonial Outcasts

662 Listeners

The Chris Hedges Report by Chris Hedges

The Chris Hedges Report

285 Listeners

Drop Site News by Drop Site News

Drop Site News

444 Listeners