It is often said that a rumour is like a tumour, leave it to spread and you will dread its repurcussions. Well, in the face of the rising death toll in Gaza, the social media has come to life printing all sorts of instigational hulabaloo on the touchy issue. It is a collosal chaos by the radicals, misinformed and ill-informed alike.
The Hamas and Israeli troops must have not got the memo of the rendezvous between Israel and Egypt to call for a ceasefire. As scores of people are crudely murdered in Palestine, some people have resorted to the common Apartheid low blow.
A recent speech purporting to acredit Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been received with pompous aplomb and doubts alike
"The State of Israel that we know of today has not been created by wishful thinking... We do not pretend like other whites that we like the arabs and blacks. The fact that, blacks and Arabs look like human beings and act like human beings does not necessarily make them sensible human beings."
- an excerpt from the speech attributed to Netanyahu.
But what if that speech never existed?
The speech that has since gone viral was clearly intended to inform as many people as possible that this is
the real Netanyahu - a racist leader who believes that as far human beings go, well, Arabs and Africans aren't really relevant. The message went especially viral in Muslim networks, and is said to have been shared by Affan Sosibo of the African National Congress Youth League.
It may intrigue even the most sombre of minds to learn that a similar speech was attributed to South African apartheid president PW Botha that:
"The Republic of South Africa that we know of today has not been created by wishful thinking... We do not pretend like other Whites that we like Blacks. The fact that, Blacks look like human beings and act like human beings do not necessarily make them sensible human beings".
- an excerpt from the speech attributed to Botha.
More intriguing is the fact that if you carefully research for conclusivity of this speech, you will find that it did not actually exist.
Do not get me wrong, the internet is a very powerful tool to finally end the violence against helpless scores of people in Palestine but we seem to have got it off on the wrong foot.
Doesn't spreading falsehoods about Gaza and Israel give the other camp additional ammunition to the actual ones they have? Is it so hard for the Israelis to use the race card on the Palestine support groups because of the fact that they are historically marginalised and abused?
Let us call a spade a spade and realise that this endless killing by these tyrants cannot be stopped by cowards sitting behind their computers in their underwear and sharing the first thing that pops in their fickle minds. For the legitimately distraught lot, I think we owe it to all the helpless women, children and senile Palestine victims to put up a strong online revolt against the war crimes against them. We owe it to all those murdered that they die not in vain. More importantly, we owe it to the vulnerable residents of the region that they should not live in fear for much longer.
We owe them not mind games, but a real fight.
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