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From the River to the Sea: A Tale of Two Narratives and One Global Hypocrisy

 




✍️ By Malik Mukhtar
📍 ainnbeen.blogspot.com

Let’s pause and appreciate the Olympic-level hypocrisy of our so-called civilized world.

When someone chants “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” entire governments, media outlets, and university administrations faint in unison.
It’s called genocidal. Dangerous. A threat to Jewish existence. People are fired, censored, arrested—because clearly, dreaming of freedom for Palestinians is the greatest crime of our time.

But now let’s look at the flip side—the words that don’t spark outrage. The words that don’t get banned. The words that are spoken not by activists, but by elected Israeli officials, ministers, and generals. Words that don’t just hint at violence, but revel in it.

🗣️ Amichai Eliyahu, Israeli Heritage Minister:

“There are things more painful than death. We should use them. Killing is not enough.”

🗣️ Itamar Ben-Gvir, Minister of National Security:

“My right, and the right of my wife and children, to travel on the roads of Judea and Samaria, is more important than the right to movement for Arabs.”

🗣️ Bezalel Smotrich, Finance Minister:

“There is no such thing as a Palestinian people.”
“The village of Huwara needs to be wiped out. I think the State of Israel should do it.”

🗣️ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

Opposes Palestinian statehood and repeatedly refers to Palestinians as a “demographic threat.”

🗣️ Avi Dichter, Agriculture Minister:

“We are now rolling out the Gaza Nakba.”

🗣️ Tzachi Hanegbi, National Security Adviser:

Threatened to make Gaza “a place where no human being can exist.”

🗣️ Daniel Hagari, IDF Spokesperson:

“There are no innocent civilians in Gaza.”

🗣️ Ayelet Shaked, former Interior Minister:

“They [Palestinians] are all enemy combatants… including their mothers.”

And as if their words weren’t enough, the actions followed with brutal clarity.

🔥 The GHF Massacres — June 2025: Starvation by Bullet

In June 2025, Israeli forces carried out a series of massacres at Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) food distribution sites — the very spots where desperate Palestinians lined up for bread and rice after months of siege-induced famine.

  • June 4, 2025 — Al-Mawasi:
    Israeli forces opened fire on a crowd of starving civilians awaiting flour and water.

    11 killed, including two women and a toddler, as per UNRWA Situation Report #174.

  • June 13, 2025 — Khan Younis Distribution Site:
    Israeli drone fired on hundreds gathered at a GHF delivery zone.

    24 killed, many with head wounds. Eyewitnesses described a mother shot while holding her infant.

  • June 17, 2025 — Central Gaza (Al-Zawaida):

    28 killed, including 7 children, when Israeli forces shelled a crowd gathered around an aid truck.

  • June 23, 2025 — Northern Gaza:
    As GHF convoy approached, Israeli snipers fired into a crowd before aid could be distributed.

    18 confirmed dead; UN records describe “unprovoked lethal force against civilians clearly marked as noncombatants.”

  • June 29, 2025 — Final week of June:
    Multiple incidents across Gaza saw over 80 people killed in a span of 4 days — many shot while holding aid vouchers.
    One UN worker described the scene:

    “A mother was shot in the face while holding her baby. He was still suckling.”

Despite this carnage, not a single Israeli official was held accountable. No UN Security Council resolution was passed. No international outrage matched the scale of these crimes.

But go ahead—chant “From the river to the sea,” and you might get banned in Germany or blacklisted in the U.S.

Because apparently, dreams of freedom are more dangerous than bullets into the bellies of the starving.

Let’s be clear:
🔺 Saying “Free Palestine” is criminalized.
✅ But saying “Kill them more painfully than death” is “defending democracy.”
🔺 Saying “From the river to the sea” is hate speech.
✅ But wiping out people waiting for rice is “collateral damage.”

This isn’t just a double standard—it’s a genocidal one.

So let’s give the world’s silence another sarcastic round of applause. 👏
For condemning the chant, not the massacre. 👏
For criminalizing resistance, not extermination. 👏
For acting like starvation and sniping are somehow less threatening than slogans of liberation.

📚 References

🔴 Israeli Officials’ Hateful Statements

  1. Amichai Eliyahu — Haaretz, Nov 2023: Suggests nuclear bomb, more painful measures
  2. Itamar Ben-Gvir — The Guardian, Aug 2023: Jewish travel rights outweigh Arab freedom
  3. Bezalel Smotrich — BBC News, Mar 2023: No Palestinian people, “wipe out” Huwara
  4. Netanyahu — Reuters, Dec 2023: Rejects Palestinian state after Gaza war
  5. Avi Dichter — Middle East Eye, Oct 2023: “Gaza Nakba is unfolding”
  6. Tzachi Hanegbi — Times of Israel, Oct 2023: Threat to make Gaza uninhabitable
  7. Daniel Hagari — CNN, May 2024: “No innocent civilians in Gaza”
  8. Ayelet Shaked — The Independent, July 2014: “Kill the mothers too” post

🔴 GHF Distribution Site Massacres – June 2025

  1. UNRWA Situation Report #174, June 6, 2025 – UNRWA Official Site
  2. UN OCHA Humanitarian Situation Update #305, June 25, 2025 – OCHA ReliefWeb
  3. Middle East Eye, June 23, 2025: GHF aid distribution attacked by Israeli forces
  4. Human Rights Watch, June 30, 2025 Report — Documenting deliberate attacks on starving civilians


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