A group of influential Israeli rabbis wrote a letter to Benjamin Netanyahu affirming Israel's right under Jewish law to bomb Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza.
Today in Labor History, October 30, 2014: Sweden became the first European Union member state to officially recognize the State of Palestine. As of July 2019, 138 out of the 193 United Nations member states officially recognized Palestine.
Today in Labor History October 29, 1948: Israeli soldiers captured the Palestinian village of Safsaf in the Galilee, where the IDF committed a massacre of up to 64 villagers. Evidence suggests that they were shot with their hands tied and buried in a pit. Several women reported that they were raped by the IDF, including a 14-year-old girl. At least two internal inquiries were initiated by the IDF, but their reports remain classified. This massacre was part of the Nakba, or Catastrophe, when 78% of the Palestine Mandate was unilaterally declared as Israel, 700,000 Palestinians were forced off their land, and 500 Palestinian villages were destroyed by Zionist militias. It also led to the creation of permanent Palestinian refugees and the denial of their right to ever return.
If you want to listen--
A Palestinian, Maram Al-Dada, telling his story, the history not just the current. Destruction, collective punishment, death, hamas, jabotinsky, his grandmother, the dream of freedom of movement:
"This moment has demonstrated the limits of solidarity. It’s easy to show solidarity with corpses and with Palestinians who stoically remain resilient and endure their suffering. As long as Palestinians remain powerless victims, it’s easy to ride on the high horse of morality and wholeheartedly endorse their noble cause."
Fascists in Israel and the Occupied Territories take advantage of the moment to further their agenda of ethnically cleansing Palestine.
(A Bedouin community in the West Bank has no relationship whatsoever to Hamas, but as detailed in this article is cleansed nonetheless by neighboring Jewish terrorists.)
"May this book inspire us all to find and nurture the roses and light among those who struggle for survival and freedom in Gaza, in all of Palestine, and in every corner of the world where injustice still haunts the wretched of this earth."
"When I see Gaza, I am the Palestinians. I do not see myself in the face of an Israeli soldier — why should I? Because we are both Jewish? I see a colonizer, an occupier, a violent settler. I see someone willing to keep their boot on the neck of Palestine until she dies in the street.
Tell me the story again, Zaide. Of David and Goliath, of Palestine and Israel, of a stone vs a tank. Tell me again who you are and tell me the truth this time."