After 75 years of failure, one would imagine that a people would learn what works and what doesn’t, both from their own experience, as well as the experience of others.
The #ethnicSorting was most pronounced in the center of the land [where] more land was conquered by the #Arab Legion than by #IDF.
This territory included many sites with religious and symbolic importance to both sides.
It became known then as the #WestBank and it sits on a smaller patch of land that what had been allocated to a future #Palestinian Arab state in the rejected #UN#partitionProposal that preceded the war.
With few exceptions, the few places in central #Israel today with a significant Arab population were not actually conquered by the #IDF in the war; they were largely territories that were held by the invading #Iraqi army and that were ceded to Israel in the #armistice.
@BobaFuttbucker Interesting take. If he thinks #Hamas should be stopped, I'd love to hear his strategy for how that ought to be done. I hear more from people arguing that the #IDF should stop fighting #Hamas than arguing for how exactly the #IDF should be fighting #Hamas, if not with the current tactics
Canada’s largest private high school recently organized a genocide solidarity trip in which students cooked for Israeli soldiers. In a sane world, the school’s charitable status would be revoked.
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel Well, this is sickening. Did the school cheerleaders lead cheers for #IDF like "Give me a G, give me an E, give me an N, give me GEN-O-CIDE!" 🤮
The #Biden admin has concluded it is “reasonable to assess” that #Israel’s military campaign in #Gaza has violated #InternationalLaw, but has not found specific instances that would justify the withholding of #military aid, #State Dept told #Congress Fri.
In the admin’s most detailed assessment of #Israel’s conduct in #Gaza, #State said in a written report to #Congress that Israel “has the knowledge, experience & tools to implement best practices for mitigating #civilian harm in its #military operations.”
But it added that “the results on the ground, including high levels of civilian casualties, raise substantial questions” as to whether the #IDF are using them sufficiently.
If screaming “apartheid” has an impact in delegitimising the very basis of Israel’s existence, accusing it of genocide is a still more powerful weapon. So it has, likewise, been repeated until it has now become accepted as fact – such that it can be asserted without contradiction.
Neither apartheid nor genocide have been proven, but as we've seen with far too many things like especially with climate science denial repeating a lie over and over can make people believe anything sadly.
@GreenFire #WarInPalestine
"John Spencer, professor of Urban War Studies at West Point who says, “Israel has done more to prevent civilian casualties in war than any military in history.""
This seems a outlier view to me.
I have not seen a similar opinion anywhere in the world.
The #IDF is not fighting a regular war but trying to seize and eliminate a terrorist group that hides between millions of innocent civilians. In so doing, the #Gaza strip has become all but uninhabitable...
#IDF destroyed the last operating cell tow in Rafah and set it on fire.
One of the key goals of Israel is to prevent the world witnessing what they are doing in Gaza. From murder of reporters, preventing foreign press to enter and destroying the means of communication, they are setup up the stage for full blown assault on #Rafah and mass murder of innocent palestinians who have no where to go.
One clear sign of how ignorant and immature the college protesters are is how they all don't seem to want to be held accountable for the crimes they committed.
I wish that our U.S. campuses would at least still assign students to read MLK's Letter from a Birmingham jail, and Thoreau's essay on Civil Disobedience.
I think these protesters have failed the guidelines of: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and effective direct action.
There cannot be double legal and moral standards, ..."with liberty and Justice for all.”
As a sidenote:
History will judge whether the current presiden of Russia or Israel or the former president of the US, #TFG, will have caused the most lasting damage to their respective countries in the long run.
What is at stake for the USA is nothing less than Democracy and individual...
I've been doing some research and I can't find any other example of a military called by a name other than [Country Name] Military, such as "American military", "Russian Military", "Chinese Army", etc. other than Israel, when people talk about the IDF, the Israeli Defense Force.
This is clearly a way to act as if the Israeli army is somehow a separate entity than the government, and thus can be compared to terrorist organizations. It's a means of de legitimization.
Whether you agree with the military's actions or find them abhorrent, treating it as a separate entity is problematic. The military operates on behalf of the government.
If you've been doing it, stop.
If you see other people doing it, call it out.
At this point, I will personally see it as a dog whistle and proceed accordingly.[1]
Warum kann man das Vorgehen der #IDF in #Gaza / #Rafah nicht einfach so verurteilen, wenn man denn unbedingt will, ohne das Wort „#Genozid“ zu sinnentleeren?
Demnächst dann in der Schule:
„Boah, die Matheklausur war voll Genozid, ey!“
Fussballfans:
„Das Fussball Derby mit dem 4:0? Krasser Tor-Genozid!“
Bahnkunden:
„Die Bahn hatte genozidale 5h Verspätung!“
Social Media User:
„Der hat mich beleidigt! Das ist kein Shirstorm mehr, das ist schon Social-Media-Genozid!!“
Und es in der aktuellen Situation #IDF in #Gaza und von der Vorgeschichte her nicht unbedingt abwegig ist, das Wort zu verwenden. Zumindest sollte man nachvollziehen können, wie andere darauf kommen, IMHO.
“the #IDF has enough weapons supplied by the #US & other partners to conduct the #Rafah operation if it chooses to cast aside US objections, the 1st official said.”
UN revises Gaza death toll, almost 50% less women and children killed than previously reported (www.foxnews.com)