Fears that #Israel or international partners could pressure #Egypt into accepting millions of #Palestinians settling in the #Sinai have abounded for decades in #Cairo: #HosniMubarak strenuously denied reports in 2017 that he had cut a deal with #MargaretThatcher in 1983 to resettle Palestinians exiled in Lebanon in the peninsula, adding that #BenjaminNetanyahu, had also proposed the idea in 2010.
"Stephen Fry issued a heartfelt #Christmas message Monday, calling out the surge in #antisemitism in the #UnitedKingdom and encouraging the country’s #Jews to take pride in their heritage — and swiftly sparked a torrent of online trolling and backlash, with many accusing the actor and writer of playing the victim instead of shining light on the plight of #Palestinians in war-torn #Gaza."
Fry is figuring out he should have kept it a secret. Sorry bud. Welcome to the thunderdome.
After 18 years of #hamas control of #Palestinians , is it impossible to suggest the only people that remain living in #gaza were families or infrastructure supporting #terrorists?
Hamas declared #jihad on #israel, October 7th 2023 from the streets of Gaza.
Hamas took 200 + #hostages from around the world on October 7th 2023.
It does not accurately describe either the foundation of #Israel or the tragedy of the #Palestinians.
By Simon Sebag Montefiore
“…Whatever the enormous complexities…, one truth should be obvious among decent people: killing 1,400 people & kidnapping >200, including scores of #civilians, was deeply wrong.
Some people try to frame all demonstrations in western cities as supporting Islamic extremists and Hamas, while the overwhelming majority of protestors want to support the palestinian people is my impression. #geopolitics#gaza#hamas#israel#palestinians
I've been having some online-based conversations about the #Gaza War with an American Jew as of late.
He is a #Zionist and is convinced that the overall goal of #Palestinians is not only the destruction of the state of #Israel (an admittedly unrealistic goal), but also to drive all the Jews from this reborn #Palestine .
Personally, I am dubious. My assumption is that just like not all Israelis want to destroy the remaining Palestinian territories and drive their inhabitants out, so do not all Palestinians wish to drive out the Jews from a hypothetical future Greater Palestine.
But that's just my assumption - I don't really have a good overview of what various Palestinian groups want in terms of long-term goals. So can anyone share some good links and citations with me on this (since I no longer trust Google with search results, and with this topic less than most)?
Arabs have said they will recognize Israel as long as there is a path to an independent #Palestine, where the two exist side-by-side.
For #Bibi to harbor ambitions to get #Palestinians to flee so that Israel can move in permanently would not only be illegitimate, it would be a grievous folly
"Many Israeli settlers have openly called for Palestinians to be wiped off the map," said one advocacy group. "Now, Israel is giving them the guns to achieve that vision."
While the world watches Israel's military pulverize Gaza amid anticipation of an imminent ground invasion of the besieged strip, Israeli soldiers and settlers—who are receiving thousands of assault rifles
"According to Palestinian health authority figures reported by Al-Jazeera, at least 10,022 Palestinians, including more than 4,100 children, were killed by Israeli attacks in the first month of the war alone.
War and civil conflict, along with natural disasters, are the biggest drivers of refugees."
Those calling for #ceasefirenow are obviously ignoring the fact that #Hamas doesn't want a real cease fire.
There WAS a cease fire on October 6.
Hamas could end this war immediately by surrending and releasing all remaining hostages.
Hamas is NOT a "resistance". They are not freedom fighters.
They are a blood-thirsty, warmongering organization with only 1 objective: to destroy Israel.
Hamas kills #Palestinians who resist their oppression.
If you don't condemn Hamas and call for their immediate unconditional surrender, not only are you supporting a continued war, you are supporting #terrorism and #genocide
Refusal to place the blame for #Gaza's thousands of deaths on Hamas is compliance with Hamas' strategy and support for their war.
“#ICJ ordered #Israel to take a series of measures against potentially genocidal acts against #Palestinians in #Gaza. These include measures not only on the battlefield but also against public incitement to genocide. It also ordered Israel to take ‘immediate & effective measures’ to enable the provision of aid to people in Gaza…orders issued by the ICJ are legally binding, it does not have the power to enforce them. Israel is not expected to commit itself to the orders.”
#Iran has offered full support to #Hamas and other resistance groups in #Palestine as they struggle against the Israeli occupation and its atrocities against the #palestinians.
"The #Palestinians who live (or lived) in this hilltop hamlet had decamped in terror a few weeks earlier. A gang of #Israeli settlers... had been tormenting them for weeks... beating them up & threatening #murder if they didn’t leave.
Similar scenes are playing out across the #WestBank these days as Israeli settlers, backed & sometimes aided by #soldiers, force Arabs out of villages, farmlands & herding pastures."
@Mastodon seriously? You are the very last people I'd expect to censor #Palestinian#media. Are you really that desperate to become like #Twitter or mainstream social media? I really hope that this is a sincere mistake, and that whoever pressed that #suspend button is reprimanded. This gives a very wrong signal to #Palestinians and independent #journalists / #press people who are seeking a friendly platform for their voices in the #fediverse.
If you dear reader are reading this post, please boost both Mondoweiss's original post (which will be displayed as a RE: link if you're in #Mastodon) to show your support for @mondoweiss as well as this quote #boost so that it may reach mastodon.social (because for all we know they could decide to just #fediblock their self-hosted instance altogether, thankfully that didn't happen yet and it's an account suspension for now)
I have been updated on latest #Israel#genocide attacks & am upset that there's still no sanctions & no arms embargo on Israel. Our governments are complicit in silence of condemnations against Israel's genocide on #Palestinians & some governments are still funding a terrorist, pariah, apartheid state of ongoing evil, racist violence on all Palestinians.
I don't need to see more gore images. As a war survivor, I already know what bombs do to human bodies. Please CW very graphic images of murder
Ink in the blogosphere is beginning to spread about the proposed #Biden#HumanitarianAid bridgehead on the Mediterranean coast of #Gaza.
Some are saying it’s a distraction to appease #voters while Biden continues to provide arms and cover. Some, that the intention is to actually benefit the #zionists by providing a place to evacuate #palestinians. Some go so far as to claim it’s intended as the terminus of the #Israeli#RiverToTheSea dream.
My take? These theories fail to understand the #evil genius leaders in the U.S. are capable.
An important piece of context for the current escalation of conflict in #IsraelPalestine that I've rarely seen mentioned in mainstream reporting concerns the #GreatMarchOfReturn, a series of large (and largely peaceful) weekly protests in #Gaza near the border fence that were sustained through most of #2018 and #2019, and which were met with enormous amounts of sustained lethal violence by the #Israeli armed forces. The #MassProtests each Friday were attended by crowds ranging in size from 10,000 to 50,000, many of them children and teens (more than 50% of Gaza's population is under the age of 18). Participants were regularly targeted by Israeli Defence Force (IDF) snipers using a combination of live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas canisters (the latter typically fired directly at protesters), and even some tank rounds. Over time, hundreds of #Palestinians were killed and many thousands seriously wounded.
The original idea for the demonstration was for hundreds of thousands of unarmed Palestinians to peacefully walk up to the fence, take down a section, then cross a few kilometres into the land beyond, where they would set up a temporary tent city.
"Illegal settlers do not just steal land & possessions. They snatch the hope of a two-state solution, the only prospect for a lasting peace across Israel and Palestine"
Biden, Netanyahu and other apologists for genocide describe "stateless Palestinians under Israeli-settler colonial rule, military occupation and siege" as Nazis.
For decades, Israel has boasted of “making the desert bloom,” as if Palestinians never even existed. As Israel today pushes Gazans toward mass dehydration, we should remember its longstanding efforts to colonize land through
its control of the water supply.
The collapse of the drinking water supply brings deadly dehydration and the risk of diseases like cholera and dysentery.
Not enough swear words for how I feel about the US #genocide accomplice government & folks dumb enough to place all blame at #Netanyahu feet - when this genocide of #Palestinians has been the fucking goal of #Israel government for several decades & far before Bibi-Bloodbather had any influence in Israel.
Your country #USA fucking created #Trump. Your country ignored #neoliberalism leading up to Trump. Your country is focused on Trump, when he'll just be replaced by another poster #fascist face.