Some #Israelis think they "must" #vandalize#aid#convoys, destroying food & medical supplies, because starving civilians in #Gaza would surely bring hostages home.
»“We would prefer that we don’t have to do the blockages, honestly,” Ariel said.
“I don’t like ransacking things. It’s not one of my favourite hobbies. But we prefer that to the death of our friends and family, which is what happens the longer this war drags on."«
The significance of last one wasn’t clear to me earlier, but it is enormous. Thanks @w7voa
Basically, it’s saying “If you are rooting for more military action, be prepared to serve in military — no exception for ultra-Orthodox Jews on religious grounds.”
The #israelis, the #americans and other backers of the #israeli religious war in #gaza let the world forget that the #icj in July 2004 referred in its ruling to Art. 51 of the #un#charter which you can read in the second text image in full with comment.
We would add:
Israelis have been a war belligerent since 1967 as they never lifted the declaration of war, and never signed peace with the country it is occupying: #palestine
Peace would also mean to make an end to the occupation.
Absolutely appalling scenes from #Harvard. #Jewish students being harassed. While protesting against the slaughter of civilians by #Israel in #palestine is justified. The usual crap of threats against those who do not agree and calling for harm to the #USA is not acceptable. Also any support for #hamas should result in those doing so being taken away. Hamas have killed many of their own people, and knew exactly what they were doing when they killed so many innocent #Israelis.
Calling protesters "Pro-Hamas", because they protest the genocidal slaughtering of #Palestinians in #Gaza by #Israelis, is like calling Americans who fought in WWII, "pro-communist". Nazis at the time were saying they were fighting "Jewish Bolshevik sub-humans".
Oh, wait!… That's what Trump calls the Democrats now: "communist thugs".
Lyndon Johnson, one of the most accomplished POTUS, was forced to withdraw from the presidential race in '68 and never was reelected. Wonder why…
"Like millions of #Israelis, I was also kept ignorant by the state and its educational system on purpose. However, once you unlearn #Zionist propaganda, there is no going back; the world makes so much more sense, and it feels similar to what I have heard of those who escaped a cult."
@faab64@Miro_Collas@palestine@realskibidi
In late October last year the majority of #Israelis showed they supported the #genocidal attacks on #gaza. In fact, many thought the IDF should be killing far more. #Israel is, like South Africa once was, a nation of mostly white supremacists devoted to #apartheid and their own privilege built on oppression, and to treating the occupied, indigenous people as sub-humans.
@realskibidi@Miro_Collas@faab64@palestine
Of course there are other organisations. I know a bit about one (al Mubadara - the PNI) that has long advocated non-violence & a 2 state solution (although they are on the verge of giving up on the latter).
Of course, #Israelis hate PNI as #Hamas, & arrested the Sec Gen (a Doctor) & smashed his knee with a rifle butt.
It seems the only person who could successfully unite Palestinians is Marwan Barghouti, currently serving life sentences in Israel.
Es Geht! Leuchturmprojekt 25 Jahre West-Eastern Divan
"Ein Orchester könne zwar keine politischen Konflikte lösen, sagt Gründer Daniel Barenboim. Es könne aber zeigen, wie menschliches Miteinander funktionieren kann." #Musik#DanielBarenboim#Israelis#Araber https://west-eastern-divan.org
from #World-Outlook, an online journal of political analysis
‘For a Just Peace Enabling #Israelis and Palestinians to Co-Exist with Mutual Respect’
Appeal by African Leader #GraçaMachel, widow of #NelsonMandela
article from [#ProjectSyndicate, a magazine in South Africa. With an introduction by W-O]
"Thousands of #Israelis took to the streets in demonstrations against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s far-right government, demanding fresh #elections...
Demonstrators carried torches and posters denouncing #Netanyahu, who is also facing pressure from allies, including the #UnitedStates, over Israel’s punishing military campaign in #Gaza...
Tens of thousands of #Israelis thronged central #Jerusalem on Sunday in the largest anti-government #protest since the country went to #war in Oct. Protesters urged the govt to reach a #CeaseFire deal to free dozens of #hostages held in #Gaza by #Hamas militants & to hold early #elections.
"6 April 1994, when a #Palestinian man, dispatched by one of the leaders of Hamas’s armed wing, blew himself up at a bus stop in the northern Israeli city of Afula, killing eight #israelis It was expressly an act of vengeance in response to the massacre of 29 worshippers at the Ibrahimi mosque, carried out two months earlier by an Israeli extremist hoping to derail peace talks between the Israeli government and the #PLO." @palestine @israel #history #civilwar #war https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/21/what-is-the-real-hamas
Thom Hartmann shared this on his show today. Thread 🧵via Marty Taylor, Executive Director NewBlueUSA. President niteflyermedia. Pilot. Musician. Political and media consultant. 1/...
A personal story about Donald Trump, Marla Maples. The “Carpet King” Bob Shaw, Adolph Hitler and my wife Martha.
...and his (probable) #WarCrimes regime. They do the "clearing," the #TrumpCrimeFamily (and its #Saudi investors) reap the benefits.
Circling back to that infamous dinner of #MarthHartman.
Can we really continue to believe that #Israelis will be inhabiting these luxurious condos, after #Hitler "did not finish the job?!?"
On Tuesday the Republican leader in the Senate, #Mitch#McConnell, told reporters ⭐️Johnson should “let the House speak”. ⭐️
Asked about Republican proposals to offer aid to Ukraine as a loan not a grant,
👉McConnell said it was more important to act quickly.
“The only way to get relief to the #Ukrainians and the #Israelis quickly is ♦️for the House to figure out how to pass the Senate bill,” ♦️he said, adding:
“We’ve got a bill that got 70 votes in the Senate. Give members of the House of Representatives an opportunity to vote on it. That’s the solution.”
"She thought of vengeance, decided there had been too much of that already, and instead joined an Israeli-Palestinian nonprofit organization dedicated to dialogue. Israeli members have lost loved ones to Palestinians, Palestinian members to Israelis. They talk, get to know one another, comfort one another
Seeing each other as human beings” is more difficult than killing. If world history teaches us anything, it teaches that"
#Trump Says Little on #Gaza, & Nothing About What He’d Do Differently
In the ~5 months since #Hamas invaded #Israel on #Oct7, igniting the most divisive #ForeignPolicy crisis of #Biden’s presidency, Trump has said noticeably little about the subj.
“So you have a war that’s going on, & you’re probably going to have to let this play out. You’re probably going to have to let it play out, because a lot of people are dying,” #Trump said in an interview w/Univision a month after the attack. His main advice to #Netanyahu & the #Israelis …was to do a better job w/ “public relations,” because the #Palestinians were “beating them at the public relations front.”
"A few members of the Commons #foreignaffairscommittee sat in a modest room & took evidence from #Israelis & #Palestinians about how #Britain might actually do something useful to end the bloodshed. The discussion was serious & practical – and delivered precisely zero attention or political benefit to those involved."
Continuing this train of thought, however, this leaves only dire outcomes for the #Israelis and the #Palestinians:
If no #Muslim country will grant them refuge for political reasons, a lot of the #Gazan#refugees will die on that border wall...
When people say “host your own server” to me I am going to start telling them to represent themselves in court. We all have different skill sets and the bar for entry should not be being a server admin or mastodon is doomed to fail. There is no meaningful growth as it is . I want to see it succeed but chastising me does not make it so
I just know the #western & #israelis hypocritical politics & medias would qualify you as "antisemitic" (disregarding the fact that if you was you wouldn't care of what the Nazis did to Jews).