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.
A global diplomatic edifice that keeps the #Palestinians in a permanent holding pattern of misery stemming from defeated #Arab war efforts, where the Palestinians themselves weren’t even always the central actors in the descent to war or the principal combatants who lost them, is unlike anything the international community has attempted in other conflicts.
The #Arab-#Israeli conflict isn’t a normal conflict, and the cause of Arab #Palestine still isn’t a normal cause of national liberation.
The fundamental fact of this conflict, that one side believes the other’s #existence is a metaphysical crime for which a just resolution can only be #elimination, means that standard diplomatic practice is much harder to apply at best, and gets scrambled, inverted, and abused at worst 🔥🔥🔥
As time passed, memories of that defeat evolved and the #Nakba became not an #Arab event but a #Palestinian one, and not a humiliating defeat—“seven Arab states declare war on #Zionism in #Palestine [and] stop impotent before it” is how it is described on the first page of #Zureiq’s book—but rather the story of shame and #forcedDisplacement.
The weeks leading up to the 1967 war were, in the #Arab world, likewise a time of public displays of #ecstasy. The hour of “#revenge” was nigh, and the excitement was expressed in both mass public spectacles and elite opinion.
The #Egyptian president Gamal Abdel #Nasser promised an elated crowd the week before the war broke out that “our basic objective will be to destroy #Israel.
As with the 1st #Arab-#Israeli war, memories expanded and hardened with time, and the mythology of the defeat came to assume much larger dimensions than the size of the war or the actual defeat itself.
Major anniversaries of the #SixDayWar were largely marked in the Arab world as “the beginning of the #occupation.”
Minimal reckoning with Arabs’ own failures was with military errors and not with the overall goal of exacting revenge and eliminating #Israel.
The common and deeper meaning to all was that #Israel’s enemies needed to be protected from the consequences of THEIR defeat in the wars THEY initiated and LOST.
A highway in #SanFrancisco was shut down by SEVERAL thousand protesters marching for a ceasefire, and a lot of major Western media outlets are not telling you about it.
Instead, places like CTV News and CNN are telling you that #MatthewPerry died.
Cool.
This protest brought to you by #Jewish Voice for #Peace, #Arab Resources and Organizing Center, and the #Palestinian Youth Movement... and protestors like you. ❤
A joint #Jewish-#Arab declaration for #peace:
We-movements, organizations and activists, Jews and Arabs - write these words out of heavy mourning for the thousands of people killed in recent weeks, and out of terrible anxiety for the safety of the abducted and those who will still be harmed in #Israel, #Gaza and the #WestBank. (1/x)
#isreal will not stop pounding #palestine now as the sympathy #terrorists in the #un#icj and around the world try to extract demands using hostage and martyr.
I can't blame Israel for it's actions now. The legacy media world has taken the side of #Hamas. #Israel has nothing to lose and no one will stop them.
"How can a brutal minority #Alawite#Assad regime hold control of the #Euphrates west bank that is solidly #Sunni#Arab? It's because two dead empires continue to oppress the region. #Russia burned up its army in #Ukraine and now #Iran stands alone in the Euphrates river valley.
Iran' extremist regime in #Qom brings the region nothing but death and misery. Ridding Syria of Iranian #imperialism will begin healing required for peace not only in Syria but in the entire region. Iran is the problem. Stopping Iran is the solution. Take and hold #Bāghū
Then drive the #IRGC and its proxies into the #Badiya desert to commune with the remnants of #ISIS."
from #TheGuardian
‘Israelis, go back to Europe’? Some on the left need to rethink their slogans
by #Jo-AnnMort
"A majority of Israel’s #Jews today are not descended from #Europe, but rather from #Arab nations. To expect them to leave #Israel is unprecedented, unrealistic and wrong."
[I don't agree with her opinion on "river to the sea", but I do agree on "go back to Europe".]
Here, but not here. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what drove me off Mastodon. #Zionism, #Islamophobia, #AntiArabRacism (an odd one to affect me, since I am NOT #Arab, nor have I ever claimed to be) were the usual suspects.
Instance #admins & #mods did what they do best on the fediverse: they attacked. I was but one of a handful of #ProPalestine voices on here that needed to be silenced. #Dogpiling is one of their tactics. People come out of the woodwork to attack. It overwhelms.
Hidden deep within the Saudi desert is Al Ahsa: a UNESCO heritage site and incredible oasis characterized by 2.5 million palm trees. Here, the trees are cove...
An estimated 750,000 Palestinians were either driven from their homes or fled during the Nakba in 1948. To counter attempts at Nakba denial and "memoricide" by U.S. politicians and others, it is instructive to review the archives of U.S. diplomats stationed in Palestine and surrounding Arab countries who witnessed the Nakba...
Always worth remembering this. Saw this sign last weekend at Middle East Bakery in Andersonville, Chicago. It is a great Arabic grocery store with a small restaurant attached to it. They make many things fresh, including some good spice mixes.
Hidden Treasures in the World's Largest Oasis (youtu.be)
Hidden deep within the Saudi desert is Al Ahsa: a UNESCO heritage site and incredible oasis characterized by 2.5 million palm trees. Here, the trees are cove...
Five things the United States knew about the Nakba as it unfolded (www.mei.edu)
An estimated 750,000 Palestinians were either driven from their homes or fled during the Nakba in 1948. To counter attempts at Nakba denial and "memoricide" by U.S. politicians and others, it is instructive to review the archives of U.S. diplomats stationed in Palestine and surrounding Arab countries who witnessed the Nakba...