#Hamas supporters have been going crazy on internet forums since yesterday 🤯 over this video and photos: Funeral of Ahmed Abu Latif (26) a fighter of Battalion 8208.
It alludes to the reality that there are #Arab and #Muslim soldiers in the Israeli military #IDF who volunteer to fight for their country and their fellow citizens in defense of #terrorism and are actively involved in the current war to remove Hamas from rule in #Gaza.
It is very well-written, and it has important lessons for #Israelis, #Palestinians, other Arab states, and rest of the world. The end of the essay is a clincher. Do not skip it regardless of which side you support.
@HodaJannat —Gaza had 36 hospitals, free utilities from Israel, and hefty aid. Say goodbye to the 'besieged' narrative. It's time to see Gaza beyond the headlines.
..today’s Israeli war on Gaza, Gulf states dismiss the idea of using the “oil weapon” — an index of how much they have #abandoned the #Palestinian cause.
...but it is a bleak sign of the cynicism of the Gulf states and other Arab regimes, which continue to witness the Zionist massacre of the Palestinian Arabs with complicit, cowardly, and criminal indifference.
#Biden (whom I voted for) should be ashamed. #Arab#women and #children are #dying needlessly by the thousands. This has nothing to do with capturing #Hamas. This is genocide. Where’s #leadership when you need it?
Despite #Gaza death toll soaring, U.S. unlikely to rethink weapons... - Daily Mail
Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, made the remarks during a meeting with #Arab and #Islamic countries' foreign ministers at the #UNheadquarters in New York on Wednesday.
"Zionists all hate Palestinians and want to ethnic cleanse them."
Literally every Zionist and Jewish protest: 100k people singing songs for peace together
We don't want this war. Never did. We love being the only democracy and only safe state in the middle east for LGBTQIA+ folks. We love each other, love our Beduin, Druze and Muslim Israeli brothers and sisters. We want peace. But then Gazans behead our children while screaming "Yehud" (Jews) and the world denies it. Then there's war. #israel
#Arab and #Muslim Leaders Put Limited Influence on Display
Arab leaders are caught between support for #Palestine and calls for a ceasefire in #Gaza on the one hand and the need not to alienate #Israel and the West on the other. But even in the west criticism of Israel’s actions is mounting.
Ayman Safadi, #Jordan's Foreign Minister, said at the 19th IISS Manama Dialogue in Bahrain that no #Arab troops will be sent to Gaza following the #Israeli aggression, emphasizing the desire not to be perceived as the enemy.
He labeled Israel's actions in #Gaza as "blatant aggression" rather than self-defense. Safadi also criticized the international community's double standards, pointing out that any other country behaving like Israel would face global #sanctions.
'We are ready for the state of #Palestine to be #demilitarized and for there to be guarantees for this, in the form of #NATO forces, #UN forces, #Arab forces, #American forces. Whatever you want.'
In other words, Sisi is proposing a demilitarized nation without the possibility of self-protection, next to an #apartheid state that has clearly shown that it aims at the #genocide of the Palestinians.
This does not seem to be a pro-Palestinian position, to me .
I’m definitely not with Netanyahu’s government or killing #Palestinian civilians, but those who are concerned about their deaths should also understand that Hamas really is run by committed #Jihadist religious fanatics. And before you say ”islamophobia”, I beg your pardon, that this is actually a problem for thr Arab world, and Palestinians in particular. Being led by Jihadists is terrible for the people.
I have said before that it is the #Arab states who hold most of the key to solving this puzzle in their hand. And we should support them in solving it for our own interest, too. Because the muslim world quietly supporting Jihadism will only strenghten Christian fascism amongst our midst.
Jihadists are the #farright of the Muslim world. I’m appalled at how many people on the left blatantly miss this fact! 😧
"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."
Doctors Without Borders (@MSF) confirmed that staff at Al Nasr Hospital in Gaza had to leave babies in #incubators behind as they evacuated southward, driven out by Israeli shelling. (I rarely link Washington Post because it’s behind a paywall) @israel@palestine
“Well, I think that, for some of us who know, or don’t know, that the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 was a response to the #Zionist movement in #Europe by a #Jewish people in Europe who had suffered a lot of oppression. But to overcome that oppression, they chose to side with the colonial aspect, the domineering aspect of the culture that dominated them, and export that as a mode for success and triumph into a Palestine, without much recognition of the racism involved in dehumanizing what they call the #Arab population of #Palestine.
And since then, it has been in the interest of the West and the #US to prop up #Israel as an outpost, so to speak, for further domination of the Middle East for various reasons. But the problem is that this kind of propping up has really gone mad at this point. And, you know, I think we’ve reached a moment — and others have said it — where the degree of colonial viciousness that exists now in Israeli society, and is supported by the West, sends us back to 19th century barbarism, really, colonial barbarism. And then, obviously, Israel is interested in affecting this kind of behavior within the U.S. through major lobby influences and also cultural influences.” #Gaza#Palestinians
While like recognizes like, the policies of #Israel and #Canada are fundamentally shaped by a far greater superpower: the #UnitedStates of #America .
Since Israel’s foundation, Canada has assisted #USA interests in the #MiddleEast : backing a strong client state to help control the region’s #oil and keep #Arab nationalism in check. During the deliberations over the partition of #Palestine , #Canadian#diplomats took the #American lead.
#Balad chair Sami Abou Shahadeh, former #Hadash MK Mohammad Barakeh, former Balad MK Hanin Zoabi, and former Balad chair Mtanes Shihadeh were #arrested on their way to what Arab media called “an invitation-only #vigil ”