If all #Palestinians are culpable for the actions of #Hamas because they voted for them 18 years ago, does that mean all Israelis are culpable for the actions of Benjamin #Netanyahu?
Peter Beinart offers valuable analysis of the current student protest movement and how it illustrates "the way in which one protest movement feeds into another at a time of broader protest." The Civil Rights and anti-war demonstrations of the 1960s fed the subsequent activism for LGBTQ and women's rights. And the backdrop to the current campus protests is the BLM movement and its protests.
"Israel's criminal defendant prime minister, more focused on saving his incompetent far-right government than saving the hostages who have spent seven months trapped in Gaza, is doing everything he can to torpedo Israel's last and best chance at bringing the hostages home. …
Netanyahu is fleeing from a hostage deal. The closer it gets, the faster he runs to avoid it."
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)?
#Submission from #CJPME to MP Matthew Green’s #Nakba Bill #Initiative, authored by Lena El-Malak, PhD, LLM; Nadia Abu-Zahra, PhD; Michael Bueckert, PhD; and Alex Paterson, MA.
Senators Rubio, Vance, & Scott, among others, refuse to say they'll accept election results
SCOTUS Justices Alito & Thomas are actively in support of insurrectionists
Speaker Johnson wants the Bible to supersede the Constitution
Fascism isn't headed to America—it's already here.
there's hundreds of things #Biden does wrong, some of those things especially glaring, like the #USA's support for #Israel while it commits #genocide on #Gaza
but focusing on 1 issue to the exclusion of the other 100s of issues is simply a failure in tactics
like Gaza: #Trump said "finish the problem" and he would give #Netanyahu a green light for great suffering for #Palestinians
“I’m a German-Polish Jew. My last name is Wexler. …
We are told that we need a state that is based on ethnicity in the 21st century and that’s the only way Jewish people can be safe. But it is really for Britain and America and other imperialist states to have a presence in the Middle East.”
"The #Israeli#Lavender system, supported by artificial intelligence, identifies Palestinians by tracking their communications via WhatsApp or the groups they join."
After 50 years of failure to stop violence and terrorism against Palestinians by Jewish ultranationalist Extremists Took Over Israel.
This article explains how the extremists succeeded and how the Palestinians were not only trampled upon by the settlers but also by the Israeli government.
«For anyone who wanted to see, the truth was already abundantly clear in 1955: "They treat the Arabs, those still here, in a way that in itself would be enough to rally the whole world against Israel," wrote Hannah Arendt. »
What Will Happen When the Holocaust No Longer Prevents the World From Seeing #Israel as It Is? - Opinion - Haaretz.com
from #CommonDreams
We Risked Our Lives to Treat Patients in Gaza. Now President Biden Must Act to Save Lives
As I think about my colleagues who put their lives at stake to save #Palestinians wounded in #Gaza, the question I must ask is: when will President #Biden force the #Israeli government to stop this slaughter?
"A handful of powerful businessmen pushed New York City Mayor Eric Adams to use police to crack down on pro-Palestinian student protesters at #Columbia University, donating to the politician and offering to pay for private investigators to help break up the demonstrations, based on leaked WhatsApp conversations"
The #Republican-led UnitedStates House of
Representatives passed a bill on Thurs that would force President Joe #Biden to send weapons to Israel, seeking to rebuke the Democrat for delaying bomb shipments as he urges Israel to do more to protect #civilians during its war w/ #Hamas.
"Disturbing deep history of how IL’s radical RW religious terrorist fringe led by outlaw West Bank settlers has, over 50 yrs, moved into the mainstream, wrecked democracy & now taken over the country.
The parallels with the US right are chilling."
-K Anderson
#FarhanHaq, a #UN spokesperson, said the new smaller numbers reflected those bodies which had been fully identified. The bigger figures included corpses for whom identification has so far not been completed.