"To counter this insidious attempt at #Nakba 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 unfold and reported back to the #StateDepartment on the magnitude and gravity of #Israel’s dispossession of Palestine’s indigenous inhabitants." - #JoshRuebner
"The US actually understood quite early on that the partition plan as proposed by #UNSCOP was not workable and not feasible [..] The US did more than think about going back on partition. In March 1948 [..] the US actually proposed in the Security Council that an international trusteeship be appointed for #Palestine instead of partition." - #JoshRuebner
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.
“What is unusual about the #Palestinian cause starts from the observation that many of those other nations built states on parts of historic homelands out of the ruins of collapsed multi-national, multi-linguistic, multi-confessional empires, and the #Palestinians have not”
The #Palestinians went from being a people defined by their dispossession at the hands of a hated enemy across a sealed border to being a people defined by their dispossession at the hands of a hated enemy that now also ruled them as an occupier.
Unlike the larger #Arab trauma of defeat, which was mostly bookended in time by the end of actual combat, for Palestinians, this remains a continuous trauma right up into the present.
#Palestinians had, for the first time, an elected government, a representative assembly, passports, stamps, an international airport, an armed police force, and other trappings of what was in every sense a state in the making 👀
In each of the 3 wars, the #Palestinian cause was taken up in a larger global struggle 👀 : first, #WorldWarII, then the #ColdWar, then the #jihadist war against free societies.
#Palestine has served as an excellent rallying cry for OTHERS who only fight [#inTheirName].
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.
Palestinians living in Israel hold Palestinian flags as they take part in the annual Return March to mark the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, the catastrophe of their mass dispossession in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation, near Haifa, in northern Israel. REUTERS/Ammar Awad
From Amsterdam to Adelaide
From Tirana to Tennessee
From Kyoto to Karachi
From Manchester to Mexico
From Cardiff to Copenhagen
From Johannesburg to Jordan
From Edinburgh to Edmonton
From Sao Paulo to Sana'a
From Dublin to Dusseldorf
The other side has pundits & pols spouting feeble talking points, propaganda, and lies motivated by?... Money? Power? Status-quo elitism? Racism? Arms sales? I don't know.
#Students in the US are not just setting up #encampments to show solidarity with the #Palestinians but using their #graduation ceremonies to highlight the plight of the people of Palestine.
"We immediately & urgently need safe passage for #humanitarianaid & workers" -#UNRWA *more clashes & shelling in Jabalia refugee camp.
“Bombardments & other evacuation orders have created more displacement & fear for 1,000s of families” in the N. There’s nowhere to go. There’s NO safety w/o a ceasefire.”
Mon: another staff member had been killed in Gaza, bringing the number of staff killed in the war to 189."
JERUSALEM — #Hamas leader #YehiaSinwar has for years overseen a secret police force in the Gaza Strip that conducted surveillance on everyday #Palestinians and built files on young people, #journalists and those who questioned the government, according to intelligence officials and a trove of internal documents reviewed by The New York Times.
In the Arab world: 92% of the poll's respondents: "Palestinian cause -not solely the concern of #Palestinians but of all Arabs." In JO: "Our people are starving -I feel guilty for sleeping on a bed -eating while people in Gaza starve.” Woman in the crowd: feared that JO, where 1/2 pop. of PA heritage, could become the next Gaza -cited a speech by Smotrich, IL’s FIN MIN, there was “no such thing as a Palestinian” bc -no such thing as the PA ppl.” #IsraelHamasWarhttps://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-jordan/the-other-side-of-the-river
"In this conversation, Said addresses comparatively his years of experience during #ForeignPolicy briefings, notably on Palestine, at the #USStateDepartment and #WhiteHouse, with focus on the current war on #Gaza."