...both critics and right-wing allies indicate that 👉the support was intended to help maintain divisions between the #PalestinianAuthority and #Hamas👈, weakening #Palestinian leadership and 👉bolstering the claim that #Israel had no viable negotiating partner for a two-state settlement.👈 The policy was premised on the flawed assumption that 👉#Hamas had neither the capacity nor the intent to launch a...
[...Martin Luther] King demonstrated that 👉you can’t advance democracy at home when you suppress it abroad. That vision rings as true today for Gaza as it did for Vietnam in 1967.👈
...If he'd deceased a year ago, the #Irianian funding of #Hamas had dried up afterwards, then maybe the Oct 7 massacre and the #WarInGaza atrocities would never have happened.
However, "history is never written in conditional clauses," as one of my history teachers used to say.
Alas.
Then, such a "tribute" would not have been necessary:
▶️ While sounds of the Israel-Hamas war echo nearby, an Israeli dance group, joined by American artist and influencer Montana Tucker, performed Friday in southern Israel, in tribute to Oct. 7 Hamas attack victims.
It's a clear sign of the antisemitism at the United Nations that they didn't blast this change out to every major news agency in the world.
"According to data published May 6, of the 34,735 people who have died in Gaza, more than 9,500 were women and more than 14,500 were children. Two days later, the United Nations reduced those figures to 4,959 women and 7,797 children killed while maintaining that the overall number of more than 35,000 deaths in Gaza remains unchanged."