“Forced displacement is a grave crime that is negatively impacting the lives of over a million civilians, most of whom are women and children. As it is being carried out methodically and extensively, it is considered a crime against humanity and a war crime, and is included in the crime of genocide that Israel is committing in the Gaza Strip.”
#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.
“So-called evacuation orders that forcibly displace suffering people again and again, the closure of crossings that deny aid to families and children facing famine, relentless bombardments and mass graves that reveal evidence of torture, all demonstrate a certain contempt for international law and the protections it extends to vulnerable populations.”
Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (GCR2P)
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.
“The principal grievance of the #Palestinian cause, one revealed in those rejections of sovereignty and by rhetoric spanning generations, is not the absence of a desired nation-state but the existence of another one” #Israel
What is that predicament? It is defined by five dire properties:
#Palestinian predicament is the direct or indirect outcome of three #Arab-#Israeli wars, each about a generation apart. These are the wars that started in 1947, 1967, and 2000. Each war was a complex event with vast, unforeseen, and contested consequences for a host of actors, but the consequences for the Palestinian people were uniquely catastrophic: the first brought #displacement, the second brought #occupation, the third brought #fragmentation.
For the #Arabs, the defeat in this war was and remains a searing trauma.
Not only had the goal that had united the Arabs in 1948—preventing the establishment of a Jewish state in the heart of the #Arab#MiddleEast—been thwarted, but hundreds of thousands of Arabs living in #Palestine had been displaced by war.
In time, their #displacement became the enduring image of that defeat and humiliation.
The word itself came into popular usage in the West only around after the 50th anniversary of that war as a description of that #displacement and not of a war at all—a tale of unjust #suffering and #colonial affliction laced with transparent #HolocaustEnvy 🔥🔥🔥, which is its unspoken appeal for the Westerners who use it
“So that the problem [of Gaza] does not return, two things must be done: return to the Gaza Strip and encourage the voluntary departure of the residents of Gaza. This is moral, rational and humanitarian.”
Ben-Gvir
If you read nothing more on Israel's genocide... read this:
"Israel’s Willing Executioners"
"Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to flee, once again, after more than half of Gaza's population took sanctuary in the border town of Rafah. This is part of Israel's sadistic playbook.
"Run for your lives..from Rafah the way you ran from Gaza City..Jabalia..Deir al-Balah..Beit Hanoun..Bani Suheila..Khan Yunis. Run or we will kill you."
"Run for your lives. Again and again and again. Pack up the pathetic few belongings you have left. Blankets. A couple of pots. Some clothes. We don’t care how exhausted you are, how hungry you are, how terrified you are, how sick you are, how old, or how young you are. Run. Run. Run. And when you run in terror to one part of Gaza we will make you turn around and run to another. Trapped in a labyrinth of death. Back and forth."
“It’s becoming more and more clear that the harm, that the levels of destruction that we’re seeing, that the level of #displacement that we’re seeing, are not the byproduct and not the collateral effects of this conflict, but really the only thing that #Israel has achieved during that war. It hasn’t achieved any of its tactical aims. It hasn’t dismantled #Hamas as an operative force. It hasn’t captured the Hamas leadership.”
Another urgent request from the Maasai of Tanzania to sign and/or SHARE the petition "Tanzania: Stop the eviction of the Maasai". It has been running since 2022 and initially seemed successful: https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/maasai_evictions_sg_loc
Current appeal [slightly shortened]:
"In a matter of days, 27,000 Maasai could lose their ancestral land! Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan wants to clear the Maasai homeland for #safaris and trophy hunting in the hope of immense profits. A few years ago, 3 million signatories stood up for the Maasai - and the president at the time listened to us. Now they are asking for support again."
“They didn't leave a place that they didn't bomb or leave any place we can safely shelter in. Humiliation. You have no idea how degrading and tiring our displacement has been.” - Seham Al-Athamneh
An Arab Israeli woman sits next to ruins of her home that was destroyed by Israeli bulldozers in Umm al-Hiran, on January 18, 2017 [Ammar Awad/Reuters]
#Natoaganeg#Chief George Ginnish and other speakers at the event drew parallels between #Canada and #Israel, including the #displacement of Indigenous people from their land and the suffering of children.
"Their own struggle for Indigenous rights and self-determination has turned the Sami into vocal advocates for the Palestinian cause.
“There is an instant urge to stand up for people who are being displaced from their homes,” Ella Marie Haetta Isaksen, a Sami activist and artist widely known for her singing, tells Al Jazeera.
"...Indigenous peoples all over the world have stood up for the Palestinian people because our bodies know the pain of being displaced from our homes and forced out of our own lands,” Isaksen says."
If you have noticed any city or other destruction of #houseless people's structures or possessions, or other disappearance or #displacement around the #twincities please @ us with whatever place/dates you remember.
The draft text also "determines that under current circumstances a major ground offensive into #Rafah would result in further harm to #civilians & their further #displacement including potentially into neighboring countries."
Hindu and Muslim families have lived for decades in and around the newly-constructed Ram temple, now a major religious and tourist attraction. The Qureshis and the Sainis speak fondly of their friendship and familial ties. Both say that development projects worth hundreds of crores are muscling into their homes in Ayodhya, threatening to end their neighbourly attachment.
'Death Knell for Shompen People': Genocide Experts Urge President to Stop Great Nicobar Mega Project
By changing the demography and allowing the population on the island to surge by 8,000%, the experts say, the proposal could prove detrimental to the Shompen people, who have lived on the island for thousands of years largely without contact with outsiders.