Palestinians reflect on the past 30 years since the first Oslo Accords were signed and all the ways in which the agreement impacted their lives, pushing them even further away from achieving liberation and statehood.
The bar for hospitals to lose protected status under international law is set very high. Those conditions were not met for any of the 36 hospitals in Gaza that Israel destroyed.
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During the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital, the Israeli army shot patients in their beds and doctors who refused to abandon the sick, separated people into groups with differently-colored bracelets, and executed hundreds of civil government employees.
โOperation Al-Aqsa Floodโ Day 163: Top EU official says Israel failed to prove its accusations against UNRWA
Netanyahu has vowed to invade Rafah despite the international red line. Meanwhile, the U.S. has sanctioned two illegal settler outposts in the West Bank for the first time.
@TurdFerguson@palestine@israel That is sort of the point of international law around war, isn't it? Setting global standards for what is and is not appropriate...
Joe Bidenโs Executive Order targeting those โundermining peace, security, and stability in the West Bankโ is too narrow to address Israeli settler violence, yet so broadly written it will likely be used disproportionately against Palestinians.
@LALegault@mondoweiss So people interested in the topic can find our coverage. We copy the Palestine group as well. If it is bad form, weโre happy to remove it.
The context for October 7 is apartheid, not the Holocaust
The Israel lobby is attempting to indoctrinate Americans that the context for the October 7 attack is the Holocaust. This is a misrepresentation. The Palestinians had nothing to do with the Holocaust.
"When in 1921 votes were cast for the new Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini came in last among the four candidates. But votes in Palestine mattered as little then as they do now, and the British, Palestineโs novice replacement occupiers for the Ottomans, handed the post to al-Husseini."
This has been covered pretty extensively by numerous sources. He was a marginal figure without much support among Palestinians. No one today even talks about him much, except for Zionists trying to paint all Palestinians as Nazi fascists bent of killing Jews.
Claiming he was a role model to Arafat AND a spiritual inspiration of Hamas is just silliness, honestly. Fatah and Hamas come from totally different backgrounds. This belies a deep lack of knowledge.