There’s a bloodbath at #Rafah and all they can bang on about is antisemitism. Just no.
I hate genocide. I don’t hate Jews (unless they happen to be carrying out a #genocide). There’s #Arabs in the #IDF too.
And surprise! Those Arabs are Semitic people as well. Yes!
Apparently if we don’t support whatever Netanyahu is doing we’re Nazis. Make. It. Make. Sense.
I can’t believe I have something in common with Candace Owens (‘Genocide is wrong’ - and she was dragged for saying probably the only sensible thing I’ve ever heard her say.)
An estimated 750,000 Palestinians were either driven from their homes or fled during the Nakba in 1948. To counter attempts at Nakba denial and "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...
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.
#WarOfndependence that began in 1947 was first a #civilWar between #Arabs and #Jews in #Palestine, and then a multi-state war… from at least five sovereign countries—#Egypt, #Transjordan, #Syria, #Iraq, and #Israel—as well as small contingents from others. It was a war fought village by village and town by town, and it resulted in massive population displacements on both sides.
No Jews remained anywhere in parts of Palestine that fell under #Arab control
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.
Of course, the promise of #revenge was not realized, and the expectant longing was not satisfied. The #Arabs were quickly routed, and almost all of the #Jews survived.
Then, however, despite the eagerness to fight, the incitement to war, and the euphoria at the prospect, this defeat was reconceived 🔥 not simply as a story of loss but once again into a story of #victimhood.
Zuheir Mohsen was a #Palestinian leader of the pro-Syria As-Sa'iqa Ba'athist faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization #PLO between 1971 & 1979.
...#Arabs know #Israel would never allow back, is not in the interests of #Arab leaders.👈
Rather, their best bet is to stay on #America’s good side rhetorically and commercially, but 👉to quietly improve their ties with Iran and other #US enemies, and prepare to end their normalization with Israel.👈
The balance of power, which previously forced the #Arab states to avoid fighting Israel and antagonizing the U.S., has shifted. 👉Now the balance of power dictates that the #Arabs prevent #Israel from winning and avoid antagonizing #Iran and their own publics.👈
But the balance of power has not shifted enough for #Arab leaders to disengage from the U.S.,...
So I said in the past, it's not the Nazis I'm most concerned with when it comes to the Fediverse. Nazis are generally accepted as bad, and people will defederate with their instances and block them.
It's where whiteness sets their bars for what is OK to be on here that worries me. As long as someone doesn't have their Klan robes on, they're given the benefit of the doubt.
There's a genocide happening. Fucking excise genocide apologists from your fucking communities.
Regrettable there are Black folks around here arguing to ignore the genocide in Palestine because #GenocideJoe / #butcherBiden makes a great Job at home.
My idea is that #BLM and #Arabs should unite and also everyone left of #Biden. Together there is much power to pressure the government.
and when #biden and the #democraticparty lose theyre going to turn around and blame #muslims and #arabs especially #Palestinians for not keeping their mouths shut about #dems killing their family members and friends and not biden for literally shooting himself repeatedly in the foot and blatantly doing the opposite of #public opinion. im telling you this is whats going to happen and theyre going to call us selfish and what we're doing "fake #activism" or whatever. #usa#america#genocidejoe#psa
Arabs have said they will recognize Israel as long as there is a path to an independent #Palestine, where the two exist side-by-side.
For #Bibi to harbor ambitions to get #Palestinians to flee so that Israel can move in permanently would not only be illegitimate, it would be a grievous folly
This #documentary was the last chance for many of its #Israeli & #Palestinian characters to narrate their first-hand accounts of the creation of a state & the expulsion of a nation.
Stories from the Israelis & Palestinians who personally lived through events in Haifa, Jaffa, Dayr Yasin, Acre, Jerusalem, Ramla, Lydda & more
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1948
must be nice to be #israel - you occupy land, you establish a apartheid regime, you indoctrinate your people for decades with pictures of #Holocaust and dehumanization of #arabs
so when the people you occupy have a #terror organization which attacks you, then it's okay to massacre civilians, most of which are children
look at Israeli people - they don't see Arabs as people because that's what they learn it at school
Not the biggest fan of HRW these days but even they know Houthis are attacking civilian ships along with commercial vessels.
Biden can only do so much. But all of our NATO allies transport goods through the lanes. Using our military to stop them is not "expanding the conflict." It is stopping terrorists from killing innocent sailors and civilians and from disrupting the world economy.
#AviShlaim’s #memoir, Three Worlds: Memoirs of an #ArabJew, turns the spotlight back on things that the #Jewish nation, centred on the state of #Israel, prefers to forget or suppress. It's a moving history of not just one of the world’s pre-eminent #historians & observers of the #MiddleEast, but also of a lost world in which #Arabs & #Jews had shared past & shared presence, one in which there was nothing preordained in the hostility that defines their current existence.
The #Palestinians who live (or lived) in this hilltop hamlet had decamped in terror a few weeks earlier. A gang of #Israeli#settlers — their neighbors — had been tormenting them for weeks, they explained, beating them up and threatening murder if they didn’t leave.
Similar scenes are playing out across the #WestBank these days as Israeli settlers, backed and sometimes aided by #soldiers, force #Arabs out of villages
Today in Labor History November 30, 1947: The 1947–1949 Palestine war broke out after the UN adopted a resolution recommending the Partition Plan for Palestine. The UN-approved plan would have divided Palestine into two states, giving Jews 56% of the land, even though there were twice as many Palestinian Arabs already living there, and despite the fact that Jews legally owned only 6-7% of the land. The war was part of what the Israelis called their War of Independence, and the Palestinians refer to as the Nakba (catastrophe), because it resulted in their violent displacement and the dispossession of their land, as well as the destruction of their society, culture, identity, political rights, and national aspirations. During the war, the Jewish and Arab communities of Palestine clashed, while the British, who had the obligation to maintain order, mostly looked on and did nothing. When the British Mandate expired in 1948, Israel declared itself a state and the neighboring Arab states (Egypt, Transjordan, Iraq & Syria) invaded. Israel’s military victory allowed them to claim 78% of Palestinians’ land.
"Zionists all hate Palestinians and want to ethnic cleanse them."
Literally every Zionist and Jewish protest: 100k people singing songs for peace together
We don't want this war. Never did. We love being the only democracy and only safe state in the middle east for LGBTQIA+ folks. We love each other, love our Beduin, Druze and Muslim Israeli brothers and sisters. We want peace. But then Gazans behead our children while screaming "Yehud" (Jews) and the world denies it. Then there's war. #israel
"If we killed 4000 Palestinian kids, you know what? IT WASN'T ENOUGH"! Stewart Seldowitz former US state department employee and Obama advisor
#Video of him harassing a #halal food truck owner in New York City has gone viral. He threaten the Egyptian American vendor by saying that " #Mukhaberat (Egyptian secret police) is going to take your parents " .
This happened more than once and Seldowitz didn't have any fear of the police either.
Do you think US, #France, #UK and other governments going to call for a demonstration to condemn the recent wave of islamophobic attacks in their countries? Like the one they did against #antisemitism?
Five things the United States knew about the Nakba as it unfolded (www.mei.edu)
An estimated 750,000 Palestinians were either driven from their homes or fled during the Nakba in 1948. To counter attempts at Nakba denial and "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...