“Israel was given the October 7th blueprints two years earlier by spies in Gaza and those plans were studied by the IDF who described the coming invasion as ‘the biggest threat the Israeli Defence Forces are facing’. The IDF then decided to stop monitoring Hamas radio traffic (and banned civilians from doing so) because they saw this as a waste of effort. This is because they had more important things to focus on like monitoring western Twitter accounts for wrong-think. As you can see, Israel had its priorities in order.”
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“I guess we’ll never know how #Mossad failed to see the October 7th attacks coming and the IDF failed to mount a proper response for hours, but Benjamin Netanyahu has suggested the attacks were a gift from god and explained Israel would never have been allowed to eliminate Hamas if they’d not taken place.”
@GeriatricGardener@paninid@palestine@israel What a shitshow. I knew some of the mentioned things but all together pretty damning stuff. And all of it is ok for the leaders.
Palestine has ignited our planetary consciousness once again, and it is the student movement that refuses to let genocide become our new normal. They know that the fight for Palestine is a fight for us all.
How many times did Americans stop a war before? That's the unusual thing, and it would be nice if you were able to see it. Now that a few people are doing something principled and decent in the US for the first time in many decades, do you believe it's the time for nitpicking about the framing? Or did I misread you and you're just creating unnecessary controversy for the sake of it? Let me know.
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel because this user blocked me before I could reply, I'll post a screenshot and reply here: it's important to highlight the inaccuracy in the framing because too many people believe the copacetic, whitewashed version of Western history and repeat falsehoods like "this isn't who we are" when this is exactly who they are, and those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Ignoring the fact that the root causes of this genocide are systemic and structural is at best digging one's head in the sand and at worst complicity in a long string of genocides by the western hegemony.
Muhammad Shehadeh (on X) It's been 48 hours since Israel murdered Gaza's water & environment chief engineer along with 4 municipality officials while they were working to restore the water supply to the famine-stricken northern Gaza.
Not even a single passing mention of this in any mainstream media @palestine@israel
@Sherifazuhur@palestine@israel it is a war.. We all expect people to die.. Sadly that is the inevitable result when terrorists take over a region. I hope Isreal can bring lasting peace.
@Valvoline@Sherifazuhur@palestine@israel it's what happens when TWO opposing groups of terrorists fight over the same land and one has the protection from consequences by a world power like the US
It is unconscionable for Israel to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Israel should be suspended from international sports organizations and events until it ends its grave violations of international law.
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel Definitely agree, if Nazi Germany eas barred from the Olympics then so too should all states practicing active and adjudicated Genocide
During a military raid on Jenin, Israeli soldiers strapped an injured Palestinian civilian to the front of a military jeep and paraded him through the street as a human shield. He was eventually handed over to Palestinian medical teams.
#UNRWA: 69% of school buildings housing displaced people in the Gaza Strip were exposed to Israeli bombardment or were directly damaged.
This is a new low in any war in recent history.
Any other country would have been subject to countless sanctions, global condemnations and even blockades, but not Israel.
The current American threats to sanction the ICC could spell the death of International Law. Whatever little hope people had for a just international system will disappear.
A new bill in Congress would extend some U.S. military benefits to the estimated 20,000 Americans currently carrying out the Gaza genocide as members of the Israeli military.
>The Israeli government's alleged collaboration with antisemitic politicians abroad has been criticized as a manifestation of Zionist antisemitism, in that it seeks to highlight Jew-hatred in order to provide further incentive for Jewish immigration to Israel. In this context, anti-Zionists have criticized the Zionist movement's alleged complicity with or capitulation to antisemitism since it gained traction in the 19th century, and some anti-Zionists have also categorized Zionism as a form of antisemitism. The Austrian-Jewish anti-Zionist writer Karl Kraus regarded antisemitism as the "essence" of the Zionist movement and used the label "Jewish antisemites" to describe Jews who identified as Zionists.
An indicator, if any is needed, of the toxic influence that the #ZionistLobby is able to exert over not just governments but grassroots and civil society organisations internationally!
Money talks and these organisations justifiably fear that, if they show any support for Palestinians, their funding will be cut off! It’s incredibly pernicious and, when (hopefully) the future equivalent of the Nuremberg trials are held, imo the influence of the Lobby in enabling the genocide must be investigated and its leaders brought to trial!
430 high school students have been killed in Gaza.
12,500 students have been wounded.
350 teachers have been killed.
286 out of 307 school buildings are damaged.
Thank you @KaBKaBKa for conceding that Israeli Zionism is genocidal racism. The answer to your question is quite clear in my answer. You're evidently too deeply programmed to see it.
Israel doesn't have a "right" to exist. To paraphrase article 12 of the Jerusalem Declaration:
all should live together in peace in the area between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea
as equals http://jerusalemdeclaration.org/
@DropBear@prasoon@appassionato@palestine@israel For me, there is a big difference between genocide and expulsion. And not all Israelis are nationalists or dream of a master race. Nevertheless, even the peaceful Israelis there will not be able to live in peace if the Palestinians do not get their own state. A joint state is absolutely illusory. And even if there are two states and peace, Hamas or its successors will continue to attack Israel.
Holocaust survivors say using the Holocaust to justify genocide in Gaza and repress student protest on college campuses is an insult to the Holocaust's memory.
Is it okay to hate that person or it makes me Anti semitic?
How can anyone be that disgustingly inhumane? It's an innocent kid for gods sake.
PS. By the way the account wasn't suspended or limited after such disgusting comment.
@faab64@palestine@israel
From a strategic/moral/societal perspective, hate on groups should never be an answer, ever. I wish we could break that cycle.
You feel what you feel. No need for external validation.
@gogowitsch Are you for real? Did you even read what I wrote?
Is it okay to hate that person or it makes me Anti semitic?
Your ridiculous BS respond to my post is a typical of assholes who think you have a moral pedestal to stand on when watching such disgusting comment from a pro-Israeli monster and all you have to say is to try to lecture me about your wishful gumbaya crap.