Way back in the 1980s, when I was in college, we had a tent city on the UC Berkeley campus to protest the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Lots of parallels to what's been happening on campuses recently with the Palestinian solidarity protests, including violent police crack downs.
During this time, author Kurt Vonnegut came to speak in support of the movement, and against Apartheid.
I recently found this amusing clip
of Vonnegut explaining the different types of character arcs a story can have.
There is not much left of Rafah any more, most of the eastern and western parts are flattened and the central part of the town are almost like Gaza city.
Netanyahu did what everyone said he would not dare, he took over philadelphia corridor, entered Gaza, displaced half a million people, blocked food entry to north and the south and completely destroyed UNRWA under the eyes of the Biden, Sunak and EU.
The hypocrisy and cowardice of the so called world leaders against this out of control Israeli trump and his Israeli KKK ministers is truly nauseating.
@messaroundmarx@palestine@israel
I thought it was a gift, since I asked for it that way. Maybe it expired, since I selected it a few days ago.
Sorry about that, and thanks for creating another alternative.
@plink@palestine@israel They just don't want the world to see their atrocities. It is that simple. They control the borders and who can go in and out. They want to be able to kill with even more impunity.
Asking for feedback
The phrase "From the River to the Sea, Palestine Will Be Free" has caused a lot of confusion - some of it genuine and some caused by willful manipulation.
I'm trying to come up with a graphic that can get across what most of those supporting Palestinian freedom mean by it - not expulsion of Jews but freedom and equality for all living there.
Below is a graphic that might end up on a t-shirt.
I've been trying to figure that out @peter_link
The Zionist hasbara is that any attempt to prevent them being the Master Race from the river to the sea is antisemitic. Of course, if they succeed in that, they'll move on to "Greater Israel". @palestine@israel
@peter_link@palestine@israel I don't think you can cut through this controversy with good will, since most of those engaging in it are bad faith actors.
I also think that, however desirable it might be, a one state solution in #Palestine is now impossible.
une petit biais sur le slogan'de ma rivière à la mer"
parce que les pacifistes, et ils sont massifs , ne veulent rien d'autre qu'un état laïque.
C'est à dire séparé l’État des religions ... ce que beaucoup d'israéliens et de pro-israéliens à l'étranger refusent en ne voulant pas voir l'aspect séparatiste d'un état privilégiant un seul culte.
Et hélas même un état sensé être laïc comme la France est dirigé par des anti-laïcs (comme Macron et les droites en général)
The #Israel#IDF force are the terrorists, Anyone fighting them now is just fighting for survival, I know that is controversial, and I condemn what happened on October 7th but that is the reality.
The #IDF are murdering civilians, either by air or on the ground, or by starvation.
@plink@palestine@israel I wish I had written that. An appropriate level of moral venom injected surgically, not with the broad brush so many paint with.
@plink I had a post removed for saying Israeli society needs deprogranming from believing genocide is ok, so I won't repeat it here. . . @palestine@israel
from #TheGuardian
‘What’s happening is not genocide’: #Biden criticizes #ICC for seeking arrest warrants for #Israel officials – as it happened
[Live blog for May 20 - now closed, but still available]
@plink@palestine@israel he evidently didn't bother to read the ICC statement. It didn't use the word genocide. I did read it, and it sounded pretty straightforward and accurate to me.
Israëlian racist government don't want Palestine state. They want eternal war until genocide is complete.
...Israel's foreign minister, Israel Katz, who met top House Republican Elise Stefanik earlier, said if a Palestinian state was established, Iran would use it as a base to "work towards the destruction of Israel"....
those killers want us to believe something about palestinian, they does them self