Yes, Palestinian testimonies from the 1948 Tantura events describe Israeli forces selecting groups of men, shooting one, forcing the others to carry the body to a pit, then repeating the process and dumping them in. Similar accounts note carriers of bodies on stretchers later shot into the same ditch. Some Israeli veteran testimonies confirm post-battle executions and mass graves there (estimates dozens to 200+), though overall details and context remain contested in historical debate.
โWe were willing to be kind, generous, and even agreed to share the land,โ says this Israeli diplomat to me.
A reminder that at partition, in 1947, Jews owned 7% of the land. This guy says they were willing to โshareโ the 93% that wasnโt even theirs.
There is a word for that.
Getting really annoyed by the constant twee โthe Jewish stateโ. Itโs a state, itโs a political entity, it is not a mere cultural expression of Jewish identity. It is thus not a protected class but a country with an attendant settler ideology fair game for harsh critique. Grow up!
Why call it the "Jewish State," olivia?
If you called Apartheid Israel "the Jews" or "the Jewish people" or maybe even just "Judaism" ...
...then that would do a better job of ensuring more Jews face more blowback when apartheid israel incinerates Palestinian babies in tents.
If your goal is to get Jews killed, then you doing OK, but you could be doing even more Olivia.
Prototypical Free Press column: Iโm a smug asshole with a superficial knowledge of the topic but Iโm going to spew pro-Israel dogma as if itโs self evidently true and you have to listen because David Ellison is worth $400B and he paid to give us the trappings of Serious Analysis.
Girl is crying her 10 year old brother has been arrested by the Zionists in occupied Palestine.
the only place in the world where children are systematically detained