At the Oxford Union debate, I argued that Israel seeks a peace that erases Palestine, while Palestinians seek a peace of true religious coexistence.
"Do you know why [Israelis] can point to Jewish heritage in Palestine? It is because Muslims preserved it. They were not like the Israelis today who are trying to erase Palestinian heritage"
Trump's Board of Snake Oil Salesmen🧵
After months of talking to mediators, EU diplomats, Palestinian negotiators, NCAG commissioners, CMCC... here's the bottom line:
1- Trump's Gaza plan is a scam
2- Board of Peace is a personal enrichment scheme
3- Israel will never leave Gaza unless dragged kicking & screaming
I remember this old sad story!
Sad ending too. 😢
3 year old Imad Abu Al-Qare went with his 20 year old cousin Hadeel to buy something.
IDF snipers got them.
Others nearby noticed the little boy moving and still alive.
They tried to save him but the sniper would try to pick off anyone who went out to save the boy.
Through different difficult methods they saved the boy!
...unfortunately soon later the boy succumbed to his injuries and passed away. 😢
RIP Imad and Hadeel 🙏
Thank you @Angelsback8 for reminding us of this!
Follow her too!
As Arundhati Roy said, what is under the rubble in Gaza is not only the bodies of countless Palestinians killed by Israel, but also the carcass of Western Liberal Democracy...
I've been informed Trump's Board of Peace is paying the expenses of the IDF's covert transfer of rubble (mixed with dead bodies) out of Gaza. The money is taken from Gaza's reconstruction funds!
What if, listening to this painful call, ALL those who say they care for Palestine, started to pay attention to:
-grocery/pharmaceuticals they buy
-insurance companies they use
-their banks
-their pension funds
-their work or research partners..
And chose an #ApartheidFree life
Will Jewish communities be asked to condemn these extreme statements from the Chief Rabbi of the self-proclaimed Jewish state, in the same way that Muslim communities for 25 years have been asked to condemn extreme statements from every random imam anywhere in the world?
@carolinejoyous Stop lying 🤥. The clip was cut the full video wasn't shown. The Imam was praying against the oppressor of our time, just like Pharaoh in the Bible who enslaved the Israelites. He was NOT praying against Jews, Christians, or Americans. Do your homework.
What in the world @Google?
Haven’t you learned your lesson from how terrible your search was on Islam? Now your AI is just casually being Islamophobic?
Try this yourself and tag google with your results.
Disappointed the BBC cancelled my interview on Israel's killing of Hind Rajab
2 producers eagerly reached out. They confirmed the time & one called to prepare a brief for the anchor
She asked me whether Israel's announcement is positive, I explained in detail it was a cover up.
The IDF is blaming the killing of Hind, her uncle, aunt & 4 cousins on the family itself for trying to flee by car & on the ambulance sent to rescue her for "failures in the co-ordination of the movement."
None of this is remotely true! The Red Cross immediately informed the IDF about 5-year-old Hind who was hiding in that motionless car, & they requested permission from Israel to allow an ambulance to rescue them.
After multiple long hours, Israel granted greenlight to the ambulance & provided them with a designated route on a GPS to drive on.
As soon as the ambulance reached Hind's car, the IDF ambushed & bombed them immediately with an American made anti-tank missile then opened fire on Hind's car. The car was hit with 355 bullets.
Israel then kept that area under lockdown for 12 days, & prevented anyone from approaching.
Hind's mom went daily to the Ahli baptist hospital hoping to find her daughter, until her lifeless body was brought in along with the charred remains of the ambulance men.
Israel then claimed after an "initial investigation" that its troops were NEVER in that area to begin with. They maintained that claim for 2 years despite ample recordings & satellite images debunking this lie.
The only reason Israel is now making this new announcement of a deeper investigation is to shield its soldiers & generals from the International Criminal Court by invoking the principle of "complementarity;" that the ICC cannot investigate a state that is already investigating itself in good faith.
I told the BBC producer Israel today also quietly shut down the investigation into the triple tap killing of American, Canadian, British, Australian & Polish citizens in the WCK massacre. Israel blamed the massacre on the aid workers themselves for "deviating from the predesignated route" & for hiring an armed security guard "without informing the IDF" (both claims where debunked by WCK themselves, who had coordinates their every step with the IDF).
I told the producer the Israeli commander responsible for this massacre, Nochi Mendel, is a fanatical settler who had signed a petition calling for starving Gaza & that he was celebrated by settler leaders & supported by Israeli government leaders after what he did.
Mendel even received a box of chocolate from the settler council's leader & a letter of support for what he did.
Mendel was initially dismissed by the IDF & blamed for the massacre, but was quickly & quietly reinstated & promoted in the Defence Ministry as the head of the settlements and national infrastructure unit.
It's abundantly clear Israel is NOT serious about prosecuting any of the atrocities committed in Gaza. Since the genocide began, only two soldiers were punished by the IDF; one for microwaving a living frog & another for cooking sausages in the army kitchen on Shabbat.
The producer asked me: What about the 150 cases the IDF said are pending review?
I answered: it's just a number designed to give the appearance of seriousness, but it's essentially meaningless.
If it took the IDF two whole years to admit the simplest of facts that the entire world had already known, which is that their troops were the ones who fired on Hind Rajab's car, how do you expect them to do with the remaining cases that are not as high profile?
Five minutes after the call, the producer wrote me that they decided to cancel the interview & will not even host anyone else to comment on the issue, & instead they'll play archival footage!
“I did a leg amputation on a 5-year-old girl, and the only anesthesia that we had was the anesthesia doctor singing to her… We were praying for her to faint. She stayed awake the whole amputation.”
Absolutely devastating testimony from doctors in Gaza.
“They’re afraid, terrified to death…When you show who is really the owner of the house, then they will simply flee.”
They’re using violence to expel a population. This is terrorism and ethnic cleansing, stop calling them “settlers.”
Bisan Owda answers a question she says she frequently gets asked: How do journalists and Palestinians like her keep their phones charged amid Israel's systematic destruction of Gaza’s electric infrastructure?
נכון לכתיבת שורות אלו המשפחה עדיין נצורה בבית. אב המשפחה יוסוף אמר לי הבוקר שהאוכל צפוי להיגמר היום ושהילדה הקטנה שלו זקוקה לרופא. אתמול דווח בהארץ כי מתנחלים מנעו מהכתבת מתן גולן להגיע לאזור וחיילים לא סייעו, הלילה תועדו חיילים חוסמים אמבולנס שניסה לפי הדיווח להתקרב לבית. פניתי לצה"ל לפני זמן קצר, בודקים
I will never forget where I was when I received the news. I still hear your voice in the few messages we shared, the countless videos I continue to watch of you, and in the precious visions I had of you after your martyrdom. Seeing you in the rubble with your press vest covered in blood hit differently. I can’t explain it. But so many feel the same way about you. You were our voice. You’re still our voice. Our conscience. May Allah have mercy on you my forever young brother, and our forever hero. @AnasAlSharif0
🚨HORRIBLE: The full story of how renowned Palestinian surgeon Dr. Adnan al-Bursh was abducted from inside a hospital in Gaza and deliberately killed inside an Israeli prison during Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.