Hugh Merrell

Publisher at @Merrellpublishers London & New York | weekend crofter in Ibiza | most desired luxury: a time-machine

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

I'm sorry, I didn't realize Israel had now escalated to the "quadruple tap" where they just keep killing and killing as people try desperately to help the wounded

[Hugh Merrell @Hugh_Merrell]

@_ZachFoster @TomLondon6 @DalrympleWill

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

The 1948 Nakba is very well known, but the ethnic cleansing of 1967 is discussed far lesn, ad it was utterly horrific. Historian Adam Raz has p,ublishsed a well-resourced account in Haaretz today, built on Israeli documents. Here are the main findings:

1) Israel expelled and drove out roughly 300,000 Arabs in 1967, about 200,000 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza, and about 120,000 Syrians from the Golan, where only some 6,000 of an estimated 130,000 remained. One soldier described the Gaza raids: "We grabbed guys, stood them up and eliminated them. In hindsight it looks like murder."

2) This was not an accident; it was intentional policy, prepared for since the early 1960s. Defense Minister Dayan wanted the West Bank emptied and repeatedly welcomed reports of flight. Many villages were destroyed. The KKL later planted Canada Park over the ruins of Imwas, Beit Nuba and Yalu. One soldier said the columns of expelled families reminded him of Jews "trudging through occupied Europe," and his heart sank at the sight.

3) Those trying to return were slaughtered. Troops were ordered to shoot to kill without warning. When one soldier asked whether to fire even if he heard babies crying, the answer was: "Don't be a girl." The IDF itself reported nearly 150 Palestinians killed this way by early September, and Chief of Staff Rabin confirmed these were the standing orders.

4) Crimes were widespread: systematic looting, the execution of unarmed prisoners and civilians, and the bulldozing of Golan villages "so there'd be nowhere to return to." One of the officers who ordered prisoners executed was Moshe Levi — later IDF Chief of Staff. A soldier wrote to his girlfriend that they had turned Sinai into a "valley of slaughter," adding: "I saw too many murders to cry."

5) The legal warnings were ignored. In December 1967, Foreign Ministry legal adviser Theodor Meron wrote that the expulsions were "a grave breach of the Geneva Convention." His summary line captures the whole episode: the Ministerial Committee for Security Affairs "decided to approve the policy anyway."

This sounds incredibly familiar, doesn't it? This is the Israeli way of war, based one slaughter and ethnic cleansing. Nothing changed.

[Sony Thăng @nxt888]

"Never forget," they say.

But they choose what you remember.

Never forget Tiananmen.

Never forget 9/11.

Never forget the Holocaust.

But somehow, you are allowed to forget Fallujah.

You are allowed to forget Mỹ Lai.

You are allowed to forget Sabra and Shatila.

You are encouraged to forget Gaza while it is still happening.

This is not a culture of remembrance.

It is a culture of selective memory.

[Peter Oborne @OborneTweets]

Netanyahu has repeatedly claimed that Israel is the guardian of Christianity in the Middle East. Here is fresh evidence that claim is false.

[Sarah Wilkinson @swilkinsonbc]

Corpses of men, women & children after the israeli massacre at dawn today in Gaza, including a family of five & 3 children | via @Abu_Salah9

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Israeli soldiers invaded the Lebanese village of Ain Arab and went door to door telling everyone:

"you either leave right now or you die."

Israel is ethnically cleansing Lebanon.

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

According to the Gospels of both Matthew and Mark, Jesus himself visited Tyre. The Christian community there is certainly 2000 years old.

Israel has been killing Tyre Christians for a month.

There is a shrine and church in the hills where locals believe his mother Mary waited for him while he was in Tyre and Sidon.

I visited with Laith Marouf and we interviewed the priest who strongly supported resistance to Israeli occupation.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

After Israel occupied Gaza & the West Bank in 1967, it deported Palestinian intellectuals, educators & politicians who (peacefully) resisted Israeli domination.

In 1969, Jordan stopped allowing Israel to do this at border crossings.

So Israel started dumping Palestinians in the desert. They sent 800 Palestinians onto a virtual death march from 1969-1973.

Yusuf 'Abdullah 'Udwan was deported this way. Here's his survival testimony:

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

If you are offended by the Israeli government, meet the Israeli opposition: Lieberman calls for “flattening” southern Beirut. Most genocidal country in the world.

[Middle Eastern Affairs @OpsHQs]

The Israeli ambassador to Europe is protesting the spread of this image. Let it spread all over the world. 🌍🔥"

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

Here's a montage of Israeli soldiers talking about murdering children for 5 minutes straight.

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Israel gave him a permit to leave Gaza to continue his medical studies. And then kidnapped him as he was leaving....He will be sent to the most well-documented torture & rape dungeon on earth.

[Mosab Abu Toha @MosabAbuToha]

This morning in Palestine, Israel took four Palestinian female students hostage during a raid on the town of Birzeit in Ramallah.
The four female are students at the renowned Birzeit University. Three of them were kidnapped from their homes

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

Please read BELOW

Please grieve and rage and demand (even now, so late) ACTION for the Palestinians

Please grieve for humankind that the world has allowed this unspeakable abomination
WHAT have we become?

Please share

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@yanisvaroufakis

[Hugh Merrell @Hugh_Merrell]

@SuzieWo20886208 You’re clearly not Hodging your bets

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

Israel is bombing hospitals again

[Tom London @TomLondon6]

OK. The position is this

The BEST Israel propagandist will LOSE to even a mediocre opponent if there is a proper debate on the FACTS

So, Israel wants the debate to be ANYTHING BUT on the facts

Tactics include: -
1. Scaring people off by the threat of them being called antisemitic
2. Blocking debate (as today with the outrageous UK government banning of Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur)
3. Absurd whataboutism
4. Irrelevant references to the Holocaust
5. Bombarding with lies, smears and irrelevant facts
6. Barely contained (and can be frightening) verbal aggression
7. Please let me know what I have missed out

@AyoCaesar
@AaronBastani
@JVoiceLiberatio
@mehdirhasan
@hasanthehun
@cenkuygur

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel planted explosives in a school for disabled children at dawn today in South Lebanon and blew it up.

Not a military target.

A school for disabled children — perhaps the only one in the country.

In what universe is this considered “self-defense”?

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli journalist Gideon Levy:

"Now that [Gaza] has been destroyed almost completely, Israel is advancing confidently toward the next phase: making the entire population permanently disabled, injured, sick, hungry, homeless and unemployed."

It's the prelude, says Levy, to mass expulsion.

"No society can function without teachers, doctors, social workers, engineers and clerks. And without a functioning society, it's easy to expel Gaza's residents to the four corners of the earth."

Source: https://t.co/NYY16nu06c

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Horrifying testimony of Australian woman raped by the IOF:

'They wrenched my trousers and underwear down and it felt like I was inserted with a hand..it wasn't a gun...other people had guns inserted inside them.'

- Juliet Lamont, documentary filmmaker.