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Old school pessimistic optimist, the world could be a nicer place, give it time. Until then, make a noise.

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

Someone asked "Can we all agree that our world would be better without a Hamas?"

This is the sort of question that can only make sense to you if you view Hamas as some kind of invasive alien presence that was imposed upon Palestine from the outside instead of a natural homegrown emergence from the material circumstances that have been forced upon Palestinians. If you've got a group of people being sufficiently oppressed and violently persecuted by the ruling power, you're going to start seeing violent opposition to that ruling power as sure as you'll see blood arise from a wound.

If Hamas had been completely eliminated a decade ago, there would be a Palestinian group organizing violence against the state of Israel today under that or some other name. If Hamas is completely eliminated tomorrow, there will be a Palestinian group organizing violence against the state of Israel in a matter of years (assuming there are any Palestinians left when this is all over, of course). If a man starts strangling me, at some point I'm going to try to gouge his eyes and crush his testicles. That's just what happens when humans find themselves under a sufficient amount of existential pressure.

Asking if the world would be better without Hamas is as nonsensical as asking if Alaska would be better without coats. The presence of coats in Alaska is the natural consequence of the material conditions in that region, and as long as those material conditions persist for the population of Alaska then there will necessarily be coats.

Don't ask if the world would be better without a Hamas, ask if the world would be better without the conditions which make a Hamas inevitable.

[António Guterres @antonioguterres]

The refusal to accept the two-state solution for Israelis and Palestinians, and the denial of the right to statehood for the Palestinian people, are unacceptable.

The right of the Palestinian people to build their own state must be recognized by all.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"They are killing families, civilians, children... how many of us have to die?"

Dr Ahmed Al Moghrabi at Nasser Hospital

[John Cusack @johncusack]

If you don’t speak out against this US sponsored mass murder spree - don’t EVER express an opinion about human rights - race gender equality - any thing -
If you can’t say stop murdering children -
Take a vow of fucking silence - and go to hell.
This is mass insanity

[Arnaud Bertrand @RnaudBertrand]

This will be interesting: China - one of the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - calls for full membership for Palestine at the UN.

The question is: will the US, also one of the five, veto it? This will test their sincerity with regards to actually wanting a 2-state solution, which is their official position. You cannot say you want a Palestinian state and veto the UN recognizing that state, it'd be completely hypocritical. But something tells me that's exactly what they'll do...

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

If we want to live in a better world, we have to build it ourselves.

Thank you to all the wonderful community centres in Islington — you are creating a kinder society, one act of solidarity at a time.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Not only is this untrue, given the deaths - killings - in Gaza over the part 24 and even 48 hours but it is shamefully indifferent to, and minimizing of, the ongoing mass death, starvation, and suffering ongoing in the strip.
The Palestinians are unpeople.

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

It's not just thousands of children buried in the rubble of Gaza.

Buried alongside them is the moral authority of those who cheered on Israel's massacre - or who said almost nothing when the scale of the crime was obvious.

https://t.co/1yOdDhrPg5

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

The west’s complete contempt for the lives of Palestinians will not be forgotten | Owen Jones https://t.co/a5Lme33cMX

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

An Israeli woman says these words:

“This government is worse than Hamas. "We will get along well with Hamas"

Families of Israelis held by Hamas say these while being detained by Israeli police.

[V 🇵🇸 @mockgoose]

‘I was educated to believe whatever I did to Palestinians would save us from another Holocaust. It was only when I aimed my rifle at a little girl, I realised I was the evil one.’

Breaking the Silence is an organisation of ex Israeli military who now expose IDF & Israel methods.
https://t.co/OZk3Ez0ko4

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Israeli president Yitzhak Herzog explains that Israel has to murder Palestinian children "for the entire universe, for the free world" – and that the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is "an essential element in the history of humankind".

Herzog is a prominent Israeli liberal.

[Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum]

22 January 1882 | A Pole, Mieczysław Demkowicz-Dobrzański, was born in Jarosław. Major of the Polish Army.

In #Auschwitz from 5 April 1941.
No. 11232
He perished in the camp on 11 January 1942.

[John Cusack @johncusack]

The silence of public persons during the horror in Gaza is unforgivable.
How can any moral person Still not be calling for a cease fire ?

[Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn]

Refugees didn't cause the NHS crisis.

Refugees didn't decimate our social housing.

Refugees didn't sell off our railways, water and energy.

That was the Tories — and their attempts to scapegoat desperate people in search of safety is an utter disgrace.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Whoa. Sydney Morning Herald (@smh) reports that the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (@ABCaustralia) sacked award-winning Australian-Lebanese host @antoinette_news after a "high-level and coordinated letter-writing campaign from pro-Israel lobbyists."
https://t.co/4kotVeJXrp

[The Presidency 🇿🇦 @PresidencyZA]

SOUTH AFRICA APPROACHES THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE UNDER THE GENOCIDE CONVENTION WITH RESPECT TO ACTS COMMITTED BY ISRAEL IN THE CONTEXT OF ITS ATTACKS ON GAZA

South Africa is gravely concerned with the plight of civilians caught in the present Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip due to the indiscriminate use of force and forcible removal of inhabitants.

Furthermore, there are ongoing reports of international crimes, such as crimes against humanity and war crimes, being committed as well as reports that acts meeting the threshold of genocide or related crimes as defined in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, have been and may still be committed in the context of the ongoing massacres in Gaza.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Lest we become desensitized even before 2024 is here. How would the West react if dozens of civilians had been killed last night in Times Square, Piccadilly or Syntagma? Just posing the question proves how little Westerners think of Palestinian lives. https://t.co/Q0aNcEAU9x

[Tikun Olam 🍉🇮🇷 @richards1052]

A rhetorical question for genocide deniers: if Hamas killed 90,000 Israelis (1% of the population), shelled Sheba, Hadassah and Sharey Tzedek hospitals, bombed Tel Aviv University, and laid siege to Israel by land, sea, and air--would that be genocide?? Hmm?

[Robert Martin 🇵🇸 @Robert_Martin72]

Here’s a message to all supporters of israel and all the haters hiding behind fake profiles regurgitating lazy propaganda. I spent time in Palestine and am acutely aware of the truth.

So fuck off and Free Palestine.