Will Keffer

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Solidarity with the struggles of the workers and the oppressed classes around the world!

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[Will Keffer @bkeffable]

Important thread:

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

A lot of people in the US don’t seem to know what Israel did to Palestinians before Oct 7. Here is a quick rundown.🧵

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Claims that the Palestinians were in 1948 ordered to evacuate their homes and homeland by Arab leaders in a series of radio broadcasts has been a perennial Hasbara Symphony Orchestra favourite since the Nakba, and continues to be widely promoted to this day.

The BBC journalist and United Nations official Erskine Barton Childers (not to be confused with his father, Ireland's fourth president, Erskine Hamilton Childers) thoroughly debunked this claim more than half a century ago in his article, "The Other Exodus" published in The Spectator on 12 May 1961.

Childers reviewed the comprehensive archives of Arab radio broadcasts compiled during that period by both the BBC monitoring station in Cyprus and its US counterpart, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) run by the CIA, and found nothing.

I have posted a link to Childers's article in the comments, which is worth reading because it includes details of additional fabrications concocted by Israeli officials to further this foundational hasbara myth.

Abba Eban, then Israel's permanent representative to the UN and later foreign minister, and easily its most celebrated diplomat, for example claimed that the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Haifa, George Hakim, "fully confirmed" that Palestinians were encouraged to flee by their leaders.

Yet, according to Childers: "I wrote to His Grace [Hakim], asking for his evidence of such orders. I hold signed letters from him, with permission to publish, in which he has categorically denied ever alleging Arab evacuation orders; he states that no such orders were ever given. He says that his name has been abused for years; and that the Arabs fled through panic and forcible eviction by Jewish troops."

This is the same Abba Eban who on 6 June 1967 falsely informed the UN Security Council that Israel had launched the June War the previous day in response to a series of non-existent attacks on Israel on the morning of 5 June by the Egyptian air force and artillery units.

I was previously unaware that the Israeli archives also include records of these radio broadcasts. As the British-Israeli historian Benny Morris reports below, he went through these records and also found that such broadcasts, whether by local Palestinian or Arab leaders, simply do not exist.

While the research conducted by Childers and more recently Morris is of course useful in providing official confirmation that such broadcasts are a figment of the Zionist imagination, logic alone should suffice to debunk this myth.

In May 1948, the Arab states intervened in Palestine to put an end to the mass expulsions of Palestinians, which since November 1947 already numbered in the hundreds of thousands, and to defeat the Israeli forces responsible for this monumental crime.

Does it make any sense that prior to their intervention they would have ordered hundreds of thousands of civilians to clog every road they hoped to use to enter Palestine, for miles and days on end? Of course not.

As for the silly claim that the objective of the Arab intervention was genocide, there is no evidence for it, and the conduct of the Arab militaries during the Palestine War supports this conclusion.

Nor was it the case that the Arab intervention was a coordinated military campaign to eradicate the nascent Israeli state. Some of the participating Arab states, Syria and Iraq, did have this as an objective.

Transjordan clearly did not. Its leadership had already cut a deal with the Zionist leadership to partition Palestine between them and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. Armed conflict between Israel and Transjordan in fact ensued only after Israeli forces reneged on their agreement and initiated seizures of territory beyond the partition boundary.

Egypt's position was more ambiguous. It seemed to be primarily motivated by rivalry with Jordan, and ensuring Jordan did not become the main Arab power in Palestine. In short, no Arab state wanted to see the emergence of the Israeli state, but in most cases Arab leaders had more pressing priorities. Coordination between them was primarily notable for its absence.

Arab public opinion, by contrast, considered the failure of their leaders to successfully confront the Zionist project nothing short of treason, and it served as a catalyst for more than a decade of revolutions, coups, and uprisings throughout the region.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

False.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who signed the first federal minimum wage into law in 1938 via the Fair Labor Standards Act, clarified, “By living wages, I mean more than a bare subsistence level — I mean the wages of a decent living.”

[Christa Sydney @christasyd]

I was telling my friends that Westerners LOVE Star Wars and think Luke Skywalker and the Resistance fighters are the good guys but can't apply the same logic and grace for Hamas.

[ابن محمد @freedomobs_]

@PorchPrinciples @NYCMayor Actually, David ben-Gorion said himself clearly that the land belongs to the Palestinians and the jew immigrants are a bunch of settlers and aggressors. Do you know more than the founder of Israel and its first prime minister ?

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

Norman makes the point that any sentient human being who isn't a propagandist liar scumbag like everyone in the Zionist media and political class knows to be an obvious truism: October 7 was literally the most filmed military operation in all of human history, with countless hours of CCTV footage from all the settler communities and military bases, bodycam and other footage from rape-soldiers and police and in helicopters and planes, the phone footage from the settlers, the bodycams from Hamas themselves.

And in all these countless hours of video and tens of thousands of photos, the Israeli death-cult did not identify a single case, not even a single case, of any sexual violence at all, even just groping, let alone rape.

Not even one case. Zero. The number is literally zero.

And as Norman notes, there is no other physical evidence either. No forensic evidence, all the bodies that were carefully examined by forensic pathologists did not show a single instance of sexual violence as Haaretz was forced to admit (see https://t.co/eHT9jlITDm). There is nothing.

And yet the New York Times (Jeffrey Gettleman, Anat Schwartz, Adam Sella), BBC (Lucy Williamson, Lucy Manning), Guardian (Bethan McKernan), Washington Post (Shira Rubin), NBC News (Anna Schecter), AP (Tia Goldenberg and Edith Lederer), Reuters (Maayan Lubell and Emily Rose), all conspired together to fabricated and launder the most depraved genocidal atrocity propaganda hoax in modern history, all to ensure that their precious Israeli death and rape-cult could continue its actual mass pedophilic rape and mutilation of Palestinian babies, toddlers, children, girls, boys, women and men.

The most depraved shameless scum who have ever walked this planet.

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

Mossad booby‑trapped 21,000 communication devices with explosives, sent them to Lebanon through shell companies, and detonated them remotely — killing dozens (including children) and injuring over 3,400.

• The devices exploded in people's hands, on their faces, and in their pockets.

• They did it over two consecutive days.

• On day two, the explosives went off while Lebanese families were at the funerals of those killed the day before.

• The attack inflicted roughly 3,000 injuries in a single hour on the first day alone.

This terrorist attack was the largest simultaneous mass‑detonation in history by the number of individual bombs.

'israelis' joke about it to this day.

If you didn't boycott Apple for the Congo, boycott it now.

[Muhammad Shehada @muhammadshehad2]

🚨This short film exposes the true story of Israel's creation, entirely through the words of its own founders

For decades, Israel’s lies have been carefully designed to demonize its victims. To ensure that no matter the crimes it commits, the children it slaughters, the world remains incapable of empathy for Palestinians, or at best, treats it with the same apathy that has allowed this to go on for as long as it has

On the 78th anniversary of its creation, it's time the world knew that Israel's past is not different from the brutal present the world is finally seeing

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

"We have indisputable evidence that Ghaddafi is giving his troops Viagra so they can mass rape girls and babies. We need to bomb them now!"

*few months later as Libya has been bombed*

"Yeah we made up that Viagra mass rape stuff. Anyway, Israel has the right to defend itself."

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Gaza: Doctors Under Attack wins a BAFTA Award

Executive Producer Ben de Pear, "Just a question for the BBC, given you that you dropped our film will you drop us from the BAFTA TV screening later on tonight?"

And guess what, they edited it to this shorter version

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

It's downright poetic all the different words Reuters editors can find to avoid saying Israel *violated* a ceasefire.

[James🔻 @GoodVibePolitik]

You see stuff like this and very quickly begin to understand why Hamas exists tbh

[Voice of Rabbis @voiceofrabbis]

If you're Jewish or non-Jewish, please, let the world know:

Video from last week in Monroe NY,

The message was unmistakable:

“We oppose and have no part in Zionism and State of israel”

Not fringe. Not small.

[Axel Folio, PhD, White Tears Distiller 🪁 @ISASaxonists]

Precious Kevin González died 1 day after being allowed to embrace his parents 1 last time. US cruelty beyond the imagination. Those last months must have been so lonely & what torture his parents must have felt. May he rest in eternal peace & may his family be surrounded by love.

[Gev Iskajyan @geviskajyan]

This isn’t just racist — it’s disqualifying.

Saying Armenians shouldn’t be allowed to serve in Congress is blatant bigotry. No elected official who traffics in this kind of hate should be running for office.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

This is how Reconstruction ended and Jim Crow began last time

[Uti Possidetis Putz @NEBU_CHAD_NEZZ]

@KonstantinKisin It turns out that when a state that calls itself the Jewish state, commits genocide, it leads to Jews who support Israel in the diaspora being less safe.

[Tansu Yegen @TansuYegen]

The One-Way Geometry of a Precision Trap🐥📦

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

To figure out why Cole Allen did what he did, I obtained a copy of his resume and talked to his former friends. The portrait that emerges is unlike what the White House is saying:
https://t.co/UisQVHYnKh

[Will Keffer @bkeffable]

https://t.co/hLBub6lV4z

[pebble @punished_pebble]

@bloomjpg Holocaust survivor Gabor Mate said it first