Fleuronfire 🇦🇺🇵🇸 @fleuronfire.bsky.social

Socialism is not a crime.The far Right are dangerous radicals masquerading under the guise of Conservatives. Justice, equality, a living wage, climate change.

[Fleuronfire 🇦🇺🇵🇸 @fleuronfire.bsky.social @fleuronfire]

The real history of Palestine 🇵🇸❤️😢😭❤️🇵🇸

[Zachary Foster @_ZachFoster]

Here's a brief history of Gaza (full disclosure: I'm a historian of Palestine):

1516 - Ottomans rule Gaza

1917 - Britain occupies Palestine, adopting the anti-democratic Balfour Declaration, rejecting the political will of 85% of the population of Palestine who declared their opposition to Zionism to the King-Crane Commission. https://t.co/VZEMubfrm5

1917 - 1947 - Britain subjugates 90% of the population of Palestine (the Palestinian Arabs), ignoring their democratic wishes, favoring the Jewish minority, making it easier for Jews to buy land via the annulment of Arab communal land tenure, granting Jews but not Arabs communal autonomy, favoring Jews over Palestinians in awarding contracts & industrial concessions (e.g. Palestine Electric Corporation, Palestine Salt Company, Palestine Potash & Sulphur Quarries), imposing a surveillance regime over the Arabs to subvert their political activity, imposing harsher penalties for Arabs than Jews for similar crimes; preventing the establishment of a Palestinian university & limiting Palestinian secondary education to subvert their political activity. https://t.co/l0K7AFOl4J

1947 - UN proposes giving the Zionist community of Palestine 56% of Palestine, even though they constituted 33% of the population & owned ~5.5% of the land.

1948 - Israel tried (and failed) to conquer Gaza even though the partition plan called for an Arab state there.

1948 - Israel tried to poison Palestinian Arab wells in Gaza, killing many innocent civilians https://t.co/GosqdvSLgu

1948 - Israel violently expelled ~200,000 Palestinians from their homes, pushing them to the Gaza Strip (in total, some 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from their homes by Israel during the war).

1950 - Israel expel the last remaining 2,600 Palestinians in Majdal. Israeli forces loaded them onto trucks, sending them off to Gaza. Whoever refused to leave was coerced through intimidation and violence. https://t.co/1d4VqUjxvE

1953 - The Israeli military attacked the al-Bureij Camp in Gaza, killing 50 civilians, seeking to dismantle the refugee camp altogether to disperse in residents. Another Egyptian-UNRWA plan, supported by Israel, was to expel some 60,000 Palestinians from Gaza to Sinai, where land & Nile River water for irrigation was apparently going to be provided. But the project failed when Palestinians demonstrated en masse on 1 March 1955. https://t.co/1d4VqUjxvE

1949-1956 - Tens of thousands of Palestinian refugees (many from Gaza) tried to return home. They were overwhelmingly unarmed. The Israeli army adopted a shoot to kill policy, massacring ~2,700-5,000 during this period. https://t.co/lrcVTMPhrG

1956-1957 - Israel invaded Gaza, occupying it for 4 months. On 3 Nov 1956, Israeli forces entered Khan Yunis, rounding up all men 15+, lined them against a wall, & executed them. They did the same thing in Rafah. They massacred hundreds of Gazan Palestinians in cold blood. https://t.co/wLpnb2ABgc

1967 - Israel re-invaded the Gaza Strip in a war of choice (https://t.co/TzAtZhfToN) imposing a belligerent military occupation there that has lasted to the present day.

1967 - On 18–19 June 1967, the Israeli cabinet adopted this decision: "...[the Gaza Strip] would be annexed to Israel once the number of refugees there was significantly reduced by transfer to other locations of countries." https://t.co/9GQvuTITUI

1967 - Israel pushed out some ~40,000 Palestinians from Gaza, because they were of the incorrect religion/ethnicity. https://t.co/rm4KhVazUY

1968-1970 - Israel pushed out tens of thousands of Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, then forcibly expelled another 38,000 Palestinian refugees in Gaza in 1971 and tried to compel the rest to give up their refugee status or leave the refugee camps throughout the 1970s and 1980s. https://t.co/16FarJ7vAw

1967-1987 - Israel kills 32 Palestinians on average every year for 20 years (in Gaza & the West Bank); Israel denies Palestinians politica rights. Israel imprisons Palestinians like Fathi Ghaben for painting paintings with black, red, green and white. Israel regularly arrests, detains, tortures and deports Palestinians for speech critical of Israel's brutal military occupation. https://t.co/16FarJ7vAw

1987 - From December 1987 - December 1988, Israeli forces slaughtered 142 Palestinians in Gaza, while Palestinian forces killed 0 Israelis in Gaza. https://t.co/X39kxQJRLH

1987 - 1993 - Israel killed about 1,200 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank.

1990 - Israel threatens the livelihoods of 40% of the population of Gaza, who was at the time working in Israel or in Israeli settlements in Gaza, by requiring them to apply for a permit that was previously granted automatically.

1994 - 1996 - Israel imposes suffocating lockdowns on Gaza, leading to 70% unemployment rate in Gaza during periods of total closure. see Gordon, Israel’s Occupation, 73.

2000 - 2005 - Israel slaughtered ~3,000 Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, imposing suffocating lockdowns on Gaza, leading the World Food Programme (@WFP) to spin up an emergency food operation in Gaza to save hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza from going hungry.

2006 - 7 - Israel tightens it's illegal & inhumane siege on Gaza, whose goal was to "dispel the claims regarding Israel's responsibility for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip" & to “freeze the peace process" (words of Dov Weisglass, Advisor to the then Prime Minister Ariel Sharon).

2007 - present. Israel imposes the longest lasting siege in modern history on Gaza, putting 2M Gazans "on diet," controlling their caloric intake, leading to widespread devastation: 40% of Gaza's population live in poverty, most of them in extreme poverty, more than 80% of households dependent on food aid. Dozens if not hundreds but probably thousands die in Gaza every from inability to receive proper medical and Israel's refusal to allow Gazans to seek care outside of Gaza, owing to the punishing siege, including Fatimah al-Masri, who was murdered by Israel in 2022 after Israel refused to allow her to exit Gaza for medical treatment source https://t.co/8IoD9raMHt

2008-9 - Israel waged a war on Gaza. Israel killed 1,400 Gazans (who killed 3 Israeli civilians). The Goldstone Report found no justifiable military objective was identified in 90% of Israel's deadly attacks on Palestinian civilians & that Israel's goal was “punish, humiliate & terrorize civilians.” https://t.co/Cy2vX39LF9

2012 - Israel killed 171 Gazans (who killed 4 Israeli civilians); 60% of Gazan victims were civilians; the war started when Israel assassinated Ahmed Jabari, who was about to sign a permanent ceasefire with Israel. Israel preferred war to strengthen it’s “deterrence capacity.” https://t.co/I2WcybEIoO

2014 - Israel killed >1,500 Gazan civilians (who killed 6 Israeli civilians). Israel launched 6,000 airstrikes on Gaza, mostly on residential buildings. In 40% of investigated cases, the @UN found no explanation for bombing civilians, concluding Israel likely committed war crimes https://t.co/wO5vdKHZph

2018-9 - Israel killed 223 Palestinians & Israeli snipers left 6,106 Palestinians with life-changing wounds (0 Israeli casualties) after 10s of thousands of unarmed overwhelmingly peaceful Gazans marched to the fence, demanding the right of return and protesting against the siege. No Israeli experienced any major harm at all. https://t.co/Cy2vX39LF9

2021: Israel killed 261 Gazans (who killed 14 Israelis); 113,000 Palestinians were internally displaced; Airwars report concluded: in 70% of the deadly airstrikes on civilians, no militants or military targets were found & Israel indiscriminately targeted dense civilian areas. https://t.co/BP64kqyYZc

2023 - present. Israel has slaughtered hundreds of thousand of Palestinians in Gaza, used starvation, sexual violence and rape as weapons of war, denied 2.2M people access to water, medicine and shelter, froze dozens of babies to death, in what @hrw, @amnesty, @un and @msf call a genocide.

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

Heroic Jewish woman explains why she wore a Palestinian scarf at the #bondibeach attack memorial .

“Israel has politicised the Bondi attack, if Israeli flags were not here I would not have worn the Palestinian scarf. The Israeli flag represents genocide.”

[GHADA 🇵🇸 @ghadaa231]

Can I ask you a favor? Don't stop talking about Palestine 🙏🍉🇵🇸

[Fleuronfire 🇦🇺🇵🇸 @fleuronfire.bsky.social @fleuronfire]

@JonesHowDareYou Aah, good to be back in the Executive Suite today. Just in time for the champagne luncheon 🥂🍾
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[Fleuronfire 🇦🇺🇵🇸 @fleuronfire.bsky.social @fleuronfire]

@JonesHowDareYou Congratulations Jenny 👏🥂I’m happy to invited to the Executive Suite today. I’m arriving early to make up for lost time 🥂🍾
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[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

I still can’t believe the media called this “targeting Hamas.”

[Dr.Motaz🍉🇵🇸 @MotazSaleh2001]

If you stand with Dr. Hussam Abu Safieh, Reply with your country's flag

[Fleuronfire 🇦🇺🇵🇸 @fleuronfire.bsky.social @fleuronfire]

@franmac44 @JonesHowDareYou ❤️I’ve missed being here Fran. I’ve had my elderly dad living with me for past 5 months. His care needs are increasing & paired with full time work, I am a little time poor. Never thought I’d not do Wordle but here I am🙃

[Fleuronfire 🇦🇺🇵🇸 @fleuronfire.bsky.social @fleuronfire]

@JonesHowDareYou I’ve made it into the cheap seats today 🍹
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[Fleuronfire 🇦🇺🇵🇸 @fleuronfire.bsky.social @fleuronfire]

@JonesHowDareYou A slow start sees me hanging out at the tipple van today🍻
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[Issa Amro عيسى عمرو 🇵🇸 @Issaamro]

Video footage showed an Israeli settler and three soldiers taking turns beating, slapping, and assaulting Ahmad Shakarneh 65 Years old , throwing him to the ground while he was harvesting olives with his family in the town of Nahalin near Bethlehem.
It is an evidence that the Israeli military is cooperating with the settlers in the West Bank to evict Palestinians from their homes, land and communities.

[Fleuronfire 🇦🇺🇵🇸 @fleuronfire.bsky.social @fleuronfire]

@JonesHowDareYou A late return to the cheap seats 🍹
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[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

An Old Puppet Show Mocking Israel's Ex-Prime Minister Is Going Viral For Its Accuracy Over 30 Years Later

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Kidnapped civilians held without charge are called HOSTAGES @nytimes. 75 of them didn’t “die,” they were KILLED in Israeli custody.

Language matters.

[Anthony Klan @Anthony_Klan]

🚨The "No" campaign against the Indigenous Voice was a fossil fuels-led sham.
A major ARC study finds "Advance" a massive spreader of fossil fuels propaganda ahead of the May federal election.
One of biggest impediments to fossil fuels = Indigenous rights.
https://t.co/qSaKOkmbAx

[Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur oPt @FranceskAlbs]

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[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

International media still not allowed into Gaza despite "ceasefire".
There are tens of thousands of bodies still to come out of the rubble. They don't want you seeing this.

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

this is not true, but i also need people to understand that the underlying message of posts like this is that israel should be allowed to keep killing people indiscriminately

[Fleuronfire 🇦🇺🇵🇸 @fleuronfire.bsky.social @fleuronfire]

@JonesHowDareYou Eventually!! It’s a pleasant evening to be at the Tipple Van 🍸
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[Fleuronfire 🇦🇺🇵🇸 @fleuronfire.bsky.social @fleuronfire]

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