Francois Mottaz

[Francois Mottaz @fmottaz]

@moorehn And there is a brilliant book to help with this: From Apartheid to Democracy by @MikeOmerMan and @sarahleah1, a precise and detailed roadmap to do just this. Pragmatism and decency for all those interested in a real solution.

[Francois Mottaz @fmottaz]

@MandaLaniBackup @JDiamond1 @zeenasaifi @Eyalo365 You obviously forgot the years beetween 1982 and 2000 when Israel occupied South Lebanon. In 82, there was no Hezbollah, in 2000 they pushed Israel out. And the Lebanese army was not really present in the South. Hezbollah is your responsability

[Francois Mottaz @fmottaz]

@Sl86196Mmym @JDiamond1 @zeenasaifi Who invaded Lebanon in 1978, 1982-2000, 2006 ? Aliens ?

[Francois Mottaz @fmottaz]

@Or3901142711852 @JDiamond1 @zeenasaifi Yes, they missed it. So here you are: Israel is there because this is part of their long term Greater Israel project.

[Francois Mottaz @fmottaz]

@123thebigguy12 @JDiamond1 @zeenasaifi You must be joking, right ?

[Francois Mottaz @fmottaz]

Et pourquoi les produits de l’état qui encourage et soutient cette violence seraient-ils acceptables ?

[Jean-Noël Barrot @jnbarrot]

L’explosion de la violence provoquée par les colons extrémistes en Cisjordanie menace la solution à deux Etats et porte une atteinte inacceptable à la dignité du peuple palestinien.

Je rappellerai aujourd’hui que l'Union Européenne ne peut se résoudre à ce que les produits issus des territoires illégalement occupés en Cisjordanie entrent dans l'Union Européenne. Elle ne peut, par son commerce, soutenir cette activité.

[Ami Dar @AmiDar]

This piece by the great Amira Hass, published in Haaretz today, is too urgent and important to be behind a paywall, so I've copied the whole thing here. Please read and share.

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Israel Isn't Debating a Palestinian State. It's Preparing for Expulsion.

Gadi Eisenkot's position on Palestinian statehood is beside the point. Across Gaza, the West Bank and Israel itself, the machinery for making Palestinian life impossible is already operating, laying the groundwork for mass expulsion

Gadi Eisenkot, the election frontrunner and leader of the Yashar party, has a stance on a Palestinian state that is ultimately irrelevant. What is at stake today is not a "diplomatic solution," but the very existence of the Palestinian people between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. The Israeli forces striving to "erase" them recognize no limits or restraints. Their supporters are too numerous for us to rely solely on the steadfastness and resilience of a people that has already endured expulsion plans carried out by Israel.

The world stands by. The left is tiny, weak and hoarse from sounding too many warnings. The anti-Bibi opposition oscillates among downplaying the danger, remaining indifferent to it and outright supporting expulsion. The sporadic condemnations, prompted mainly by something the U.S. ambassador posted on X, are about as useful as a sieve in a rainstorm. The Jewish Phalangists attack constantly and everywhere, not only in Qusra.

The debate over one state, two states or a federation is more theoretical than ever. Any agreed-upon solution requires first acknowledging the problem and agreeing on what it is. Too many Jews in Israel have been conditioned to believe that the problem is the very presence in this land of a Palestinian people with roots, historical and economic continuity, cultural capital and material assets, a rich agricultural heritage and a profound love of homeland.

"Erasure" is the nightmare solution being written into reality every day. Knesset laws, politicians' declarations, military orders, school textbooks and the holy real estate battalions operating in Gaza, the West Bank and the Negev all work, together and separately, to advance this "solution" diligently and without fear of international condemnation.

Israeli policy is directed toward making life unbearable for Palestinians wherever they live, so that their emigration can be described as an act of free will. Within Israel itself, the authorities give Arab crime organizations free rein to arm themselves and kill Palestinian citizens in their homes. In the West Bank, those same Israeli authorities give "God's battalions" free rein to arm themselves, kill and expel, while the official army continues its raids day and night. In devastated and thirsty Gaza, the government and the army cultivate armed militias of criminal collaborators, while Israeli pilots continue to launch missiles of revenge and retribution that claim the lives of still more children. All these testosterone-fueled displays are interconnected.

At the same time, Israel is destroying or severely restricting Palestinians' ability to earn a living. In Gaza, that mission has been completed. A "living dead" population of aid recipients, two million people carrying the weight of some 74,000 fresh graves, families and memories, talents and professions, and evaporated savings, is crammed into roughly 150 square kilometers of scorched earth. Creativity, resourcefulness and mutual aid are dwarfed by the scale of the destruction and by Israel's prohibition on rebuilding and recovery.

In the West Bank, the Finance Ministry's financial noose is tightening around the necks of approximately three million people and the Palestinian Authority. The systematic theft of revenues is compounded by the army's campaigns of destruction in cities and refugee camps, as well as by the other methods used to prevent Palestinians from cultivating and developing their land: checkpoints, bureaucratic prohibitions, fences and Israeli-Jewish shepherds.

Within Israel itself, the "Judaization of the Galilee and Negev" was and remains code for stealing land and resources from Palestinian citizens of Israel. Discrimination against them in allocations, subsidies and employment, along with building prohibitions and demolitions, has always featured prominently in official policy within the Green Line.

Let me reiterate: The very existence of the Palestinian people between the sea and the river is now in danger. Too many active forces are creating that danger: Israel's military might and capabilities; the cult of military service under all conditions and under every government; obedience as a value; weapons and military attacks as the default modus operandi; the normalization of PTSD among soldiers and of soldiers dying by suicide; the attractions of a military career and the doors it opens; the lure of an affordable villa in a Galilee exclusionary community or a settler suburb in Samaria; the falsehoods of official and unofficial propaganda; indifference to the hell on earth Israel has created in the Gaza Strip; denial of 60 years of occupation and forced rule; the Pavlovian response, "But October 7"; the synergy among the army, the government, the rabbis and the kippa-wearing militias in the West Bank; equanimity in the face of Lebanon's destruction; disregard for the occupation of more parts of Syria; the normalization of expulsion discourse; justice and education systems tainted by secular and religious racism; and the army of jailers who abuse thousands of Palestinian prisoners, both under orders and by choice.

Together, these and similar forces are creating the material, ideological and psychological infrastructure within Israeli-Jewish society for another mass expulsion of Palestinians and for what might accompany it: mass slaughter.

The heroes of the settler militias openly declare that expulsion is their goal. They clearly recognize the readiness of large segments of Israeli-Jewish society to participate in carrying it out, actively or passively, directly or indirectly. Through their daily provocations and crimes, committed in broad daylight and made possible only by institutional support, the Phalangists constantly seek to provoke a Palestinian act of rage and revenge that "succeeds," so that it can be exploited as the match that ignites a new holy war.

The Jewish Phalangists and the right-wing organizations that fuel them are counting on broad mobilization, including from the leaders, voters and supporters of Yashar and the liberal Democrats party, for a war that could already be given the slogan: "One people, one army, one land cleansed of Arabs."

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

World Humanitarian Day falls this week, so hats off to aid workers struggling to help others even when they are defunded and targeted. Last year 350 aid workers were killed, mostly in Gaza and Sudan, and 235 were kidnapped. So thank you for your courage and dedication.

[Francois Mottaz @fmottaz]

Everyone knows, it is all documented (as Israel is unable to prevent journalists from entering as in Gaza, but not to kill them unfortunately). Where are our European governments: on holiday, fighting each other about who is best in replling migrants ?

[Financial Times @FT]

An FT visual investigation found systematic destruction across Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon, crippling systems essential to civilian life, from water and energy infrastructure to medical care. Raya Jalabi reports on the scale of the devastation. https://t.co/BcUPUBtpGz

[Francois Mottaz @fmottaz]

I’m not sure everyone realizes the moral bankruptcy of such a statement. Will Europe keep defending such a regime for much longer ?

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

Shin Bet chief urges Israel to hold 1,700 Palestinian bodies as bargaining chips https://t.co/eVWa1s049O

[Francois Mottaz @fmottaz]

And the world accepts the destruction of a whole region by Israel. Just like that.

[Zeina Khodr @ZeinakhodrAljaz]

#Mansouri - southern #Lebanon - no returns - strikes continue

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Western media used phrases like “Gaza model” to describe the destruction [in Lebanon]. But Gaza is not a “model,” it is a genocide.

Using reductive words like “model” or “playbook” for what is happening in Lebanon minimizes Israel's war crimes while normalizing genocide in Gaza.

[Alberto Alemanno 🇪🇺 @alemannoEU]

Dear @GiorgiaMeloni, your response to Ceuta’s migration crisis is deeply faulty and shows bad faith.

Here’s why:

1. Ceuta was never a threat to the Schengen area. Individuals crossing an external border don’t get automatic access to Schengen, that’s not how EU law works. Conflating a national border incident with a Schengen-wide threat is SO cheap!

2. Italy’s proposed checks on arrivals from Spain have no legal basis. Internal border checks under the Schengen Borders Code require a genuine, serious threat, and are a last resort, not a tool to pressure a neighbouring government over a domestic policy choice.

3. Instead of solidarity with Spain and the people affected, the choice was to blame Spain, a cheap way to score points at home at the expense of a fellow Member State managing a hard moment at its border.

4. That stance didn’t protect Europe. It handed ammunition to Europe’s worst enemies: the ones who want the Union to look divided, unprincipled, and for sale to whoever shouts loudest.

5. Now that the ‘crisis’ has been exposed as manufactured, unity and solidarity are suddenly the message. Convenient. But you don’t get credit for rediscovering solidarity once the political usefulness of blame has run out.

This kind of politics doesn’t age well and Europeans deserves better than being treated as fouls.

Shame on you.

[Francois Mottaz @fmottaz]

And they really think they rule the world. What a shame.

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

What a Reuters headline: "US government map of Africa mislabels every country at global conference"

[Francois Mottaz @fmottaz]

I have read the Times for years. Never again until they stop publishing her column ( and a few others too).

[Melanie Phillips @MelanieLatest]

https://t.co/S4QuYkBZRg
The “settler violence” libel is being used to demonise all 750,000 Jewish residents living in the disputed areas of Judea, Samaria and eastern Jerusalem. This is being done to erase the Jews’ historic legal claim to these territories, push them out and replace them by Arab colonisers to create “facts on the ground” that make a Palestine state appear inescapable.

The “settler violence” libel is now a strategic threat to the world’s only Jewish state.

[Francois Mottaz @fmottaz]

Prime Minister Meloni should claim historical rights on the country immediately.

[Haaretz.com @haaretzcom]

'Once-in-a-lifetime discovery': 1,700-year-old Roman busts found in Israel https://t.co/ffPivb6xZC

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is raining bombs on civilian areas in Gaza right now.

Families have nowhere to run.

Nowhere is safe.

The genocide has not stopped.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is burning olive trees and civilian homes in Houla, South Lebanon.

Centuries-old olive groves.

No justification. Just pure terror.

This is not a “ceasefire.”

This is the deliberate destruction of a people’s land, history, and future.

[Israel Exposed @xIsraelExposedx]

It took a little longer than expected, but we have created a website for people to view the footage collected from Gaza in one place. You no longer have to download the entire archives to see them.

It includes:

64,537 videos
17,905 photos
Ability to download individual videos
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Geolocation data
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It can be accessed here: https://t.co/s0Se94PXWF

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We will keep adding the rest of the archives to the site, be patient- it is difficult work. Continue to seed the torrents provided, as that is the best way to ensure the footage remains stored in decentalized way.

God bless all those who sacrificed their lives to get this footage out, and everyone invovled in collecting/archiving it.

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[Michael Young @BeirutCalling]

A central paradox in the Israel-Lebanese agreement is that it is portrayed as an agreement that reinforces Lebanese sovereignty, but in which Lebanon has to fulfill U.S. and Israeli conditions to liberate its land. In other words, it makes conditional a central dimension of state sovereignty, namely territorial integrity, when this should be unconditional.

[Francois Mottaz @fmottaz]

@AleEquilibrium Molto illuminante su Rutte. L’uso dell’oro nei titoli e il nome di Trump ovunque. Non ha alcun pudore.