@kyledav50941622@CilComLFC They have a right to their opinion, doesn't mean their opinion is right.
The diversity of opinions shows Israel is a free society. Try having an opinion that you shouldn't kill Jews in Gaza...
@amcd4ub_777@CilComLFC How is showing support for the IDF a threat against anyone other than those who threaten Israel? The IDF has never attacked anyone who didn't attack them first.
@Kwin8675309@CilComLFC Yes, the Pali side should suffer this fate. It couldn't be more clear who are the genocidal element over there. It's not just Israel either, the islamo-fascists are genocidal everywhere they go. DRC, Somalia, Sudan, etc. Can you point me to a single Jewish 'genocide' outside Gaza
@mehdirhasan Does Mehdi not realise that any number of Hamas terrorists posing as journalists is a war crime and textbook terrorism? Any actual journalists killed by israel, which i doubt there are very many, are the consequence of Hamas' terror tactics. He outs himself as a propagandist
When referencing Muslim thuggery in France, the French media refers to them as "Les Jeunes." The youth. But the youth are not Vietnamese youth; they are not Japanese youth; they are not Hasidic Jews youth. They are Muslims but it is mean and Islamophobic to call them by their actual identity. In Britain, the Pakistani child rapists are called "Asian men." Now the mayhem in France is apparently not due to Muslim youth but to "high school protesters." ANYTHING is better than to be accused of Islamophobia. Give up your children, your women, your heritage, your society, your religion, your culture, your civilization but don't you dare be Islamophobic.
What Is Naza?
Rufayda Qaoud was 17 years old.
She lived in Abu Qash, near Ramallah.
According to Amnesty International and court records reported at the time, Rufayda was repeatedly raped by two of her own brothers.
Then she became pregnant.
When she was taken to a hospital for an unrelated injury, doctors discovered she was eight months pregnant.
Palestinian social workers immediately understood what this meant. Rufayda wasn't only a rape victim. She was now in danger of being murdered by her own family in the name of "honor."
Authorities moved her to a protected location in Bethlehem.
In December 2002, she gave birth to a baby boy. The baby was later adopted by another Palestinian family.
But Rufayda wanted to go home.
Before allowing her to return, Palestinian officials reportedly demanded that her relatives and village elders sign a written promise that nobody would hurt her.
They promised.
Rufayda went home.
And then the pressure began.
According to accounts of the case, relatives distanced themselves from the family. Rufayda's mother, Amira, later said that the family's reputation had been destroyed.
Think about that for a moment.
Her daughter had been raped by her sons.
Yet somehow the daughter, the 17 year old victim, became the source of the family's "shame."
Her mother reportedly bought Rufayda a razor and told her to kill herself by cutting her wrists.
Rufayda refused.
On January 27, 2003, Rufayda realized she was in serious danger.
She contacted counselors and told them she was afraid her family would kill her.
They contacted the police.
That night, her mother sent Rufayda's father away and sent the younger children to a relative's house.
Then, at around 11:30 p.m., she entered the room where her daughter was sleeping.
According to the court records cited in contemporaneous reporting, she came carrying a plastic bag, a razor and a wooden stick.
She told her daughter:
"Tonight you die, Rofayda."
She pulled the plastic bag over her daughter's head.
She cut her wrists.
Rufayda begged her mother to stop.
When the girl went limp, her mother struck her in the head with the wooden stick.
Her mother later described the killing herself.
Rufayda was 17 years old.
So what does any of this have to do with Naza?
This is the question Naza should force people to confront:
When does a Palestinian girl's life become important to the Western world?
When Israel is accused of harming her, her face can become a poster, a headline, a film, a symbol and a cause.
But when a Palestinian girl is raped by Palestinian men, blamed for her own rape, pressured to kill herself and finally murdered by her own family in the name of "honor," where is the same cultural obsession?
Where are the films?
Where are the posters?
Where are the demonstrations?
Where is the outrage?
A Palestinian girl should matter because she is a human being, not because her suffering can be fitted into a politically useful story about Israel.
If you care about Palestinian women, then their oppression by Palestinian men, families, religious extremists and social norms has to matter too.
Otherwise, you're not really saying:
"Palestinian lives matter."
You're saying:
"Palestinian lives matter when Israel is involved."
And that selective compassion is exactly what Naza represents.
On this day—October 2, 1947
David Ben-Gurion stood in Jerusalem and asked the Arabs to take a state of their own and meet the Jews as sovereign equals.
Not after the war. Seven months before it. The UN had not yet voted. No Arab army had crossed a border. The British were still the government.
Ben-Gurion admitted the Arabs had refused to even sit at the same table as the Jews. But he made the offer anyway:
“We will do everything in our power to maintain peace, and establish a cooperation gainful to both. It is now, here and now, from Jerusalem itself, that a call must go out to the Arab nations to join forces with Jewry and the destined Jewish State and work shoulder to shoulder for our common good, for the peace and progress of sovereign equals.”
Six weeks later, the UN recommended two states. The Arab Higher Committee said no. In May 1948, five Arab armies invaded to kill in the crib the state whose chairman had just asked them to be partners.
The people who left during that war are now described as the victims of a plan drawn up in the Jewish Agency. The plan on the table that October was the opposite: have your own country, and those who stay in ours will become citizens and together we will build our countries as equals.
The Arabs heard him, and then chose war.
@RyokoPanic@RicardoFerrerCh@chester_fence White men? Your story of child abuse was in Asia. It's not white men, it's shitty PEOPLE. You don't even know for sure it was the dad and not the mother.
The truth will set you free. The @IDF just published a list of 170 Gazan terrorists who doubled as journalists during the war. Including stringers from multiple main stream media organization. https://t.co/RZodEF1Dpc
The Palestinians have rejected a state of their own more times than any national movement in modern history.
1937 — Peel: a Jewish state on a sliver of the coast. Arab leadership said no and turned back to violence.
1947 — UN partition plan: an Arab state beside a Jewish state. The Arab Higher Committee said no, started a civil war, and then five Arab armies invaded.
2000 — Camp David: a Palestinian state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem. Arafat walked, proposed no counteroffer, and launched the Second Intifada.
2001 — Clinton Parameters: a Palestinian state with a capital in eastern Jerusalem, 96% of the "West Bank" plus 4% of Israel, all of Gaza and a connecting corridor. Arafat said no as the Second Intifada raged.
2008 — Olmert: 94% of the “West Bank” plus land swaps to make up for the other 6%, a capital in East Jerusalem, and the Old City under an international committee. The PA, this time under Abbas, never even bothered to answer.
2020 — Trump’s plan: a Palestinian state, a capital in a part of East Jerusalem, and $50 billion in economic aid to build their country. Abbas called it the “slap of the century” in 2018, two years before the text existed. On the day it was released, he said “a thousand times no.” He refused Trump’s call and refused to even take a copy.
They do not keep saying no because the borders were wrong. They keep saying no because the real demand is not a state beside Israel. It is a state instead of Israel.
How come no one demands Jordan return its land to Palestinians?
How come no one calls Jordanians colonizers?
Weird how it’s only “stolen Palestinian land” when it’s in Jewish hands and not Muslim ones.
To every college student screaming about oppression and control, how does it feel to discover that your outrage was bought and paid for?
To the Muslim Brotherhood, you were a transaction. To the universities that took the money, you were a transaction. To the politicians who protected the arrangement and defended the agenda, you were a transaction worth preserving.
You thought you were fighting the system, but the system was shaping you. It taught you what to think, what to hate, whom to blame and which slogans to repeat, then convinced you that every thought was your own.
They made you believe you were the resistance when, all along, you were the product.