Like Palestinians, the Indigenous people of Turtle Island had a code that protected women and children. They were horrified by the brutality of colonizers. Our resistance still refrains from harming women and children, yet we’re labeled as terrorists and savages.
@grok@JoyInWinter@grok is it true that Open Doors has also previously placed Israel on its persecution-watch list, citing attacks against Christians, churches, and Christian property?
If Zionists can claim Palestine based on a 2,000-year-old historical claim, then by the same logic, Egypt could claim it based on a 3,000-year-old claim, since Palestine was under Egyptian rule long before the kingdoms of Israel and Judah existed. Ancient claims to land are unrealistic and only create conflict, displacement, and human suffering. They should never have been used to justify territorial claims in the first place.
No one said Jews haven’t always lived there. But that does not mean every Jew who later settled in Israel descends directly from the ancient population of the land—Ashkenazi Jews have significant European ancestry, while Sephardic Jews have roots across the Mediterranean and Middle East. Palestinians likewise have deep roots in the ancient Levant, including Canaanite and other local populations, and some descend from Jews and Christians who remained, converted, and became Arabized over centuries. Being Jewish is not the same as being Israeli, and Arabization did not make Palestinians foreigners to their own homeland.
Palestinians did not simply arrive with the Arab conquest. They have deep roots in the ancient Levant, including ancestry connected to Canaanite and other ancient populations of the region. Many local inhabitants became Christian, then Muslim, and gradually Arabized over centuries. Some Palestinians therefore descend from people who were once Jewish themselves. Being Jewish is not the same as being Israeli, and Arabization did not erase an indigenous population’s connection to its homeland.
Demanding a free Palestine while millions of Palestinians remain under occupation, oppression and dispossession is the minimum moral and ethical demand. Demonising that demand serves only to normalise the reality it opposes.
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I’m just gonna leave this list here of all of Israel’s prime ministers; their real names, their names they changed to so they sound more “Hebrew”, and their “ancestral homeland” respectively:
• David Ben-Gurion (David Grün) - Poland.
• Moshe Sharett (Moshe Chertok) - Ukraine.
• Levi Eshkol (Levi Yitzhak Shkolnik) - Ukraine.
• Yigal Allon (Yigal Peikowitz) - Belarus.
• Golda Meir (Golda Mabovitch) - Ukraine.
• Yitzhak Rabin (Yitzhak Rubitzov) - Ukraine / Belarus.
• Menachem Begin (Menakhem Volfovich Biegun) - Belarus.
• Yitzhak Shamir (Yitzhak Yezernitsky) - Belarus.
• Shimon Peres (Szymon Perski) - Belarus.
• Ehud Barak (Ehud Brog) - Russia.
• Ariel Sharon (Ariel Scheinerman) - Belarus.
• Ehud Olmert - Russia.
• Naftali Bennett - United States.
• Yair Lapid (Yair Lampel) - Serbia.
• Benjamin Netanyahu (Benjamin Mileikowsky) a Poland.
Hope this helps.
Netanyahu is one seat away from losing power, and that is not good news.
The man who might replace him is Gadi Eisenkot. He ran the Israeli army from 2015 to 2019. He wrote the Dahiya doctrine.
Dahiya is a southern suburb of Beirut, a dense residential district where families live, and in 2006 it was flattened. Eisenkot explained the thinking in 2008.
“We will apply disproportionate force and cause great damage and destruction. From our standpoint, these are not civilian villages, these are military bases. This is not a recommendation, this is a plan, and it has been approved.”
You take a neighbourhood full of people, you call it a military base, and then levelling it becomes legal inside your own head. It was written about Lebanon and we see it now
In August he came out against a Palestinian state. Bennett, third in the polls, says he will never allow one either.
So the thing you are angry at is not a man. It is a system, and the system does not change when the prime minister does.
How can I take the UN seriously most of these sources are from the UN and yet they had the guy give a speech?
Israel did not give polio vaccinations to Palestinians in Gaza. This is a lie.
UNWRA, WHO, and UNICEF gave polio vaccinations Gaza. Israel did not.
Israel BLOCKED THE ENTRY OF SOAP, which caused the polio outbreak.
GAZA HAS ENOUGH STATEMENTS.
GAZA HAS ENOUGH CONDEMNATIONS.
GAZA HAS ENOUGH THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS.
WHAT GAZA DOESN’T HAVE IS A ROOM FULL OF WORLD LEADERS WILLING TO MAKE THEIR EMPTY WORDS MEAN SOMETHING.
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his name is Benjamin MILEIKOWSKY. her name is Gal GREENSTEIN. stop legitimizing the hebraization of European names in service of settler colonialism. these people are Europeans. they are not from & have no lineage in West Asia.
🚨BREAKING: A highly foul smell spread across Gaza City overnight, leaving residents searching their homes and tents for its source.
Social media platforms were flooded with complaints from Palestinians reporting the same unbearable odor across large areas, from Al-Tuffah and Al-Daraj in the east to Beit Lahia in the west.
According to journalist Yousef Fares in Gaza, Israeli military aircraft dropped hundreds of bubbles carrying the foul-smelling substance across these areas, deliberately contaminating the air and spreading the odor among residential areas.
🚨NEW: Israel is blocking 900+ wheelchairs meant for Gaza’s amputee children. The chairs have been sitting in Jordan Hashemite Charity warehouses for months.
via ABC News (Australia)
أمطار غزيرة على خيام النازحين بمدينة غزة.
الشتاء الثالث يدخل غزة أمام تخوفات من مصير لم يكن رحيما طوال السنوات الماضية
برد وأمراض وسيول وخيام متهالكة أصلاً لم ترحم صيفاً فكيك بشتاء جديد