This story is insane.
The Palestinian Bedouin Israeli Yusef Alziadna is widely regarded as a hero in Israel after having saved 30 lives on Oct. 7.
Today, in recognition of his bravery, Israeli security forces arrived at his home with bulldozers & demolished the foundations of his family's home. They also demolished his storage shed & a chicken coop & damaged the area used by his brother’s flock of sheep.
It's not just his own property -- it's the whole neighborhood Israel wants to destroy. 65 demolition orders hang over the homes in the neighborhood. Just a week ago, his nephew got married; shortly before the wedding, he, too, had received a demolition order for his home. When the bulldozers arrived, it turned out that the newlywed had already demolished his own home to avoid a forced demolition.
There is 1 and only 1 reason Israel is trying to wipe Yusef's neighborhood off the map:
Yusef and his family have P-positive DNA. They are Palestinian Arab Bedouin, not Jewish. But Israel is a state for people with J-positive DNA. Jews. That means Israel will do whatever it can to push Yusef, his family and community off their land, because they have the wrong DNA.
Rahat itself was constructed decades ago to force Bedouins off their ancestral lands in the Naqb, into settled communities where they would have no access to land where they could tend to their flocks of goat, sheep, animals, etc.
Today, Yosef was scheduled to give an interview on Reshet Bet and recount once again how he saved... ...many on October 7th. He cancelled the interview. Instead of coming to the studio, he invites people to come to him and see what the bulldozers did in his neighborhood today. https://t.co/k2Pvfw4Gud
I'm actually quite shocked and heartbroken for Oman that the co-pilot was reportedly an Omani. It's almost unheard of for Omanis to be involved in terrorism, Oman is a proudly peaceful and tolerant country which has historically maintained good relations with all its neighbours, including, by the standards of the region, with Israel. I spent significant time in Oman during my PhD research and Omanis would proudly tell me that, back then, not a single citizen had joined IS or Al Qaeda because the Ibadi form of Islam they follow encourages pacifism. I know this event will be generating shockwaves and soul searching within Omani society.
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On the video is Russian chess player Amina Abakarova apparently trying to poison her opponent with mercury(!) I know that on the standards of Russian doping it’s perhaps only a 7 out of 10. But still….
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