Going through @AishaAriella's From Palestine to Israel A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation, 1947-1950. It helps contextualising and visualising the violence of colonial statecraft in Palestine. I will leave some photographies here as I go along.
There's a strange subset of people who act like watching gore is itself some form of activism. I'd rather you never watch a Palestinian get slaughtered and still show up than watch gore all day in your bedroom.
You forget to mention that Franco's Spain was the only nation in the world that saved thousands of Sephardic Jews during World War II, as did the Spanish ambassador to Budapest, Angel Sanz Briz, whose plaque presides over our Hungarian embassy.
Respect my nation and learn to differentiate it from the tyrant who governs us today.
Prime Minister's Office:
Spanish PM Sanchez said yesterday that Spain can’t stop Israel’s battle against Hamas terrorists because ���Spain does not have nuclear weapons.’ That’s a blatant genocidal threat on the world’s only Jewish State.
The situation in Western Sahara does not depend solely on any external government or on the Moroccan authorities. The only legitimate path is the one decided by the Sahrawi people. The 1991 Settlement Plan must be fully respected and implemented, including a referendum with the
@BenjaminBakunin Talking about the defeat of socialism in Chile based just on access to weapons is mistaking the real forces at play at the time. It's giving it a militaristic twist that doesn't even reflect basic demands of the working class and the mapuche. They first wanted the minimal program
Maybe sometimes it's worth to read what self-organised industrial workers were saying before the Coup... No? September 5th, 1973.
See demand number 5 for another twist to the arming the masses story.
What a summary of the events in Chile. What the national bourgeoisie was afraid off was not the broad coalition government: but the total application of the land reform by organised mapuche communities, the autonomous cordones industriales and increased street violence (MIR)
@BenjaminBakunin I'm disagreeing with the framing "Allende did not arm the workers, that's why he is just like the SPD with Hitler". That I believe is so imprecise (to the point of thinking Allende had control), that it disregards what concretely happened in Chile between 70 and 73.
Keeping in mind that virtually all revolutions and revolutionary movements in South America that had taken up arms at the time of the via chilena al socialismo had been unsuccessful, defeated, leaders assassinated, and so on
What a summary of the events in Chile. What the national bourgeoisie was afraid off was not the broad coalition government: but the total application of the land reform by organised mapuche communities, the autonomous cordones industriales and increased street violence (MIR)
Similarly, as Pinochet began to seize power in Chile, Allende continued to play by the rules. He chose not to arm the workers and so possibly mount a defense against Pinochet's coup. He thought that if he played by the rules of the system he would be spared. He was not spared.
Less "Mamdani is distancing himself from Palestine" or "Zorhan is changing his tune" and more "Damn I really got swept up in electoral propaganda and I should really reevaluate my participation and who I am willing to emotionally invest in as well as my reasons for doing so."
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has, under her term, repeatedly condoned, defended and minimised the complete destruction of civilian infrastructures in Gaza city. They have, at no point, put diplomatic pressure to force their partner Israel to respect international law.
Das sehe ich anders. Annalena Baerbock hat nie Angriffe auf Zivilist*innen legitimiert. Sie hat völkerrechtlich korrekt referiert, dass zivile Einrichtungen zu legitimen mil. Zielen werden können, wenn Sie von einer Konfliktpartei für militärische Zwecke genutzt werden. Ist Fakt.
"When history is written as it ought to be written, it is the moderation and long patience of the masses at which men will wonder, not their ferocity." - CLR James, "The Black Jacobins"