@thedefiedge I wish I understood any of this and what the ramifications are. Is there a non technical explanation as to what happened and how this all works?
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@smerconish Your poll today is not a good measure of sentiment. A gut response to escalation of conflict will always trend negative. There hasn’t been time for nuance.
Thank you the @IDF for saving an Iraqi woman from Hamas. The @Israel cares for Iraqi minority groups more than our own corrupt Iraqi government. البارحة انقذ جيش الدفاع الاسرائيلي بنت عراقية يزيدية من قبضة حماس الداعشية
@PsychNurseLee @AndyLeeTV @YasMohammedxx Arabs believed there was no place for Jews to have a place of their own in Muslim lands and that intolerance has persisted until today. Wars ensued, and with each loss by the Arabs, more land occupied (well you start a war and lose, that's what happens) with it more humliation
@PsychNurseLee @AndyLeeTV @YasMohammedxx The history of this region is a perfect example of anti-Semitism. The local Arabs were fine under occupation by the Ottomans, ok with the British Mandate. But when the Jews bought land and began to return in the late 1800's and early 1900's, intolerance rose.
So the University of Pennsylvania (@Penn) is hosting an antisemitic hate festival this month, bringing together some of the world’s most notorious antisemites.
Under the guise of a “writing” festival, the event at UPen brings together literally the who’s who of Jewish hate and Israel vilification.
Some of the speakers include:
🔴 Salman Abu Sitta who said The Jewish state has an insatiable appetite for violence.
🔴 Susan Abulhawa who claimed that Israel’s actions are worse than the genocidal nazi regime responsible for the holocaust
🔴 Bill Mullen who said he wants to “de-zionize” campuses in America
🔴 @palumboliu who wants Israel to be the most hated contry in the world.
🔴 @marclamonthill, famously fired from CNN for his calls to “free Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea,” a chant used by Hamas terrorists that means the complete destruction of the Jewish state, was also graciously invited to this hate fest.
🔴 And of course the guest of honor, the grand master of hate @rogerwaters, who constantly uses antisemitic tropes to describe Jews and the Jewish state and it’s imagined power and just wore a SS-Nazi uniform and desecrated the memory of Anne Frank at his recent concert in Berlin. He’s going to be there too.
This event’s participants are like the all star team of jew haters. They are the supergroup of discrimination and the Hall of Famers of marginalization of ancient ethic identity, AND it’s happening on the Eve of Yum Kippor, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Accident?
I have a question for UPenn: Is there a limit to the derogatory and bigoted hate directed at Jewish and Zionist students and faculty that would be sufficient for you to make a statement? Or will you continue to allow the world’s oldest form of hate to roam your campus free?
How do you think this event makes your Jewish students feel?
Join me in urging President Magill and the Administration at UPenn to disassociating from this hateful conference and stop antisemtism from coming to UPenn. https://t.co/t4Sj7E2VY7
@LayahHeilpern Started following you as a fellow BTC proponent, but posting just to inflame and promote misinformation campaigns so to get more contrarian followers is irresponsible, selfish, and harmful.
To #Israel haters trolling me: I don't know you, so your insults don't bother me. I've heard it all, Uncle Tom, sellout, etc. If you want a response, speak substance.
To substance debaters, please understand:
1- Issues like apartheid or ethnic cleansing assume that one country with one set of nationals, two ethnicities. But here we have two nations: A sovereign Israel and two Palestinian governments in West Bank (minus Area C and EJ) and Gaza.
2- Nature of Palestinian governments (democracy or not), rights of Palestinians, are determined by Palestinians, not Israel. If Israel must grant Palestinians rights, they'd have to pledge allegiance to Israeli state/flag. But Palestinians don't want to be Israelis. They want their own national identity. So please, think before you make nonsense Apartheid assumptions. Apartheid assumes one nation, and these are clearly two.
3- Liberty of Palestinians is granted by their own governments. If you are Palestinian and cannot eat publicly in Ramadan, or harassed for being LGBTQ, or suffer honor killing if you are a girl dating a boy, or thrown in prison or killed if you express opinion that disagrees with the rest (such as calling for peace with Israel), all of these rights are repressed by Palestinian rulers of Palestinians and there is nothing that Israel can do to grant Palestinians such liberty.
4- Freedom of movement of Palestinians in West Bank is hampered by frequency of Palestinian attacks on Israeli non-combatants. In 1987, before attacks started, a Palestinian could drive from Ramallah to Gaza uninterrupted. If Palestinian militants ever surrender their arms, Israeli checkpoints will disappear.
5- We all agree that Palestinians deserve a better life than the one they have now (which is better than Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia). What we disagree on is "whose responsibility it is to give Palestinians such better life?" If you’re Arab native, you’d know that problem is within. In Palestinian case, maybe start by convincing Fatah and Hamas to talk to each another for first time since 2008. If Palestinians cannot live together in one government, how do you think a binational state with Israelis is possible? Also, except for Palestinian-Americans, no Palestinian wants a binational state, most Palestinians want one state, Palestine, which means destroying Israel, and this is the problem.