RochelleRochelle

Never journeyed from Milan to Minsk. #auspol junkie with optimistic tendencies. Views are my own. She/her. Mastodon: [email protected]

[Michael Elgort @just_whatever]

I have a firm feeling that we do not appreciate enough the level of coherency and eloquence that @havivrettiggur has when he talks about various topics related to Israel, Palestine or general Middle East

How @ComicDaveSmith has 800k followers and Haviv has 65k boggles my mind

[Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert @KMooreGilbert]

A few things I have been wondering since @AlboMP 's announcement that the AU govt will proscribe the IRGC and kick out Iran's ambassador:
Will the Adass synagogue firebombing and other IRGC-linked attacks now be designated officially as terror attacks, given they were sponsored by a foreign terror org?
Has the IRGC been seeding antisemitism online in Australia, with content picked up and amplified by useful idiots unaware they are parroting Iran-sponsored propaganda and hate?
Will the govt take any additional steps to prevent Australians from travelling to Iran, given the heightened risks?
What is being done to assist Australian citizens to get out of Iran, given the urgent warnings and lack of consular staff on the ground?
What will become of the (at least one) Australian citizen known to be wrongfully imprisoned in Iran now that consular visits are unavailable and diplomatic negotiations have presumably ceased?
Will the police now crack down on individuals flying IRGC flags or displaying other IRGC-linked symbols at protests or in mourning 'martyrs' etc within Australia, now that the group is recognised as a terror org?
Will the government look into applying further sanctions on individuals within Iran who commissioned these attacks, or who have targeted Australians for instance, via hostage-taking?

[RochelleRochelle @RochellRochelle]

@EitanChitayat Yes! 💙

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

“There’s no place for Israelis here, get out”

An Israeli couple says they were denied entry to a campground in Austria because they are Israeli.

Nissan Dekalo and his wife were celebrating their 25th anniversary when the manager reportedly told them, “There’s no place for Israelis here, get out.”

When a reporter called the campsite to follow up, the person who answered said: “I don't want to discuss it with you on the phone right now. These people should be taking care of the many children in Gaza. Otherwise, there's nothing to say. Enough!"

Dekalo is a survivor of the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre in Kibbutz Nahal Oz. He fought terrorists for 13 hours while his wife and kids hid in their shelter. Fifteen neighbors were murdered, four defenders fell, and eight were abducted to Gaza.

"I—who lost my best friends. I—who fought for my life for 13 hours in Nahal Oz. I—who left my children alone in the shelter because defending the kibbutz was more important. Gaza? Anti-Semitism? Maybe both."

Even after living through that horror, he now faces antisemitism on his anniversary trip in Europe.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

A photo of a starving child in Gaza on the cover of a newspaper in Italy 🇮🇹

Except that it wasn’t.

Osama Al-Rakab left Gaza for Italy for treatment for his cystic fibrosis.

His treatment was coordinated directly with the Italian Foreign Ministry.

This story should not be used to deny the reality of suffering in Gaza, which is real and devastating.

But it should remind you to question everything you read, especially when it blames Israel for Hamas’s weaponization of Gazans’ suffering.

[RochelleRochelle @RochellRochelle]

@beyscatalog Thank you - farewelling this Act II era from Australia 🙏🏻

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

In my opinion, when a state like France chooses to recognize a “State of Palestine” right after the Hamas-led October 7th massacre, it’s not a diplomatic gesture. It’s not rewarding statehood; it’s rewarding slaughter. What lesson does that teach? That terror buys legitimacy?
France had a Palestinian mission in Paris for years, and its own in Ramallah. What changed? Nothing. Except more attacks, more radicalism, and now perhaps a new export: Hamas leaders with Parisian visas and a free ride to sip espresso under the Eiffel Tower while plotting the next bloodbath.

Let’s talk numbers. 147 out of 193 UN states have recognized Palestine. Has that stopped the killing? Has it ended antisemitism? No. Because what’s being recognized is not a state, but a symbol hijacked by kleptocrats and jihadists. The Palestinian Authority doesn’t want a country. It wants Swiss accounts and Parisian hotels. The curriculum in Gaza teaches not peace, but hate. You're not building a future. You're preparing the next October 7th, with better weapons, thanks to “state sovereignty” and friends in Iran and Sudan.

If Abu Osama bin Laden Al Phalestini wins the next election, don’t be surprised. You helped build his republic, an “Islamic Republic of Palestine” at the gates of Israel, Jordan, and Egypt. Syria bled to push Iran’s militias out, and France just handed them a border post.

Before recognizing a state, build the mind of a state. Replace the cult of martyrdom with the culture of coexistence. Teach children that neighbors aren’t targets but companions in humanity, including Israeli ones. Otherwise, you’re not supporting peace. You’re chasing hashtags. This is not diplomacy. This is the Labubu of geopolitics: loud, viral, and empty.

And when the trend fades, when embassies fall and rockets rise again, history will not remember France as pro-Palestinian. It will remember it as the elegant fool who sold the Palestinian people a fantasy and called it freedom. Yes, wrong timing.

[Hen Mazzig @HenMazzig]

BREAKING: 950 aid trucks are waiting inside Gaza, near the border, ready to be delivered to Palestinians.

Israel facilitated their entry, but the UN won’t pick them up.

It’s easier to tweet all day that Israel is “starving Gaza” than to actually help Palestinians.

[RochelleRochelle @RochellRochelle]

@CowboyCarterWT @VividSeats @Beyonce Melbourne to Paris = 16,791 kms (10,433 miles)! Je ne regrette rien! 🤠

[Eitan Chitayat @EitanChitayat]

Wake up, World.

[Emily Damari @EmilyDamari1]

Dear Members of the @PulitzerPrizes board,

My name is Emily Damari. I was held hostage in Gaza for over 500 days.

On the morning of October 7, I was at home in my small studio apartment in Kibbutz Kfar Aza when Hamas terrorists burst in, shot me and dragged me across the border into Gaza. I was one of 251 men, women, children, and elderly people kidnapped that day from their beds, their homes, and a music festival.

For almost 500 days I lived in terror. I was starved, abused, and treated like I was less than human. I watched friends suffer. I watched hope dim. And even now, after returning home, I carry that darkness with me - because my best friends, Gali and Ziv Berman are still being held in the Hamas terror tunnels.

So imagine my shock and pain when I saw that you awarded a Pulitzer Prize to Mosab Abu Toha.

This is a man who, in January, questioned the very fact of my captivity. He posted about me on Facebook and asked, “How on earth is this girl called a hostage?” He has denied the murder of the Bibas family. He has questioned whether Agam Berger was truly a hostage. These are not word games - they are outright denials of documented atrocities.

You claim to honor journalism that upholds truth, democracy, and human dignity. And yet you have chosen to elevate a voice that denies truth, erases victims, and desecrates the memory of the murdered.

Do you not see what this means? Mosab Abu Toha is not a courageous writer. He is the modern-day equivalent of a Holocaust denier. And by honoring him, you have joined him in the shadows of denial.

This is not a question of politics. This is a question of humanity. And today, you have failed it.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

While in the Middle East, I've been meeting with Palestinians from Gaza who got out during the war or have family there now. They're almost universally disgusted with Hamas, its Arab supporters, Qatari propaganda, & "pro-Palestine" demonstrations & activism that, in their own words, "run cover/interference for Hamas's terrorism." As many of my friends and allies said repeatedly, the further away you are from Gaza, the easier it is to champion Hamas and its terrorism that many falsely and fraudulently label "resistance." Worse, the stories of threats, torture, intimidation, and violence experienced by Gazans protesting against Hamas and calling for the end of the war are jaw-dropping, casting doubt on anyone still simping for the terror group while proclaiming to be "pro-Palestine." Shame on all who have failed the people of Gaza and ignored their suffering when it doesn't fit the established or desired narratives.

[RochelleRochelle @RochellRochelle]

@AmyRemeikis That was a non-binding advisory opinion not an ICJ ruling.

[Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib @afalkhatib]

If you care about Gaza, grow a spine and address Hamas! Many are understandably reacting to the Israeli decision to halt the entry of all goods and supplies in the Gaza Strip over phase one extension disputes with anger, emotion, and concern for what this means to the fragile ceasefire agreement. There are numerous reasons to be rightfully revolted and repulsed by what amounts to a policy of collective punishment that will ultimately harm civilians, whom Hamas could care less about, as the group has proven it can’t be pressured by any harm or pain inflicted upon the population.

What isn’t understandable and is quite frustrating is that those are the same voices that haven���t said a word about Hamas remaining in power and jeopardizing the entire future of Palestinians in Gaza by its reckless criminality and vile disregard for the Strip. Those outraged don’t seem to understand the difference between humanitarian supplies and commercial goods that were being sold in Hamas-run enterprises to refinance the group’s empty coffers.

Many don’t know how the terror group has imposed taxes on commercial goods, stolen supposedly free humanitarian items and resold them, and siphoned off vast quantities of the fuel going into the coastal enclave. Many are ignorant of how Hamas used supplies coming in for the past two months to stockpile for the next round of war while leaving Palestinian civilians on their own to deal with high prices and no access to resources. Most of the people in Gaza either don’t get the aid or can’t afford to buy the incoming goods.

Those outraged didn’t say a word to condemn Hamas’s goons having the equivalent of a Super Bowl party over the coffins of dead children and their mother, not to mention all the despicable displays of inhumanity that were inevitably going to lead us here and to the likelihood of the war resuming in the near future. Overnight, those complaining seem to have de-activated the Gaza “won” narrative we saw emerging after the ceasefire, and are back to talking about starvation and genocide, with no fundamental understanding of why we’re still stuck in this loop/cycle with no way out.

Understand something: call Netanyahu a war criminal all you want; cry out loud about Israeli actions to the moon and back – but until you have a spine and start doing what you should have done right after October 7, calling out Hamas, the people of Gaza will be stuck in a vicious cycle to which you are a contributor. Want to see the end of the siege on Gaza, the end of the war, the end of violence, and a chance for the Strip to recover, stabilize, and be rejuvenated and reconstructed? Demand that Hamas steps down, de-militarizes, leaves Gaza, and let the Strip fall under transitional Arab and Muslim custodianship until a new, capable Palestinian leadership emerges.

Hamas refused to extend the first phase of the ceasefire agreement, something that would have freed more hostages and Palestinian prisoners, allowed for more negotiations over phase two, permitted possible plans for the Strip’s reconstruction to be finalized, and kept aid and supplies going in during Ramadan.

Otherwise, all you’re doing is collecting likes and shares on social media by talking about Israel’s actions in isolation of Hamas’s role in the unfolding disaster. Give the Palestinians respect and afford them some agency and responsibility. If you care about Gaza, grow a spine and address, call out, condemn, critique, and criticize Hamas.

[Michal @itsmichalll]

Families that have been murdered by Hamas on Oct 7🧵
1/ The Kotz family. They were found dead in their home at kibbutz Kfar Aza embracing each other. They were buried side by side.

[נדב איל Nadav Eyal @Nadav_Eyal]

Most Israelis are still unaware of Hamas’s latest act of unimaginable depravity. In a few hours, they will wake up to the horrifying news that the Bibas children were brutally murdered, while Hamas cynically sent back the body of an unrelated woman, claiming she was their mother.

Hamas is beyond a travesty—it embodies atrocities that defy definition. If they believe such acts will weaken Israeli society, they are making the classic mistake of authoritarians and fanatics. In reality, the resolve to dismantle their rule is only strengthening.

As for those in the West who supported them - whether openly or through silent backing - your moral failure will follow you for life.

[RochelleRochelle @RochellRochelle]

@skjask Sadly I did. But didn’t want to speak it out loud.

[RochelleRochelle @RochellRochelle]

@Claire_V0ltaire My exact words 💔

[RochelleRochelle @RochellRochelle]

@leekern13 Of all the tweets I’ve read in the past hour, this one is the one that unleashed a well of tears 😭 🌈🧡🧡🧡

[RochelleRochelle @RochellRochelle]

@KerenZelwer על כל אלה… 💔