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@thostalk @lorus77 The tedious "Stalin just wanted to buy crucial time" argument already falls flat bc in 1941 he was completely taken by surprise by the German invasion.

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@freedomrideblog Europe to Stalin in 1939 and 1940: "Please do not side with Hitler and please do not invade and occupy Finland, Poland, the Baltic states and Bessarabia".

[Peter Breedveld @FrontaalNaakt]

Gaf als prominent bolletje van het inmiddels op sterven liggende The Post Online een podium aan Annabel Nanninga’s interview met Holocaust-ontkenner David Irving.

[van Schuylenburch  @vSchuylenburch]

Ik wil Barend rondleiden in Gaza.

[Jan Tervoort @Radlab72]

‘En jawel, weer op de kilometers ver uitgerolde tenen van de Joodse gemeenschap getrapt. Echt hee, als jullie er dan toch een stukkie afsnijden namens Jahwe, overweeg dan die tenen eens inplaats van de piemols’ #AnnabelNanninga #Geenstijl #HetVrijeWoord

[🔻werkschuwtuig 🔻 @werkschuwtuig2]

Trap naar boven, niet naar beneden. Vluchtelingen zijn niet de oorzaak van onze problemen.

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@TatticaPassata You're undermining your own argument. If today's teams are stronger collectives, then elite players of previous generations just played weaker teams, making it easier for them to 'bent games to their will' etc

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@tunedaybabz @TatticaPassata Exactly. If you admit that today's teams are stronger, you also have to admit that the top individuals of previous generations just played against weaker teams.

[Tbabz @tunedaybabz]

@TatticaPassata Your opinion is missing out that previous generations footballer were able to impose themselves because their opposition system was weak.

I bet you, no footballer from that generation can impose themselves against that Arsenal set up.

Bring Messi, Dinho and Neymar combined

[Martin Shaw @martinshawx]

This report deludes itself that, because Muslim voters care about other issues and don’t all name Gaza, Labour can win them back without addressing Labour’s support for Israel and its genocide. But Gaza has crystallised a lot of dissatisfaction with Labour into a sharper rejection, and not only among Muslims.

Labour will lose crucial support as long as it fails to address this, as the US Democrats did - and look what happened to them as a result.

[Bassam Haddad @4Bassam]

It’s too late, David. I followed your work in the late 1990s an early 2000s, and I teach your failed lessons. Today, you are not reading the room. These arguments no longer work after what people have witnessed constantly for the past two+ years. No one with a shred of decency cares about your equating of antisemitism with anti-Zionism. It’s like equating anti-Nazism with some sort of bigotry. Both must be opposed for humanity to move forward— and certainly for the United States to do the same. Fortunately, even in the United States, the latecomer, this is happening broadly, increasingly, and inexorably. Hence the desperate attempts (articles, SM Hasbara, media acquisitions, corrupt law-fare etc.) which will actually prove the point and deepen anti-Zionism. Keep at it. Good day.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Claims that the Palestinians were in 1948 ordered to evacuate their homes and homeland by Arab leaders in a series of radio broadcasts has been a perennial Hasbara Symphony Orchestra favourite since the Nakba, and continues to be widely promoted to this day.

The BBC journalist and United Nations official Erskine Barton Childers (not to be confused with his father, Ireland's fourth president, Erskine Hamilton Childers) thoroughly debunked this claim more than half a century ago in his article, "The Other Exodus" published in The Spectator on 12 May 1961.

Childers reviewed the comprehensive archives of Arab radio broadcasts compiled during that period by both the BBC monitoring station in Cyprus and its US counterpart, the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) run by the CIA, and found nothing.

I have posted a link to Childers's article in the comments, which is worth reading because it includes details of additional fabrications concocted by Israeli officials to further this foundational hasbara myth.

Abba Eban, then Israel's permanent representative to the UN and later foreign minister, and easily its most celebrated diplomat, for example claimed that the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Haifa, George Hakim, "fully confirmed" that Palestinians were encouraged to flee by their leaders.

Yet, according to Childers: "I wrote to His Grace [Hakim], asking for his evidence of such orders. I hold signed letters from him, with permission to publish, in which he has categorically denied ever alleging Arab evacuation orders; he states that no such orders were ever given. He says that his name has been abused for years; and that the Arabs fled through panic and forcible eviction by Jewish troops."

This is the same Abba Eban who on 6 June 1967 falsely informed the UN Security Council that Israel had launched the June War the previous day in response to a series of non-existent attacks on Israel on the morning of 5 June by the Egyptian air force and artillery units.

I was previously unaware that the Israeli archives also include records of these radio broadcasts. As the British-Israeli historian Benny Morris reports below, he went through these records and also found that such broadcasts, whether by local Palestinian or Arab leaders, simply do not exist.

While the research conducted by Childers and more recently Morris is of course useful in providing official confirmation that such broadcasts are a figment of the Zionist imagination, logic alone should suffice to debunk this myth.

In May 1948, the Arab states intervened in Palestine to put an end to the mass expulsions of Palestinians, which since November 1947 already numbered in the hundreds of thousands, and to defeat the Israeli forces responsible for this monumental crime.

Does it make any sense that prior to their intervention they would have ordered hundreds of thousands of civilians to clog every road they hoped to use to enter Palestine, for miles and days on end? Of course not.

As for the silly claim that the objective of the Arab intervention was genocide, there is no evidence for it, and the conduct of the Arab militaries during the Palestine War supports this conclusion.

Nor was it the case that the Arab intervention was a coordinated military campaign to eradicate the nascent Israeli state. Some of the participating Arab states, Syria and Iraq, did have this as an objective.

Transjordan clearly did not. Its leadership had already cut a deal with the Zionist leadership to partition Palestine between them and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. Armed conflict between Israel and Transjordan in fact ensued only after Israeli forces reneged on their agreement and initiated seizures of territory beyond the partition boundary.

Egypt's position was more ambiguous. It seemed to be primarily motivated by rivalry with Jordan, and ensuring Jordan did not become the main Arab power in Palestine. In short, no Arab state wanted to see the emergence of the Israeli state, but in most cases Arab leaders had more pressing priorities. Coordination between them was primarily notable for its absence.

Arab public opinion, by contrast, considered the failure of their leaders to successfully confront the Zionist project nothing short of treason, and it served as a catalyst for more than a decade of revolutions, coups, and uprisings throughout the region.

[Jan Tervoort @Radlab72]

Een van de meest wonderlijke dingen waar serieuze journalisten te schijterig voor zijn om in te duiken is de totale symbiose tussen de Israël-lobby en de extreemrechts rancuneuze media grachtengordel. Als je ziet hoe #Geenstijl boefje @BartNijman de meest slijmerige kruiper voor>

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@NothingBurger22 Dus dat ik onderscheid maak tussen 'joden' en 'zionisten' wijst JUIST op mijn 'domme jodenhaat'? LOL. Het is simpel: als ik joden bedoel zeg ik joden en als ik zionisten bedoel zeg ik zionisten.

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@NothingBurger22 Als jij vindt dat zionisten in Palestina de baas mogen spelen omdat ze grond kochten, waarom zouden oliesjeiks dat niet mogen in NL als die hier grond zouden kopen? Wel consequent blijven he ouwe.

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@NothingBurger22 Als oliesjeiks hier massaal grond opkopen en er de baas gaan spelen met sharia wetgeving dan zouden de oorspronkelijke bewoners (jij en ik dus) onderdrukt/bezet worden. Zo moeilijk is het niet, Einstein.

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@NothingBurger22 De VN heeft de juridische bevoegdheid niet om een staat 'aan te wijzen'. Verzin dus een andere kutsmoes. Oh en het sprookje dat moslims 'kozen' te vertrekken gelooft niemand meer, behalve kennelijk simpele zielen als jij.

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@NothingBurger22 Dus als alle Nederlandse boeren hun land verkopen aan Arabische oliesjeiks dan kunnen die er de baas gaan spelen en een eigen staat uitroepen met sharia? Goh

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@NothingBurger22 Genereus hoor van die nazi-zionisten: het hele land bezetten en de gazastrook voor de Palestijnen laten. En dan gaan lopen janken als peuters als er aanslagen gepleegd worden, lol.