Spitfire_187

One batch, Two batch. Penny & Dime.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

Is Zionism racism?

To answer this question requires a proper understanding of Zionism in both theory and practice.

Zionism is essentially a synonym for Jewish nationalism. It is the belief that Jews constitute a distinct people and nation, and on this basis require the establishment of a nation-state of their own to achieve their natural rights and collective potential.

In putting forth such views, the late-nineteenth-century founders of the Zionist movement were first and foremost adopting and reflecting the nationalist milieu and principles dominant in Europe, the environment in which they were formed and in which they operated.

Yet, from the very outset Zionism was different than other European nationalism. Unlike for example the Greeks, Serbs, Poles, or Italians, Zionism’s intended constituents – the Jews of Europe – did not have an ancient homeland on the European continent in which they remained a majority.

The Zionist movement was unwilling as well as unable to challenge an existing European state to carve out an independent state in which Jews, like other European peoples, would enjoy uncontested demographic, territorial, and political supremacy.

Its leaders instead sought to acquire the cooperation and sponsorship of a European power to colonize and establish a state in territory outside Europe. Palestine was not the only non-European territory proposed for this venture. Various others in Africa, the Americas, Australia, as well as Cyprus were also considered, several quite seriously.

In each of these cases the Zionist movement was proceeding from another principle dominant in Europe at the time. None of these territories were uninhabited, yet their inhabitants did not possess inalienable rights, and could be freely subordinated, dispossessed, and even exterminated in the service of European power.

The Zionist movement ultimately settled on Palestine for its nation-state project. Enabled by what the pre-eminent Palestinian historian Walid Khalidi termed “the British shield”, its project met with success in 1948 with the establishment of the Israeli state.

Israel could not have been established as a Jewish state without the mass dispossession and expulsion of the Arabs of Palestine, and the wholesale usurpation of their lands and properties. Israel could not have developed as a Zionist state without the systematic application of structural racism against its non-Jewish citizens and the enforcement of apartheid regimes against Arab populations beyond its initial boundaries that would come under its control in subsequent decades.

Crucially, the exact same pattern would have been implemented, by design, if the Zionist movement had opted for Uganda, Libya, or any other territory under its consideration instead of Palestine. It is this which distinguishes Zionism from most (but not all) other nationalisms.

In other words, the British Green Party, like the United Nations General Assembly in Resolution 3379 of 1975, got it exactly right.

[History Speaks @History__Speaks]

If Hamas "operated in a way such to maximize civilian casualties," as clown @TheOmniLiberal says, Hamas wouldn't have allowed civilian evacuations. It would've obstructed them, as ISIS and the Tamil Tigers did. Yet, in point of fact, the vast majority of Gazan civilians could and did follow IDF evacuation orders, and IDF ground troops, when they fought Hamas, fought them in sparsely populated evacuated areas.

Anyone who thinks this guy is smart or serious loses my respect immediately.

[Spitfire_187 @spitfire_187]

@Pearlwontmiss Pre-diabetes

[Katie Hopkins @KTHopkins]

This is disgusting. Feet stamping a working man. Dragging him by his feet.

The Irish government needs locking up.

People are exhausted from working so hard & having the piss taken by those in power

[Eddie Hobbs @RealEddieHobbs]

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Fuel Protest spokesman responds to over 300 Gardai taking O’Connell Street by force around 3 AM and shutting off all street access.

[Patrice Johnson 🇮🇪 @patricej36]

Shocking scenes in Galway.

The garda should be standing with the people not following the governments orders of brutality.

Tyrannical treasonous behaviour by the government.

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

🚨 Conor McGregor just went nuclear on Ireland’s political cartel.

He exposed the “anti-Irish agenda” being forced on the country and warned the public backlash is “heading toward a quake.”
“I’m for my Country.

I’m a God-fearing patriot, and may God-fearing patriotism prevail in this fight against evil.”

Powerful stuff.

[TheLiberal.ie @TheLiberal_ie]

🚨 BREAKING - Dublin - Please Share ⚠️

Riot gardai (police) have now arrived in Dublin City centre to remove peaceful fuel protesters by force.

They’ve been told to move out of the area as their vehicles are to be moved.

We need a world spotlight on Ireland immediately 🙏🇮🇪🇮🇪
@elonmusk @TRobinsonNewEra @realDonaldTrump

[Declan Ganley @declanganley]

Galway Port, entirely peaceful, even joyful #FuelProtest and right now AGS in riot gear arriving. I am 57 years of age and have been pro-Garda my whole life. Whoever is deploying these officers is carrying out an act of wilful provocation.

[Seóirse Sparks @SeoirseSpark2]

West awake there fighting Back

[☀️👀 @zei_squirrel]

the Bill Clinton clip where he lies that he offered Palestinians a state and they were too barbaric to accept it is going viral again, so here's top US foreign policy official Zbigniew Brzezinski humiliating Joe Scarborough when he spouted the same deranged Zionist propaganda:

[Mick Caul @caulmick]

The utter disrespect shown by David McCullough (look at the way he sits) to Jeffrey Sachs this morning.
Just because he has as a professor at Columbia University has a different opinion on the Russian/Ukrainian War. I've watched many podcasts with Mr.Sachs with other interviewers, and he is always well researched & knowledgeable about geopolitical conflicts.

[Chay Bowes @BowesChay]

Look at the body language of the Irish state media "Interviewer" as Professor Jeffery Sach's destroys his delusions over Ukraine.

He literally crumples into a pile, desperately trying to interrupt, bereft of any plausible counter argument

A massacre.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

In 1957, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon still held the keys to their homes in Acre—just nine years after the #Nakba. Even then, officials said they “had to leave,” a phrase that obscures the violent expulsion behind Israel’s creation.

[Seyed Mohammad Marandi @s_m_marandi]

If I am targeted, please receive your information from sources that I follow on Twitter.

[Mouin Rabbani @MouinRabbani]

I’ve often mentioned that Norman Finkelstein is the most moral individual I’ve met.
His principles are absolute, and he is incapable of compromising them. Gray doesn’t exist in his moral universe.
I’m not at all surprised that his is the only name to emerge from the Epstein files with its reputation enhanced.

[Quds News Network @QudsNen]

A protest is held in Venezuela as members of the opposition join anti-US demonstrations across the country.

The protests come after the United States announced the abduction of President Nicolás Maduro and launched attacks on Venezuelan territory.

[Daniel Lambert @dlLambo]

Some "facts" from our media on the "Russian Drones" that were out to get Zelensky's plane and their logic:

1. We have zero actual data/evidence or a single photo of any drone.

2. They were as large "as pallets" military spec but flew with navigational lights on them. 🤔

(1/6)

[Spitfire_187 @spitfire_187]

@ChaunceyGardner @TravisD1983 The OP forgot to mention that she was vaping etomidate. Or are ppl actually getting deported for nicotine vaping? That would be insane 😩

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥 Watch | “It wasn’t really a negotiation. It was a negotiation within the Israeli team. It was a negotiation within the American team. But it wasn’t a negotiation between Israelis and Palestinians. It was presentation of constantly changing proposals based on Israel’s estimate of what the Palestinians couldn’t say no to. An estimate that proved wrong time and time again.”

Robert Malley, at the Doha Forum in Qatar, details how the U.S. abandoned real mediation and became a “messenger” for Israeli proposals at Camp David II, contributing to the talks’ failure.

@DohaForum | @Rob_Malley