The question was always this: How far must Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians proceed before our utterly justified collective guilt over the Holocaust (as Europeans) no longer prevents us from confronting Israel’s ethnic cleansing of Palestinians? https://t.co/cXAGf1JWQ1
I find nothing less morally or philosophically interesting than pontificating on how the traumatized prisoners of a horrible concentration camp should have conducted themselves once they broke free of its confines. As far as I'm concerned everything that happened on that day was the result of generations of Israeli abuse, the British decisions which made it all possible, and the American backing which has kept it going.
Israeli policies created Hamas. I don’t mean this in the usual “Netanyahu boosted Hamas to sabotage peace and undermine its more moderate rivals” sense, I mean it in the "Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable" sense. If you stomp out every possible peaceful avenue of resistance, naturally you’re going to see the rise of factions which favor violent resistance.
One of my most formative experiences in understanding this conflict happened in 2018 when I watched Israeli soldiers firing on protesters with sniper rifles and live ammo. B’Tselem explicitly denounced this as unlawful. There’s nothing that could possibly make such a thing okay, and it was a very clear illustration of the way Israel has cut Palestinians off from all the normal pathways toward peaceful resolution.
I said when all this started that I believe the Hamas attack will ultimately be a net negative for Palestinians, but that I can’t in good conscience “condemn Hamas” because nobody can articulate a positive direction that Palestinians should be taking. The fact that all peaceful avenues of resistance have been cut off is not the fault of the Palestinians, and it’s not the fault of Hamas. It’s the fault of the Israeli government.
Hamas is just what you get when you create an intolerably abusive apartheid state which keeps millions of people in a concentration camp whose inhabitants are cut off from basic human needs. Hamas isn’t the disease, it’s a symptom of the disease. The disease is an apartheid settler-colonialist project which cannot exist without endless violence, warfare and abuse.
في عام 1943 وقعت انتفاضة في حي وارسو اليهودي، وانتهت بمقتل 13,000 منهم. عندما سئل أحد الناجين واسمه ماريك إديلمان بعد سنوات عن دافع الانتفاضة ضد النازية رغم فارق القوة "وحتمية الخسارة"، أجاب جوابًا ثاقبًا، قال "لم نكن نريد أن نسمح للألمان بمفردهم اختيار وقت ومكان موتنا"! هذه القصة لتذكير كل أولئك الذين يتساءلون عن سبب إصرار الغزيين على مواجهة خصم أقوى بكثير، على الرغم من معرفتهم تمامًا بالعواقب العسكرية. هي أشياء لا تُشترى!
Stop calling it a war. Gaza is not a state. Gaza is colonised territory, under siege by a nuclear power. Hamas is not an army. Hamas is a resistance movement. Colonised people have the right to armed resistance under international law. Call it what it is: Israel waging genocide.
آدم يوهانس كتب الكلام ده سنة 2014 عن مراحل تعامل الصهاينة مع الإعلام
- لم نسمع عن أي وفيات، سنبحث في الأمر
- لقد قُتل البعض بالفعل ولكن بواسطة صواريخ فلسطينية
- صحيح نحن قتلناهم ولكن كانوا إرهابيين
- صحيح كانوا مدنيين ولكن كان يتم استخدامهم كدروع بشرية
- صحيح لم يكن هناك أي مسلحين في المكان، لقد كان قتل بالخطأ ولكنهم يقتلون المدنيين عن عمد
- صحيح لقد قتلنا مدنيين أكثر منهم ولكن انظر لباقي الدول لقد فعلوا أسوأ م�� ذلك
- لماذا مازلت تتحدث عن اسرائيل؟ هل أنت معاد للسامية ؟
من المستحيل أن تجد تصريح واحد لأي صهيوني يخرج عن هذا
لأول مر�� أحس اني محتاج اترجم كلام انجليزي لعربي لأنه سبحان الله بقينا في زمن فيه أجانب أشرف من بعض اللي بيرددوا كلام الصهاينة
#ZionistTerror
#PalestineGenocide
#IsraeliNewNazism
Here's to tears shed in the burning sun and screams echo-less in the lonely nights.
Here's to those lost along the way, knowing not where to go. Knowing not when to stop.
Here's to the sea so vast and endless, a desert of water, arid and wet.
It is my eternal torment, waking up everyday, having to realize all over again, who I am, who I've been, who I'll always be...
On days I wish I'd be anyone, anything, but myself. I pray and cry and wish and hope, but to no avail, I am who I am. There is no escaping me.
Dear - - -,
I see you everywhere, in passing cars, in the faces of statues. I miss our meetings, fueled by alcohol and self loathing. When can I talk to you again?
Yours truly,
Marwan Youssef