.@leninology: “the implicit assumption is that the Palestinians not only have no right to a political belonging, but have no right to self-defence. In a word, they have no right to exist. ”
#GreatReturnMarchhttps://www.patreon.com/posts/17901185
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This from 2008 is a must-read: “Vanity Fair has obtained confidential documents ... which lay bare a covert initiative, approved by Bush ... to provoke a Palestinian civil war. ... to remove the democratically elected Hamas-led government from power.”https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2008/04/gaza200804/ …
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@mehdirhasan: The silence of liberal interventionists in the West in face of state-sponsored violence against Palestinian marchers "is a reminder of just how morally bankrupt and cynically hypocritical the whole “liberal intervention” shtick is."https://theintercept.com/2018/04/02/israel-killing-palestine-civilian-liberal-humanitarian/ …1 reply 1 retweet 1 likeShow this thread -
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@amit_gilutz: “These are the predictable outcomes of a manifestly illegal command: Israeli soldiers shooting live ammunition at unarmed Palestinian protesters. What is predictable, too, is that no one [...] is likely to be ever held accountable.”https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/israel-threatens-to-expand-response-if-gaza-violence-continues/2018/03/31/aab4d494-3464-11e8-b6bd-0084a1666987_story.html?utm_term=.430adffadd87 …1 reply 1 retweet 0 likesShow this thread -
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@aj_iraqi: "Israel’s priority is not so much the preservation of a Jewish majority as it is the maintenance of Jewish supremacy at any cost. Will the demographic revelation finally push the international community to accept these facts?" https://972mag.com/palestinians-are-the-majority-is-it-apartheid-yet/134125/ …pic.twitter.com/ssrX66uq7D
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Paul Pillar: The
#MarchofReturn “underscore[s] how, no matter how hard Israel may try to wall off the Gaza Strip not only from its own territory but from the world outside and the universe of live and festering political issues, it cannot succeed”https://lobelog.com/gaza-the-open-air-prison-seethes/ …1 reply 0 retweets 1 likeShow this thread -
The fact that “not one Democrat in the House or Senate has spoken up ... to defend Israel’s action ... may reflect a recognition among Democratic leaders of how toxic Israel is becoming to a large segment of the party’s base.” https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/not-one-democrat-has-defended-israel-over-gaza-massacre …pic.twitter.com/8zzbCWirrp
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Ahmad Abu Artema, organizer of the
#GreatReturnMarch: “I don’t believe in liberation [of land in Israel]. I believe in ending the apartheid system in Israel like the end of the apartheid system in South Africa, and we live all in one democratic state.”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/apr/06/time-for-peaceful-resistance-says-gazas-new-movement …2 replies 2 retweets 0 likesShow this thread -
Powerful op-Ed by Ahmad Abu Rtemah, one of the organizers of the
#GreatReturnMarch: “The Nakba is not a just a memory, it is an ongoing reality. And while we can reconcile that we all must eventually die, in Gaza the tragedy is that we don’t get to live.”https://www.thenation.com/article/with-the-great-return-march-palestinians-are-demanding-a-life-of-dignity/ …1 reply 1 retweet 0 likesShow this thread -
Bernardo Jurema 🌹 Retweeted Saree Makdisi
“Media coverage of Israel's massacre of Palestinian protesters during the first weekend of multiweek demonstrations in Gaza offered textbook examples of how syntax and word choice shape, & even distort, representations of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”https://twitter.com/sareemakdisi/status/982238313493889024?s=21 …
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.@NathanJRobinson breaks down @rosnersdomain's @nytimes op-ed defending the #NakbaDay massacre by the Israeli army to show "how language is used to present a picture of the world in which things that are horrific in reality become moral in the mind"https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/propaganda-101-how-to-defend-a-massacre …
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