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/ …Show 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 …Show 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/ …Show 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 …Show 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/ …Show this thread -
“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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Fatou Bensouda, Prosecutor of the
@IntlCrimCourt: “any new alleged crime committed in the context of the situation in Palestine may be subjected to my Office's scrutiny. This applies to the events of the past weeks and to any future incident.”https://www.icc-cpi.int/Pages/item.aspx?name=180408-otp-stat …Show this thread -
"British Labour Party head
@jeremycorbyn called for a review of arms sales to Israel in a message condemning its “illegal and inhumane” actions against Palestinians protesting on the border with Gaza."https://www.haaretz.com/world-news/europe/corbyn-calls-for-review-of-u-k-arms-sales-to-israel-over-gaza-deaths-1.5980468 …Show this thread -
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@AliAbunimah: "Israel is repressing a mass peaceful movement of people who are demanding an end to the siege of Gaza, and for the right of refugees to return home to be respected."#MarchofReturn http://therealnews.com/t2/story:21546:Israel-Massacres-Unarmed-Gaza-Protesters-Again-as-International-Community-Shrugs …Show this thread -
“An Israeli general has confirmed that when snipers stationed along Israel’s boundary with Gaza shoot at children, they are doing so deliberately, under clear and specific orders.” https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/ali-abunimah/snipers-ordered-shoot-children-israeli-general-confirms …pic.twitter.com/257DshEl0A
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@Jonathan_K_Cook: "Israel's complex fortifications could quickly turn into a house of cards if unarmed resistance by Palestinians grows ... Israeli military commanders have repeatedly warned that they have no strategy for countering a mass popular revolt"https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/israel-celebrates-pyrrhic-victory-turns-70-180417065357314.html …Show this thread -
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@amnesty International has renewed its call on governments worldwide to impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel following the country’s disproportionate response to mass demonstrations along the fence that separates the Gaza Strip from Israel."https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2018/04/israel-arms-embargo-needed-as-military-unlawfully-kills-and-maims-gaza-protesters/ …Show this thread -
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@PeterBeinart: “Our community’s complicity in the human nightmare in Gaza should fill every American Jew with shame. The first step toward ending that complicity is to stop lying to ourselves.”https://forward.com/opinion/399738/american-jews-have-abandoned-gaza-and-the-truth/ …Show this thread -
Must-listen interview with Israeli human rights activists and occupation opponents
@HagaiElAd of@btselem &@AGvaryahu of@BtSIsrael: “if you’re in a situation in which stating the obvious takes courage, you’re in a very bad spot”https://theintercept.com/2018/04/27/deconstructed-podcast-israeli-activists-speak-out-against-the-occupation-of-gaza/ …Show this thread -
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@btselem field researcher Olfat al-Kurd, Muhammad Sabah and Khaled al-‘Azayzeh documented not only casualties, but also the back line of the demonstrations”https://www.btselem.org/node/211997Show this thread -
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@GregShupak: “The unmistakable message for Palestinians at every turn, from before the Nakba to the Great Return March, is that the slightest resistance to the ethnostate erected on their homeland will be met with imprisonment or lethal force.”https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/05/great-return-march-nakba-palestine-resistance …Show this thread -
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@normfinkelstein: Israeli forces have conducted “a murderous assault on non-violent protesters” in Gaza’s Great March of Return because non-violent protest threatens not Israel, but its occupationhttps://youtu.be/KVx4h3sM62oShow this thread -
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@ryanlcooper: “Let us call this what it is: naked tyranny by the Israeli apartheid regime. And America is complicit in the regular murderous violence necessary to maintain it.”#Nakba70#GreatReturnMarchhttp://theweek.com/articles/773072/israels-shame--americas-complicity?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=facebook …Show this thread -
“The United States has blocked a request at the United Nations for an independent inquiry into the deaths of dozens of Palestinians at the Gaza-Israel border yesterday.”https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/0515/963599-gaza-protests/ …
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@andrewfeinstein: “the greater the conflict, the greater the human suffering, the more these companies are making money. ... what the Iranian decision does is it creates greater instability, greater uncertainty, and a greater likelihood of conflict”https://therealnews.com/stories/arms-industry-stocks-shoot-up-after-trump-withdraws-from-iran-deal …Show this thread -
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@kaibosworth on the policy of the Israeli state to shoot to maim, injure, or disable rather than kill Palestinianshttps://twitter.com/kaibosworth/status/996389294146310145?s=21 …Show this thread -
The office of the prosecutor of the ICC: “Any new alleged crime committed in the context of the situation in Palestine may be subjected to the office's legal scrutiny. This applies to the events of 14 May 2018 and to any future incident.”https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-israeli-palestinians-icct/international-courts-prosecutor-warns-on-gaza-violence-idUKKCN1IH2CA …
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@GregShupak: “Although to this point, the only Israeli casualty during the entire cycle of demonstrations has been one ‘lightly wounded’ soldier, considerable space in coverage of the massacres is devoted to blaming Palestinians for their own slaughter.”https://fair.org/home/blaming-the-victims-of-israels-gaza-massacre/ …Show this thread -
“The Movement for Black Lives stands with the Palestinian people and especially those in Gaza, that have been engaging in resistance at the Gaza border. ... we were painfully reminded of what happens when Black people, here in the U.S., decide to resist”https://policy.m4bl.org/2018/05/the-movement-for-black-lives-stands-with-the-palestinian-people/ …
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@lisang: Holding the victims responsible for their own suffering is “racist. It strips Palestinians of agency; it implies that they do not value their own lives. This is not journalism; it is Israeli government propaganda”https://forward.com/opinion/401486/the-racism-of-blaming-palestinians-for-their-own-deaths/ …Show this thread -
“In the northern city of Haifa, Israeli police are arresting activists who are organizing demonstrations against the violence in Gaza.”https://972mag.com/open-up-or-well-tase-you-police-arrest-activists-behind-gaza-protests/135587/ …
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