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/ …
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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 -
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@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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@MaxBlumenthal: “Watch@KillingGaza, absorb the atmosphere of siege and listen to the testimonies of the trapped. You might then understand why so many chose to rush the gates.” https://electronicintifada.net/content/killing-gaza-captures-culture-resistance/24321 …pic.twitter.com/3OxZRXqY2a
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@leninology: “The killings are happening because Israel is trying to solve, with its overwhelming military power, a political problem [...] Israel cannot reconcile its long-term objectives with any peaceable settlement with the Palestinians”https://www.patreon.com/posts/18821106Show this thread -
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@AndrewMitrovica: “Cowardice. No other word suffices. No other word captures the signature essence of diplomats - from Canada, the United Nations, Europe - and their obscene, code-word-laced responses to the massacre of Palestinians”https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/gaza-massacre-exposed-international-cowardice-180516073934658.html …Show this thread -
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@MariamBarghouti: “We are exhausted of repeating the stories of our oppression and constantly revisiting old trauma as we try to cope with an ongoing one. All of this we do so the world can see how inhumane and unjust Israeli colonization is.”http://www.newsweek.com/gaza-opinion-928597 …Show this thread -
Judith Butler in 2010: “Because everyone who is a living Palestinian is, in their being, a declaration of war, [...]. They have been transformed, in the Israeli war imaginary, into pure war instruments.”https://www.google.de/amp/s/www.haaretz.com/amp/1.5052023 …
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@haidareid: “We, the marchers, belong to all sectors of Palestinian civil society and all spectrums of political organisations. And despite what the Zionist hasbara (propaganda) might have you believe, it wasn't Hamas who "made" us march.”https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/march-return-14may-gaza-israeli-fence-180516124449284.html …Show this thread -
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@ravithecht: “Netanyahu understood that his base has neither the need nor the desire for that democratic veneer, for that false pretense of enlightenment and equality” https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-the-base-wants-apartheid-1.6433451 …pic.twitter.com/Y3pSYNL8No
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