Israel's liberal enlightened leftist opposition are openly salivating over the prospect of ethnically cleansing Gaza! Gantz calls it "creative, original & interesting thinking". Lapid demands a Nobel Prize to Trump. image
Israel has ALWAYS fantasized about -& actively tried to empty out Gaza; in 1951, 1953, 1956, 1967, 1970s-1990s, 2004, 2009, 2012, 2014, 2019… They tried forcible transfer, intimidation, siege, resettlement programs, bribes, migration routes (e.g to Canada)… It NEVER worked!
🚨Israel is turning Jenin into another Gaza Cut off food & electricity, constant airstrikes, blowing up dozens of homes, ethnic cleansing, destruction of infrastructure, siege, mass arbitrary detention, media blackout.. Jenin is NOT getting any attention. We must speak up! image
I said this earlier: Gazans' real agony begins when the war ends, the bombs stop & people are left caged & beleaguered in a wiped out uninhabitable concentration camp while the world moves on & Gaza disappears. "At least in the tents we still had hope"
Reminder: Israel is still holding Dr. Husam Abu Safiya hostage since December after murdering his son before his eyes No charges, no trial, no evidence... A hostage, held purely as a bargaining chip! image
No, the US was NEVER about to send $50 million worth of condoms to Gaza Because Israel bans the entry of condoms to Gaza in the 1st place, along with crutches, seeded fruits, oxygen cylinders, water filtration systems, sleeping bags, cancer treatement, maternity kits...
In 1951, the US & Israel pressured Egypt heavily to mass transfer Palestinian refugees from Gaza into Sinai In 1953, UNRWA & Egypt agreed to resettle 12,000 Palestinians in Sinai in return for $30 million from the US (today equals $355 million) Gaza revolted & killed this plan Gaza back then had a population of 200,000 people, two thirds of whom were forcibly expelled by Israel in the 1948 Nakba In 1953 Israeli forces began attacking the Palestinian refugee camps in the Gaza Strip to punish, humiliate & terrorize their inhabitants in order to push them to accept the Sinai option & dismantle the camps In one night on August 28, 1953, Israel killed 50 civilians in the al-Bureij camp. A massacre intended to spread fear & panic. Gazans responded to the Sinai transfer idea by creating popular resistance movements in 1953. The demonstrations peaked in March 1955 with teachers, students, bus drivers, & store owners chanting: β€œNo relocation, no settlement. Down with US agents” & β€œThey drafted the Sinai project in ink. We'll erase it with blood.” The military governor of the Gaza Strip, Major General Abdallah Refaat, fled to al-Arish upon the outbreak of the protests & issued a statement promising to, inter alia, end the Sinai relocation project. image
Trump's idea of transferring Gazans to Egypt/Jordan has been an Israeli fantasy for decades This is a leaked US cable from 2004 where Israel's Nation Security Council Chief, Giora Eiland, admits that Gaza is a "huge concentration camp" & calls for grabbing 600km from Sinai image
One of the most frightening things about the Holocaust is that it was the outcome of (rather than a barbaric regression from) modernity; e.g. order-making, procedural rationality, taxonomic categorization of different species, division of labor into smaller tasks & the tendency to view obedience to rules as morally good (Bauman 1989) This merciless brutality was the culmination of centuries where Jews have been on the receiving end of persecution. A generational trauma that lives until today. Palestinians share a unique shared history* with our Jewish sisters & brothers: We have intimate knowledge of pain, loss & subjugation. It should be the driver to act in solidarity with one another to prevent more harm from coming to our loved ones. *No comparison attached #HolocaustRemembranceDay image
🚨There's a concerted Israeli campaign to blow up the ceasefire by weaponizing the Bibas family's plight Israelis know the Bibas kids & their mom were killed in an IDF airstrike in Nov 2023 (senior Israeli officials admit it behind closed doors) They keep pretending to not know the fate of the family in order to later pretend to be shocked & traumatized when the bodies are returned The reason the Bibas bodies haven't be returned until now is that Netanyahu refused to take them in Dec 2023 In this ceasefire deal, Israel demanded that living hostages be released before dead bodies. So the Bibas' remains won't be returned until the very end of phase 1 (per Israel's demand). Remember this when the time comes & Israeli propagandists pretend to be shocked & enraged in order to blow up the deal. They're setting the stage for this from now. image