I once visited a white family in South Africa near Kruger; they were literally living in a settlement like Israelis in the West Bank The fenced & heavily guarded settlement had 2 gates; one for (white) residents driving in/out freely, another for (black) workers going on foot & inspected on their way in/out. Workers needed a permit to enter. They were maids, construction workers, pool cleaners. Each lavish housing unit had a swimming pool full of water while everything outside was dry. All the customers at the cafes in town were white, all the workers black. I can't recall seeing a single poor white person the whole time, except for one rough looking worker at a centre for endangered species. The inequality was the most obscene I've ever seen after the occupied Palestinian territory. Political apartheid in South Africa was merely replaced with economic apartheid. image
Can analysts stop using the line "Netanyahu can't end the war in Gaza b/c his gov would collapse"? You think Smotrich would collapse the coalition & never enter the Knesset again? The problem isn't Israel's "far-right", it's Israel's gov that sees a once in a lifetime chance to wipe Gaza off the face of the earth & finish what Ben Gurion started in 1948. Netanyahu isn't afraid of his gov's collapse, he rather sees an opportunity to shape his legacy as the Israeli leader who expanded Israel's territory (into Syria, Lebanon, Gaza...) & reduced the Palestinian population on this land by two million. Last time Netanyahu made a ceasefire deal, Ben Gvir left gov, but he deliberately didn't collapse the ruling coalition. Smotrich is likely to do the same if the war ends; a symbolic protest without going to another election b/c virtually all polls show Smotrich falling below the threshold necessary to re-enter parliament. Even if the war ends, Israel will continue the genocide by a hundred other ways (e.g. banning construction materials, keeping borders closed for the return of Gazans who'd left, terrorizing more Gazans into leaving...)
Spoken like a true psychopathic serial killer screaming at the lifeless corpse of his victim “look what you made me do!” B/C she had dared scratch him while he was raping her for the 10th time! “Look what you made me do! It’s on you that you’re dead! You did this to yourself”
I was on the phone with family & friends in Gaza today, some brought up this statement, said it's giving some hope & a sense of revived Int. momentum after months of feeling isolated & forgotten Don't underestimate the power & necessity of speaking up, even if just a whisper
🚨Smotrich is quietly getting 22 new Israeli settlements in the West Bank in return for allowing 5 aid trucks into Gaza, in addition to getting also hundreds of new housing units in unofficial settler outposts. Settlements are the motherlode of all terrorism & apartheid! image
I told DW Israel is allowing into Gaza less than 1% of what is actually needed for basic human survival; less than 3% of prisoners of the Gulag concentration camps got; & less than 4 rice crackers per person This is NOT aid, it's a PR stunt & a fig leaf to buy time for genocide!
Either the Trump admin scammed Hamas into releasing the most valuable captive for free, or Netanyahu is defying the White House to show he's got the final say on Gaza Either way, this is so destructive for prisoner swap/ceasefire negotiations; as Hamas will never trust mediators again when their "guarantees" are worthless & Israel would break them immediately without consequences
The 4 days after Hamas released Edan Alexander have been hell on earth! Israel tripled the bombing & indiscriminate shelling of literally every inch of Gaza It’s as if Edan’s release was a scam, or Israel is hellbent on destroying the slightest chance of a ceasefire deal
On Nakba day, time to debunk Israel's foundational myths with their own words🧵 Myth No 1: "Israel accepted partition, Palestinians rejected" Israel NEVER accepted partition; they only exploited it as a tactical step towards ethnic cleansing Ben Gurion is crystal clear on this
🚨Israel's genocide blinded over 1,500 Gazans, 4,000 wounded at risk of permanent blindness due to Israel collapsing Gaza's health infrastructure & banning doctors & medicines from going into Gaza Muhammad Hijazi (7) lost an eye from an Israeli bomb & may soon lose all sight