#Nakba of '48

[kp777]

By Brett Wilkins

Common Dreams

Oct. 10, 2023

The leftist former Greek finance minister urged Europeans to "wake up and redeem ourselves" by working for the "destruction of the state of apartheid" against Palestinians.

Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis—who heads the leftist Democracy in Europe Movement 2025—on Tuesday blamed Europe for complicity in Israel's "crimes against humanity" in Palestine, while asserting that the only way to achieve peace is by ending Israeli apartheid against Palestinians.

"Those who try very hard to extract from people like me... a condemnation of the attack by the Hamas guerrillas will never get it," Varoufakis toldred in an interview explaining why he refuses to denounce the surprise weekend infiltration attack by Gaza-based militants that killed at least 900 Israelis.

Varoufakis continued:

And they will never get it for a very simple reason. Those who care about humans without any discrimination; those who care equally about a Jew and an Arab, must ask themselves a very simple question: What exactly is their idea of a cessation of hostilities? That the Palestinians are going to lay down their arms and go back into the largest open-air prison in the world, where they are constantly suffocated by the apartheid state?

"Any human being living under apartheid at some point will either die a terrible silent death or rebel and take some innocent people with them," Varoufakis said.

Addressing European complicity in Israeli apartheid, Varoufakis asserted that "the criminals here are not Hamas. Not even the Israeli settlers who are killing Palestinians. The criminals are Europeans. Us."

"We have participated in this crime against humanity over the decades by keeping our mouths shut," he added. "As long as people are dying outside the reach of cameras, as long as it's Palstinians who die and not the occupiers."

Varoufakis urged Europe to "wake up and redeem ourselves" by working for the "destruction of the state of apartheid."

While Palestinians and international figures including former U.S. President Jimmy Carter, United Nations officials, and South African anti-apartheid activists have for decades called Israel's policies and practices in Palestine apartheid, major Western human rights organizations—including Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the Israeli groups Yesh Din and B'Tselem—have only recently begun to do so, as have a growing number of U.S. congressional Democrats.

So have prominent Israelis including former Attorney General Michael Ben-Yair, former Deputy Attorney General Yehudit Karp, and former ambassadors to South Africa Alon Liel and Ilan Baruch, as well as journalists, artists, veterans, and others.

Underscoring Varoufakis' remarks, Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 (DiEM25) posted on social media that "only one thing can put a stop to the tragic cycle of violence suffered by innocent Palestians and Israelis: the end of the Europe-supported Israeli apartheid."

Varoufakis' commentary came as Israeli forces continued a massive retaliatory assault on Gaza by air, land, and sea, killing at least 830 Palestinians, including at least 140 children, while wounding more than 4,000 others. Israeli air and artillery strikes have hit civilian targets including apartment buildings, medical facilities and workers, schools, mosques, and the Jabalia refugee camp, Gaza's largest.

As was the case in previous Israeli attacks on Gaza, entire families have been killed. Speaking Tuesday, Israel Defense Forces (IDF) spokesperson Daniel Hagari declared that "the emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy."

Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Monday announced a "complete siege" of Gaza, saying Israel would block food and fuel from entering the territory of 2.3 million people—half of them children—and cut off its water and electricity, actions experts say likely amount to war crimes.

Given the hundreds of Israelis killed, the high death tolls in previous IDF assaults on Gaza, and Israel's unofficial "hundred eyes for an eye" policy, many observers fear thousands of Palestinians could be killed in the coming days and weeks.

Far-right Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed that Israel will exact a "mighty vengeance" for the weekend attacks, while Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich declared that it is "time to be cruel" and parliamentarian Ariel Kallner has called for a "Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of '48," a reference to the ethnic cleansing of over 750,000 Arabs from Palestine during the founding of the modern state of Israel in 1947-48.

"I witnessed the wars of 2008, 2014, and 2021, but this is something unique in terms of the intensity... entire families have been killed," Nidal Hamdouna, a humanitarian worker with Norwegian-Danish group Church Aid, toldThe Guardian on Tuesday. "The concern is to what extent civilians are protected, but also how to find a safe place, even though there is no safe place to go to."

[news4dzhozhar]

[thethief1996]

I can't stop thinking about the news out of Palestine. Israel is sieging al Shifa hospital. Videos of people's limbs being severed off are haunting (graphic video tw). The hospital has ran out of fuel and 39 babies in incubators are fending for their lives by themselves, because Israel has stationed snipers around the hospital and is shooting all medical crew that walks into their sight.

First, the narrative was Israel would never bomb hospitals. Now, the hospitals are Hamas bases. Then, we respect journalists. Now, we have a fucking kill list of journalists because they are Hamas collaborators. First, we are not letting fuel in until the hostages are released. Now, we are not accepting the hostages back because that would stop our ground invasion and let Hamas win. And I could go on about every single lie they're making up. If you look up "Hamas rape" on google, the first link leads to Times of Israel saying Israel has found no forensic evidence of sexual violence, and only one eyewitness testimony out of 3.5k people attending the rave. If you Google "Hamas beheaded babies" the top links say they have no evidence for the claim besides word of mouth from extremist soldiers. Israeli extremists think about the ugliest goriest scene they can make out in their sick heads, tell that to a international journalist and they run away with it like it's gospel.

And children are being killed in the name of these lies. Thousands are being displaced in images that remind me of the pictures of Tantura 75 years ago, with their hands up so the tanks don't shoot them. Amputees are leaving the hospitals in wheelchairs hours after their surgeries because they are being shot at. Elders who survived the Nakba on 48 are having to walk towards Southern Gaza on foot (imagine walking from one end of your city to the other on foot), displaced again. People are cheering for the haunting images of white phosphorus bombs being dropped over Gaza. Gazan workers who were arrested in the West Bank are being thrust back into the bombings wearing numbered labels.

This is not normal. We are seeing the early stages of the settler colonial genocide of an indigenous population. Native leaders who have visited Gaza say its refugee camps look eerily like reservations. We can stop this. For the first time we are able to see wide scale accounts from the hands of the people suffering the genocide, and Israel is so scared of it they have cut all communications in Gaza.

This is our litmus test. I think we have never seen more clearly, with Palestine, Armenia, Congo and Sudan how colonialism has made our world a rotten place to live in.

The South African apartheid collapsed due to boycotts. We have to do everything in our power to stop Israel's hegemony. Even talking to a group of friends about Palestine changes the status quo. There's no world where we can live peacefully if Israel accomplishes their goals.

Keep yourself updated and share Palestinian voices. Muna El-Kurd said every tweet is like a treasure to them, because their voices are repressed on social media and even on this very app. Make it your action item to share something about the Palestinian plight everyday. Here are some resources:

Al Jazeera, Anadolu Agency, Mondoweiss

Boycott Divest Sanction Movement

Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing protests and direct action against weapons factories across the US

Mohammed El-Kurd (twitter / instagram)

Muhammad Shehada (twitter)

Motaz Azaiza (instagram) - reporting directly from Gaza.

Hind Khudary - reporting directly from Gaza. Her husband and daughter moved South to run from the tanks but she stayed behind to record the genocide. The least we can do is not let her calls fall on deaf ears.

You can participate in boycotts wherever you are in the world, through BDS guidelines. Don't be overwhelmed by gigantic boycott lists. BDS explicitly targets only a few brands which have bigger impact. You can stop consuming from as many brands as you want, though, and by all means feel free to give a 1 star review to McDonalds, Papa John, Pizza Hut, Burger King and Starbucks. Right now, they are focusing on boycotting the following:

Carrefour, HP, Puma, Sabra, Sodastream, Ahava cosmetics, Israeli fruits and vegetables

Push for a cultural boycott - pressure your favorite artist to speak out on Palestine and cancel any upcoming performances on occupied territory (Lorde cancelled her gig in Israel because of this. It works.)

If you can, participate in direct action or donate.

Palestine Action works to shut down Israeli weapons factories in the UK and USA, and have successfully shut down one of their firms in London.Some of the activists are going on trial and are calling for mobilizing on court.

Palestinian Youth Movement is organizing direct actions to stop the shipping of wars to Israel. Follow them.

Educate yourself. Read into Palestinian history and the occupation. You can't common sense people out of decades of propaganda. If your arguments crumble when a zionist brings up the "disengagement of Gaza", you have to learn more.

Read Decolonize Palestine. They have 15 minute reads that concisely explain the occupation (and its colonial roots) and debunk popular myths, including pinkwashing.

Read on Palestine. Here's an amazing masterpost.

Verso Book Club is giving out free books on Palestine (I personally downloaded Ten Myths about Israel by Ilan Pappe. If you still believe in the two states solution, this book by an Israeli professor debunks it).

Call your representatives. The Labour Party in the UK had an emergency meeting after several councilors threatened to resign if they didn't condemn Israeli war crimes. Calling to show your complaints works, even more if you live in a country that funds genocide.

FOR PEOPLE IN THE USA: USCPR has developed this toolkit for calls, here's a document that autosends emails to your representatives and here's a toolkit by Ceasefire in Gaza NOW!

FOR PEOPLE IN EUROPE: Here's a toolkit by Voices in Europe for Peace targeting the European Parliament and one specific for almost all countries in Europe, including Germany, Ireland, Poland, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands, Greece, Norway, Italy, Portugal, Spain, Finland, Austria, Belgium Romania and Ukraine

FOR PEOPLE IN THE UK: Friends of Al-Aqsa UK and Palestine Solidarity UK have made toolkits for calls and emails

FOR PEOPLE IN AUSTRALIA: Here's a toolkit by Stand With Palestine

FOR PEOPLE IN CANADA: Here's a toolkit by Indepent Jewish Voices for Canada

Join a protest. Here's a constantly updating list of protests:

Global calendar

Another global calendar (go to the instragram of the organizers to confirm your protest)

USA calendar

Australia calendar

Feel free to add more.

[fairuzfan]

why do people always say that it started 75 years ago when it didn't? The xionist project and migration to falasteen and the settlements have been happening since the late 1900s. The nakba and 1948 was the climax, not the beginning. I've seen Many Zionists use this loophole to say some stuff like "but 1930s" like no dude youve been stealing their land since way before that. It makes me angry

Do you mean the late 1800s? But yes I agree, it has been happening for years before 1948. We mark '48 as Palestinians because that's when the Nakba happened but we also remember the times before then. Whenever zionists bring up the 1930s, it's meant to paint zionists in Palestine as the poor simple folk who just wanted to live in Palestine when there was a pretty obvious intention via the zionist narrative that if given the opportunity, those zionists would take over huge swaths of land which ended up happening. Again, the Balfour agreement was in 1916. Zionism as a colonial project began in the late 1800s with Herzl. It did not start 75 years ago, it started much longer before that.

[opencommunion]

"Now that I am over eighty, I keep on feeling the fright that my son and I experienced. I fear talking about it, and when I watch TV and see what they are doing in Gaza, in Jerusalem, in Hebron, the horrible feeling occupies my heart again. My son never forgot what he witnessed in ’48, and I have never forgiven myself for not being attentive to his eyes [i.e., at that time]; yes, his eyes were watching, telling me things. He was watching the scenes, like a horror movie. Horrible scenes, horrible noises – crying with deep agony, with bitterness. But I was helpless; all I could do was hold him tight. I could not give him water, or food, or safety. He probably saw the fear in my eyes too when we heard the bombing and saw the dead bodies and blood all around. You might say he was very young, but when he grew up, we used to talk; he always reminded me of details that I had deleted from my memory. I deleted the scenes of blood, and my son reminded me that the blood was not liquid, but rather still, like a frozen red color. I deleted the feeling of starvation, thirst, of the broken-heartedness we experienced when we walked out, leaving Lydda. I needed to live and go on in my life, so I deleted the painful memories from my mind. He – my eldest son – used to remember them … Poor one, he died early, from severe diabetes. Maybe his eyes refused to see them [the Israeli military] again [after the occupation of 1967]. Maybe he wanted to run away from seeing what they are doing to us now. Maybe he did not want to see the same movie, the same wounds again." 2015 interview with Rawya, a Palestinian woman who survived the invasion of Lydda during "Operation Dani," the largest single expulsion of Palestinians in the 1948 Nakba. From Incarcerated Childhood and the Politics of Unchilding, Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian (2019)

[probablyasocialecologist]

Israeli president Isaac Herzog insisted that “an entire nation” was to blame for Hamas’s actions, and that the idea of “civilians not being aware, not involved” was “absolutely not true”. While Rageh Omar reported on this for ITV News, it did not make the BBC or the New York Times or Sky News. Nor did it make most anglophone outlets. Ariel Kallner, in a now-deleted tweet, called for another Nakba on the Palestinians, repeating the crime of 1948 in which 700,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed. “Right now, one goal: Nakba!” He exhorted. “A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48.” This was picked up by Associated Press but missed by most anglophone broadcasters and press. When Tally Gotliv, a Knesset member for Likud, called for a nuclear strike on Gaza – “Jericho Missile! … Doomsday weapon!” ­– and for “crushing and flattening Gaza … Without mercy! Without mercy!”, this also went curiously unnoticed. Again, when an anonymous Israeli defence official briefed Israeli broadcasters that Gaza would become “a city of tents” where “there will be no buildings”, it was largely ignored. When Sara Netanyahu’s advisor, Tzipi Navon, said that it would not be enough to “flatten Gaza”, and that Palestinians suspected of involvement in the Hamas attack should have their nails pulled out, their genitals removed and their tongues and eyes saved for last “so we can enjoy his screams”, “so he can see us smiling”, that too was curiously overlooked. The studied obtuseness of Western media includes carefully ignoring the most severe warnings about what is about to be done by Israel to Gaza. On Friday 13th, Israel ordered residents in the north of Gaza to “evacuate” to the south within 24 hours on pain of being bombed. Former Israeli ambassador Danny Ayalon suggested with a cynical smirk that they could go to the Sinai desert and live in “tent cities”. The Biden administration appears determined to enable this to happen, lobbying Egypt to take the refugee population. The language of evacuation, widely used by newspapers, was euphemistic. Over a million Gazans had just been given a death threat. They were being told at gunpoint to flee in an unrealistic amount of time, on just two roads that they were assured were safe from bombardment, only for a convoy fleeing south to be bombed, killing seventy people. They had no reason to believe they could ever return to their homes or that their homes would even exist. Here was the second Nakba that Ariel Kallner shouted for. A UN press release warned of “mass ethnic cleansing”, that would repeat the Nakba of 1948 “yet on a larger scale”. Two days after that warning, only the Independent among British newspapers had covered it. One honourable exception to the general omerta on explaining what the “expulsion” order means is the BBC’s Victoria Derbyshire who, interviewing former Israeli ambassador Mark Regev, quoted former UN head of humanitarian affairs Jan Egeland, saying: “The Israeli order for civilians to move from north to south is impossible and illegal. It amounts to forcible transfers and a war crime.” No anglophone newspaper, of course, mentions the word “genocide” in this context, though that is the term used by both Palestinians and Jewish groups opposed to Israel’s war, and is clearly what is implied by Israeli statements and actions. As Mustafa Bhargouti told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour, Israel is inflicting the triumvirate of “siege and collective punishment”, “genocide” through bombardment, and “ethnic cleansing”. The Israeli historian of the Holocaust, Raz Segal, describes Israel’s indiscriminate war on Gazan civilians and its assault on the conditions for life for the whole community, as “a textbook case of genocide” unfolding in front of us. For the press and the majority of pundits, the problem cannot be named. At most, liberal dissent attains to the insight that vengeance is not justice, as though what Israel is now threatening is merely reactive rather than programmatic.

[daniel-nerd]

just found out about order no. 40 from the nakba. i think its a key information in understanding the attack of october 7th and the whole war.

so here the official document.

its in hebrew and a bit hard to read. so i’ll translate the important parts.

“2. role: expulsion of the palestinian refugees from the villages and prevention of their return by the destruction of their villages”

seems a bit extreme don’t you think? well its not ending here

“3. the method:

a) {after} surveying the villages of al-Khisas, Jira, Khirbat Khuza‘a, Bi‘lin, al-Jiyya, Barbara, Bayt Jirja, Hiribya, Dayr Sunayd, gather the residents, load them on vehicles and expel them to Gaza. remove them beyond our(israel’s) lines in Bayt Hanun.

b) separate the locals from the refugees in al-Majdal (as explained in a)

c) burn the houses and demolish the stone houses

d) check the refugees who weren’t expelled among them the enemies and execute {them}

e) check the roads to the refugees and their origin”

e is presumably to find anyone who tried to run back, but this part is my speculation based on context clues. honestly i have no idea what else it could refer to, but i translated it for the full picture. the rest of the document is logistics, it was a top secret document, and even got removed from the official archives even though it was declassified. this order was sent by ben gurion, the highest authority at the time.

zionist never came to live in israel peacefully, the came to inherit the land, by disposing of anyone who refused. the gaza strip was created to house said refugees, because egypt didn’t open their borders, and refused to accept even one refugee.

the gaza strip is an invention of israel, the towns that were attacked on october 7th were built on top of the ruins and blood of the refugees who lived there. and palestinians in gaza are (mainly) 3rd generation of the refugees from 48’.

i don’t know what needs to be done with the people who lives there now(i doubt most of them even want to come back) but this is an indispensable proof, directly from the first prime minister of israel, the highest authority at the time, that the land of gaza and the towns around belong to palestinians, and Israel forcibly expelled them from said land, destroyed any reminiscences of it, and rebuilt their own settlements.

[magz]

From LetsTalkPalestine.

May 15, 2024.

Day 222 - Nakba Day

🤍 Sirens sound for 76 seconds across West Bank to commemorate 76 years of the ongoing Nakba. Large crowds in the 48’ heartland marched to Nakba villages

•⁠ 60 Palestinians killed, 80 injured in last 24 hours

🔻Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza commit high average of 28 daily attacks on Israeli forces since May 11. Today Hamas claimed 12 Israeli soldiers killed during intense battles in Jabalia

•⁠ Israel orders more expulsions in north Gaza in al-Manshiya & Sheikh Zayyed as invasion of Jabalia intensifies. Invasion of Gaza City (central) escalates too as Israel bombs @ unrwa clinic, killing 10 Palestinians

🇧🇪 Belgium favors total EU ban on arms sales to Israel but faces opposition from other EU states

•⁠ Nearly 600,000 displaced from Rafah since May 6 when Israel began invasion

•⁠ Israeli jets bomb Nuseirat camp, dozens killed & injured w/ many still under rubble after 19 hour rescue operation

•⁠ Israeli forces shot & killed 20 y/o Palestinian in West Bank

[ymustutortureme]

"The emphasis is on damage, not accuracy," declared the Israel Defence Forces (IDF).

"Gaza will eventually turn into a city of tents," said one IDF official.

Galit Distel Atbaryan, a member of the Knesset from Netanyahu's Likud Party, said that "Gaza should be wiped off the map."

"We are too humane. Burn Gaza now, no less!" Nissim Vaturi, deputy speaker of Israeli Parliament.

Ariel Kallner, another Likud parliamentarian, urged a "Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of '48."

Likud lawmaker, Tally Gotliv, demanded nothing less than a "doomsday kiss"—that is, use of Israel's undeclared nuclear weapons. "Not flattening a neighborhood," she clarified, but "crushing and flattening Gaza. Without mercy!"

Does this not sound like genocide to you?

[capybaracorn]

Ethnic cleansing in Palestine redux

Palestinians recall the Nakba in 1948 and warn that Israel’s war in Gaza today amounts to a second Nakba.

(20th of May 2024)

History Illustrated is a weekly series of insightful perspectives that puts news events and current affairs into historical context using graphics generated with artificial intelligence.

Generations of Palestinians who grew up hearing the horror stories of the 1948 ethnic cleansing, known as the Nakba, today consider Israel's war on Gaza a second Nakba.

Nakba means catastrophe in Arabic and refers to how Zionist militias, shortly after World War II, displaced about 750,000 Palestinians from their homes to establish the state of Israel.

In late 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states.

Arabs rejected the UN’s partition plan as a theft of Palestinian land by Zionists, in collusion with the UK — the region’s colonial power — and warned of the coming devastation. (It didn’t take long for the killing to start.)

On March 10, 1948, the Zionist Haganah paramilitary group adopted Plan Dalet, which laid out a strategy to ethnically cleanse Palestine.

A month later, in the village of Deir Yassin, Zionist militias killed more than 100 men, women and children — one of several massacres that served to terrorise Palestinians.

Today, some members of the Israeli parliament, like Ariel Kallner of the Likud party, have called for more ethnic cleansing. “Right now, one goal: Nakba, a Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of ’48,” Kallner said.

The numbers suggest Kallner is getting his wish. The UN says the Israeli military has damaged or destroyed more than 70 percent of all housing in Gaza, displacing more than 1.5 million people.

Back in October, Ahmed al-Saadi and his family took refuge in a UN school that the Israeli military subsequently bombed. “Where can an entire population seek safety,” asked the resident of Gaza. Seven months later, with the Israeli army threatening to lay waste to Rafah, people’s lives are now much worse ... with the Nakba of 1948 looking like it was just the beginning.

[squimpton]

“Nakba to the enemy now! This day is our Pearl Harbor. We will still learn the lessons. Right now, one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of 48. A Nakba in Gaza and a Nakba for anyone who dares to join!”

- Ariel Kallner, Member of the Israeli Knesset (Likud) 08/10/2023

Original in Hebrew

Source: https://twitter.com/YehudaShaul/status/1714301966761771362

[tungledotedu]

american liberals act like all leftists are tankies who deny atrocities in nations outside the united states. so of course they want to accuse us of misusing the term genocide.

there's no point in bringing up hypothetical concerns about israelis being deported when literally RIGHT NOW, millions of palestinians are forcibly deported under the threat of bombings. israeli officials are outright saying this is nakba 2023.

this is not worth writing an actual post about so i'll just paste some quotes from wikipedia. list of ~terminally online leftists~ who ~bastardize~ the word genocide:

Additionally, dozens of Holocaust survivors, along with hundreds of descendants of Holocaust survivors and victims, accused Israel of "genocide" for the deaths of more than 2,000 Palestinians in Gaza during the 2014 Gaza War.[38]

IfNotNow co-founder and B'Tselem USA director Simone Zimmerman criticized them as exhibiting "genocidal animus towards Palestinians — emboldened and unfiltered".[39][40]

Israeli New Historian Ilan Pappé has argued that genocide "is the only appropriate way to describe what the Israeli army is doing in the Gaza Strip"

On 15 October, TWAILR published a statement signed by over 800 legal scholars expressing "alarm about the possibility of the crime of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip" and calling on UN bodies, including the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, as well as the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to "immediately intervene, to carry out the necessary investigations, and invoke the necessary warning procedures to protect the Palestinian population from genocide."[48][49][50]

there's more just under the 2023 subheading.

not good enough?

how's that for throwing around the term genocide?

if you actually bothered to watch it, shaun's video was about debunking american apologia over the hiroshima and nagasaki bombings. specifically the claim that it was tragic but necessary. it wasn't about defending imperial japan. it was actually critical of its militarist supreme council and how it refused to surrender even after hiroshima was bombed.

apparently that falls under genocide enabling. but pretending that biden isn't enabling israel's genocide of palestinians doesn't count?

[halalchampagnesocialist]

I keep thinking about how Zionists present things like the Arab intervention into Palestine in ‘48 as a ‘bad thing’ but I can’t help but think that without the strength of those armies, there’s this huge possibility that Israel would’ve swallowed up the West Bank and Gaza whole and expelled our families in the process. Especially because at that point Israel had already begun the Nakba in other parts of Palestine. Obviously I’m not giving the Arab countries credit here because it was more or less about their own interests but it’s also not my point. I can’t also help but think that now when Zionists say the same thing about Al-Qassam. Regardless what your real thoughts on Hamas are, without Al-Qassam Israel would be mercilessly slaughtering Palestinians even more than it currently is. Palestinians would just lay down and die and the world wouldn’t give a fuck. Obviously Oct 7 is the pretext for this war but in previous wars, there was obviously something that brought Israel to the negotiating table and willing to actually implement a ceasefire, rockets, what? Idk but this is what the majority of the Western world doesn’t acknowledge. When you’re being killed, occupied, displaced etc laying down arms isn’t an option half the time, especially when most of Israel’s victims are ordinary civilians. You shouldn’t read this post as anything really except a consideration of some further perspective.

[fairuzfan]

Pardon my ignorance but I saw you called what’s going on rn “a third nakba” and I was wondering what you consider to be the second one?

There's the Nakba in '48 but there's also what we call the Naksa of '67 which is like the second nakba which a whole other displacement that happened. Thanks for sending this in, i realize i never clarified it.

[ardl]

NO MORE DEATHS///THAWABET - a 19 band benefit compilation for Palestine For months, years and decades we have seen the continued destruction of Palestine and its people. The atrocities and war crimes we are seeing the Israeli state commit everyday are unfathomable; indiscriminate bombing and shooting, thousands of children and innocent civilians dead, hospitals and infrastructure destroyed, a blocking of medical aid and food supplies, an internet blackout, and now those who remain are being attacked at the very place they have been told to take refuge. We are witnessing a Genocide. "This didn’t start on October 7th, or when they mowed the lawn in ’08, it didn’t start in 1967, it didn’t even start in ’48… A century deep into the Nakba, and nothing has changed. The Israeli state apparatus continues to murder, rape, torture and dispossess Palestinians for having the audacity to exist in the way of their imagined utopia. Thousands of children abducted and imprisoned without meaningful charge in “peacetime”, families chased off their land at gunpoint in the West Bank, obliterated wholesale in Gaza, separated by walls and zoning laws in ’48 Palestine. Six months and a new calendar year deep into this new phase of unprecedented bloodshed, the foundational delusions of Western civilisation are laid bare. As genocide is livestreamed into our homes, we see the moral bankruptcy of the Zionist apparatus in real-time, as all pretence to its ‘civilised’ nature is unmasked as the same totalitarian savagery it inherited from its imperial benefactors. The lifesblood of all racist oppression, all rapacious colonial extraction, all state weaponisation of sexual violence, and the complicity of the capitalist superstructure within this, is articulated in crystalline detail as the population of Gaza is driven screaming into the desert while the Israelis salt the earth… and build McDonalds on top of it. The teeming billions of the global South and their attendant diasporas in the heart of the machine are watching, and they are not stupid. The mask is never going back on - now is a decisive moment in history. Those who would seek to paper over the cracks in their crumbling empire, to patronise us with false promises of unjust ‘peace’ & hamstrung ’tolerance’ are blind to the material reality; to the fact that the choice, for Palestinians and indeed for all of us, is Nakba or Intifada - slow death or hard-fought struggle. This choice is and remains ours, every one of us. Beyond the deconsecrated shores of the Holy Land, an order that has drowned the world in blood for 500 years now chokes in its death throes on the torrent that it has wrought. The old world is dying - what new world shall we strive to create from its ashes?" - Omar Raja, Anglerfish This compilation will be raising money to provide esims to those in Gaza, this will allow people to connect with families, communities and to show the world what is happening there. See below for more info; gazaesims.com

[jloisse]

⏳ Nous vivons une période de l’histoire où tout est inversé.

Le menteur est considéré comme un véridique, le sincère comme un imposteur.

Les dirigeants occupent des places qu'ils ne méritent pas…

Israël qui a envahi une terre entière, la Palestine 48, est la seule occupation militaire qui perdure à notre époque et toute occupation militaire est vouée à disparaître.

Tout le monde sait que c'est une occupation qui a volé la terre d’un peuple et pourtant, ils affirment que c’est une démocratie. Lorsque les palestiniens ont pu voter librement et démocratiquement en choisissant le Hamas, ce seul droit a été interdit au peuple. Un droit qui est obstrué depuis maintenant 18 ans.

Tel Aviv a vu le jour sur la destruction de plusieurs villages palestiniens, sur les ruines de Tall Al Rabih, la colline du printemps, qui a été rayé de la carte. Pourtant, on entend que les palestiniens sont ceux qui veulent rayer Israël de la carte.

Israël vole chaque jour un peu plus les terres de Cisjordanie, les quartiers de Jérusalem, occupe le Golan et les fermes de chebaa et assiège la Bande de Gaza.

Israël a vu le jour sur la Nakba, le massacre, le sang et le déplacement du peuple palestinien. Pourtant, ce sont les palestiniens qui sont traités d’assassins.

Israël pratique la torture dans les prisons, kidnappe chaque jour hommes femmes et enfants, mais le monde entier est choqué lorsque des soldats sont pris en captivité et bien traités.

Des milliers d’enfants croupissent dans les geôles israéliennes sans aucun droit et sous la torture.

Israël pratique les pires tortures dans ses prisons.

Les colons profanent depuis des décennies les lieux saints chrétiens et musulmans. Tous les jours les colons tuent, volent et agressent en toute impunité les palestiniens. Tous les jours les colons volent des maisons et les occupent illégalement. Tous les jours l’occupation sioniste détruit des maisons à Jérusalem et en Cisjordanie occupée. Les palestiniens sont parqués à Hébron et n’ont même pas le droit de passer par des routes réservées aux colons.

Israël détruit les cimetières et volent les organes des martyrs. Israël transforme des mosquées en discothèque ou en synagogue sans être inquiété.

Israël change subtilement le statu quo de Jérusalem et de la mosquée Al Aqsa, pour parvenir à son objectif de construire un temple sur les ruines du site Al Aqsa, troisième lieu saint de l’Islam.

Tout est organisé pour effacer toutes traces de la présence palestinienne par la destruction des monuments et du patrimoine arabe.

Israël asphyxie la Bande de Gaza depuis plus de 15 ans avec un blocus illégal, maritime, terrestre, aérien et même sous-terrain sans être inquiété.

Israël a massacré des centaines de milliers d’enfants, d’innocents depuis sa création, mais ce sont les palestiniens que l'on qualifie de terroristes parce qu'ils osent résister.

Israël bombarde des civils librement et avec des bombes interdites par toutes les conventions. Israël viole depuis toujours toutes les conventions et les traités internationaux.

Israël assiège Gaza avec des restrictions inhumaines à travers le droit de se déplacer, l’alimentation, l’électricité, l’eau, les médicaments, la pêche, le droit de voyager, et tous les produits de premières nécessités ainsi que les matériaux de construction.

Israël peut bombarder n’importe quel pays dans la région en toute sécurité.

Israël empêche les journalistes de travailler en censurant l’information ou en faisant disparaître tout simplement ceux qui dérangent l’occupation.

Israël a construit un mur de l’apartheid en Cisjordanie et Jérusalem en volant les terres.

Israël pratique à travers son agence du mossad le meurtre dans n’importe quel pays en toute impunité.

Israël fait de la vie des palestiniens un enfer à travers ses checkpoints à travers toute la Cisjordanie, Jérusalem, et points de passages de la Bande de Gaza.

L’armée israélienne débarque quotidiennement au milieu de la nuit chez les palestiniens pour kidnapper, dévaster et humilier.

Tous les colons sont armés et sont sous la protection de l’armée.

Pour le monde Israël a le droit de se défendre malgré toutes ses injustices.

Et tout cela dure depuis trop longtemps dans un silence complice et assourdissant.

Les derniers jours de septembre et les premiers jours d’octobre 2023, Israël a fais le pas de trop avec sa répression dans la mosquée Al Aqsa, interdisant aux propriétaires des terres l’entrée dans le site sacré et faisant entrer devant eux les colons. Le dernier maillon a craqué et le volcan de la Bande de Gaza a explosé sur le visage de l’occupant qui opprime depuis plus d’un demi-siècle le peuple palestinien.

Et alors le silence s’est brisé. Les palestiniens ont été traités de terroristes, d’assassins, de tueurs de civils par les leaders politiques du monde entier et les médias mainstream corrompus. Le monde a fermé les yeux sur les agissements de l'oppresseur et a condamné l'opprimé.

Israël a un très lourd casier judiciaire et il devra payer ses crimes depuis le premier jour de son occupation.

Le peuple palestinien n’a aujourd’hui plus rien à perdre et se moque royalement des jugements des hypocrites et des ignorants qui se sont réveillés le 7 octobre, s'impliquant soudain dans le

conflit qu'ils ont ignoré pendant des décennies, feignant maîtriser le sujet quand ils sont incapables de situer Jérusalem sur une carte.

Le peuple palestinien résistera jusqu’à la libération, le peuple palestinien est un peuple de résistants, des enfants aux leaders qui ne connaissent pas la peur. Le dernier des palestiniens humiliera et résistera à la face des envahisseurs. Des envahisseurs qui combattent uniquement derrière des armes, des tours, des blindés, des F16, des drones. Des lâches qui n’ont aucune légitimité ni avenir sur notre terre sainte.

Ceux qui les soutiennent aujourd’hui verrons bientôt qu’ils se sont fait trompés, mais il sera alors trop tard et ils vivront dans la honte, la honte d’avoir été complices à travers de fausses convictions.

Bientôt, très bientôt, la Palestine sera libre et le peuple palestinien vaincra.

Vous voyez cela loin mais nous le voyons très proche.

{ La libération sera au lever du soleil. }

{ Lundi 15 janvier 2024

Sentinel }