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More pure fiction from you. You are parroting the zionist propaganda. It is a lie.
As for Biden, many of the people of conscience have resign.

Again, stop claim claiming to be the authority on what is or is not possible.

Then don’t claim to be an authority on what is or is not possible.
We are all God’s chosen people.

Israel has been lying for decades. Why should anyone believe what Israel says about this conflict?
This is genocide. It is too bad Palestinian lives have so little value to supporters of zionism like you.

This article is what Mondoweiss could be if it was more selective about contributors. More Clines. More Tareq Hajjaj. Lose haters James (“anti-Semitism isnt real”) North and Jonathan (“Israel is always evil”) Ofir, and suddenly you have much more credibility.

No, it doesn’t but Jonathan Ofir would have you think it does. He even says “Gaza has been undergoing genocide since October 7th.” Israel hadn’t even responded to the attack from Gaza on October 7. So according to Ofir, Israel started committing “genocide” by being attacked by Hamas. That is a sickening, contemptible untrue comment that demonstrated that he has no credibilty. He’s a Hamas mouthpiece and a self-hating Jew, but fortunately he’s not a thought leader and has no power.

Repeating a lie (“genocide”) over and over doesn’t make it true.

WHERE’S ANITA? for this Zionist blow-out? Biden stopped her career–>>>1991 Senate CHECKPOINT: 

“…Four female witnesses waited in the wings to support Hill’s credibility, but they were not called, due to what the Los Angeles Times described as a private, compromise deal between Republicans and the Senate Judiciary Committee chair, Democrat Joe Biden….”

PRES. DAVID A THOMAS and STAFF: Don’t forget to wear–>>>XXL GENOCIDAL-DEPENDS under those hoods, in case of ZIONIST-BLOW-OUTS. How else are you gonna witness Genocide Joe r’c honorary degree from Martin Luther King Jr.’s Morehouse College on what would have been Malcolm X’s 99th Birthday??? (May19,1925—Feb. 21,1965)

Recall what Phil Weiss said here a few weeks ago, “Imagine if the Freedom Riders were accused of being anti-white?” Now imagine if the whites (Jewish Supremacist in this case) organized to sue the shit out of the Freedom Riders???

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/major-us-law-firm-sues-students-for-justice-in-palestine-for-alleged-support-of-hamas-terrorist-activities/ar-AA1o2UKs. Mark Goldfeder, yet another Emory jerk suing NSJP over their handy use of tents!

Jewish Supremacist and Kind bar owner, Daniel Lubetsky and friends shaking down Mayor Adams on WhatsApp to beat-up 19yr olds at Columbia. Same as UCLA beat-down funded by Seinfeld and friends.

Business executives including Kind snack company founder Daniel Lubetzky, hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb, billionaire Len Blavatnik and real estate investor Joseph Sitt held a Zoom video call on April 26 with Mayor Eric Adams (D), about a week after the mayor first sent New York police to Columbia’s campus, a log of chat messages shows.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/05/16/business-leaders-chat-group-eric-adams-columbia-protesters/

Israel hasn’t officially allowed Syrian refugees to cross its border in significant numbers due to political and security concerns. However, Israel has pursued an active role in medical treatment for Syrian refugees. Many wounded or sick Syrians have received medical treatment in Israeli hospitals across and near the border.

More deflection, distraction and denial by Israel. Israel has become a 19th century colonial power.

Hamas and its backers should compensate Israel for the devastation caused on Oct7 and since. They should pay reparations to the survivors and to the families of the murdered raped and kidnapped victims.
Hamas broke it, Hamas has to fix it.
Also, Hizbullah, its backers and the state of Lebanon should compensate Israel for the devastation caused in the North.

That movie – Blazing Saddles.

MOREHOUSE STUDENTS: The Biden-Bibi Genocide Regime is AFRAID OF YOU!

“These administrators demand, like all who manage corporate systems of power, total obedience. Dissent. Freedom of expression. Critical thought. Moral outrage. These have no place in our corporate-indentured universities.” Chris Hedges

The students were in a great American tradition, rising to oppose a genocidal war. The student body and faculty are largely on their side, and history will honor them. Rashid Khalidi, Columbia U.

GOOD TROUBLE COMING TO THE WEST END! WHERE’S ANITA???

FROM THE WEST END TO THE WEST BANK, STOP COP CITY & FREE PALESTINE!

THE ONLY THING RADICALIZING STUDENT PROTESTERS : SAVAGE PHOTOS OF ISRAELS GENOCIDE IN THE GAZA STRIP



During his interview, [Thomas] stated, “I would conclude the ceremony [on the spot]” when questioned about the possibility of students being arrested during the ceremony. 

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Monumentally stupid statement/move on the part of President Thomas of Morehouse University.

Why? Because by publicly announcing his determination to pull the plug on the ceremony if any students protest…he has placed the power to abort Genocide Joe’s presentation squarely in the hands of the students!

In theory, anyone, student, faculty or someone wandering in off the street could just shout “Genocide Joe Has Got to Go” a few times and watch as the ceremony is unceremoniously terminated by the university president. Duh!

Its like that movie where the guy threatens to kill himself if the thugs who came to kill him take a step closer.

It seems to me that the politicians now in power and the university presidents now in office have learned nothing from history. They seem to think that by suppressing speech or tearing down posters and conducting mass arrests that they have somehow crushed dissent. Those techniques can and do work in fascist, totalitarian societies, like Israel, but they cannot work here.

My guess is that there are now, as we speak, tens of thousands of motivated, savvy and freshly-politicized university students planning to use their summer vacations to orchestrate new Palestine solidarity actions for the Fall.

Just as Likud/Netanyahu thought the Palestinians in Gaza had finally been crushed by the IDF policy of “mowing the lawn” so too may US Establishment political parties, universities, government agencies and a host of other institutional proxies of political Zionism come to realize that all they have done with their arrests, suspensions, police actions, etc. is enrage the students and drive them underground.

The universities did not derail or defeat the political energy underpinning the Encampment Uprisings that shook American universities from coast-to-coast. All they did was buy a little quiet time for their sacrosanct commencement ceremonies and placate, somewhat, some self-important and privileged donors.

The Democratic National Convention may turn out to be a replay of 1968’s little mis-adventure in urban police brutality. And let’s not forget the opportunities for dissent that the presidential elections themselves will present.

David Ben Gurion lectured American Zionists ad nauseam that they must “Never allow Israel to become a partisan issue in the US.” Wise counsel but ignored by Netanyahu & Co.

Fall may prove to be a very interesting time, historically.

View here 44 Palestine posters related to Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr.

As for rebuilding Gaza. To paraphrase an old cliche. Israel broke it. Israel has to fix it.

Three bodies of cruelly murdered Hamas victims were retrieved. We knew that Shani Louk was dead but we had hoped that Yitzhak Gelerenter and Amit Bouskila were alive. At least their families will have closure.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-05-17/ty-article/.premium/idf-retrieves-bodies-of-three-israeli-hostages-held-by-hamas-in-gaza-strip/0000018f-875c-d7f9-a5ff-b77eecc40000

The Israeli reply :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkVQFbUng0I&ab_channel=AssociatedPress

Sorry, in a negotiation you don’t get 100% of what you want. And when you are the weaker party to a negotiation, you really have to accept that fact. And nobody cares about your ego or hurt feelings. Arafat totally blew it. He cared more about looting the PA than the people he supposedly represented. Palestinians could have had a state which met most of their needs, but not all. Now they have almost nothing and it’s partly their own fault. You can blame everyone else if you want, but Palestinians have been victims of their own bad leadership, whether Arafat, Abbas, or Sinwar.

Is Biden listening to the wrong people regarding this war? Yes, his administration is filled with underperformers and losers. He has hired bad people and so far fired nobody. So yeah, I agree with that.

There is truth to what you say about things changing. True about Argentina (Venezuela as well) and especially the Haredi Jews. In fact, the biggest threat to Israel is Haredim because they are turning a democracy into a semi fascist theocracy. They are the ones who won’t accept any Palestinian state. They are Israel’s problem and nobody can fix it for them.

That said, no way Israel will become a Zambia. That’s ridiculous. You have a country with tremendous entrepreneurship, huge support from major economic powers, and a strong desire from the non-Palestinian Arabs to have relations. It’s far more likely that the Palestinians will continue to be abandoned by their Arab neighbors. Israel haters from 25 years ago who made the same comments are now looking at a much wealthier, stronger and still nuclear armed country that will have normalization with its Arab neighbors. Not a recipe that should make the Israel haters here feel optimistic at all.

First of all, they are not “my thugs.” I don’t own them. I am not Israeli. I have no control over them from the Umited States. Your comment equating all Jews, and holding all Jews responsible for the actions of other Jews, is disgusting and proves beyond any doubt that you are irredeemably bigoted.

You could have said, “if you support 2 state solution, you must agree that settler violence in the West Bank is unacceptable” to which i would have replied that I agree. But you didn’t say that because you are lacking in decency.

I hope the students make “Genocide Joe” uncomfortable. He’s a politician who has always been quick to take credit for positions that he only embraced after the polls gave him eleventh hour courage. He has taken the wrong stand on countless important issues in his five plus decades in Washington (GWBush Iraq War and the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Senate hearings are but two of many such examples).

More whitewashing of the Nakba catastrophe.

I think Israel needs to foot the bill for the re-building of Gaza (for the Palestinians). Israel is a rogue state, and needs to learn there is a price to be paid for genocide.

Sure looking like the ICJ is essentially complicit. Weak kneed words is all that is coming out of these hearings.

Israel’s massacre of Palestinians and destruction of Gaza’s infrastructure continues.

Palestinian children who have survived Israel’s massacre do so without limbs.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/tv/2024/05/15/amanpour-karadsheh.cnn

It’s not the Zionists nor the Jews to blame for the refugee crisis in Gaza or Syria. After over a decade of conflict, Syria remains the world’s largest refugee crisis. 

Israel has a border with Syria. Can you tell us how many Syrian refugees have been allowed across it to find refuge in Israel?

The court must decide whether the genocide convention is about prevention. Israel has been emboldened in part by this court’s apathy to its criminal behaviour. If the ICJ does not act it will be anlongside Israel in the history books.

Excerpt from Politico

The most prominent pro-Israel group in American politics has promised to pour tens of millions of dollars into this year’s elections. But it’s mostly not talking about Israel.

The American Israel Public Affairs Committee has entered several congressional races so far, attacking some candidates and boosting their own. But the topic of Israel has come up only minimally, in a handful of Republican races. And the group hasn’t talked about Israel in Democratic primaries at all.

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/17/aipac-campaign-ads-israel-00158567

2.SALMAN ABU SITTA writes:
“They are two million Palestinian refugees in Gaza Concentration Camp,..They are crammed in a concentration camp called Gaza Strip…”

This is an example of a rather free use, of a propaganda use, of the term ‘Concentration Camp’. One can say the same for about 26 million North Koreans, and 3.7 million Eritrean people. In comparison, Palestinians in Gaza are free to move and leave, subject to Egyptian and Israeli laws. 
 
Moreover, SALMAN ABU SITTA does not say anything about the Palestinian and Hamas responsibility for the crisis in Gaza. He does not say anything about the Arabs/Moslem’s responsibility for the refugee crisis in Syria or to compare Gaza to another refugee crisis in the world, such as the refugee problem following the partition of India into India and Pakistan.
 
It’s not the Zionists nor the Jews to blame for the refugee crisis in Gaza or Syria.  After over a decade of conflict, Syria remains the world’s largest refugee crisis. Since 2011, more than 14 million Syrians have been forced to flee their homes in search of safety. More than 7.2 million Syrians remain internally displaced in ‘concentration camps’ in their own country where 70 percent of the population requires humanitarian assistance and 90 percent live below the poverty line. Approximately 5.5 million Syrian refugees live in ‘concentration camps’ in the five countries neighboring Syria—Türkiye, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt. Germany is the largest non-neighboring host country with more than 850,000 Syrian refugees. 

1.This text by SALMAN ABU SITTA is a good example of a half-truth, that is even more dangerous than a lie.  A lie, you can detect at some stage, but half a truth is sure to mislead you for a long time.

A few examples:
The Israeli presence in Israel (Palestine) has been deeply rooted for centuries. It was recognized by the League of Nations, a predecessor to the UN in the ‘Mandate for Palestine’ that came into force on September 29, 1922. In this document, the League of Nations recognized the “historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine” and the “grounds for reconstituting their national home in that country.”
 
United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP)
In May 1947, the UN formed the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine (UNSCOP) to prepare a report on recommendations for Palestine. 
On 3 September 1947 A few weeks after UNSCOP released its report, Azzam Pasha, the General Secretary of the Arab League, told an Egyptian newspaper: “Personally, I hope the Jews do not force us into this war because it will be a war of elimination and it will be a dangerous massacre which history will record similarly to the Mongol massacre or the wars of the Crusades.”

On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted the The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine as Resolution 181. The resolution recommended the creation of independent Arab and Jewish States linked economically, and a Special International Regime for the city of Jerusalem and its surroundings.
 
Most Jews (Zionist) leaders in Israel and abroad accepted the resolution and committed to working towards a peaceful coexistence with the region’s other inhabitants.
Arab leaders and governments rejected the plan of partition in the resolution and indicated that they would reject any other plan of partition. The Arab states’ delegations declared immediately after the vote for partition that they would not be bound by the decision.
 
Arab states
On 16 February 1948, the UN Palestine Commission reported to the Security Council that: “Powerful Arab interests, both inside and outside Palestine, are defying the resolution of the General Assembly and are engaged in a deliberate effort to alter by force the settlement envisaged therein.”
 
Arabs in Palestine
Haj Amin al-Husseini said in March 1948 to an interviewer from the Jaffa daily Al Sarih that the Arabs did not intend merely to prevent partition but “would continue fighting until the Zionists were annihilated.”

Abu Sitta neglect to mention the Israeli who were evicted and came to Israel from Arab/Moslem states such as Iraq, Lybia, Egypt, and other Arab states, while emphasizing the East European origin of these emigrants from Romania, Poland, Ukraine and Russia.

An article in The New Republic, “Biden’s Wealthiest Donors are Quite Pleased by Israel Policy”

https://newrepublic.com/post/181679/biden-wealthiest-donors-israel-policy-report

alerted me to this report from the Quincy Institute:

Biden’s Gaza Policy risks re-election by pleases his wealthiest donors”

excerpt:

A review of campaign contributions, philanthropy, and public statements reveals that over one third of the president’s top tier funders — those giving in excess of $900,000 to the Biden Victory Fund — appear to see little nuance in the conflict and show overwhelming sympathy for Israel, at times verging into outright hostility to Palestinians and anti-Muslim bigotry.

https://responsiblestatecraft.org/biden-gaza-2668270281/

Isn’t it time to recognise the role that Christian Zionists like Biden, (and Evangelicals), play in encouraging – if not directing – the ethnic cleansing of “Arabs” from “Palestinian Zion”, the Jewish colonisation of which is prophesied to pave the way for the Second Coming.

Chosen by God to have the land from the Nile to the Euphrates. Another to be a light to nations.

“We would like to express our deep appreciation to Reverend Frank Chikane for spearheading the efforts to make this conference a reality at a pivotal moment for Palestinians who are fighting for their survival amidst mass starvation, military onslaught, and unspeakable war crimes and atrocities.”

We might also note that Netanyahu recently said he would not allow the establishment of a Palestinian state – apparently he regards self-rule as a reward to be doled out as Israel sees fit.

“He added that Israel will not offer any rewards to Palestine after the events of 7 October last year.”

Netanyahu: We won’t allow the establishment of a Palestinian state – Middle East Monitor

Please provide a link to even one example…

Glad you found one example…

wut?

How disappointing, Amigo. For a couple of posts, you seemed to have shown at least a tentative interest in civilized discourse, but I see you have reverted to type (“What does all that nonsense have to do..” “Utter and pure rubbish”) and even forsworn all sense of irony in defending British colonial authorities, not to mention your ad hominem attacks which are of a piece with others (“Wacko Jacko,” “Tipsi LIvni”). With enemies like you, Israel doesn’t need friends.

Dr Naledi Pandora is the real deal. She recognizes what Palestinians are going through from the prism of her living in apartheid South Africa. She is a humanitarian.

Heartfelt condolences to you and your family.

The concept of being “chosen” is an undeniable element of the Jewish faith and can be interpreted in various ways. On Oct.7 it meant chosen to be murdered, raped, mutilated, kidnapped. (and I’m not ignoring the non-Jewish victims of that day)
And yes, some Palestinians -such as Hamas and PIJ- might kill us, given the opportunity.

I was talking about on TV News outlets. I watch almost all of these outlets four days a week. Nothing…..Not ever show on maps what has happened to the West Bank etc based on ever expanding illegal settlements.

Please provide a link to even one example of one of the outlets I have mentioned that have aired maps that really show what has taken place with Israel’s persistent land theft.

Glad you found one example of BBC putting up fact based maps.

If Abbas follows through on putting the one state on the agenda, that would be a game changer. Proposing equality with Israeli Jews would address the question of motive and counter the “anniliation of all Jews” narrative rampant in the US Congress. And which complicates political support for Palestinian self-determination.

Some background : I taught high school History and Civics for about 35 years. I was also employed by the Min. of Education as a teacher’s instructor. Part of the time I was also a member of the committee in the Ministry which sets the curriculum and was also involved in the process of approving textbooks.
I would say that, in general , the curriculum presents the Zionist narrative, but the Palestinian “voice” is also heard. For example , the chapter that deals with the Balfour Declaration includes an explanation as to why the Arabs opposed it. In one of the textbooks that  I kept after retiring (I returned most of them to the school library) I see that there’s a chapter entitled “The Palestinian Arab Movement and it’s attitude towards Zionism”, which presents the Arab perspective. When teaching the War of Independence/ Nakba we deal with the forces on both sides, the phases of the war , the objectives, and the creation of the Palestinian refugee problem.
The textbooks are strictly reviewed to make sure that no manifestations of racism , bigotry, improper language or such appear in the text and illustrations.
I’ve never heard or read about anyone teaching that “Palestinians are less than human “, as commenter Anthony 57 asserts.  Of course, a lot depends on every individual teacher. Could there be racist teachers? I assume so. In Israel and elsewhere.

With gratitude to Mondoweiss for facilitating the day after. World attention is an asset to be capitalized on. Self-determination for Palestinians is an imperative.

Yes, courage is lacking in the halls of power in so many nations. In particular, American weakness has never been so apparent than now, when viewed over the past century.

“South Africa FM: “We will not rest until Palestine’s freedom is realized.” “

Regarding Palestine’s freedom, yesterday Le Monde ( sort of the French equivalent of the New York Times ) ran an editorial for recognizing a Palestinian state:

Seventy-six years after the creation of the State of Israel, in the midst of a humanitarian crisis in Gaza, recognizing a Palestinian state could help put an end to the suffering of the Palestinian people – and protect Israel from itself.…Israel’s military failure is coupled with a political impasse, for which Netanyahu bears the crushing responsibility. By maintaining Gaza in a state devoid of the slightest semblance of civil organization, he has been creating the conditions under which the very militia he has said he wants to annihilate can return. By opposing the slightest prospect that takes into account the Palestinians’ legitimate rights, he has also been playing into the hands of Hamas’s hardline approach…Today’s appalling death toll and the cost to those still living are the result of the Israeli strategy which has turned Gaza into a gigantic open-air prison and the scene of recurring devastating wars. It has been facilitated by international passivity, whether in the shape of the tolerance of the blockade imposed on Gaza, weakness with regard to the misdeeds of the Palestinians’ official representatives, or spinelessness when faced with the disease that is Israel’s colonization of the West Bank..A paradigm shift to put an end to the suffering of the Palestinians and to protect Israel from itself is urgently needed. Our article on the history of Le Monde‘s coverage of this conflict since 1945 demonstrates how the Palestinian question has consistently impacted the image of the State of Israel. The recognition of a Palestinian state alongside Israel – something the US has refused to do, but which Israeli figures are urging and which certain European countries are about to do – could only contribute to this.

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2024/05/15/the-need-for-a-paradigm-shift-on-the-israel-palestine-question_6671584_23.html

the just cause of the Palestinian people to achieve their legitimate demand for a viable independent state alongside the state of Israel.

Excellent thought. I hope that she will influence South Africa to be at the forefront of rebuilding Gaza into a legitimate Palestinian state instead of a launchpad for attacking Israel.

Thank you CT for this thoughtful reply. Many valid points which deserve addressing.

Consider that every day we hear media and senators say its all about the anniliation of Jews. This misleading narrative is politically a disaster as it reinforces the greater Israel self defense narrative and that Palestinians bring tragedies upon themselves.

Critical piece of the puzzle is that Hamas was midwifed for a reason. Security was a deception to warriors for greater Israel. (Netanyahu facilitated the arms Hamas is using today.) They need Jewish insecurity to persuade Israelis and Americans that they are being victimized and are entitled to the right of self-defense which they then use to deny self-determination. Peace to them is an existential threat. They need Israelis to be fearful, afraid, and feel under attack. Need for Palestinians not to have a one gun policy. For American politicians to not be safe politically in supporting Palestinians. For Palestinians to be seen as monsters. All weapons against Palestinian self-determination, liberation.

The Palestinian cause has been traumatized so many don’t recognize the double game, haven’t considered the best defense is a good offense….politically. Have seen necessary positions as “normalization and even as betrayal. I’ve referenced the leading figure who said to me, “Rocks and rockets are stupid. But I can not say that in public.” Necessities are considered “normalization”. In 1988 men were taken into soccer fields and knifed on that account.

IMO, it will not be long before an American leader declares the need for normalization, for a long term agreement. I pray there will be understanding this cannot happen without a buy-in, a readiness. We know this will be seen as an existential threat to warriors for greater Israel and Israeli secularists will be needed allies. Palestinian intellectuals will have to take responsibility for their extremists, for acting against the common good. It’s time for intellectuals to anticipate and prepare with an endgame discussion. A debate around two states or one toward developing a consensus. Perhaps the need for a constitution with a Bill of Rights guaranteeing civil, cultural and religious rights. It will be healthy for Israelis and Americans to overhear.

Mondoweiss is positioned to be a facilitator.

Dear dear Tareq
My heart bleeds for you. As a mother I can tell you , you were the best son your mother could ever have wished for. I am so relieved that you and your wife and son are safe in Egypt. May Allah comfort and sustain you.

Evil man loses. That is good news.
This election will show that AIPAC is a paper tiger. Any organization that defends genocide unconditionally has lost its way.

The University Network For Human Rights** just published a 100 page document titled “Genocide in Gaza: Analysis of International Law and its Application to Israel’s Military Actions Since Oct 7, 2023”. Below is the executive summary:

“After reviewing the facts established by independent human rights monitors, journalists, and United Nations agencies, we conclude that Israel’s actions in and regarding Gaza since October 7, 2023, violate the Genocide Convention. Specifically, Israel has committed genocidal acts of killing, causing serious harm to, and inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza, a protected group that forms a substantial part of the Palestinian people….Israel’s genocidal acts in Gaza have been motivated by the requisite genocidal intent, as evidenced in this report by the statements of Israeli leaders, the character of the State and its military forces’ conduct against and relating to Palestinians in Gaza, and the direct nexus between them. As this report details, officials at all levels of Israeli government, up to and including the Prime Minister, have made remarks that not only express blatant and unequivocal dehumanization and cruelty against Palestinians in Gaza and elsewhere, but also explicitly reflect intentions to destroy and exterminate Palestinians as such.”

https://www.humanrightsnetwork.org/genocide-in-gaza

The whole report is on the right is on the right side of the page.

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“The University Network for Human Rights grew out of an informal collaboration between undergraduate students at Stanford University and its Law School’s Human Rights Clinic”

“Foreign Minister Dr. Naledi Pandor on the indivisible bond of solidarity between South Africa and the Palestinian people, “forged by the crucible of the two nations’ respective liberation struggles.”

Make that three Nations.

Ireland shares a similar history of struggle against a cruel occupier over several Centuries.

We support fully the rights of the People of Palestine and abhor the actions of the criminal apartheid state of Israel.

Ireland is set to recognise a Palestinian State on may 21st.Ireland is to be joined by Spain , Slovenia,and Malta.Perhaps this will give some of the other EU nations some courage and follow suit.

Another name for this is fascism.

Where do you live in Boston?

Devastating.

Never, ever on any maps put up by MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CSpan, BBC…

It took about 2 seconds to discover yet another falsehood from Kathleen.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-52756427

destroying their educational institutions, their libraries and their hospitals, for no apparent reason other than their being neighbours?

This war is raging for no apparent reason so it must be infected minds?
No reason at all, it is a complete mystery.

Heart felt condolences. Sorry to hear about the loss of your beloved mother. Surely she is in a better place … a safer place and where there are no bombs … and no 2,000 pound bombs.

Your beloved mother has joined the thousands upon thousands of Palestinian mothers and grandmothers who have died and have been killed in the last 7 plus months.

They have died/killed at the bloody hands of a merciless apartheid Israel and its IDF killers.

they have already learned to be good soldiers

They are not even good soldiers. Last Monday, a convoy of about 50 Palestinian-owned trucks was assembled in the West Bank to take much needed supplies to Gaza. Everything had been cleared with the Israeli authorities and the IDF provided escort vehicles at the head and tail of the column. They were attacked by up to 400 armed “settlers”, throwing rocks, setting fire to at least one truck and threatening the drivers with guns. The soldiers stood by and did nothing, presumably disobeying orders to protect the convoy.

Hear hear, amigo.

Never, ever on any maps put up by MSNBC, ABC, CBS, CSpan, BBC, PBS, DW etc etc do they ever show how the West Bank etc have been carved up by illegal settlements, theft etc……swiss cheese maps. Never ever show maps showing the West Bank etc the way it is

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-54116567

Not much being written anymore about Israel’s latest effort to steal more land

https://www.aljazeera.com/features/longform/2024/3/19/how-israeli-settlers-are-expanding-illegal-outposts-amid-gaza-war

Some 10 years ago I spent the last few days of my Mothers life by her bedside.My siblings live in other countries so I was alone there.I was away from home when my Father passed away and only arrived in time for the burial services.

I consider it a blessing to have been there and to be holding her hand when she passed.She was there when I took my first breath and I was there when she took her last.

I very much understand the Author,s feelings and especially the horrible conditions he had to endure
this most saddest of losses.

I wish him peace and better days to come and an end to this most cruel treatment by Israel and it,s vile leaders.

Pro Palestine/Pro Israel/Pro Peace!

Nurit Peled-Elhanan: Education Or Mind Infection?
(Dr. Nurit Peled-Elhanan is a Lecturer in Language Education at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.)

“but also Israeli soldiers who actually perform massacres of ‘Arabs’ – Palestinian or Lebanese – may never see an Arab human face until they are drafted to the army, but they learn, for 12 long years, that these people are primitive, bear children in order to send them to the streets and throw stones at our peace-keeping soldiers, uneducated because they don’t receive our education, conniving and dirty because they have different notions about politeness, they dress differently and cover their heads with different pieces of cloth.”

“All of Our children are mind-infected from an early age. So that by the time they are old enough to become real soldiers, they have already learned to be good soldiers, which means their minds are totally infected and they are incapable of questioning the ‘truth’ that has been inculcated to them. This is part of the explanation one can give to the terrible deeds that are committed today by good Israeli boys, who are characterized once and again as “people of values”.’

“How else can one explain young people who were educated to love their neighbour as they love themselves killing their neighbours, destroying their educational institutions, their libraries and their hospitals, for no apparent reason other than their being neighbours? The only explanation is that their minds are infected by parents, teachers and leaders, who convince them that the others are not as human as we are, and therefore killing them is not real killing; it has other legitimating names such as “cleansing” “purifying”, “punishment”, “operation”, “mission”, “campaign” and “war”.’

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00129/nurit-peled-elhanan-education-or-mind-infection.htm

Tell us what the Israeli educational curriculum actually does tell students about the Palestinian people. Give some examples.

Not much moves me to tears, but this did.

Exactly. The cognitive dissonance a bias on display daily in the mainstream media is truly astounding.

To hear Ivy League educated law school graduates, post-grads, professors, and practicing attorneys, and lawmakers parrot the willfully ignorant propaganda from Israel’s “Ministry of Truth” verbatim on national and cable networks and across print media is insane.

On the criticism of “From the River to the Sea…”, I’ve heard at least three such individuals rhetorically ask and opine, “What other genuinely innocuous, literal, or innocent meaning could those exact words possibly mean, other than wishing destruction of every Jew in Israel?”

There are literally 9 million Palestinians living under military occupation and two entirely and universally recognized Palestinian swathes of territory (universally and historically referred to as Palestine) between the literal Jordan River and the literal Mediterranean Sea. Every one of them begging for freedom from occupation, oppression, and unimaginable state-sponsored inhumanity and inequality.

Yet for these useful stooges on TV, “From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free!”, can’t possibly be that literal, it’s clearly just a bunch of genocidal antisemites calling for the the utter destruction of Israel and every Jew in Israel.

It’s industrial grade gaslighting of the highest order.

The Nation has an excellent story about the crackdown in LA, which may well have relevance for other places as well, including San Diego. It begins:

It was time to fight back on America’s college campuses. And the little known Israeli-American Council (IAC), an organization with close ties to Israeli intelligence, and made up mostly of Israeli expats, decided that it would lead the nationwide charge.

https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/israeli-american-council/

What does all that nonsense have to do with my posts laying out the decades of zionist / Jewish Terrorism. ????

“Although the Mandate of Palestine explicitly stated that ONLY THE JEWS had the right to sovereignty in Mandatory Palestine,’ JRG

Utter and pure rubbish but no surprise coming from someone who uses AYN RAND as a source . Pray tell does the AYN RAND have their own version of the mandate for Palestine.

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Yes, hate cultivated on the Israeli side …..big time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3q7JqvE418e

Have friends who have witnessed Israeli’s spitting on Palestinian children walking to school numerous times.

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/israel-west-bank-settlers-attacks-palestinians#:~:text=By%20September%2C%202023%2C%20the%20United,West%20Bank%20had%20been%20displaced.

jon s,
I sorry, but this “Genocidal” story did not begin on 7th October 2023. It did not begin in June 1967. It began during the Nakba of 1948.
You have written that killing roughly 1,150 Israeli Jews is genocide, but Israel’s killing of more than 35,000 Palestinians (mostly women and children) is not genocide. You can’t have it both ways.

Utter, utter nonsense and you know it. Your propaganda no longer works. It may help you sleep at night to rationalize the unspeakable horrors that your precious Israeli Apartheid state and its European and North American colonizers have imposed on a defenceless refugee population. The Palestinians ceded 78 percent of their historic land for a tiny, demilitarized state in order to achieve a semblance of justice. Netanyahu incited the lunatics against Rabin and stated clearly and repeatedly that he would not allow a Palestinian state to emerge.

Israel’s demise (i.e. dismantling of Apartheid) will likely come not from anything that Palestinians or their allies do, but from its own internal extremism. We’re seeing the seeds of this emerging now.

Rubbish.
That is fiction about Arafat. PA was never offered a fair deal because America was always the “dishonest broker.” As others have written, the US Government has been more interested in acting as Israel’s lawyer than finding an equitable solution. People like US “negotiator” Dennis Ross have always been zionist partisans, who always gave Israel every advantage in those peace talks.
It should be noted that the clueless President Biden continues to listen to Dennis Ross and Elliott Abrams (convicted in the Iran-Contra scandal) when it comes Middle East peace.

If not one state, then get your thugs out of the West Bank and Jerusalem and honour the Oslo agreement. Thugs and terrorists who are beating up grandmothers and children.

The Palestinians have tried every non-violent strategy. You are correct in saying the solution will be solved politically. Under Oslo, the Palestinians compromised just short of total capitulation. They ceded 78 percent of their historic homeland in return for a tiny, demilitarized state on the WB, East Jerusalem and Gaza. All Israel had to do was to meet their end of the bargain and withdraw from these territories. Netanyahu and his extremists allies at the time declared that they would never allow a Palestinian state would emerge. Rabin, a brutal but true Israeli patriot, was assassinated for having the foresight to sign a peace deal. Those same extremists (terrorists) that killed Rabin are in Israel’s cabinet today.

The Palestinians played by the rules. Went to the UN and sought justice through international law. All, to no avail. In 2019, the so called Great March of desperate Gazans non-violently protested at Israel’s southern border. They wanted the lifting of Israel’s barbaric 15 year siege. The Israeli response? More barbarism. Thousands dead and injured. Even Hamas, an organization that Israel helped midwife and support, offered a 50 year truce which Israel rejected. You just have to believe what Israeli leaders have said in the past and are saying today.

What options does that leave Palestinians? Even Abbas is considered too much for Israel. A man who is fully compliant to Israeli diktats in policing his own people. He’s considered a traitor by most Palestinians.

I abhor and oppose violence and war. I believe in the maxim that war is always a losing strategy for all involved. But this isn’t war. This is genocide. A genocide imposed by a powerful, nuclear armed state against a traumatized, refugee population that has been brutalized for decades.

What’s needed is a patriotic US president who prioritizes US interest, and courageous western leaders (non-existent at present), to say enough to Israel. Withdraw to the ‘67 borders so a tiny Palestinian state can emerge that will provide safety for Palestinians, or dismantle Apartheid to create one democratic state. I’m not holding my breath because our leadership in the west is pathetic and cowardly. If there was ever a need for “humanitarian intervention”, this is it!

Just a simple thank you. Until and unless Palestine is restored, the world will not have justice or peace. I hope as I know you do, we live to see Palestine from the River to the Sea. Thank you.

Anthony, how did you reach that assertion?
I’m somewhat familiar with the Israeli school system, having grown up here, gone to school here, and many years as a teacher (History and Civics).
Yes , there are racists in Israel , even in the school system , but your sweeping generalization is not true. (Do you live in a society which has eradicated racism?)
In the classrooms that I attended as a student , and taught in as a teacher, that was certainly not the message. That goes for the colleagues I worked with, too.

He pretty much did ask Jews to commit suicide or be displaced to some European country that they have no connection to. But in reality, his speech amounts to nothing. Promoting a one state solution is a complete waste of time. It’s not a serious proposal. I think there is a better chance that the United States will provide English people right of return to Boston .

True. And taught they were special, chosen. That Palestinians might kill them

OK, enough is enough:

The Jews spent 100 years building the modern state of Israel , beginning in the mid 1800s. https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6a8.svg. The Jews built the modern state of Israel from NOTHING, using Jewish capital and Jewish ingenuity. https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6a8.svg.

The Jews paid top dollar for the land they developed, including land sold to them by the leading so called Arab nationalists. https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6a8.svg

No western power assisted the Jews. In fact, Great Britain reneged on the Balfour Declaration almost immediately after GB was awarded the Mandate of Palestine. https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6a8.svg.

Every single country in the Levant was created under the same mandate system . https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6a8.svg.

The Jews built all the infrastructure , civic organizations etc. and had established a state in every sense of the word but international recognition by 1939.

In fact, the Jews had acquired more than 25% of the land they ultimately owned in 1948 by 1925. https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6a8.svg.

As reflected in the anti Zionist Peel commission report, the Jews rid the area of malaria, made the desert bloom and turned a forgotten backwater of the Ottoman Empire into a thriving , productive country that benefited both Jews and Arabs https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6a8.svg.

Although the Mandate of Palestine explicitly stated that ONLY THE JEWS had the right to sovereignty in Mandatory Palestine, the Jews were willing to compromise and bent over backwards to reach a peaceful resolution with the Arabs. The Arabs rejected two offers of statehood –in 1937 (Peel commission offer) and 1947 ( UNGA resolution 181) https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6a8.svg.

Instead of compromising, the Arabs first waged a civil war against the Jews, bringing in THOUSANDS of Arabs , armed by the British, from surrounding Arab states to attack the Jews https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f6a8.svg.

When the Arabs’ civil war failed, the surrounding Arab states waged a war of annihilation against the Jews. Despite being armed, trained and funded by the British, Americans and others, these Arab armies lost their war and the state of Israel emerged! The pathetic cries of victimhood by the 8th generation descendants of Arabs who waged these wars, fled prior to the wars, or were forced to flee as a direct result of these wars their ancestors started is beyond tiresome and pathetic. Get over it!!

Neither side appears angling toward peace

Things change. In the beginning of the 20th century Argentina was a rich and powerfull country, 30 years later it was third world. If Israel comes to be seen by the world as the equivalent of South Africa under apartheid, if the Palestinian population of Israel grows, if the Haredim continue to gain power, Israel will decline into the moral and economic equivalent of Zambia. All this talk of what Israel will and will not accept is just plain silly.

“… by 1908 had placed the country as the seventh wealthiest[65] developed nation[66] in the world…. the start of the steady economic and social decline that pushed the country back into underdevelopment.[81]…”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argentina#History

Not true in the past. Israel offered Palestinians almost everything they wanted (except the rest of Israel) and Arafat turned it down. So Israel would have agreed to a 2ss. And Arafat’s refusal is viewed by many as a historical failure. But you are right, at this moment there is unfortunately no chance that Israel would agree to a Palestinian state and that has to change. To be clear, i think a 2 state solution is an urgent need. And I don’t buy the “don’t reward Hamas” argument. A peace agreement is desirable no matter when or how it happens. But a 1 state solution? No way. No amount of pressure, speechmaking, or UN voting, will change that. Palestinians advocating for a 1 state solution are committing themselves and subsequent generations to a lifetime of disappointment in hopes of a solution that doesn’t exist.

Yes, when it comes to a one state solution, please shut up.

The “genocidal assault ” was perpetrated by Hamas on Oct.7, an event the writer somehow doesn’t mention.

150 European settlers” – that’s how the writer describes the kidnapped hostages held in Gaza, starved and abused.
Let’s see:
Shlomo Mansour, 85(!) , born in Iraq
Youssef Alziadna, 53, a Bedouin from Rahat
Natthapong Pinta, 35, Thai national
Kfir Bibas, 1 year old; Ariel Bibas , 4 years old . For sure: European settlers!
and so on…
Let’s be clear : Salman Abu Sitta’s agenda is racist and genocidal. He might as well write: “Jews, please commit suicide”.

Meanwhile in Israel children are taught from childhood that Palestinians are less than human.

Every Israeli leaders brags about that there will never be a Palestinian state and yet somehow it’s all the Palestinians fault.

Are there polls or other evidence showing this? I am not arguing that it is or isn’t happening— just wondering what evidence there is and on what scale. I saw a few posts on Twitter to this effect from some Never Trump neocon types like Jonah Goldberg after Biden paused on the delivery of bombs, which I think was for show rather than serious pressure.

Re the whole issue of return, Amnesty International came out with this today:

The current forced displacement of almost 2 million Palestinians and mass destruction of civilian property and infrastructure in the occupied Gaza Strip puts a spotlight on Israel’s appalling record of displacing Palestinians and its ongoing refusal to respect their right to return for the last 76 years, said Amnesty International marking Nakba Day. The day commemorates the displacement of more than 800,000 Palestinians following the creation of the state of Israel in 1948….“Generations of Palestinians across the occupied territories are deeply scarred by the trauma of being uprooted and dispossessed multiple times and with no prospect of return to their homes. It is utterly harrowing to see the chilling scenes of 1948 Nakba (catastrophe), as it is known to Palestinians, repeat themselves as droves of Palestinians in Gaza are forced to flee their homes on foot in search of safety over and over, and Israeli army and state backed settlers expel Palestinians in the West Bank from their homes,” said Erika Guevara Rosas, Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns at Amnesty International….As a result of the 1947-1949 conflict, Palestinians were forced out of their homes and dispossessed of their land; they have been displaced and deported with no prospect in sight of return for them or their descendants. The same fate befell the over 350,000 Palestinians who fled due to the June 1967 war and Israel’s occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. Amnesty International’s 2022 report found that the discriminatory dispossession of Palestinians’ land and property denies them access to their rights including the right of return, and is a key component of Israel’s system of apartheid.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/05/mass-forced-displacement-in-gaza-highlights-urgent-need-for-israel-to-uphold-palestinians-right-to-return/

“For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong” (HL Mencken). Just accept the injustice of it all and shut up.

The Palestinian leaders who could find a way of solving this are not asleep; they are rotting in Israeli jails. Meanwhile, Netanyahu and his gang strut like cockerels on a dungheap. What would you have Israeli politicians do?

Gaza will likely not be rebuilt so long as Hamas rules Gaza. Or that Palestinians will achieve liberation under Hamas. There is a way forward that has essentially been unreported. The military wing of Hamas to disarm…. as they proposed

https://apnews.com/article/hamas-khalil-alhayya-qatar-ceasefire-1967-borders-4912532b11a9cec29464eab234045438

Eloquent words, moving words. How sad that they describe an ongoing tragedy. A tragedy in which we are complicit.

If it were up to Israel alone there would be no Palestinian state whatsoever – the only possibility for a Palestinian state lies in the rest of the world pressuring Israel and making it offers it can’t refuse. And if we ever reach that point, many possibilities open up.

Thanks for the link. Good to know that he has a new outlet at “Zeteo.” Fewer viewers, no doubt, but hopefully more in the future.

How can there be beauty in the words that describe such horrible death and destruction for the Palestinians?

Mohammed El-Kurd does so, because he mixes the heinous death and destruction being inflicted upon Palestinians by Israel with the whiff of hope.

Here in the UK, we experienced the same dilemma in the 2005 general election, two years after the debacle of the Iraq invasion. Tony Blair’s name was mud and Labour voters like me were urged to hold our noses and keep the faith, knowing the alternative would be worse. Labour had a large enough majority to hold on to power despite losing many seats and voters, but it was the beginning of the end.

The situations are not quite the same, not least because of the sheer awfulness of Donald Trump, whose derangement and/or likely conviction could yet throw the whole election into chaos. My hunch is that Biden won’t lose enough votes to cost him the election, but the Dems will need a really good candidate, preferably from the younger generation of politicians, to avoid defeat in 2028.

The 1 state solution is a non starter. Palestine will be free when Palestinians accept that they can have a country but it won’t include Israel. Were Palestinians made promises prior to 1948 that were not kept? Yes. Were Palestinians displaced during the fouding of Israel? Yes. Is there injustice? Yes. Are they getting their homes back? No. Even Arab countries in the region are realistic about it. In fact, Saudi Arabia told Palestinians that if they keep dithering, they will have to accept Abu Dis as their capital.

It is literally improbable Palestine will be free From the River to the Sea. If Palestine’s politics awakens, Palestinians could be …. and humanity would have a sigh of relief.

Listen up…. You can bet rap loving Ari Melber will not be having this rapper on “The Beat”

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Rap song about Palestinians being killed by Israel.. The apartheid state of Israel
https://twitter.com/macklemore/status/1788814336611467523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1788814336611467523%7Ctwgr%5Eb6fcc4336f1a599877b5c913a69365a876c3a60d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.juancole.com%2F2024%2F05%2Fpalestine-history-macklemore.html

Juan Cole’s take on HRC’s arrogant and destructive comments about protesting students.
.https://www.juancole.com/2024/05/palestine-history-macklemore.html

I made comments about HRC and Joe Scarborough dismissive and insulting comments about protesting students at Morning Joe’s fb page as soon as they made those very stupid comments.

Israel’s Willing Executioners
May 14, 2024

Hundreds of thousands of people are being forced to flee, once again, after more than half of Gaza’s population took sanctuary in the border town of Rafah. This is part of Israel’s sadistic playbook.

By Chris Hedges

“Run, the Israelis demand, run for your lives. Run from Rafah the way you ran from Gaza City, the way you ran from Jabalia, the way you ran from Deir al-Balah, the way you ran from Beit Hanoun, the way you ran from Bani Suheila, the way you ran from Khan Yunis. Run or we will kill you. We will drop 2,000-pound bunker buster bombs on your tent encampments. We will spray you with bullets from our machine-gun-equipped drones. We will pound you with artillery and tank shells. We will shoot you down with snipers.

We will decimate your tents, your refugee camps, your cities and towns, your homes, your schools, your hospitals and your water purification plants. We will rain death from the sky.

Run for your lives. Again and again and again. Pack up the pathetic few belongings you have left. Blankets. A couple of pots. Some clothes. We don’t care how exhausted you are, how hungry you are, how terrified you are, how sick you are, how old, or how young you are. Run. Run. Run.

And when you run in terror to one part of Gaza we will make you turn around and run to another. Trapped in a labyrinth of death. Back and forth. Up and down. Side to side. Six. Seven. Eight times. We toy with you like mice in a trap. Then we deport you so you can never return. Or we kill you.

Let the world denounce our genocide. What do we care? The billions in military aid flows unchecked from our American ally. The fighter jets. The artillery shells. The tanks. The bombs. An endless supply. We kill children by the thousands.” 

https://consortiumnews.com/2024/05/14/chris-hedges-israels-willing-executioners/