Israel

• https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19715/un-jihad-against-israel

• Hillel Neuer, “The Palestinian Authority tortures human rights activists, women, LGBT persons, political opponents, so-called ‘collaborators,’ and Palestinians who sell land to Jews, UN Watch charged today, ahead of the UN’s first-ever review of the PA record.” [1] (PDF)
• Hillel Neuer, “This interview of @amnesty’s @AgnesCallamard @philipluther reminded me of my first experience arriving at the UNHRC 18 years ago. In March 2004, I heard Special Rapporteur on hunger Jean Ziegler present a report on only 1 country: Israel. It was starving Palestinians, he said.” [2] (PDF)
• Shany Mor, “This absolute car crash of an interview by @AgnesCallamard & @PhilipLuther makes for an instructive read. Remember, they weren’t ambushed on some obscure topic, but asked a few simple questions on the very thing they flew out here to present.” [3] (PDF)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Struma_disaster
• https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1994/02/12/israel-returns-favor-to-a-muslim/2c5bf4fc-c095-4e28-9362-109372ad1868/ https://archive.vn/27hwF
• https://www.nytimes.com/1993/02/18/world/israel-accepts-84-of-bosnia-s-muslim-refugees.html https://archive.vn/5cBx3
• https://twitter.com/Israel/status/1629850048593903616

https://liberpedia.net/t/Short_history_of_israel.pdf

• https://twitter.com/correctedmedia/status/1637128970599559169

• https://twitter.com/joshrfeldman/status/1663105319256600577

• https://twitter.com/correctedmedia/status/1603163931098447873

• https://twitter.com/OG_Mkhedari/status/1639454515844751360
  • An Arab visiting Tel Aviv will be perfectly safe. Indeed, millions of them have done so. An Israeli visiting Ramallah will be lynched. Something to consider.

https://twitter.com/jakekoren/status/1653796761952194560

apartheid ?

https://twitter.com/VDHanson/status/1714321418505294261 Gaza and the Corruption of Language

“Apartheid”. Like most leftist smears, it reflects projection. Arab citizens inside Israel—over half of whom are Muslims—vote, run for office, and have organized political parties. As a fifth of the population, they enjoy more security, prosperity, and freedom than do their counterparts in the surrounding Arab nations.

In contrast, can one envision non-Arab Christian or Jewish residents of Gaza voting, running for office, forming political parties, or criticizing Hamas? This projected charge of apartheid, it applies to Hamas, which considers anyone other than Arab Muslims as inferiors to be kept out of Gaza.

“Ceasefire”. A ceasefire, truce, or armistice rarely ends the conflict for good unless both sides are worn out, and mutually agree that neither can win and the war is thus regrettable—a rare phenomenon in military history. More often, ceasefires are mere breathers for one or both sides to frantically resupply and rearm for rounds two, three, four…

Ultimately, wars—even those that last decades—end when one side loses and the other wins (often most clearly via‘unconditional’ surrender), or both suffer such calamitous losses that each believes victory is unachievable and will in the future continue to be so. Unless the antithetical political agendas that lead to war are resolved, then breathers and truces and time-outs eventually ensure lengthy or multiple wars. Victory leading to the loser’s abandonment of political agendas more often leads to lasting peace.

“Disproportionate”. Can anyone recall a war won by proportionate measures?

When war is proportionate it more often turns into a Stalingrad—or perhaps an Ukraine—until one side finds a disproportionate response that will change endless stasis to victory.

World War II was not won by a proportionate response to Pearl Harbor. And what would be a proportionate response to the murder of a thousand civilians?

Under the logic of “proportionality,” ought the Israeli state then invade Gaza and likewise murder a thousand of its civilians? The whole concept of a “proportionate" response to an unprovoked massacre of women and children asleep in their homes and during a peace is absurd.

“Civilian casualties”. In this war, almost all intentional civilian deaths are due to Hamas. The civilian dead consist of three unfortunate categories:

1) Over a thousand Jewish civilians, at a time of holiday, butchered by invading Hamas killer squads.

2) Gazan civilian shields whose homes and places of work are deliberately used to protect and enable Hamas rocketeers and shooters to wage war with impunity—in the expectation that Israel regards Gazan life as more valuable than does Hamas, and therefore won’t retaliate to missile launches by indiscriminately killing civilian shields. Hamas expects, even hopes, that they will be killed and thus bring them political advantage by their numerous deaths.

3) The general population of Gaza. The charter of Hamas ensures that its apparat will wage perpetual war at any cost against Israel. Hamas has no interest in a two-state solution, lasting armistices, or using billions of dollars in foreign aid to ensure modern power, water, and sewage plants for its people. Instead, it treats its own population as expendable and subordinate to its own tunnel-making and rocket-launching.

“Cycle of violence”. This phrase almost suggests that violence is organic, autonomous, without culpability, and thus not incited by one side. War, however, never works that way. Instead, there is usually definable 51% and more culpability on one side.

In the case of October 7, who invaded the country of another to enact a year-long preplanned plan of savagely murdering and mutilating women and children?

Was Israel intent on violence or was Hamas? Did Hamas call up their intended targets and urge them to flee before they arrived? Is that IDF trait even conceivable within Hamas?

While Hamas spent the year planning the precivilizational massacres of Jewish women and children, Israel—naively convinced that Hamas was concentrating on domestic affairs rather than its usual savage agenda of torching, stabbing, and shooting Jews—was at the time negotiating détente with Saudi Arabia and inviting nearly 20,000 Gazans a day to enter Israel to work and earn a living?

“Innocents”. All collateral damage is tragic, and, for example, children in Gaza are obviously innocent. But, while any noncombatant can be an innocent civilian, not all innocent civilians are created equal. Their collective innocence or guilt may not be absolute, but it can be fairly determined by their support for the agendas of its combatants and government. That is—whether they are empowering something like the SS or trying to stop it.

If bands of Israeli soldiers surprise-invaded Gaza with orders to grab hostages and focus on murdering women and children and then desecrating their corpses in hopes of psychologically devastating Gazans, they would likely be brought up on charges by the IDF or shunned and ostracized by their own people.

In contrast, when hostages were paraded in Gaza, civilians there seemed to enjoy spitting on and striking them. The return from Israel of the Gazan hostage-takers and murderers was met by ecstatic crowds.

The German population, similarly ruled by a “one man, one vote, once” dictatorship, was ebullient over Hitler’s success from 1939 to 1941, but lost their enthusiasm from 1942 to 1945, and feigned innocence (out of alleged ignorance or powerlessness) after the war was over.

So too, Gazans on Saturday, October 7 were enthralled on news of a thousand murdered Jews—only two weeks later to pose as innocent civilians not deserving retaliation for the inhuman violence against the innocent that they had so recently and so eagerly supported and cheered on.

• Israel is not an apartheid state, former South African defense minister says

• https://twitter.com/NetanelWorthy/status/1707612782919549085

https://twitter.com/ShimonLevit/status/1679475824687300609

https://fathomjournal.org/2022-introduction-enough-is-enough-on-amnestys-antisemitic-apartheid-report/

https://www.ejiltalk.org/the-apartheid-accusation-against-israel-lacks-is-baseless-and-agenda-driven/

• https://twitter.com/crayandrizzy/status/1654857572715773953

• https://twitter.com/ADioumaev/status/1654864156359806976

• https://twitter.com/garybkatz/status/1655674846963965973

• In 1948 there were approx 1,300,000 Arabs in what is now Israel, the PA areas and Gaza Today = 7 million An increase of 540% = not ethnic cleansing In 1948 there were approx 900,000 Jews in the rest of the MENA region Today = 26000 A 97% loss = this is ethnic cleansing

• https://twitter.com/AdamAlbilya/status/1663837343063605248 Walid Daqqa

https://twitter.com/afagerbakke/status/1663931907892035585

• So you want to destroy a successful liberal democracy, close ally of the US and EU, world leader in scientific, medical and agricultural innovation, to create a failed, corrupt, homophonic, and misogynistic theocracy allied with Iran. Are you sure you're progressive?

• https://twitter.com/hahussain/status/1664726827636539393

• https://twitter.com/AvivaKlompas/status/1681111608569876481

• https://twitter.com/Aizenberg55/status/1682034692944728065

• https://worldisraelnews.com/eye-opener-south-african-activist-abandons-bds-movement-after-trip-to-israel/

https://twitter.com/JakeWSimons/status/1707416953768284424

wall

https://twitter.com/JakeWSimons/status/1707518873589661923 https://twitter.com/JakeWSimons/status/1704062107254137206

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

palestinian

https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Abbas-vows-No-room-for-Israelis-in-Palestinian-state

https://twitter.com/george_revutsky/status/1684464544738168838

Egypt

https://twitter.com/sabra_the/status/1687556883585110016

Lebanon

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/19807/palestinians-apartheid-lebanon?dicbo=v4-b1rOVec-1131231438

History

https://twitter.com/VerminusM/status/1659916059439235072

https://twitter.com/lilbuddymax/status/1665918120945410048

https://twitter.com/Aizenberg55/status/1670809703402684416

• Let’s not forget- 1948. Five Arab armies attacked, invaded one day old Israel. With the Secretary-General of the Arab League clearly stating the goals "This war," he said, "will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongol massacres.. [4]

• https://twitter.com/cunninghamjeff/status/1710043267784396873

https://twitter.com/Shoshana51728/status/1725923217808797746

https://twitter.com/DrEliDavid/status/1725499182415270177

How many Arabs lived in “Palestine” before the establishment of the State of Israel 🇮🇱?

A thread 🧵 with historical sources:

🔸In 1785, Constantine Francois Volney describes the "ruined" and "desolate" state of the country: "We with difficulty recognized Jerusalem... The population is supposed to amount to twelve to fourteen thousands..."

🔸In 1843, Alexander Keith wrote that "in this [Volney's] day the land had not fully reached its last prophetic degree of desolation and depopulation."

🔸In 1816, J.S. Buckingham had described Jaffa as "a poor village", and Ramleh as a place "where, as throughout the greater portion of Palestine, the ruined portion seemed more extensive than that which was inhabited."

🔸In 1835, Alphonse de Lamartine gave this description: "Outside gates of Jerusalem, we saw indeed no living object, heard no living sound. We found the same void, the same silence as we should have found in the enrombed gates of Pompeii and Herculaneum... a complete, eternal silence resigns in the town, in the highways, in the country... The tomb of a whole people."

🔸In 1857, the British consul in Palestine, James Finn, reported back to England: "The country is in a considerable degree empty of inhabitants and therefore its greatest need is that of a body of population."

🔸In 1867, Mark Twain wrote in The Innocents Abroad: "Stirring senses... occur in this valley no more. There is not a solitary village throughout its whole extent – not for thirty miles in either direction." He goes on to describe Galilee, Judea, and around Jerusalem as deserts devoid of population. And for the country as a whole: "Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies... Palestine is desolate and unlovely... It is hopeless, dreary, heartbroken land."

🔸In 1881 (the year designated by Arafat as the beginning of the Zionist "invasion" and "displacement" of the local population), English cartographer Arthur Penrhyn Stanley wrote: "In Judea it is hardly an exaggeration to say that for miles and miles there was no appearance of life or habitation."

🔸By the third quarter of the 19th century, the total population of the entire country, Arabs and Jews, was only 400,000. Less than 3% of today's figure.

BDS

• The Ultimate Guide to Boycotting #Israel 🇮🇱

water

https://honestreporting.com/watering-down-the-facts-israel-the-palestinians-access-to-water/

Jenin

https://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2023/06/palestinians-fire-weapons-from-mosque.html

Amnesty International

https://twitter.com/AdamAlbilya/status/1671376460685115392

Technology

• Other than modern drip irrigation, water saving innovations, geothermal power, solar powered windows, cherry tomatoes, monitors for sudden infant death syndrome, MobileEye, Waze, silent wind turbines, the 8088 Intel chip which paved the way for modern computers, USB flash drive, harmful microorganism counters for food and beverage industry, using the ocean to produce solar energy, optical heart beat monitoring, increasing plastic recycling efficiency by 50%, portable sleep apnea monitors, the world's smallest camera for medical procedures, water utility leak detection technology, HP digital printing press, remote heart and vitals monitoring for medical staff, contributions to developing a COVID vaccine, R&D that led to the first cell phone, a phone that can detect diseases including cancer, multiple sclerosis, and Parkinson's with 93% accuracy, an exoskeleton that helps paraplegic people walk again, a digestible medical camera in the form of a pill, a flexible heart stent that saved millions of lives of people suffering from coronary heart disease, computer firewalls, antivirus software, ICQ, the iron Dome missile defense system, glasses that read text to visually impaired people, leading breakthrough medical technologies like the ability to 3d print a functioning human heart and nanotechnology that detects and attacks cancer cells, home kits for analysing guy bacteria, desalination tech and a machine that can literally make safe drinking water out of air... WHAT HAS ISRAEL ACTUALLY DONE FOR YOU.

water

https://twitter.com/HonestReporting/status/1688126179947978752

WWII

https://twitter.com/CptAllenHistory/status/1688328640616939520

healthcare

https://www.timesofisrael.com/3000th-palestinian-child-has-heart-operation-in-israel-through-save-a-childs-heart/

history, apartheid against Jews

https://twitter.com/HenMazzig/status/1709161990504042556

history, arabs

https://twitter.com/CptAllenHistory/status/1710780480801415550

Did the Arabs rule in Eretz Israel all the way until the founding of the modern State of Israel?

Not even close.

In fact, just 400 years after Caliph Umar first conquered Eretz Israel, in 1071, the Arabs were themselves conquered and replaced by the Seljuks (See Below Map).

Once again, the indigenous Jews were colonized, this time by the Seljuks.

And so began a revolving door of conquerors as:

the Seljuks were later replaced by Kurdish conquerors;

who were replaced by Crusader conquerors;

who were later again replaced by Kurdish conquerors;

who were replaced by the Tartars;

who were replaced by the Mongols;

who were replaced by the Egyptian Mamelukes (mostly Turkic, Caucasian, Eastern & Southeastern Europeans);

who were replaced by the Ottoman Turks – all of whom were non-Arab peoples.

And all of whom colonized the indigenous Jewish people!

In fact, Jerusalem has been besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured/recaptured 44 times!!!!!!!!

history

https://www.wilsoncenter.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/publication/CWIHP_WP_461.pdf

https://www.jpost.com/international/the-czech-arms-that-saved-israel-650710

https://twitter.com/CptAllenHistory/status/1731881498846933452

https://x.com/CptAllenHistory/status/1710348918607716792

https://x.com/CptAllenHistory/status/1710357411821711559

https://meforum.org/campus-watch/64409/debunking-the-claim-that-israel-is-a-settler

https://nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/israeli-history

https://jns.org/challenging-the-myth-of-white-colonial-israel/

https://nationalreview.com/2023/10/israel-is-not-a-colonial-state/

http://wilf.org/English/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/WinningWarWords.pdf

as Palestine

https://twitter.com/AviShpayer/status/1740898479638216903

Deir Yassin:

https://www.commentary.org/articles/seth-mandel/deir-yassin-palestinian-propoganda-eliezer-tauber/

"What really happened at Deir Yassin? In The Massacre That Never Was, a work of engrossing narrative and exhaustive research, Professor Eliezer Tauber proves that no massacre of Palestinians took place in the village of Deir Yassin in 1948, exploding a myth that has been the cornerstone of the Palestinian narrative for seven decades. Reconstructing a fierce ten-hour battle through a meticulous analysis of Arab and Jewish testimony and documents from 1948 that are still closed to the public, Professor Tauber persuasively demonstrates that the massacre narrative was a myth intentionally invented by the Arab leadership of 1948 Jerusalem. Furthermore, the subsequent false rumors surrounding the event exacerbated the mass exodus of Arabs from Palestine, thus creating the refugee crisis and fueling propaganda against Israel, which has shaped the world’s understanding of the affair to this day."

- https://www.asmeascholars.org/the-massacre-that-never-was

"Tauber inquired into the factors which took a battle and made it into a symbol of human barbarity.

"The first such factor was a press conference convened by the Irgun the day after the battle. To glorify the Irgun’s achievement, the spokesman threw out an utterly unrealistic number of Arabs killed in the battle. Many Irgun fighters similarly boasted of their kill count when they returned to Jerusalem.

"Haganah forces which arrived in the village were shocked at the sight of the burnt corpses. Some of them, primarily Palmach soldier and later the historian Major General Meir Pa’il, spoke of what they saw in various frameworks and tried to use it to prove the moral and military weakness of the other undergrounds. Tauber proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that all the Haganah people speaking of the battle came afterwards and are thus second-hand accounts.

"The Arab leadership wished to use Deir Yassin as a rallying cry for the cruelty of the Jews. They spread horror stories via the news agencies. They likely wished to encourage the fighting spirit of the Arabs, but the complete opposite occurred. Deir Yassin, like the loss at Mishmar Ha-Emek and the death of Abd al-Qadir al-Husseini, marked the beginning of the complete collapse and defeat of Palestinian Arab society."

- https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2017/08/a-new-book-argues-that-a-massacre-never-happened-at-deir-yassin/

• https://x.com/RichardHanania/status/1793341115246301601

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