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In a debate on @PiersUncensored, @FleurHassanN asked: “Where are the Palestinian Mandelas?” In response, I noted that tens of thousands of Palestinian Mandelas peacefully protested Israel’s siege and ethnic cleansing in Gaza’s Great March of Return, which began in March 2018. Israel’s Apartheid army gunned them down, killing over 200 and wounding thousands. Her rebuttal was that they’re all “Hamas terrorists.”
I warned about their plans decades ago. They aren’t even trying to hide it anymore.
Given Netanyahu’s deliberate destruction of a number of large apartment buildings in Beirut with U.S. made bunker busting bombs that caused hundreds of civilian casualties, it’s important to recall these two points of history: In 1978, Israel’s most prominent military analyst, Ze’ve Schiff, summed up remarks by Chief of Staff Mordecai Gur as follows: “The Israeli Army has always struck civilian populations, purposefully and consciously . . . The Army has never distinguished civilian from military targets – but purposefully attacked civilian targets.” Former UN Ambassador and Foreign Minister Abba Eban wrote of Israel under then Prime Minister Menachem Begin that Israel “is wantonly inflicting every possible measure of death and anguish on civilian populations in a mood reminiscent of regimes which neither Mr. Begin nor I would dare to mention by name.”
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He draws a parallel between the current global situation and the lead-up to World War II, reminding us: “Let’s not forget that the League of Nations began to die in earnest in 1935 when Italy invaded Ethiopia. There was this great speech of the Negus, the Emperor Haile Selassie, who addressed the League of Nations to request its assistance. And then after, there was the Spanish war and many other dramas and crises that led to World War II.” He believes the only solution to all this is the embracing of a new world order with, as “a starting point”, respect for international law which can only come with respect for others – in particular the nations of the global South – and the repair of the “injustice” and the “wound” that is the denial of a state to Palestinians. On this he says that Macron missed a unique opportunity at the UN a few days ago, instead of giving a speech reminiscent of “the Queen of England speaking at the UN”, he should have “announced that France recognizes a Palestinian state”: “There was no moment that could have been more useful than today, in a moment when all this region hesitates between a situation of localized war and a total regional war. It was the time to affirm a political vision…. Because what is at stake is the absence of the western world in this demand for justice. It is the absence of voice from the West. Neither Biden nor President Macron nor Olaf Scholz nor does anyone in Europe take the lead. We forget these misfortunes of the world, and well, unfortunately, these misfortunes of the world will take revenge, and we are in this matter, believe it, all concerned. All the debts will be paid. It’s unfortunately history, it’s the great history that we all ought to know and never forget.”
“We are living in Palestine and Palestine is scattered, we’re not able to live a normal life, we can’t move in our own homeland freely… every day it’s a constant fight.” Saleh Bakri stars in “The Teacher”, a searing story about the realties of living under Israeli occupation
Today marks one year since the start of an onslaught against the Palestinian people that has thus far claimed more than 43,000 lives. The violence that has been committed by Israel against Palestinians over many decades intensified after an attack on Israel by Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups on 7 October last year. https://shorturl.at/mYtXM
“We are going around the world propping ourselves up as the font of democracy. We are going around the world propping Israel up as the only democracy in the Middle East. This is a deep, deep fiction.” Watch our full interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates here: https://democracynow.org/2024/10/8/ta_nehisi_the_message_2
Venezuela Pres. Maduro: “This is not a religious conflict between Jews and Muslims – for 76 years they’ve been killing our Christian brothers too. It’s a conflict against the US, UK & Europe project to control a militarized state enclave from which to spread their hegemony”
After almost 4 months of encampment, the student Palestine encampment in Dortmund were forced by German police to take down the camp and leave, and police said they would arrest me if I went there. All this just because the students had invited me to speak at their event and I had been to a pro Palestine protest in Berlin the day before that police has stormed. We must all stand up against the repression activists are facing just for speaking up against the genocide and occupation in Palestine. In Dortmund, in the whole of Germany and all over the world. We will not be silenced; free Palestine.