Re: Israel
Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2023 10:24 pm
Was this related to the idiots chanting "gas the jews" outside the opera house?
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... -hamas-war
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... -hamas-war
Was this related to the idiots chanting "gas the jews" outside the opera house?
With Netanyahu in charge, the Palestinian Authority enfeebled, Hamas controllng Gaza, the days when there was an effective peace process seem very distant. After the Oslo Accords, they got close. The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin was the turning point, it pretty much went downhill after that. But the idea never goes away. The only way to support the innocent is to support peace.Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 10:35 pm I can't protest publicly, in-person, over this matter.
I'm not being hijacked for anybody's agenda.
My sympathies are with the non-combatants killed, hurt, and displaced.
Grimly, it's 20,000:1. 100 hostages or no food or water for 2 million.
...[deleted as per my below post, with apologies to Joele]. The police indicated that they were only interested in supporters of Palestine per se.joele wrote: ↑Fri Oct 13, 2023 10:24 pmWas this related to the idiots chanting "gas the jews" outside the opera house?
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https://www.theguardian.com/australia-n ... -hamas-war
These things get a free pass from the Australian police who will not go against the Israeli narrative.The beheaded babies tale originated with a report on Israel’s i24News site by reporter Nicole Zedeck, from her interview with Israeli reserve soldier David Ben Zion. Max Blumenthal and Alexander Rubinstein reported on October 11 that Ben Zion is a notorious radical leader in Israel’s West Bank settler movement. Among other things, he called on rampaging armed settlers earlier this year to wipe out the Palestinian village of Harawa, which settlers attacked and burned several times
the Above is worth a read again for the long view which does not require distorted racial/national long term perspectives.When settlers become civilians
BY
Mohammed Jameel Abdulla
The tragedy of settler-colonialism.
When settlers first arrive cosmic violence befalls those they dispossess.
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A secondary cosmic violence befalls the Dispossessed. The invaders have become normalized. The conquest is complete. The settlers have become civilians.
When this tragedy takes place, the original sin becomes unendingly complex to resolve. To pursue the logical conclusion to the settler question means warfare. To adopt an attitude of warfare toward civilians defies common-sense morality.
In pursuing this path of justice for the original sin, a third cosmic horror befalls the Dispossessed: the Dispossessed become terrorists.
Africaisacountry has other anti-colonial perspectives. Unless we try to see the world in the long view also from the colonial south, we will miss an important other side, the side of the oppressedFree Palestine
BY
William Shoki
Bruce Baigrie
The horrific violence against civilians, both Palestinian and Israeli, are overwhelmingly the product of Israel’s occupation and siege. But we can and must condemn all of it, while steadfastly opposing Israeli apartheid.
10.12.2023
POLITICS
CONTINENTAL
Free Palestine
BY
William Shoki
Bruce Baigrie
The horrific violence against civilians, both Palestinian and Israeli, are overwhelmingly the product of Israel’s occupation and siege. But we can and must condemn all of it, while steadfastly opposing Israeli apartheid.
Barrier 2: Fading homage to Delacroix. Credit hjl via Flickr CC BY-NC 2.0 Deed.
On the 7th of October, the sight of a bulldozer ripping through the steel of the border fence imprisoning Gaza, rather than demolishing yet another Palestinian’s home, could only amaze those of us in solidarity. Around two miles from the wall, Israelis and international tourists participated in a “desert rave.” It is one of the most staggering aspects of Israeli society that such events can take place without the participants giving thought to the millions of prisoners nearby. These prisoners are people almost entirely at the mercy of an occupier who claims they have no right to be there. Yet, the thousands of attendants at the Supernova music festival did not deserve what came to them. Kibbutz Be’eri and Kfar Aza were massacres, and this violence must be condemned. The left, within and beyond the international Palestine solidarity movement, is doomed if we abandon our long-standing principles.
Anyone who has participated in Palestine solidarity, in demanding they be afforded equal rights, has been told to “condemn Hamas.” And in our call to condemn the murders of hundreds of civilians, this is implicit. But to be preoccupied with condemnation of Hamas is entirely futile. The violence against civilians perpetrated by Hamas is overwhelmingly a product of Israel’s actions. ...