"Israel's parliament has voted to approve a bill that would designate the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees as a terrorist organisation.
The bill also calls for a complete severing of ties from UNRWA. ...
The bill still needs to clear several more steps before being implemented."
@Miro_Collas@palestine
If Israel wants to be free of UNRWA the solution is simple - agree to Palestinian Statehood. They don't want Palestine or UNRWA (& I'm confident Palestinians don't want Israel) so they should agree to separate. At the moment, Palestine is an abused housewife with a homicidal husband & nowhere to hide.
@Miro_Collas@ogalachowski@palestine UNRWA's most pernicious role has been their influence on the education system. they are indoctrinating children to hate using cult-like methods.
in addition, several UNRWA employees participated in October 7th and were fired (as if that's somehow adequate).
the fact is that UNRWA is not necessary. there are other organizations, even UN ones, which can, and are, fulfilling the aid distribution role in their stead.
@kindness@Miro_Collas@ogalachowski@palestine
I've seen multiple articles detailing with how biased the Israeli system of education, through prep to military service, is in indoctrinating people to believe Palestinians do not deserve basic human rights & should be abused to death if necessary. Doesn't that make Israel a terrorist organisation? I have even watched a minister of church in a military school say "kill them all".
@LetsRoc@Miro_Collas@ogalachowski@palestine even you (!) are not claiming an equivalence here. if you were, you would have claimed that Israel teaches eliminationist ideology vis-a-vis the Palestinians.
it is rather telling that even you, ostensibly on the side of "resistance," are able to perceive the difference. we can agree had PLO not launched Second Intifada in response to the offer from Oslo, a Palestinian state could be decades old by now. Israel wants peace, that's it.
@LetsRoc@Miro_Collas@ogalachowski@palestine i agree with you, peace will come with separation of states, and Israel tried many times to achieve that. the problem is that Palestinians want the whole thing "from the river to the sea." if they are able to abandon violence and achieve a functioning politics, self-government and negotiations are sure to follow. Israel does not have to be coerced into picking that option because they have been trying the whole time and Palestinians keep rejecting.
@LetsRoc@Miro_Collas@ogalachowski@palestine Netanyahu recently told CNN that Gaza resettlement is not and has never been on the table. it is true that he is delaying important decisions relating to post war governance of the Gaza strip. this is causing some tension in Israeli politics.
@LetsRoc@Miro_Collas@ogalachowski@palestine it's possible, but not very likely. Israel wants to keep a light presence after the war is over, or even none at all, because they still have to deal with Hezbollah in the north, where about 100k Israelis are still displaced from their homes. military governance of the strip would be a strategic disaster for this, Israel does not want to have multiple battalions pinned to Gaza indefinitely during a multifront war against Iranian proxies.
@kindness@Miro_Collas@ogalachowski@palestine
Well, tell Gallant that given proxy wars are the result of Israel's Apartheid regime & subsequent attempt at genocide, they will probably end when Israel withdraws its troupes & stops murdering unarmed civilians (imo)
@LetsRoc@Miro_Collas@ogalachowski@palestine that's Iranian propaganda. the truth is that hamas jumped the gun. while Iran assisted with planning and logistics, there is no indication that Iran knew about October 7th in advance. Iran had already achieved a historic success with the "ring of fire," surrounding Israel with proxies on every front. the wars will end with defeat of each. hamas won't exist, and Iran will lose much of Hezbollah's current deterrence value and second strike capability.
@LetsRoc@Miro_Collas@ogalachowski@palestine no. 100k Israelis are displaced in the north, and shipping is greatly reduced by the Houthis, plus drones from Iraq proxies, these are all attacks that no country can tolerate. Israel has been trying diplomacy with Lebanon but if that fails because Lebanon is unwilling or unable to stop Hezbollah, Israel will have to. Israel has fought multiple enemies at once and won before, and will do so again if necessary. war is a last resort.
@kindness@LetsRoc@Miro_Collas@ogalachowski@palestine
Why don't you Israelis just go back to your home countries? Or if you are Mizrahi, hence as indigenous as any Palestinian, settle back into the harmonious life that existed before the Zionist invasion in the early 20th C?
@kindness@LetsRoc@Miro_Collas@ogalachowski@palestine
More hasbarah. #Israel has NEVER agreed to any division of the land to allow a Palestinian state. The closest it came was the Oslo Accords, which Israel abused by. demanding the PLO kept its half of the agreement, but never fulfilled its own commitments.
@kindness@Miro_Collas@ogalachowski@palestine
You swallow your hasbarah whole. Even the #genocide supporting Times of Israel noted the Israeli Govt had NO evidence of UNWRA employees being involved in Oct 7. Yes, UNWRA found 12 out of 30,000 employees were members of Hamas (a political organisation, not an armed organization). They were dismissed. I bet there is a many more IDF soldiers who are members of Israel's #Likud, a political party that makes #Hamas look positively liberal.