Israel's finance minister, Bezalel #Smotrich, announces that the Israeli security and political cabinet has approved the imposition of new #sanctions on the Palestinian Authority, including the legalization of 5 settlement outposts and the convening of the Supreme Planning Council to build thousands of settlement units.
Where the fuck is the "world" reaction to this outrageous act?
Way back in the 1980s, when I was in college, we had a tent city on the UC Berkeley campus to protest the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Lots of parallels to what's been happening on campuses recently with the Palestinian solidarity protests, including violent police crack downs.
During this time, author Kurt Vonnegut came to speak in support of the movement, and against Apartheid. I don't remember what he said then. But here's an amusing clip of him talking about the writing process, explaining the different types of character arcs a story can have.
It is unconscionable for Israel to participate in the 2024 Paris Olympics. Israel should be suspended from international sports organizations and events until it ends its grave violations of international law.
@mondoweiss@palestine@israel
As a French and living in Paris at that, I can tell you Israeli athletes are NOT bienvenus here and a lot of noise, fuss and boohs are gonna welcome them in each and every competition they're gonna be involved in.
It ij positively outrageous a country comitting #warCrimes and #Genocide , a country where #Apartheid and #segregation are Palestinian everyday life should be welcomed in Olympics.
Historically, all Greek tribes had do put a hold on their wars if they wanted to participate to OG.
Russia has been banned from all international events for a war that made 5 times less civilian victims in 2 years than Israel in 8 months.
(Don't get me wrong, Russian agression of Ukraine is NOT ok).
Every freaking day we hear, read or see outrageous criminal acts by the occupation forces of IDF.
And every day disgusting leaders of the world ignore these atrocities and the media help to cover them up and then a few days later everyone forget about those and IDF does another outrageous criminal act with total impunity and absolute no fear of ever being held accountable.
#Israel / Hamas' complete defeat - and then Gaza's rehabilitation
#Ynet is publishing a disturbing proposal written by some Israeli academics and “policymakers,” who are promoting the establishment of a system of governance in Gaza that eerily resembles US's failed state-building experiment in #Iraq, or more closely, the apartheid-era Bantustans of South Africa. The working paper was allegedly already read by government officials.
The paper is titled "From a murderous regime to a moderate society". It was written by four Israeli academics, and reviewed by members of the Military Intelligence Directorate and the War Cabinet. Its authors state that there is a need for Hamas' "complete defeat" - which, in their opinion, includes losing control over territory and "public trials" for its leaders. It also outlines a path for rehabilitation and de-radicalization. "Rehabilitation under fire is doomed to fail," the authors wrote.
The document, written in February, deals with the question of how Gazan society can become “a peaceful neighbor to the State of Israel.” The authors assume that victory - at least in the sense of preventing Hamas' resurgence and harming Israel - requires "rehabilitating and transforming a nation led by “a murderous ideology,” and cultivating stable institutions and an Arab culture that does not educate for jihad and accepts the existence of the of Israel as the Jewish people's nation-state."
The authors’ conclusions are provocative. First, there is a need for Hamas' "complete defeat," which means losing territory (for an unlimited period of time) and "public trials" for Hamas leaders. One of the authors, Dr. Palmor, says: "My position is that the average Palestinian needs to feel defeated. He needs to feel that the path they've taken so far, including education, hasn't worked. In my opinion, we should have declared the entire northern Gaza Strip as Israeli territory, for all intents and purposes." This is his opinion, not the document's recommendation.
All the writers agree that Hamas' defeat is necessary and that “rehabilitation under fire is doomed to fail." To succeed, they propose setting a "positive horizon for the defeated nation, conditioned on achieving concrete and measurable goals," and suggest establishing an "autonomous Palestinian entity."
The authors proposed (already in February) the immediate establishment of an effective mechanism to address the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. They wrote that "it is necessary to achieve control as soon as possible over the humanitarian crisis in Gaza in order to prevent further deterioration and to deprive Hamas of one of its most important recruitment bases."
But this is clearly not a “peace plan”: "The state independence of this entity must be conditional on strict conditions, including education for peace, renunciation of violence and terror, and effective security and administrative capabilities," they write. "Even if Israel is not interested in ruling Gaza and prefers to establish a different civilian government in the Strip, the option of Israeli military rule must hover in the background."
A glaring omission in the proposal is, understandably, the occupation itself. Regardless of how Israel chooses to frame the events of October 7th, it's impossible to detach them from the broader context of Palestinian resistance and the right to self-determination, which is enshrined in international law. Israel can continue down the path of entrenching its occupation, but it's unlikely to find much support from its allies. In fact, by doing so, Israel risks becoming increasingly isolated and likened to the apartheid regime of South Africa, a comparison that already has severe diplomatic and economic consequences.
The full article will be published of Friday in "Yediot Ahronot" and ynet.
[…] We’re heeding the call from over 1000 #Google and #Amazon workers to rise up against the contract, known as Project Nimbus. Technology should be used to bring people together, not enable #apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler-colonialism. Following in the footsteps of those who fought to divest from apartheid South Africa and won, it’s our responsibility to rise up in support of Palestinian freedom. The Amazon and Google execs who signed this contract can still choose to be on the right side of history.
Demand Amazon & Google stop doing business with Israeli apartheid & powering the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza
Today in Labor History June 16, 1976: 20,000 students protested in Soweto South Africa, against the requirement that they learn the Afrikaans language in their schools. They considered Afrikaans to be the language of the brutally racist and repressive Apartheid regime. The uprising spread to seven other black townships and became known as the Soweto Uprising. The police responded by shooting directly into the crowds of children and teachers. Official reports claim that the police killed the 176 people, mostly children. However, some estimate that over 700 were killed. By the end of the year, thousands had died in demonstrations throughout the country.
The reaction and the answer by this palestinian kid explain the reality of loving under apartheid.
I'm sure many Israeli friends have a reasonable explanation about this, possibly because the boy is Khamas.
Palestinian sources: Assassination of the leader of the Al-Qassam Brigades - Mujahid Muhammad Jaber Abdo, a liberated Qassam prisoner who spent 20 years in enemy prisons. He was assassinated a short while ago in Kafr Ni’ma - Ramallah, along with 3 other mujahideen, and their bodies were seized by the enemy.
This is pure terror, it nothing to do with Hamas or Gaza, these are Israeli brown shirts spreading terror by protection and support of IDF and #JewishKKK minister #BenGvir
Settlers continue to destroy Palestinian property, burning cars in Barqa, east of #Ramallah, after burning the land. Settlers are also attacking vehicles in Beitin, north of Ramallah.
Today in Labor History June 7, 1892: The authorities arrested Homer Plessy for refusing to leave his seat in the "whites-only" car of a train. He lost the resulting court case, the landmark Plessy v. Ferguson Supreme Court decision, which codified segregation and paved the way for Jim Crow. The ruling is commonly known as “separate, but equal,” and was later ruled “unequal” in actuality, in 1954, in Brown v Board of Education.
On the one-year anniversary of Plessy’s act of civil disobedience, Mahatma Gandhi was forcibly ejected from a train in Pietermaritzberg, South Africa for refusing to vacate a 1st class carriage for a white man, in a similar act of civil disobedience.
As Miko Peled observed, Israel and Palestine are the same place. He believes that Jews and Arabs can live together peacefully. That may be true, but by all appearances, it's true of probably less than 20% of the population. The remaining 80% would need to be homed elsewhere.
Palestine is sacred to more than Judaism and Islam. Ideally, I'd like to see it established as World Heritage. Protected by the world at large and thus needing no armed forces. I can dream, can't I?
What of the other 80%? Netanyahu advocates a state in Sinai for Palestinians, so let's make that two states. I think of them as sanatoria. Unarmed and heavily guarded, to protect them from each other and the world from them.
Everyone creates his very own #hell. The Jews now have theirs in Israel. It has never proved a good idea to steal land to establish an #Apartheid regime.
Backed by the #UN the state of #Israel had been given the chance, to integrate cultures and religions in #Palestine in a modern civilized society as e.g. India did, but they failed.
The #Jewish founders failed because of their childish belief in being God's 1st choice, the elite of Mankind.
Israeli occupation forces besiege the vicinity of Al-Razi Hospital in #Jenin, preventing ambulances from recovering wounded Palestinians during the ongoing raid in the city.
Israeli occupation Apache helicopters are firing high-caliber rounds toward Palestinians amidst the ongoing Israeli raid of the #Jenin refugee camp, north of the #WestBank.
Israeli religious Zionist teens [neo fascist youth] clashing with police officers, Journalists and Palestinians in Jerusalem's Muslim quarter on Wednesday.
[cont’d] #Israel / Police Detain Palestinian Photographer Who Was Attacked by Jewish Youths During Jerusalem “Flag March”
Instead of investigating or arresting the attackers (Jewish youths) who violently assaulted the Palestinian freelance photographer Saif Kwasmi during the Jerusalem “Flag March,” the Israeli police detained and questioned the victim himself.
Kwasmi was attacked by a mob of around 100 Jewish youths who beat him and threw objects at him during the march, slightly injuring his head. Instead of arresting any of his attackers, the police later detained Kwasmi for hours and confiscated his equipment, after a right-wing activist falsely claimed he was a Hamas operative.
The police state Kwasmi is "not recognized as a journalist" and had been previously banned from the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif area, using this to justify detaining him instead of his attackers.
18 teenagers were arrested for violence against journalists/Palestinians in other events that took place on the day.