Today in Labor History June 6, 1982: Israel invaded Lebanon, remaining until June 6, 1985. The war was led by Ariel Sharon, who later became prime minister, despite the Kahan Commission later finding him culpable for the Sabra and Shatila massacre, which killed up to 3,500 Palestinian refugees and Lebanese Shiites. By the end of the war, Israel had lost over 650 soldiers. However, up to 2,400 PLO militants and 1,200 Syria soldiers were killed. And as many as 20,000 civilians were killed during the war.
@immibis@israel@palestine@tzafrir@faab64 you guys are lost and have no idea why the "right to exist" is even being mentioned, and engage the most egregious forms of logical fallacies and propgandistic language.
"6 April 1994, when a #Palestinian man, dispatched by one of the leaders of Hamas’s armed wing, blew himself up at a bus stop in the northern Israeli city of Afula, killing eight #israelis It was expressly an act of vengeance in response to the massacre of 29 worshippers at the Ibrahimi mosque, carried out two months earlier by an Israeli extremist hoping to derail peace talks between the Israeli government and the #PLO." @palestine @israel #history #civilwar #war https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/21/what-is-the-real-hamas
"Why the US Continues to Fail in the Arab World" - Latest article by Dr. James J. Zogby, director of the #ArabAmericanInstitute, #MiddleEast scholar, researcher, and author.⬇️
"Separate, more clandestine, talks are under way to see if Hamas can form a “national consensus government” with the Fatah movement led by the Palestinian Authority (PA) president, Mahmoud Abbas, under the umbrella of the Palestine Liberation Organisation."
"What Herzog said is wrong every which way from Saturday. Hamas did not come to power in a coup. It won the 2006 election that was sponsored by the US and Israeli governments, which allowed the party to run."