I guess with faculty like Crooked Hillary Clinton and Vicky 'Cookies' Kagan-Nuland, we wouldn't expect Columbia to be any other way.
Free Palestine!
Sun, 2024-03-17 18:17
#2402
Mon, 2024-03-18 11:40
#2403
Basque Demonstrators Evoke Picasso’s “Guernica” in Tribute to Gaza’s Victims
Protests continued around the world over the weekend, including in Dublin, Ireland, where protesters called out Leo Varadkar for joining President Biden at the White House. In San Sebastián, Spain, demonstrators rallied before lying down on the ground next to a massive banner depicting part of Picasso’s famous antiwar painting “Guernica.”
Bernardo Atxaga: “It’s so tough to be a witness to a genocide that we can do nothing about. We can just bring a grain of sand, even as a tribute.”
Other large protests were held in Chile, Norway, Australia, Jordan and across U.S. cities.
Mon, 2024-03-18 11:47
#2404
..from the global front. 25 min video.
How is Palestine connected to the climate justice movement?
Beyond the devastating aerial and ground offensive in Gaza, how does the Israeli occupation connect to climate justice?
From protests at COP28 in December last year, demanding a ceasefire in Gaza, to social media campaigns such as #NoClimateJusticeWithoutHumanRights, climate activists are making a case for the inclusion of Palestine in the global climate justice conversation. According to a recent study published by British and American researchers, the first months of Israel’s war on Gaza produced more planet-warming gases than 20 climate-vulnerable nations do in a year. But beyond carbon emissions from the war on Gaza, how does the decades-long Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories connect to the broader narrative of global climate justice?....
Mon, 2024-03-18 11:51
#2405
Mon, 2024-03-18 14:06
#2406
..from the global front. includes video of sally rooney.
From Ireland to Palestine: Irish figures, activists rally for Palestine on St Patrick's Day
Shows of solidarity with Palestine have taken place in Ireland in the lead up to and during St Patrick's Day in Ireland, which was celebrated by Irish communities around the world on Sunday.
On the eve of the holiday, The Irish Times published a powerfully-worded essay by screenwriter and author Sally Rooney, who accused her government of doing too little for Gaza.
"What is taking place in Palestine now is one of the most profound and shocking moral catastrophes of our time," Rooney wrote in the opening paragraph of her piece, which was titled 'Killing in Gaza has been supported by Ireland’s ‘good friend’ in the White House'.
She added: "With no end in sight, the United States continues to pump money and weapons into Israel to prolong the onslaught."
The essay criticised the Irish government, led by Leo Varadkar, for maintaining good relations with the US despite its continued military support for Israel.
"Our Government can bask in the moral glow of condemning the bombers, while preserving a cosy relationship with those supplying the bombs," Rooney wrote, denouncing Varadkar's decision to visit US president Joe Biden the following day.....
Mon, 2024-03-18 14:08
#2407
Mon, 2024-03-18 14:15
#2408
..more from the global front.
With 14,000 shoes: Dutch activists show the devastating cost of Gaza's war on Palestinian children
Thousands of children's shoes were arranged on Utrecht's Vredenburg Square on Sunday to draw attention to the thousands of Palestinian children killed in Israel's war on Gaza Strip over the past four months.
A new pair of shoes was added every 10 minutes while the children's names were read out over loudspeaker, showing the frequency with which children are being killed in Gaza.
At the end of the event, the whole square was filled with children's shoes.
Netherlands-based foundation 'Plant an Olive Tree' (Plant een Oliifboom) organised the event, saying that Palestinian children in Gaza are not only being killed by bombs and shells, but dying from starvation and dehydration due to the blockade on Gaza and a security breakdown.
"On average, another Palestinian child dies every 10 minutes" the foundation stated.....
Wed, 2024-03-20 20:23
#2409
..the global front.
The international sports community cannot stay silent as Israel kills athletes and targets facilities in Gaza, writes Samar Saeed. [Getty]
The case for a sports boycott of Israel over its war on Gaza
Thu, 2024-03-21 11:09
#2410
..51 min audio.
“WE HAVE TO START THINKING IN TERMS OF DECOLONIZATION”
This week on Intercepted, Palestinian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu discusses the disconnect between the rhetoric of Western leaders and the predictable results of their sustained military backing of Israel. Buttu also analyzes the political debates within Palestine and the role of Hamas and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party, and the thousands of arrests of Palestinians in the West Bank since October 7. She also discusses the significance of Palestinian resistance leader Marwan Barghouti, who is currently serving multiple life terms in an Israeli prison but whose freedom Hamas says it is committed to winning in a future exchange of captives. Barghouti, who is often characterized as Palestine’s Nelson Mandela, was reportedly beaten in prison this week.
Thu, 2024-03-21 11:52
#2411
..buttu talks about 80% of palestinians in the west bank wanting abbas to resign. and the popularity of hamas rising because they see them as the only force between them and israeli extinction.
Thu, 2024-03-21 12:42
#2412
epaulo13 wrote:
Buttu also analyzes the political debates within Palestine and the role of Hamas and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party,
End of quote.
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Fortunately it’s looking like moderate Palestinian and Arab leaders are looking at sidelining both Hamas and Abbas.
Thu, 2024-03-21 12:44
#2413
..the global front.
The international sports community cannot stay silent as Israel kills athletes and targets facilities in Gaza, writes Samar Saeed. [Getty]
The case for a sports boycott of Israel over its war on Gaza
Hamas creates destruction and death for Palestinians and Israelis. epaulo, why do you support the likes of Hamas?
Thu, 2024-03-21 12:58
#2414
..indigenous resistance.
Israel demolishes Palestinian Bedouin village for 223rd time
Israeli forces on Thursday demolished the Palestinian al-Araqib Bedouin village in the southern Negev region for the 223rd time, according to a local activist.
The last demolition of the village's structures was in September 2023.
“The Israeli authorities demolished the village of al-Araqib today for the 223rd time,” activist Aziz al-Touri told Anadolu.
He said four vehicles were confiscated by Israeli forces during the demolition, vowing that inhabitants would rebuild the village anew.
Homes in al-Araqib, inhabited by 22 Palestinian families, are built of wood and plastic.
The village was first destroyed in 2010 and rebuilt after every demolition since then. Israeli authorities claim that the site where it is located falls under “state land.”
Al-Araqib residents are Arab citizens of Israel who were displaced in 1951 when the nascent state of Israel claimed the area as "state land."......
Thu, 2024-03-21 14:59
#2415
..on the global front. mar 7th st john's.
Thu, 2024-03-21 15:37
#2416
..lot's of pressure to get rid of hamas. replacing them with more compliant palestinians. bypassing what palestinian wants. bypassing elections. claiming they know what is best for palestinians. everybody knows they are lying. israel and the us. everybody knows they mean harm to the palestinians.
..almost no pressure on getting rid of the zionists directing genocide. directing the slaughter. directing the starvation. directing the murder of children. in fact they will be rewarded with more land and control.
..people will remember this for a long long time. this is history being written. and it will not blame hamas.
Thu, 2024-03-21 16:10
#2417
..lot's of pressure to get rid of hamas. replacing them with more compliant palestinians. bypassing what palestinian wants. bypassing elections. claiming they know what is best for palestinians. everybody knows they are lying. israel and the us. everybody knows they mean harm to the palestinians.
If Palestinians want to support Hamas that's fine.
Thu, 2024-03-21 16:13
#2418
..lot's of pressure to get rid of hamas. replacing them with more compliant palestinians. bypassing what palestinian wants. bypassing elections. claiming they know what is best for palestinians. everybody knows they are lying. israel and the us. everybody knows they mean harm to the palestinians.
..almost no pressure on getting rid of the zionists directing genocide. directing the slaughter. directing the starvation. directing the murder of children. in fact they will be rewarded with more land and control.
..people will remember this for a long long time. this is history being written. and it will not blame hamas.
Many historians will blame Hamas. No doubt you will ignore those historians and pretend what they say doesn’t exist.
Thu, 2024-03-21 16:38
#2419
..i posted a study of how israel has been sorting out gaza. creating numerous islands inside an israeli security zone. the zionist really don't want palestinians coming together. which is why no elections.
..around the same time i posted a palestinian opinion that the majority don't want a 2 state solution. begging the question what do they want? no one asked out loud on this board about it. i'll bet the zionists have a good idea and they don't like it. so they get no voice and no elections.
Thu, 2024-03-21 17:05
#2420
Polls have shown most Palestinians and most Israelis don't suppprt a two state solution. It's still the only solution that's viable. The job of political leaders is to make decisions that are in the best interests of their people even when it's not popular. Sadat and Begin did that. Israeli and Palestinian leaders will have to do that to establish a permanent peace agreement.
Thu, 2024-03-21 19:14
#2421
Today, the Palestinian shepherd community of A-Sukhun in the Jordan Valley is fleeing. From a community of ten families, today marks the departure of the last family.
Just ten days ago, settlers established a new illegal outpost just dozens of meters from the community.
This is another example of a Palestinian community being forcibly expelled from their lands.
The family recounts that an armed settler began to harass them, prohibiting them from grazing their herds. They were given an ultimatum: leave within a week or face the consequences.
https://x.com/peacenowisrael/status/1770742624451752369?s=20
Ethnic cleansing continues unabated.
Thu, 2024-03-21 19:27
#2422
Thu, 2024-03-21 19:53
#2423
Collaboration is almost as old as oppression.
Thu, 2024-03-21 21:26
#2424
One person's collaborator is another person's pragmatic realist.
Thu, 2024-03-21 21:31
#2425
True enough.One person's collaborator is another person's pragmatic realist.
Thu, 2024-03-21 22:04
#2426
I'd characterize Mohammad Mustafa as being a pragmatic realist and not a collaborator. I guess pragmatists and realism are in the eye of the beholder?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad_Mustafa_(economist)
Mohammad Mustafa (Arabic: محمد عبد الله محمد مصطفى "السفاريني") is a Palestinian economist and politician who is the current prime minister of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority. He previously served as the Chairman of the Board of the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF), Senior Economic Advisor to President Mahmoud Abbas and an Independent member of the Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.[1]
Mustafa was widely tipped to become the prime minister of Palestine, following the resignation of Mohammad Shtayyeh in February 2024.[2] Previously, he had served as Deputy Prime Minister of Palestine (Governments #15 & 16, 2013–2014) and as Minister of National Economy of Palestine (Government #16, 2014).[3]
Mustafa has extensive international experience with government, global institutions, and academia, having spent over 15 years in senior positions across different sectors at the World Bank Group in Washington, D.C. As a prominent expert on investment and economic affairs, Mustafa spent two years as economic advisor to the Government of Kuwait on economic reform and two years as advisor to the Public Investment Fund in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Thu, 2024-03-21 22:08
#2427
He sounds like someone who could be part of establishing a permanent peace agreement with Israel. Very different from Hamas.
Fri, 2024-03-22 08:10
#2428
Two-state solution? In the real world:
BREAKING: Israeli Govt Declares 8,000 Dunams in Jordan Valley as State Lands
This declaration supplements the announcement of 2,640 dunams on February 29, near the settlement of Ma’ale Adumim. The size of the area designated for declaration is the largest since the Oslo Accords, and the year 2024 marks a peak in the extent of declarations of state land.
https://x.com/peacenowisrael/status/1771134641409536193?s=20
Fri, 2024-03-22 09:38
#2429
Protesters interrupt gallery event in Prague
A group of protesters interrupted an event at the Czech National Gallery in Prague to protest against Israel's war on Gaza, Anadolu reports.
“Good evening, everyone, on behalf of the Prague Art Collective, we interrupt the opening. Six months ago, in October 2023, I was an exhibitor here. And today, I'm standing here asking for a minute of your attention, Yara Abu Aataya, a Prague-based content designer said during the event's open speeches.
Aataya said she is from Gaza, and her family is still in the enclave.
Fri, 2024-03-22 13:23
#2430
Equality in Palestine Means Rectifying Past Injustice
quote:
In a recent article for Jacobin, Ben Burgis argues against calling all Israelis “settlers” and questions the usefulness of the analytical opposition between Israeli settlers and indigenous Palestinians to make sense of what is wrong with Zionism. He claims that some Palestine solidarity activists are saying that Israelis should be displaced from the contested territory because their presence there is illegitimate. They are indulging in the “anti-Zionism of fools,” according to Burgis, by countering the “blood and soil” of Zionists with equally dubious claims on the part of Palestinians.
Burgis hopes this group of activists is relatively small, and he wants to set the record straight for the Left: the problem with Zionism isn’t that they are making illegitimate claims about the land, but that they assert that “anyone’s status or rights in the area where they live depend on their ethnicity or religion or where their ancestors lived.” Burgis claims that the Left can forgo making a parallel argument on behalf of Palestinians and instead make more principled and universal appeal to equal rights regardless of religion, ethnicity, or ancestral origin.
I share Burgis’s aim of making a universalistic argument for a democratic state in historic Palestine, where people of all ethnicities and religions would have equal rights. But I disagree with his claim that we should discard indigeneity and related concepts in trying to understand what is wrong with the Zionist project. The settler-colonial analysis does not imply what Burgis fears, and it does a better job of clarifying the substance of a universalist alternative than the view he advocates.
quote:
Settler colonialism, and by extension the language of indigeneity and settlers, describes two different relationships that Israelis and Palestinians have to the state of Israel, and to the political project that enables the inclusion of one group at the expense of the other. What using the language of settler-colonization does is make it clear that this structural relationship entails a set of duties and obligations with respect to the history of displacement that created the unequal relationship in the first place. Namely, it implies that Palestinians have the right of return, and Israelis have an obligation to accommodate that right.
It is the Israeli state that is illegitimate and political support for it that is wrong. The Israeli state is engaged in a violent settler project for which there is abundant political support both among the representatives of the Israeli people in their government, including current West Bank settlers, and throughout the population. In this context, one cannot have equal rights without the right of return.
What is especially important is that Israelis by and large reject equal rights for Palestinians because they reject the right of return, as it would challenge the demographic basis of the setter project. So it is misleading to say that the problem with Zionism is that it asserts the obscene premise that “anyone’s status or rights in the area where they live depend on their ethnicity or religion or where their ancestors lived.” Zionism is wrong not just for this reason, but because of how the Israeli state pursues political supremacy by way of demographic and territorial control — now manifesting in the form of its genocide in Gaza.....
Fri, 2024-03-22 14:10
#2431
epaulo, are you also making those same demands of the rest of the world including Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Iran, the UAE, Qatar, Afghanistan, Pakistan, etc...? And if not, why not?
Fri, 2024-03-22 14:18
#2432
epaulo, you say Israel shouldn't exist as it's people want it to exist and then you say that not accepting the existence of Israel as it's people want it to exist within international law is not an issue in the conflict. epaulo, it seems like your position is self contradictory. The crux of this conflict is obviously the non acceptence of Israel's right to exist as its people want it to exist within international law.
Fri, 2024-03-22 15:08
#2433
This isn't Nazi Germany...(&vid)
https://twitter.com/s_m_marandi/status/1771206590848205254
"Please people, please world SAVE GAZA and SAVE THE CHILDREN OF GAZA!"
#GazaHolocaust
Fri, 2024-03-22 15:14
#2434
This isn't Nazi Germany...(&vid)
"Please people, please world SAVE GAZA and SAVE THE CHILDREN OF GAZA!"
#GazaHolocaust
Not Nazi Germany.
Not the Holocaust.
This is antisemitism.
Fri, 2024-03-22 15:19
#2435
Re: #2432
No such disgusting murderous, colonialist, apartheid state that viciously attacks the true Indigenous owners, stealing their land, and massively violating multiple resolutions of international law, should never, ever, have a 'right to exist.'
Fri, 2024-03-22 15:30
#2436
Re: #2432
No such disgusting murderous, colonialist, apartheid state that viciously attacks the true Indigenous owners, stealing their land, and massively violating multiple resolutions of international law, should never, ever, have a 'right to exist.'
And people still try to say the crux of the conflict hasn't been the idea that Israel should not exist?!?!? Violent opposition to Israel’s existence started decades before the occupation. Violent opposition to the right of Jews to have the right of self determination within the British Mandate started long before Israel was even established by the UN.
Fri, 2024-03-22 16:37
#2437
There is nothing we can do about Israel other than everything
The Israeli and U.S.-funded genocide of Palestinians has catalyzed a moment of global reckoning. This moment is an echo of 2020 when the racial justice uprisings following George Floyd’s murder offered a moment of reckoning in the United States.
The horror that Palestinians are enduring is beyond comprehension. As the world witnesses the genocide in Gaza unfolding in real-time on social media, many of us who are watching are saying – there is no coming back from this. The experiment of the Israeli state is over. Israel is showing the world that Zionism is an undistilled form of Western imperialism that requires this level of slaughter to maintain itself.
Police murdering Black people with impunity was not new or unique within the U.S., nor is Israel’s intentional destruction and ethnic cleansing new or unique to Palestine. Genocide is fundamental to how the West holds power, and the brutal strategy is repeated, seen and unseen all over the world.
quote:
There is a rift
In this moment, after 75 years of brutal occupation, Zionism is showing the world what is necessary to continue its project: complete annihilation of the Palestinian people. The Zionist system requires white supremacy, direct violence, and monetary and political support from the United States. In this moment, we are all implicated, and there is a rift and an opportunity in that. People of conscience, particularly those of us in the United States have a dual responsibility: to do everything we can to stop the genocide and to develop a longer-term strategy that contends with the most fundamental questions of the U.S. state, capitalism, Zionism, and rising fascism. The truth is we cannot do one without the other.
quote:
Today, we are witnessing another, potentially deeper rift.
October 7 exposed not only Israel and Zionism but the Western colonial imperialist project as a whole. The rift is a recognition that countries like the U.S. and UK’s continued efforts to exploit, control, oppress, and occupy many parts of the world, from Africa to Asia to South America, are linked and require a genocidal, authoritarian fascism to continue. Zionism, often misunderstood as a religious framework, is actually a colonial, legal, and social framework that asserts Israel’s right to exist at the expense of the Palestinian people and their land. Massive numbers have mobilized in streets around the world in the last five months in response to the Israeli attacks as movements have mobilized in support of Palestine since 1948. But the forces aligned with Zionism and fascism are also exploiting this moment and using it to expand the police state in direct response to the movement energy that is on the rise.....
Fri, 2024-03-22 16:38
#2438
And people still try to say the crux of the conflict hasn't been the idea that Israel should not exist?!?!?
You know as well as I do that Israel is not going anywhere. You are deliberately ignoring the crux, which is the racist nature of that state.
Remove the racist apartheid aspects of Israel's legal system and constitution, and end their illegal occupation, and the active seizure of more properties. That is the part which should be destroyed. Why should any progressive support racism as valid? I don't.
Fri, 2024-03-22 16:39
#2439
..more.
We are at a crossroads
In the wake of the racial justice uprisings of 2020, organizers asked similar questions that we ask in this moment. Abolition of police and prisons surfaced more widely as a strategic framework because of the decades of groundwork laid by organizers and strategists who refused to compromise or find a liberal stopgap out of the fundamental crisis of state violence. Similar to contending with the entrenched reality of Israeli occupation, the work to abolish prison systems and police is not a reformist endeavor. Social control mechanisms are embedded in all parts of the current power arrangement in Israel and in the U.S. Like one of the abolition movement leaders, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, says, “Abolition requires that we change one thing: everything.”......
Fri, 2024-03-22 18:11
#2440
epaulo13 wrote:
The experiment of the Israeli state is over.
End of quote.
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epaulo, why do you think Israel is an experiment? Israel is not an “experiment” it is an independent country with all the rights that ensues from that. Israelis are not experimental lab rats that can be exterminated like Jews were during the Holocaust. This kind of thinking for almost a century has fueled the Palestinian - Israeli conflict.
Fri, 2024-03-22 18:24
#2441
6079_Smith_W wrote:
You know as well as I do that Israel is not going anywhere. You are deliberately ignoring the crux, which is the racist nature of that state.
End of quote.
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Tell that to Iran and other countries and militias who are allies with Iran who have all clearly officially stated that they will destroy Israel. Hamas is just an appendage of Iran. How many hundreds of thousands of people has Iran killed directly and indirectly to support their radical ideology? Israel is not going anywhere because they have defended themselves and have maintained a high level of security and defence and understandably they plan on continuing to do so.
Fri, 2024-03-22 19:10
#2442
As I said, ignoring the real point, which is that this is a powerful racist state, which is actively stealing land.
Peace is highly unlikely without a fundamental change in its structure.
And the greatest inconsistency in your spin is that Israel's neighbours have taken the step of recognizing it, and held to that peace in spite of Israel's ongoing atrocities.
Fri, 2024-03-22 19:52
#2443
In Israel governments change hands often since Israel has regularly scheduled competitive fair democratic elections. Israeli elections often cause changes to the status quo in Israel.
Iran and their proxies, Syria. Lebanon, and Yemen, and the many territorist groups they support are neighbours of Israel.
Iranian Axis of Resistance
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axis_of_Resistance
The Axis of Resistance (Persian: محور مقاومت Mehvar–e Moqâvemat;[29] Arabic: محور المقاومة Miḥwar al-Muqāwamah) is an informal Iran-led political and military coalition in West Asia and North Africa.[30][31] It most notably includes the Syrian government, the Lebanese political party and militant group Hezbollah, the Yemeni political and military organization Ansar Allah, and a variety of Palestinian militant groups.[32][33][34]
Despite the alliance members' differing ideologies,[35] they are all unified by their declared objectives of opposing the regional influence of the Western countries; Israel; the Arab countries of the Persian Gulf; and, specifically in the case of the Shia–Sunni divide, certain Sunni Islamists who are perceived as posing a threat to the Iranian ideology of Shia Islamism.[36] The growing political and military influence of the Iranian government throughout the region has played a role in fuelling a number of wars throughout the Arab world, particularly in the context of the Iran–Israel proxy conflict and the Iran–Saudi Arabia proxy conflict, and has thus been cited as one of the main factors driving Arab–Israeli normalization; the equally informal Arab–Israeli alliance emerged between Israel and a number of Arab countries around 2019 in order to address their concerns regarding security threats from Iran or Iranian proxies.
Ali Khamenei, who has served as the Supreme Leader of Iran since 1989, has repeatedly defined the Islamic Republic government as a "resistance government" (i.e., against Western and Israeli influence).[37] Though the Axis of Resistance operates primarily in the Middle East, the Iranian government has attempted to export the alliance's ideology at a global level; Iran and Iran-aligned proxies have attacked Jewish, Israeli, and American organizations abroad. During a meeting with Cuban president Miguel Díaz-Canel in December 2023, Khamenei formally called on the people of Cuba to form a similar coalition against the "bullying" of the United States and other Western countries.[38]
Iran–Israel proxy conflict
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–Israel_proxy_conflict
The Iran–Israel proxy conflict, also known as the Iran–Israel proxy war[53] or Iran–Israel Cold War,[54] is an ongoing proxy conflict between Iran and Israel. In the Israeli–Lebanese conflict, Iran has supported Lebanese Shia militias, most notably Hezbollah. In the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Iran has backed Palestinian groups such as Hamas. Israel has supported Iranian rebels, such as the People's Mujahedin of Iran, conducted airstrikes against Iranian allies in Syria and assassinated Iranian nuclear scientists. In 2018 Israeli forces directly attacked Iranian forces in Syria.[55]
Motivated by the periphery doctrine, Imperial Iran and Israel had close relations, seeing Arab powers as a common threat. After the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran cut off relations, but covert ties continued during the subsequent Iran–Iraq War. Iran trained and armed Hezbollah during Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon, and continued to back Shia militias throughout the Israeli occupation of Southern Lebanon.[56] Even before 1979, Iranian Islamists had materially supported the Palestinians; after 1979 Iran attempted relations with the Palestine Liberation Organization, and later with Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas. Israel fought a war with Hezbollah in 2006. Israel has fought several wars with Palestinians in and around the Gaza Strip: in 2008-2009, 2012, 2014, 2021 and 2023-2024. The 1982 Lebanon War and Israel–Hamas war have been the deadliest wars of the Arab–Israeli conflict.[57]
Various reasons have been given for the Iran-Israel conflict. Iran and Israel had previously enjoyed warm ties due to common threats, but by 1990s the USSR had dissolved and Iraq had been weakened.[58] Iranian Islamists have long championed the Palestinian people, whom they perceive as "oppressed".[59] Scholars believe that by supporting the Palestinians, Iran seeks greater acceptance among Sunnis and Arabs, both of whom dominate the Middle East.[60][61] Ideologically, Iran seeks to replace Israel with a one-state solution and has predicted Israel's demise.[62] Israel sees Iran as an existential threat,[63] and accuses its regime of harboring genocidal intentions.[64] Consequently, Israel has sought sanctions and military action against Iran to stop it from acquiring nuclear weapons.[65]
Fri, 2024-03-22 20:01
#2444
NDPP does a relatively good job here explaining and showing how enemies of Israel want to militarily destroy Israel. So this should come as no surprise here.
Fri, 2024-03-22 20:03
#2445
Yeah, you sure sound like someone who wants peace.
You know I am talking about states which share a border with Israel - Jordan and Egypt.
As well as other states in the region which have recognized Israel, and which have an offer on the table.
Fri, 2024-03-22 20:17
#2446
I agree that peace between Israel and Arab countries has been on the upswing. I think that's wonderful. Arab countries are now opposing Iran much more than they oppose Israel. Israel is becoming an ally of some Arab countries. Hamas is on Iran's side and Iran is on Hamas's side. Israel making peace with Arab countries shows it is open to making peace with Arabs including Palestinians. This shows that Israel would also be willing to support a permanent peace agreement with Palestinian Arabs.
Fri, 2024-03-22 20:20
#2447
It should also be mentioned that before the Iranian Islamic Revolution Israel had very good relations with Iran. Hopefully that can be established again once Iran moves away from extreme fundamentalism.
Fri, 2024-03-22 22:44
#2448
I agree that peace between Israel and Arab countries has been on the upswing. I think that's wonderful. Arab countries are now opposing Iran much more than they oppose Israel. Israel is becoming an ally of some Arab countries. Hamas is on Iran's side and Iran is on Hamas's side. Israel making peace with Arab countries shows it is open to making peace with Arabs including Palestinians. This shows that Israel would also be willing to support a permanent peace agreement with Palestinian Arabs.
It's nice to see when Arab countries get tired of the bullshit.
Sat, 2024-03-23 13:49
#2449
..on the global front. 12 min video.
'Not in Our Name: On Jews Rejecting Zionism' - Passionate speech by Morgan Bassichis of JV
Watch this powerful speech given by the artist, writer and anti-imperial organiser, Morgan Bassichis (@morgankindof), at our recent event in London, where they told the audience about the latest in Jewish anti-Zionist organising in the United States. “American media tries to characterise the massive growth of anti-Zionism amongst American Jews as merely a marginal position amongst young people - but we know better. It is not a generational rift. It is an intergenerational legacy. “We are proud to come from generations of Jews who opposed each and every form of oppression, including Zionism. Who saw Zionism for what it was, a false solution for the crimes of European antisemitism, that would be used to dispossess indigenous Palestinians of their land. Who connected their own activism against racism and patriarchy at home, to wars and colonialism abroad, and saw a common enemy: white supremacy and empire."
Sat, 2024-03-23 14:11
#2450
..the global front.
A ‘no-go zone’ for Jews? The making of a moral panic in London
quote:
“London’s antisemitism shame” was the headline splashed across the front page of the free commuter daily The Evening Standard on March 5, accompanied by a warning that “Jewish families plan to flee capital amid rising tide of hatred.” “London is now a no-go zone for Jews,” proclaimed the front page of the right-wing broadsheet The Daily Telegraph three days later. The liberal online news site The Independent went even further, asserting that British Jews are considering leaving the country altogether, because it “feels like Nazi Germany.”
quote:
But this narrative of London becoming a “no-go zone” for Jews has been deliberately constructed and inflamed. Rather than stemming from concern for Jewish safety, it is being driven by a political agenda: to delegitimize and curtail the mass demonstrations in support of a ceasefire in Gaza that have filled the streets of central London on a near-weekly basis over the past five months.
‘Evil intent’
Despite some mainstream Jewish communal figures dismissing the sensationalist headlines about London as untrue and unhelpful, the established Jewish media and major organizations entrusted with combating antisemitism are continuing to amplify them. Their interests, in effect, align with the Conservative government’s own ambitions to crack down on dissent against Israel’s campaign of ethnic cleansing and starvation in Gaza.
From the very beginning, there has been a concerted effort by government figures, echoed by much of the media commentariat, to create a moral panic around the ceasefire protests. Suella Braverman, who until November served as home secretary, repeatedly smeared the demonstrations as “hate marches.” (Braverman was eventually sacked after accusing the police of bias for not banning the protests altogether — a move that was widely understood as an opening gambit in her own bid for leadership of the Conservative party, with Labour expected to take power later this year.)......
Sat, 2024-03-23 14:23
#2451
Unfortunately it sounds like antisemitism is on the upswing in London and other parts of the UK.