After Ceasefire, Israel Turns on Regular Target — Jenin
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/01/24/after-ceasefire-israel-turns-on-regular-target-jenin/
After the Israeli attacks this week on the Jenin refugee camp, Maha Nassar focuses on why the camp is a common target of Israeli offensives and a center of Palestinian militant resistance. By Maha Nassar University of Arizona, The Conversation…
#Politics #Colonialism #Commentary #Gaza #Israel #Palestine #U.s. #UntilThisDayHistoricalPerspectivesOnTheNews #1948ArabIsraeliWar #1993OsloAccords #AlAqsaMartyrsBrigade #ArmedResistance #BlackPanthers #Fatah #FirstIntifada #Hamas #IsraeliSettlers #JeninBrigades #JeninRefugeeCamp #MahaNassar #OccupiedWestBank #PalestinianAuthority(pa) #SecondIntifada #U.n.ReliefAndWorksAgency(unrwa)
#FirstIntifada
(1/2) There is no perfect way to date the start of the #FirstIntifada in #Palestine but #ThisDayInHistory in 1987 is a good contender. The mass popular uprising began with the youth who grew up under #occupation, was largely #nonviolent at first, and casualties stayed one-sided..
The Chris Hedges Report: Catastrophe in the Middle East
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/10/01/the-chris-hedges-report-catastrophe-in-the-middle-east/
“Israel is going all the way and doing anything possible to push Hezbollah to go for an all out war,“ Israeli journalist Gideon Levy says in this interview. By Chris Hedges Scheerpost It has become quite rare to hear any…
#Politics #Commentary #HumanRights #Israel #Lebanon #Militarism #Palestine #Terrorism #AmiraHass #ChrisHedges #EthnicCleansing #FirstIntifada #GideonLevy #IsraelGaza2023War #IsraeliApartheid #IsraeliPrimeMinisterBenjaminNetanyahu #Oct.7 #PalestinianAuthority #TwoStateSolution #YitzhakRabin #Zionism
⬆️ #EcstasyAndAmnesia #GazaStrip
The common and deeper meaning to all was that #Israel’s enemies needed to be protected from the consequences of THEIR defeat in the wars THEY initiated and LOST.
It’s notable that this doesn’t seem to have happened in #Arab-#Israeli wars where #eliminationism didn’t feature in the rhetoric or the stated motivations—#Suez in 1956, #YomKippur in 1973, the #FirstIntifada wars in #Lebanon.
But it certainly happened in the wars that began in 1947, 1967, & 2000
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@Alexandrad1
⬆️ Not #whataboutism but correct response to your #grievance:
>> If #media cared…about "both sides" & objectivity… we would be better informed about what is going on in #Gaza & #WestBank
You WANT #bothsidesism, not true reporting. Media IS biased, but in the OPPOSITE direction to what you claim.
Since #FirstIntifada, I've never seen coverage of #causeAndEffect, only the effect, which is plight of #Palestinians
For true "both sides" see ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111518104428222810
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>> A regime of Jewish supremacy from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea: This is apartheid
Have you been living under a rock through the #FirstIntifada and #SecondIntifada, particularly the latter?
>> we are somehow supposed to support Jewish claims to the land based on the Torah and therefore we should be okay with the massive displacement, murder, and pillage that characterized the formation of the state of Israel?
Even ignoring #Bible and #Torah ➡️ https://mastodon.social/@rameshgupta/111494007586354401
