Israel’s Genocide in Gaza | 2023- till present
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UN: Israel broke international law with tank shelling that killed [Reuters] journalist in Lebanon
An Israeli tank that killed a Reuters journalist and wounded six others in Lebanon last year fired two 120mm rounds at a group of “clearly identifiable journalists” in violation of international law, a UN investigation has found.
The investigation by the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (Unifil), summarized in a report seen by Reuters, said its personnel did not record any exchange of fire across the border between Israel and Lebanon for more than 40 minutes before the tank opened fire, killing Issam Abdallah, a 37-year-old video journalist.
“The firing at civilians, in this instance clearly identifiable journalists, constitutes a violation of UNSCR 1701 (2006) and international law,” the Unifil report said, referring to security council resolution 1701.
Israel broke international law with tank shelling that killed journalist, UN finds
IDF fired two rounds at ‘clearly identifiable journalists’ in Lebanon last year when there was no exchange of fire in area
www.theguardian.com
Meengla
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I don't know if this is authentic or not but is funny for sure. Kind of like a Reverse Rapture.
Khansaheeb
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Your ancestors were exiled from Egypt when the Sun God Worshippers were dethroned by the idol worshippers. You have been refugees and migrants since then seeking greener pastures elsewhere until the Nazis victimised you. Unfortunately for the Palestinians your orignal message of the people to return to their promised land of Armana changed to promised land of Palestine as that is where your religion evolved while in exile. Then foreign invaders caused you as refugees to flee. That is your basic history and everything else is contortion of the truth. As can be seen from the Israeli statements you people are natural born liars a tool you picked up for your survival.The ‘settler colonialists’ of Palestine
The anti-Israel epithet is a misdiagnosis that inverts the truth: It was the Jews who were exiled from their native land
MAR 11, 2024, 3:07 PM
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'Next Year in Jerusalem,' a page in the Amsterdam Passover Haggadah, 1741, from the Haggadah collection at the National Library of Israel. (Courtesy NLI)
Among the litany of accusations that have been aimed lately at the State of Israel, an increasingly frequent one has been that of “settler colonialism.” This term is usually defined as the displacement of a country’s native or indigenous population by a colonial state, usually by military means. If true, then Israel would thereby join many distinguished fellow countries, including the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and others.
In the case of these other countries, there is actually some historical basis for this finger-pointing. What can be done practically to remedy the situation today is, of course, less clear. But only Israel is expected to reverse its supposed status as a settler colonialist state basically by disappearing.
Clearly, the negative impact of settler colonialism on indigenous native populations can be real, but in the case of Israel, this is a gross misdiagnosis. An honest analysis of the history of Israel/Palestine actually points to the conclusion that it is the Jews who are the true native indigenous population of the region and who have been forcibly exiled for more than 2,000 years.
An unbiased analysis of history will indeed accept the description of genuine settler colonialism in the Middle East but with a serious misidentification of the true victim of this injustice. The Jewish People have the longest consistent history as the legitimate native indigenous nation in the territory under question. The Jews began their romance with this land several hundred years BCE, even before they built the Jewish Temple on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Since then Jews have, on numerous occasions, been subject to military assault, eviction and banishment from their homeland.
One may start with the Assyrian invasion in 722 BCE, followed by the Babylonian invasion in the sixth century BCE. But these stubborn Jewish natives returned only 70 years later to repopulate the land and rebuild their temple, speaking their original language, celebrating their holidays as before and trying again.
Next, it was the Seleucid Greeks who sent their colonial armies to expel the Jews in 200 BCE. The holiday of Hanukkah, still celebrated today more than 2,000 years on by Jews around the world, commemorates the successful Jewish revolt against these usurpers.
The Greeks, however, were replaced soon enough by the all-powerful Roman Empire under which the Jews enjoyed a kind of sovereignty under kings like Herod the Great. Soon enough, however, the Jews revolted against the all-powerful Romans and despite some initial success, were finally defeated. (All this is described in fascinating detail in The Jewish War by the Roman-Jewish historian, Josephus).
Their expulsion in 64 AD was considered such a major event that the Roman emperor, Titus, celebrated the victory by erecting an impressive arch in Rome, still visited today, decorated with the religious symbols of Judaism, so that all could enjoy this great triumph.
Arch of Titus. Wikimedia Commons.
But again the stubborn Jewish nation did not give up and for the next two millennia continued its attachment to its land, an unmatched unique love affair with the land as part and parcel of its religion, its culture and language, until it finally returned with the almost miraculous creation of the current state of Israel. During these more than 2,000 years the Jews lived in “exile,” their “Diaspora,” all over the world, but they never forgot their homeland.
Daily prayers and holidays attest to this eternal attachment to the land. For example, in the festive Seder meal at Passover, Jews around the world, and for two millennia, sing out “Next year in Jerusalem.”
The actual Jewish population in historic Israel fluctuated, depending on the whims of the (truly) colonial overlords (sometimes Arabs, Crusaders, Turks, and later the British). At times the population reached several hundred thousand and at times it was as low as several hundred. The different colonial invaders took turns persecuting these stubborn natives, evicting them and using varied forcible means to prevent their return
Over the centuries different groups of Jews tried with varying success to purchase homes and land in Israel, but invariably these attempts were frustrated by the colonialists of the times. Hundreds, and perhaps thousands of synagogues in Israel were destroyed by the various colonialists regnant at the time. During all of these years, the exiled Jews, whether in London or Baghdad, in Paris or Yemen, in Warsaw or New Zealand, pined for their homeland, faced toward it in their prayers, called their children by biblical Hebrew names and celebrated their traditional holidays. For its part, Islam did not come to the Holy Land until the 8th century, and their leaders immediately banned entry of Jews to the Jews’ holiest place, the Temple Mount, over which (as in the case of Hagi Sophia in Istanbul, originally a giant church) Muslims built the huge and glorious Al Aksa mosque.
The entire civilized world recognized “Palestine” as the Jewish homeland. When Jews were expelled from various European countries, the frequent cry by antisemitic mobs was “Get out of our country – go back to Palestine.” Unfortunately, Jews’ return to their homeland was usually prevented by forces in Palestine.
Many attempts by Jews in small numbers to return were unsuccessful over the centuries for a variety of reasons. Then in the 18th century, some rabbis with a messianic dream in mind began to come to live in Jerusalem and Safed in homes they purchased in what they considered to be holy cities. These were not pioneers, successful in an economic sense, but rather a sort of attempt to realize some spark, initiation or heralding of the fulfillment of the messianic era, as promised by the biblical prophets. More pragmatic immigrants to Israel emerged in the 19th century as part of a Zionist political movement. By the end of the 19th century, Jews were the majority of the population in Jerusalem and Safed.
Prior to 1948 with the creation of the State of Israel and its war with several invading Arab armies, all attempts by Jews to come back to their homeland were always by peaceful means, unlike almost all colonial movements. Lands were purchased often at exorbitant prices from the local population. Interestingly, Arab leaders in Palestine were generally the ones who sold land to the Jewish settlers.
Unlike most colonial movements, the Jewish settlers did not want to recreate colonies in the image of the culture from which they emigrated: no colonies named New London or New Amsterdam. Instead, they resurrected names from their 2,000-year history: Beer Sheva, Rehovot and the like. They came to revive their historic native culture. They came with their historic holidays, their biblical customs and their ancient language. Their revival of a biblical language into a language of daily use is unmatched in world history. Also, unlike many other colonial movements, they did not come to Israel to exploit it, they came to contribute to the restoration and development of their recovered homeland.
The Zionists returning to Israel did not come to replace native indigenous populations. They themselves were the real natives and the indigenous population of the land of Israel. Let us bury once and for all the slanderous charges against the State of Israel as representing the colonial part of the phrase “settler colonialism”.
Had the Arab inhabitants of Palestine welcomed the Zionist immigrants instead of attacking them, the Middle East country would really have become a Garden of Eden instead of a recurrent battlefield. It is never too late to begin.
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The author expresses his appreciation for the thoughtful insights and editing by his colleague, Professor Mark Clarfield.
Khansaheeb
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Disgusting Nazis stop food for civilians in Occupied Palestine:-
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Palestinains still mauling IDF;-
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A message from one of the wounded in the Kuwait Roundabout massacre: “It is enough that October 7 was recorded in history, and a generation after us will come and say that there were people here who stepped on the necks of the Jews.” A young man talks about steadfastness despite his injury during a massacre committed by the Zionist occupation army against the Palestinians who were waiting for aid to arrive.
In Gaza last night
In Gaza last night
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Urgent | Al-Qassam Brigades: Our mujahideen targeted a Zionist troop carrier with a shock device and its surroundings with a TBG shell in Hamad Town, north of Khan Yunis.
Urgent | Al-Quds Brigades: We targeted Zionist military vehicles with anti-tank missiles north of Madinat Al-Zahra in the Central Governorate
Urgent | Al-Qassam Brigades: Our mujahideen targeted a Zionist troop carrier and a tank with Al-Yassin 105 and Tandom shells in Hamad Town in Khan Yunis.
Urgent | Al-Quds Brigades: Our Mujahideen confirmed that a Zionist force was killed and wounded during a zero-distance clash in the Central Governorate.
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Urgent | Al-Quds Brigades: We targeted Zionist military vehicles with anti-tank missiles north of Madinat Al-Zahra in the Central Governorate
Urgent | Al-Qassam Brigades: Our mujahideen targeted a Zionist troop carrier and a tank with Al-Yassin 105 and Tandom shells in Hamad Town in Khan Yunis.
Urgent | Al-Quds Brigades: Our Mujahideen confirmed that a Zionist force was killed and wounded during a zero-distance clash in the Central Governorate.
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Urgent | Netanyahu: We are waging a diplomatic campaign to give us time to achieve our military goals, and this passes through one path, which is the United States.
Urgent | Netanyahu: We are determined to finish the mission in #Rafah after evacuating civilians
@AJABreaking
Urgent | The White House: We have not seen Israel’s plan regarding #Rafah, and we would like to know it
Urgent | The White House: We cannot support a large-scale military operation in #Rafah in a way that does not guarantee the security of more than a million people there
@AJABreaking
Urgent | Netanyahu: We are determined to finish the mission in #Rafah after evacuating civilians
@AJABreaking
Urgent | The White House: We have not seen Israel’s plan regarding #Rafah, and we would like to know it
Urgent | The White House: We cannot support a large-scale military operation in #Rafah in a way that does not guarantee the security of more than a million people there
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Snipers of the #Qassam_Brigades in Gaza are creative in using the home-made #Ghoul rifle to snipe soldiers and officers of the #Israeli-Zionist enemy army
#Gaza_no_breakfast_and_suhoor #Friday_night #Ramadan_season #Gaza_al-Azza #Al-Aqsa_Flood
#Gaza_no_breakfast_and_suhoor #Friday_night #Ramadan_season #Gaza_al-Azza #Al-Aqsa_Flood
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