Gaza under attack yet again.

[two sheds]

Unless he's one of the more liberal politicians who will be taking charge.

Oh look

Far-right politician would be Israel’s next PM in proposed deal

Yair Lapid says Naftali Bennett would serve first in proposed post-Netanyahu power-sharing deal

www.theguardian.com

 

[Shechemite]

Fucks sake

 

[Raheem]

I don't claim to have anything above fuck all understanding of this. However, Netantyahu is such an embodiment of self-serving corruption that I'm not sure it would be worse, and maybe it will give Biden an opportunity to break with the US tradition of guarded encouragement of Israeli violence for a bit.

 

[likesfish]

Israel has got every right to defend itself when it is attacked! If someone fired 3000 missiles at your country would you fight back or not?

What it doesn't have is the right to murder and collectively punish Palestinians, journalists, and aid workers .
When Tommy Robinson stands with you. A rational person would take a long hard look at themselves.
This latest round of culling of Palestinians. Kicked off when somebody decided the best way to celebrate Ramadan was a volley of stun grenades and CS gas into the mosque in Jerusalem you know the 2nd holiest site in Islam .

Now if Israel had used drones to kill a few Hamas officials bastard but par for the course.
Jdams and artillery into urban areas is a murder spree.

 

[RileyOBlimey]

Fucks sake

Speaking to an activist from a Palestinian family living in the West Bank they aren’t fussed as they historically the right wing governments in Israel kill less Palestinians than the relative left ones. I haven’t done the maths.

 

[Pickman's model]

Speaking to an activist from a Palestinian family living in the West Bank they aren’t fussed as they historically the right wing governments in Israel kill less Palestinians than the relative left ones. I haven’t done the maths.

so the further right the zionist government perhaps the better?

now that is counter-intuitive

 

[likesfish]

Yeah bit like the C of E the more they dress like the pope the nicer they are.
The ones in chrismmasy jumpers with the electric guitar way more intolerant

 

[RileyOBlimey]

so the further right the zionist government perhaps the better?

now that is counter-intuitive

Their logic was that less right wing governments can bank on the support of the further right parties AND some support from their “moderate” base in their crimes. Plus the right, while generally more fervent in their violence, are not as competent.

 

[frogwoman]

Just seen a very depressing pro settler website arguing that the Palestinians are actually the ones doing the settlements. It be funny if it wasn't so fucked

 

[frogwoman]

I mean if you read this type of stuff regularly you'd come away with that impression . I think they've spoken at events in the UK too

 

[hitmouse]

Just seen Crimethinc have a new report from Haifa up as well:

The Revolt in Haifa: An Eyewitness Report

An anonymous participant documents and discusses the revolt of May 2021 in Haifa and the surrounding area—and the far-right violence and repression.

crimethinc.com

 

[teqniq]

Lancet retracts publication of a letter from concerned healthcare professionals after threats to boycott the journal:

Political censorship in academic journals sets a dangerous new precedent - The BMJ

The academic community must develop a strong position to shield journals, their editors, and staff, against pressure to enforce censorship. In March 2020, The Lancet published a letter we wrote [...]More...

blogs.bmj.com

 

[teqniq]

Whilst events directly connected to Gaza have ceased, beatings and persecution are still commonplace elsewhere (videos in thread):

 

[frogwoman]

Oh ffs one of those 'Jerusalem Day' marches is now going on again after being banned last week

 

[frogwoman]

 

[Gramsci]

Ten Myths About Israel

In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.The “ten myths” that Pappe explores—repeated...

www.versobooks.com

Got this email from Verso Pappe book Ten Myths of Israel is free E book version for a while.

I read it some time ago. It is interesting view from Israeli Jew who grew up in the new state. The myths are what he was taught when he grew up in Israel. Later as historian he took critical view of the foundation of the state of Israel. Its a good to the point readable account from someone on the ground so to speak. Rather than outside view of Israel.

 

[oryx]

Israel strikes in Gaza after fire balloons launched

It is the first major flare-up since a ceasefire ended a conflict between Israel and Hamas in May.

www.bbc.co.uk

Breaking news. Fucking hell.

 

[oryx]

Israel carries out Gaza Strip airstrike after militants release incendiary balloons

Fragile truce under threat after attack on the Palestinian enclave and violence amid Jewish ultranationalists parade through East Jerusalem

www.theguardian.com

Bit more about the context here.

 

[two sheds]

Always always Israel responds to Palestinian violence when actually it's the other way round.

Earlier in the day, Israeli police fired rubber-tipped bullets at Palestinians protesting against a march by Jewish ultranationalists through Arab neighbourhoods of Jerusalem.

At one point, several dozen young men and teenagers, jumping in their air, chanted: “Death to Arabs!” Palestinian medics said Israeli police had wounded more than 30 people protesting against the parade.

 

[TopCat]

Oh ffs one of those 'Jerusalem Day' marches is now going on again after being banned last week

A new day and a new govt and the same old shit.

 

[teqniq]

This is just disgusting from the Israeli Prime Minister's spokesperson for the Arab media:

 

[Chilli.s]

Anyone notice that Israeli politicians seem to be a bunch of racist natzis?

 

[Knotted]

This is just disgusting from the Israeli Prime Minister's spokesperson for the Arab media:

You'd expect that sort of thing from the Israeli far right, but this guy's a diplomat ffs.

 

[yield]

How Israel Helped to Spawn Hamas
WSJ. Jan. 24, 2009
Moshav Tekuma, Israel

Surveying the wreckage of a neighbor's bungalow hit by a Palestinian rocket, retired Israeli official Avner Cohen traces the missile's trajectory back to an "enormous, stupid mistake" made 30 years ago.

"Hamas, to my great regret, is Israel's creation," says Mr. Cohen, a Tunisian-born Jew who worked in Gaza for more than two decades. Responsible for religious affairs in the region until 1994, Mr. Cohen watched the Islamist movement take shape, muscle aside secular Palestinian rivals and then morph into what is today Hamas, a militant group that is sworn to Israel's destruction.

Instead of trying to curb Gaza's Islamists from the outset, says Mr. Cohen, Israel for years tolerated and, in some cases, encouraged them as a counterweight to the secular nationalists of the Palestine Liberation Organization and its dominant faction, Yasser Arafat's Fatah. Israel cooperated with a crippled, half-blind cleric named Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, even as he was laying the foundations for what would become Hamas. Sheikh Yassin continues to inspire militants today; during the recent war in Gaza, Hamas fighters confronted Israeli troops with "Yassins," primitive rocket-propelled grenades named in honor of the cleric.

 

[Dystopiary]

Anyone notice that Israeli politicians seem to be a bunch of racist natzis?

There are a lot of racists and very unpleasant people among them for sure, but I don't think it's appropriate to call them that.

 

[CNT36]

Ten Myths About Israel

In this groundbreaking book, published on the fiftieth anniversary of the Occupation, the outspoken and radical Israeli historian Ilan Pappe examines the most contested ideas concerning the origins and identity of the contemporary state of Israel.The “ten myths” that Pappe explores—repeated...

www.versobooks.com

Got this email from Verso Pappe book Ten Myths of Israel is free E book version for a while.

I read it some time ago. It is interesting view from Israeli Jew who grew up in the new state. The myths are what he was taught when he grew up in Israel. Later as historian he took critical view of the foundation of the state of Israel. Its a good to the point readable account from someone on the ground so to speak. Rather than outside view of Israel.

I read his Ethnic cleansing of Palestine a few years ago. I haven't read 10 myths but imagine it covers some similar ground especially around 1948.

 

[David Clapson]

There are a lot of racists and very unpleasant people among them for sure, but I don't think it's appropriate to call them that.

A lot of the people who unthinkingly criticise all Israelis are falling into the trap of anti-semitism, perhaps without realising it. I try to encourage them to read Haaretz.com so they can grasp that there are pro-Palestine Jews everywhere, including in Israel and the Knesset and the IDF. It's such an obvious point that it shouldn't need explaining, but you hear it everywhere.

(The Haaretz paywall can be beaten with a Chrome/Firefox extension iamadamdev - Overview).

 

[BillRiver]

A lot of the people who unthinkingly criticise all Israelis are falling into the trap of anti-semitism, perhaps without realising it. I try to encourage them to read Haaretz.com so they can grasp that there are pro-Palestine Jews everywhere, including in Israel and the Knesset and the IDF. It's such an obvious point that it shouldn't need explaining, but you hear it everywhere.

(The Haaretz paywall can be beaten with a Chrome/Firefox extension iamadamdev - Overview).

In the IDF?

 

[bimble]

In the IDF?

You’re probably aware of this org:

Breaking the Silence › The Organization

Breaking the Silence is an organization of veteran soldiers who have served in the Israeli military since the start of the Second Intifada and have taken it upon themselves to expose the public to the reality of everyday life in the Occupied Territories. We endeavor to stimulate public debate...

www.breakingthesilence.org.il

 

[David Clapson]

Of course. They have National Service and conscription, for men and women. Being in the IDF has turned quite a few people into pacifists. How can you not know that? Don't you read books or newspapers or go to the cinema?