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Colter Louwerse

1 year

My latest, for @MiddleEastEye “After decades of abuse, the prevailing paradigm has morphed into the grotesque, as Palestinian rights are interminably held hostage by a bad-faith negotiator”.

Israel has rejected every offer from Palestinians for a two-state solution

Pegging the fulfilment of Palestinian rights to a negotiated agreement Israel is committed to ensuring never happens has enabled the occupation to relentlessly march on

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1 month

Has there ever been another country in modern history with an active protest movement *against* providing starving people with food and medical aid?

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

1 month

Israeli right wing activists blocked aid trucks which were on their way to Gaza today at the Tarqumiya crossing in the West Bank

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If the Liberals will "pause funding" for UNRWA while investigation of its employees is ongoing, shouldn't it "pause funding" for the IDF while a genocide investigation is ongoing? Canada severs aid to starving Palestinians, but not to the army responsible for starving them.

Heather McPherson

@HMcPhersonMP

5 months

Liberals stop funding to UNRWA, a lifeline for millions innocent civilians, the day ICJ ruled there is risk of genocide in Gaza. Children will die b/c of 🇨🇦 decision. Why are Canada’s Liberals siding with the Conservatives to abandon Palestinians in their greatest hour of need?

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4 months

Take note: Israel's entire mainstream political spectrum—Netanyahu, Gantz, Lapid—flatly reject the international legal parameters for an independent Palestinian state. It may shock Westerners, but Hamas has a more moderate stance towards the two-state settlement than Israel.

Itay Epshtain

@EpshtainItay

4 months

BREAKING: #Israel 's Channel 13 News reports an overnight Cabinet meeting in which #Netanyahu presented a position paper on (opposing) a #Palestinian state. So far no news here, but the fact that Benny #Gantz - considered by too many as a political alternative - says "For the

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@ColterL

3 months

If we lived in a world with a scintilla of reason or justice, this would put to bed—forever—the debate about whether Israel targets Palestinian civilians for murder. But we don't live in that world.

Muhammad Shehada

@muhammadshehad2

3 months

🚨Leaked Israeli drone footage shows how Israel bombed 5 *clearly unarmed* civilians into pieces in Khan Younis in broad daylight as they walked through their destroyed neighbourhood The drone shows how each of them was fully unarmed before they were bombed anyways

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@ColterL

8 months

Today the UN General Assembly passed by a large margin a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. It also rejected a Canadian amendment to the resolution, condemning Hamas. Regrettably, most reporting on the Canadian amendment is misleading to the point of being sinister. 🧵

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@UN

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120 in favor 14 against 45 abstentions Countries adopt resolution calling for immediate & sustained humanitarian truce in the Middle East during an Emergency Special Session of #UNGA .

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3 months

If you happen to be looking for the article @MouinRabbani mentions in this debate clip, demonstrating the PLO’s acceptance of the two-state settlement in 1976, it’s here:

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@ColterL

1 month

The claim that Israel "offered to accept back" 300,000 Palestinians in 1949 is flat out false. In reality, Israel offered to allow 75,000 (10%) of the refugees to return, an offer even US negotiators considered totally insufficient.

Jacob Ben-David Linker 🪬🕎✡️🕎🪬

@JacobALinker

1 month

Ultimately, what is unique about the Nakba is not 1948 but 1949. The Israelis offered to accept back ~300,000 people conditioned on peace agreements with the Arab States. The US was willing to invest millions to build homes for 200,000 people in the Jordan Valley. And for

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5 months

The claim by @OmarBaddar was that Shlomo Ben-Ami was on record asserting that, were he a Palestinian, he would have turned down Camp David. He was correct. Here’s the relevant quote in Ben-Ami’s latest book, Prophets Without Honour (p. 187). @TheOmniLiberal is obfuscating.

Destiny

@TheOmniLiberal

5 months

Mate, you offered to "educate" me on the topic and then proceeded to run from literally every single fact when you realized how unbelievably out of your depth you were on the topic. Adding "Palestinian" to your profile doesn't actually confer any knowledge on the topic.

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5 months

Every time one points out that Israel is starving Palestinians, there's a wave of comments parroting the Israeli claim that, actually, its HAMAS that's stealing all the aid. Except, even senior US officials admit, Israel has provided *zero* evidence to support that claim.

Colter Louwerse

@ColterL

5 months

If the Liberals will "pause funding" for UNRWA while investigation of its employees is ongoing, shouldn't it "pause funding" for the IDF while a genocide investigation is ongoing? Canada severs aid to starving Palestinians, but not to the army responsible for starving them.

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8 months

The actual, utterly cynical, motive behind the Canadian amendment was to run interference for Israel as it continues to massacre the people of Gaza. Given the way the Canadian press has covered this, it succeeded. TLDR: The blood of the people of Gaza is on Canada’s hands.

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@ColterL

2 months

Israel: “UN Security Council condemnation for thee, not me”.

Barak Ravid

@BarakRavid

2 months

BREAKING: Israel calls for an emergency meeting of the UN security council over the Iranian attack

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@ColterL

8 months

In other words, the idea being flouted that Canada was standing up for Israeli victims whose murderers the UN General Assembly refused to condemn is flat out false. The Pakistani ambassador put it well: 6/

Martin Konečný

@MartinKonecny

8 months

Worth a watch: Pakistan’s ambassador to the UN criticising Canada's amendment to the UNGA resolution on Gaza, solely condemning Hamas. All Western states voted for the amendment that nevertheless failed to pass.

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@ColterL

6 months

Yet another MK from Israel’s ruling party openly defends Israel’s starvation policy: “Without hunger and thirst among the Gazan population, we will not be able to recruit collaborators, … we will not be able to bribe people, with food, drink, medicine.”

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@KnessetT

8 months

"בלי רעב וצמא אצל האוכלוסייה העזתית לא נצליח לגייס משת"פ, לא נצליח לגייס מודיעין, לא נצליח לשחד אנשים, באוכל, בשתייה, בתרופות, כדי להשיג מודיעין ואנחנו יודעים שמציאת החטופים היא מטרה עליונה וסופר חשובה לצד מטרות הלחימה." - כך אמרה ח"כ טלי גוטליב במליאת הכנסת @TallyGotliv

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Colter Louwerse

@ColterL

8 months

Incidentally, Canadian ambassadors @BobRae48 ’s implication that the Arab draft resolution failed to address the “hostage taking, still underway”, is false. The draft clearly and unambiguously calls for the “immediate and unconditional release” of the hostages.

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Colter Louwerse

@ColterL

8 months

But in reality, if we read the preamble to the Arab draft we find that it plainly condemns “all acts of violence aimed at Palestinian and Israeli civilians, including all acts of terrorism”. The operative text further calls upon “all parties” to protect civilians. 3/

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Colter Louwerse

@ColterL

4 months

EVACUATE WHERE?! All of Gaza north of Rafah is uninhabitable rubble. Forced displacement into the Sinai is ethnic cleansing. Even the State Department said an invasion of Rafah in the current circumstances “would be a disaster.”

The Associated Press

@AP

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BREAKING: Netanyahu orders population of Gaza’s crowded Rafah evacuated ahead of an expected ground invasion

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Colter Louwerse

@ColterL

8 months

Moreover, the resolution’s provisions carefully—likely to ensure maximal voting consensus—declined to condemn *either* party, Israel or Hamas, by name. The Canadian amendment tried to change that by singling out only Hamas for named condemnation. 4/

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Colter Louwerse

@ColterL

1 month

Why doesn’t the US recognize Palestine’s right to exist?

Prem Thakker

@prem_thakker

1 month

The United Nations has voted 143-9 to expand Palestine's rights at the United Nations and to urge the Security Council to reconsider Palestinian membership (after the U.S. vetoed Palestine joining the UN). 25 countries abstained.

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@ColterL

8 months

The original Arab draft resolution is presented as having failed to condemn the Hamas massacre on Oct 7th, and the Canadian amendment is depicted as remedying that failure. 2/

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Colter Louwerse

@ColterL

6 years

@NorthWestFOI @mehdirhasan Naw, I wouldn’t condemn Hamas for using human shields because no third party organization has found evidence indicating they’ve ever done that. Israel, on the other hand:

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@ColterL

1 month

When US officials asked Israel to "take back at least 250,000 refugees" (still less than the 300,000 claimed above!), Israeli officials responded that this was "completely impossible". In sum: Israel was never open to the Palestinian right of return in 1949, or after.

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Colter Louwerse

@ColterL

5 months

However, there is extremely strong evidence to reject Ben-Ami’s claims on that separate issue, detailed here and elsewhere by @normfinkelstein

Bill Clinton Lied—And So Did Everyone Else: A Mystery Solved in the Israel-Palestine Conflict

The Israeli state archives recently declassified a key document in the history of the “peace process.” I myself for decades sought to obtain a copy of it without success, while I speculated on its...

www.jadaliyya.com

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@ColterL

5 months

It is true that Ben-Ami *also* claims that Arafat was at fault for his refusal to unambiguously accept the Clinton parameters, which led to the failure to produce a negotiated agreement at Taba in January 2001.

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@ColterL

1 month

Source: @VictorKattan , From Coexistence to Conquest: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israel Conflict, pp. 223, 226. Kattan cites official US and Israeli documents, which bear out his account.

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@ColterL

4 months

This reads like the twisted justifications of an abusive husband. "Why did you make me do this". "It's your fault you made me do this".

Eylon Levy

@EylonALevy

4 months

This happened because you had no words. Because you failed to call out Hamas when it built tunnels under your schools and HQ, when you hired its terrorists, when it declared war with a horrific massacre, when it waged war out of hospitals. You are complicit. This is on you.

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@ColterL

7 years

@adamjohnsonNYC I swear, the inability to recognize the difference between a government and its people is the defining aspect of neoconservative ideology.

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@ColterL

4 months

I write about this at length in a forthcoming book chapter:

Deluge

In September 2023, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan boasted that the Middle East “is quieter today than it has been in two decades.” One week later, unprecedented violence in Gaza and...

orbooks.com

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Colter Louwerse

@ColterL

2 months

Are these people seriously going to pretend that Israel didn’t just target an Iranian consulate last week?!

Rep. Dan Crenshaw

@RepDanCrenshaw

2 months

Foreign policy isn’t complicated. When you signal you might pull support for an ally like Israel, you diminish deterrence. When you diminish deterrence, the enemy feels emboldened to strike. Then you have to actually consider getting involved in a war because you were too

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@ColterL

5 months

Israel's apologists claim the Palestinians are to blame for refusing to accept a two-state settlement. But the historical record is clear: the Palestinians accepted two-states *four decades* ago. Israel refused to reciprocate. I documented it all here:

“Tyranny of the Veto”: PLO Diplomacy and the January 1976 United Nations Security Council Resolution

Scholars have long debated when the Palestinian Liberation Organisation [PLO] first accepted the international consensus on a two-state settlement as a resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. ...

www.tandfonline.com

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Colter Louwerse

@ColterL

4 months

The idea that genocide is genocide only if the perpetrator's violence is wholly unbridled is insane. Under that framework, a state could murder *a million people* and it still wouldn't be genocide, provided the state had the capacity to murder 20 million people, but refrained.

Destiny

@TheOmniLiberal

4 months

If Israel wanted to genocide Palestinians, then they would only exist in history books.

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@ColterL

2 months

WATCH: A discussion on Gaza with @normfinkelstein , @MouinRabbani , Slavoj Zizek and myself for the launch of ‘Deluge: Gaza & Israel from Crisis to Catacylsm’ (edited by @jsternweiner ). Moderated by the wonderful @raziaiqbal

Deluge Gaza -- Norman Finkelstein, Slavoj Zizek, Mouin Rabbani, Razia...

LIVE ON AVENUE C, a conversation series by OR BooksOn the current catastrophe in Gaza with Norman Finkelstein, Slavoj Zizek, Mouin Rabbani, Colter Louwerse, ...

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Colter Louwerse

@ColterL

3 months

By definition, this is not terrorism, but an attack on a military target. In occupied Palestinian territory, no less!

Marc Zell

@GOPIsrael

3 months

A few minutes ago. Palestinian terrorist shot two Israeli soldiers near my office on Gush Etzion. I was literally 100 meters away from the incident. I’m OK. The soldiers were taken to hospital in Jerusalem

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@ColterL

5 months

@TheOmniLiberal Destiny claims Ben-Ami does not think the Camp David “deal was so horrible”. But Ben-Ami writes that, b/c a later offer was a *considerable improvement* on Camp David, “Arafat was right to turn down the summits offers”. In other words: what Camp David offered was inadequate.

Colter Louwerse

@ColterL

5 months

The claim by @OmarBaddar was that Shlomo Ben-Ami was on record asserting that, were he a Palestinian, he would have turned down Camp David. He was correct. Here’s the relevant quote in Ben-Ami’s latest book, Prophets Without Honour (p. 187). @TheOmniLiberal is obfuscating.

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@ColterL

1 year

Deaf to the screaming irony, a gushing September 1949 editorial on Israel by Canada's Globe & Mail concludes that "What the Jewish people are now to do in their land, we must do here too, but on a much greater scale". Book covers definitely unrelated.

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1 year

@FranceskAlbs But isn’t it the case that, the occupation being in toto illegal (as the ICJ will hopefully soon confirm), Israel retains *no* right to “carry out necessary law enforcement operations”, and in fact must execute the only right left to it: immediate and unconditional withdrawal?

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@ColterL

5 months

@GeitPinkie @OmarBaddar @TheOmniLiberal I'd happily do so.

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@ColterL

4 months

A top Israeli official admits the obvious: it’s Israeli policy that is responsible for Palestinian starvation.

Haaretz.com

@haaretzcom

4 months

LIVE UPDATES: Citing "extreme hunger" in Gaza, Israel's top food security official calls for immediate cease-fire

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@ColterL

5 years

Everyone who cares about the right to freedom of speech and the right to engage in investigative journalism of state crimes needs to mobilize to defend Julian Assange now. The United Kingdom and United States are attempting to deal a death blow to both concepts.

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6 months

Want to understand what’s going on in Israel and Gaza? Pre-order “Deluge: Israel and Gaza from Crisis to Cataclysm”. Edited by the inestimable @jsternweiner . An excerpt is available to read at the link.

Deluge

In September 2023, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan boasted that the Middle East “is quieter today than it has been in two decades.” One week later, unprecedented violence in Gaza and...

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Colter Louwerse

@ColterL

1 year

The US Invasion of Iraq was the worst crime of the 21st century. It takes a truly sick society to treat its perpetrator, G W Bush, as anything other than an utter monster, let alone a “goofy grandpa”.

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The idea of Iraq as having been a threat to the U.S. was as comical as when Ronald Reagan described Nicaragua as a threat to U.S. national security.

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@ColterL

4 months

Every time I hear a land acknowledgment in Canada, I get this sinking feeling that, in a hundred years, Israelis too will ‘acknowledge’ the then irreparable past, while commending themselves—“how liberal are we!”—for doing so.

Aaron Bady

@zunguzungu

4 months

The farther the genocide of Palestine progresses--which is to say, the more it has become a thing in the past that for that reason can no longer be prevented by actions taken in the present--the more comfortable the West will get in saying that it was a bad thing.

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7 months

Israel’s true believers: “Israel does not target innocents” in Gaza. Israel’s politicians: “There are no innocents in Gaza”.

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7 months

Israel does not target innocents. If your reaction is "that must be a lie, since there are dead innocents", I think it implausible that you've never thought about warfare. More plausible that you've been captured by an ancient, deadly Pattern of immoral thinking about Jews.

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@ColterL

7 years

@adamjohnsonNYC If Clinton becomes the candidate again, I'm writing off the Democratic Party.

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@ColterL

7 months

I detest this line. Why should we assume this was an "intelligence failure"? Isn't it a better explanation that Israel—a state with a long track record of lying to cover up or justify war crimes—lied to whitewash its attacks on civilian objects? E.g.:

Whitewash Protocol

In the summer of 2014, Israeli security forces killed 1,391 people, including 526 minors, who did not participate in the fighting. The report describes how Israel creates the false appearance of...

www.btselem.org

Gregory Brew

@gbrew24

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Massive intelligence failure for Israel, which was loudly declaring Hamas had an HQ under Al Shifa, and an embarrassing moment for Biden, who publicly supported this assertion. Looks like they found basically nothing.

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4 months

That sure is a whole lot of people with bullet holes in their bodies for a “tragedy” caused entirely by a “stampede” and “trampling”. Perhaps the IDF was innocently targeting the nefarious flour bags, but Palestinians threw themselves in the way as human shields? 🤔

The Associated Press

@AP

4 months

Gaza doctor says gunfire accounted for 80% of the wounds at his hospital from aid convoy bloodshed

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1 month

Since 1967, Israel has pursued “an insatiable quest for Lebensraum” (former Israeli foreign minister Shlomo Ben-Ami).

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@MartinKonecny

1 month

Israeli defence minister Gallant wants a whole new settler city in the West Bank, to the east of the Ariel settlement. “There needs to be a large and significant city developed there (...) that allows us to shift Israel’s population eastward.”

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5 months

@8egis @OmarBaddar @TheOmniLiberal Under international law, Israel made precisely *zero* concessions. All of the concessions—on territory, settlements Jerusalem, and refugees—came from the Palestinians. For details, Finkelstein's Knowing Too Much, pp. 203-53 and this:

Bill Clinton Lied—And So Did Everyone Else: A Mystery Solved in the Israel-Palestine Conflict

The Israeli state archives recently declassified a key document in the history of the “peace process.” I myself for decades sought to obtain a copy of it without success, while I speculated on its...

www.jadaliyya.com

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2 months

It bears emphasis that acceptance of a two-state settlement is not a new position from Hamas, but one adopted, with ambiguities, since it’s election in 2006.

Kenneth Roth

@KenRoth

2 months

Hamas offers to lay down its arms and to recognize Israel within its pre-1967 borders. But Netanyahu isn't interested. He wants to keep pursuing the elusive goal of "destroying" Hamas (to avoid the war ending) and rejects a two-state solution.

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@jsternweiner Now, more than ever, the Left needs to recommit itself to freedom of speech; the first and ONLY line of defence against this utter derangement. To even entertain such allegations by ‘refuting’ them (as if there’s content here to ‘refute’!) is to drag oneself through the mud.

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4 months

He's outraged, but every sentence in that paragraph is factually correct. It's not "pro-Hamas propaganda" to point out that merely working in a "Hamas affiliated" institution does not a terrorist make. It's just to acknowledge reality.

Joe Roberts

@Joe_Roberts01

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This has to be among the most foul pro-Hamas propaganda I’ve seen in Canadian media. It is unfathomable that an editor would allow these words to grace the page of major Canadian newspaper. Totally and utterly disgusting.

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@Joe_Roberts01 @mbueckert @JoshuaDMShaw Translation: “I can’t be bothered to read 84 pages”.

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3 months

The most moral army in the world kills twelve year olds for launching fireworks.

Younis Tirawi | يونس

@ytirawi

3 months

“12 yo kid who is a terrorist” Israeli National Security Minister Ben Gvir came to support the police officer who murdered the 12 yo kid who was launching a firework afront of his house together with his friends at Shufat Refugee Camp, East Jerusalem

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@JacobALinker The claim that Israel was prepared to accept back hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees is clearly false. Unless you can provide evidence, you should retract. In reality, Israel flatly rejected demands for large-scale Palestinian return in 1949:

Colter Louwerse

@ColterL

1 month

When US officials asked Israel to "take back at least 250,000 refugees" (still less than the 300,000 claimed above!), Israeli officials responded that this was "completely impossible". In sum: Israel was never open to the Palestinian right of return in 1949, or after.

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It is not true, but a flagrant lie. When Israel redeployed around Gaza in September 2005: —Hamas maintained a unilateral ceasefire. —Israel refused to reciprocate, shelling Gaza incessantly and killing over 100 Palestinians before Hamas finally responded in June 2006.

Joe Roberts

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4 months

All the Hamas apologists are losing their minds over this ad, and calling for a boycott of Hulu over it. But… is it true?

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5 years

Absolutely savage takedown of the contention that Labour has an anti-semitism crisis.

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3 months

Clip from this debate:

Israel-Palestine Debate: Finkelstein, Destiny, M. Rabbani & Benny...

Norman Finkelstein and Benny Morris are historians. Mouin Rabbani is a Middle East analyst. Steven Bonnell (aka Destiny) is a political livestreamer. Please ...

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4 months

The denial of aid to the children of Gaza—including the withholding of funds to UNRWA—is flat out sadism. “Measurements of thousands of young children's and infants' arm circumferences showed that 9.6 percent were acutely malnourished”.

Haaretz.com

@haaretzcom

4 months

Aid workers in Gaza report visible signs of starvation in children

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8 months

When Gazans marched, en masse and unarmed in 2018, begging for Israel’s torturous blockade to be lifted, the IDF responded with a “murderous assault” (Amnesty International) on the protesters, killing 200+. They tried “Gandhian non-violence”. Israel massacred them all the same.

Luke Akehurst

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@mahri_mac Embrace Ghandian non-violence. They would get a Palestinian state tomorrow if Israel thought there was no terrorist or military threat to its citizens.

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@ColterL

4 months

The videos of the carnage Israel inflicted upon Rafah tonight are beyond comprehension. A child’s broken body, hanging from the rubble of a wall, with legs blown off below the knee. Lord, have mercy. We live in a sick, sick, world.

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1 year

@mbueckert Ironically, he’s right that there’s no occupation, albeit not in the way he intends. An occupation is temporary. Yet it’s clear that Israel plans to maintain the territorial status quo in perpetuity. That’s an annexation. And if it’s an annexation, it’s apartheid.

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6 months

If Israel won’t allow for Palestinian self-determination and statehood, but also won’t allow for equal Palestinian citizenship within Israel, then what kind of state is it? 🤔

Adil Haque

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Yesterday, the UN General Assembly passed a resolution reaffirming the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination. The vote was 172 in favor, 4 against, with 10 abstentions. The United States voted against.

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We must starve children because Khamas, Khamas, Khamas.

ashok kumar 🇵🇸

@broseph_stalin

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I’ve never witnessed such savagery, I don’t think anyone has

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Source:

As famine looms in Gaza, aid delivery remains difficult and dangerous

Aid agencies say the chief factors hampering the delivery of lifesaving assistance to Palestinians in Gaza fall almost entirely under Israel’s control.

www.washingtonpost.com

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@ColterL

6 years

@Jack4NUS @NickTheTory We intentionally stood to the side of the room away from where he was speaking so as to minimize distruption. The chanting lasted less than 30 seconds as we were exiting the door. Stop lying about the protest. At no point did we attempt to stop Regev from speaking.

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The UN General Assembly has just now voted to refer Israel’s annexation and colonization practices to the International Court of Justice. Should the Palestinian case succeed (by no means a certain or even probable thing), Israel’s occupation will be deemed manifestly *illegal*.

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For Israeli leaders, there is nothing worse than a Palestinian peace offensive.

Gershon Baskin🟣 جرشون باسكين גרשון בסקין

@gershonbaskin

2 months

It seems that Netanyahu may be trying to sabotage the deal even before the cabinet gets the details and votes on it. The Israeli military operation going on right now (almost 11:00 pm Israel time) is clearly aimed at pushing Hamas to withdraw its agreement for a ceasefire.

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The obvious point: Israel’s imposed a communications blackout in Gaza. Gazans’ first language is Arabic, not English. Why would the IDF send a message that can’t be received, in a language that won’t be understood? Because it’s not for Gazans. It’s propaganda for the West.

Israel Defense Forces

@IDF

8 months

An urgent message for the residents of Gaza:

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Gideon Levy in Ha'aretz: You can't imprison two million people without it exacting a cruel price. Rough Google Translation attached., thanks to @jsternweiner

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2 years

I regret to inform everybody that it turns out that Israel’s former Attorney General and Supreme Court judge is now one of those human rights upholding antisemites opposed to a regime of Jewish supremacy: “I conclude my country is an apartheid state”

Former AG of Israel: With great sadness I conclude that my country is now an apartheid regime

Michael Benyair, former Attorney General of Israel, agrees with Amnesty International.

www.thejournal.ie

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@ColterL

3 months

"After Israel violated a ceasefire & killed ~300 Palestinians on 27. 12. 2008, Hamas had no option but to slaughter 32,000 Israelis & expel the remainder into the Negev (temporarily!) so it could destroy the Israeli government/bring home Palestinian hostages" Said nobody ever.

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@ColterL

5 years

@MaajidNawaz @UKLabour Except the context makes it 100% clear that she’s talking about the state of Israel, not about the Jews living as a minority in Europe or anywhere else. You have to be a maximally uncharitable hack to interpret it any other way.

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3 months

"We have laid out clearly for the Biden administration why any assurances from Israel that they have not delayed, restricted, and impeded aid into Gaza cannot be relied upon. Despite this, the United States has continued to provide Israel with deadly weapons."

Human Rights Watch

@hrw

3 months

BREAKING: @OxfamAmerica and HRW show Israel is using US weapons in violation of international & US law & blocking US humanitarian aid since the Oct. 7 Hamas-led attacks on Israel. The US should stop providing military aid and arms to Israel. Read more:

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“Impressive as the demonstrations are, the uncomfortable question lingers: Why haven’t they succeeded?” My latest for @LobeLog

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6 months

“Israel’s strategy [has] shifted from mowing the lawn in Gaza to salting the earth” — @jsternweiner

Jacobin

@jacobin

6 months

The destruction in Gaza has become a symbol for injustice, inequality, and the hypocrisies of power writ large.

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Henry Kissinger's depravity, exhibit A: In 1988, as Israel suppressed a nonviolent Palestinian uprising by "force, might and beatings", Kissinger told US Jewish leaders that Israel's "mistake" was that it didn't just "throw out" the media and shoot the Palestinians instead.

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6 years

Israeli Ambassador @MarkRegev accused @Exe4Palestine of unfairly singling our Israel and ignoring the crimes of Arab states. But as I’ve written here, that was also the defence of apologists for Apartheid South Africa.

Is the International Community Unfairly Biased Against Israel?

There are numerous reasons why it is appropriate for the international community to focus so heavily on Israel’s crimes against the Palestinians.

www.foreignpolicyjournal.com

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4 months

While Gaza is "poised to witness an explosion in preventable child deaths", the United States promises to veto a UN Security Council resolution calling for an "immediate humanitarian ceasefire". Simply put: The US will vote to starve Gaza's children.

US signals it will block proposed Gaza ceasefire resolution at UN

US says it would veto Algerian draft resolution at the UN Security Council urging ‘immediate humanitarian ceasefire’.

www.aljazeera.com

JamieSW

@jsternweiner

4 months

UNICEF: "The Gaza Strip is poised to witness an explosion in preventable child deaths which would compound the already unbearable level of child deaths in Gaza"

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Important new report by @amnesty It investigates four Israeli airstrikes which killed 95 Palestinians—almost half children. It concludes the strikes are “likely direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects and must be investigated as war crimes”.

New evidence of unlawful Israeli attacks in Rafah causing mass civilian casualties

Israeli forces continue to flout international humanitarian law, obliterating entire families with total impunity.

www.amnesty.org

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@ColterL

5 months

@8egis @OmarBaddar @TheOmniLiberal This will be the last time I respond because you clearly aren't read up on this. What does the ICC have to do with anything? It literally didn't *exist* in 2000. The applicable international law is the resolutions of the UN, the UN Charter, the International Court of Justice.

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@back2bolts This is completely false. Almost 70% of Israelis oppose allowing medical or food aid to Palestinians in Gaza *even if* transferred “via international bodies that are not linked to Hamas or to UNRWA”. It’s a genocidal pro-starvation protest movement.

Most Israelis: an "Absolute Victory" to the War is Unlikely

Most Israelis think Palestinian terrorism will remain the same or increase if a Palestinian state were declared. A vast majority (81%) of Israelis think the likelihood of reform in the Palestinian...

en.idi.org.il

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@ColterL

7 years

@ParmB @adamjohnsonNYC Because the system- a toxic military-industrial-intervention matrix- is set up to recruit/produce such vile people.

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@ColterL

2 months

We are now on the precipice of a catastrophic regional war. Don't forget: The present crisis traces back 1) to Israel's attack on sovereign Iranian territory (against which Iran is now responding) and 2) to Israel's decades-long denial of Palestinian dignity and rights.

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7 years

@adamjohnsonNYC Not to mention its egregious history of slandering critics of Israel...

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@ColterL

8 years

@MaxBlumenthal @jkirchick the whole thing was a hysterical, slanderous tirade. So of course @SamHarrisOrg tweeted it

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Today, while Palestinian children starve to death in Gaza, Israel has an active—not inconsequential—protest movement aimed at … blocking all humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

4 months

Three more Palestinian children have died at Kamal Adwan Hospital, bringing the total number of children who have died due to malnutrition to seven, reports Director Ahmed al-Kahlout. 🔴 LIVE updates:

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In which Henry Kissinger rants and raves about Arafat’s intolerable 1974 appearance at the UN General Assembly. ‘If we don’t nip this Third Worldism in the bud, our apartheid South African friends will be cast into pariahdom; then, America itself!’ “Anti-wide” = “anti-white”. 😐

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For weeks, Israel's propaganda machine screeched, and Western media amplified, the claim that Hamas' military headquarters were under Gaza's al-Shifa hospital. Israel used that claim to justify numerous attacks on medical sites in Gaza. Now Israel controls al-Shifa: crickets.

John Hudson

@John_Hudson

7 months

Israeli officials said "no further evidence of Hamas activities in the hospital was scheduled to be made public for now"

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For decades, Israel has kept Gaza under brutal occupation, reducing it to a “toxic slum” (ICRC) where Palestinian children are “slowly being poisoned” because 96% of the tap water is contaminated. Israel has no right to “defend itself” against Gaza.

Israel Has No Right of Self-Defense Against Gaza

Israel has no legal right to use any kind of force in Gaza — under any circumstances.

jacobin.com

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TBC: Flour Massacre 2.0 It appears that, for the second time in under a week, Israeli soldiers targeting for death Palestinians waiting for aid trucks.

Younis Tirawi | يونس

@ytirawi

4 months

Gaza city | Flour Massacre 2.0 Israeli soldiers targeted a group of Palestinians waiting for aid trucks near Kuwaiti junction south Gaza city. Killed and injured on spot

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@Jack4NUS @NickTheTory Frankly, this is a pitiable attempt to shift the conversation away from the actual issue- Regev’s support for Israeli crimes- to the issue of freedom of speech rights (which we support and did not violate).

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#ICCIndictIsraelNow

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“There will be no justice for Shireen Abu Akleh under the prevailing circumstances. With the active support of the United States, and no less active acquiescence of Europe, Israel is right to believe it can go on killing without consequence” -Mouin Rabbani

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It must go unendingly repeated that *Israel* violated the ceasefire. It's illegal blockade is a violation. It's unilateral commando operation was a violation. Hamas rockets yesterday were a response. Those who neglect to mention this, or reverse the causality, are lying to you.

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@ColterL

4 months

Sickening.

Saul Staniforth

@SaulStaniforth

4 months

Israeli soldiers stormed a house and murdered a mother and father in front of their 3 children "We provided the IDF with a detailed description of timings and events.. it declined to comment" (2/2)

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Ottawa Forum for Israel-Palestine Advisory Council member David Parnas wrote a letter to the @OttawaCitizen about Canada’s “shameful silence” while Israel destroys Gaza. The paper declined to publish it, so I have permission to share it here in full:

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@ColterL

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When it comes to Palestine, Germany's record on freedom of speech is abominable. Since Oct 7th 2023, it's cancelled 92 (!) speakers. Draconian and shameful.

julie billaud

@JulieBillaud

4 months

The state of academic freedom and freedom of expression in Germany summarized in a list of cancelled speakers. Are we really talking about a liberal democracy?

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How to describe this? “A crime against humanity” doesn’t quite capture it. The Palestinian death toll already approaches 5000, 80%+ civilians. And yet we’re praising Israel for letting 20 measly trucks of humanitarian aid into this hell-hole it created? Utterly revolting.

The Spectator Index

@spectatorindex

8 months

BREAKING: 🇮🇱 IDF spokesman says its air force will, from today, start increasing its strikes on Gaza.

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The fact that we even hold these discussions—what on earth is a ‘proportionate’ number of dead children?!— should remind us that humanizing war never was, and never will be, a satisfactory substitute for abolishing it.

Mark Kersten

@MarkKersten

4 months

If you're in Vancouver, there's an great event w René Provost on how "when applying the principle of proportionality, the incidental harm to a child must be given a higher value [than] incidental harm to an adult". I sadly can't be there, but hope folks attend! ht @profbenperrin

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Three Canadians pen an open letter to Trudeau’s rep in Ramallah on Israel’s recent invasion of Nablus: “We look to you, as the representative of the Canadian government, and the Canadian people, to investigate … this brutal attack”.

Open letter to Canada’s representative in Ramallah about today’s deadly Israeli military raid...

Nablus, February 22, 2023. 10:00 a.m. Shops full. Kids in school. Armoured Israeli jeeps and other vehicles attempt to penetrate the city. Palestinian youth attempt to stop them. Throwing stones at…

canadatalksisraelpalestine.ca

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