“If Blinken and the US administration would have liked this war to be over, this war would be over. Continuing to supply Israel with weapons and to beg Israel to stop the war is quite a farce. This is not international relations, this is a children’s game.” – Gideon Levy, Haaretz
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0·2 months agoI disagree with this statement. Hamas’ actions are justified, moral and legal for the following reasons:
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Global Court Says Israel’s Occupation of Territories Violates International Law
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The occupation has been ongoing since the 1967 Six Day War that was preemptive and started with a lie.
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Hamas on multiple occasions was willing to drop its weapons, accept peace and a 2-state solution on 1967 borders, but that was rejected by multiple Israeli governments
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1·2 months agoSupporting genocide hurt it massively in the Arab and Muslim world.
11·2 months agoThey do it with Baseball, true.
if international to you only means the West and its allies
international
4·2 months agoAhlan wa Sahlan
I hope one day the rail network in Egypt is connected to Saudi Arabia. There has been talks about a bridge across the Gulf of Aqaba, but maybe that won’t be necessary.
US has sent Israel thousands of 2,000-pound bombs since Oct. 7
Not really complicated. That’s why Irish MEP Clare Daly called him “Butcher Biden” and said he dishonors the legacy of his ancestors. It seems many Irish-Americans agree.
0·2 months agoIt would be impossible for Palestine to have 96.5% literacy rate if half of its people were illiterate.
11·2 months agoLyin’ Blinken
1·2 months agoAs far as I know, economy seats are still sold at a loss. They make up for it in the higher classes. I don’t fly through Doha often but when I do, I do like getting on Qatar Airways.
21·2 months agoGorgeous. Two of my favorite things.
In 1988, Professor Isaiah Leibovitz wrote “If this situation continues, the hooliganization — or should we even say the nazification — of the people and society in Israel, is inevitable”. Today, 35 years later, hooliganization has reached its peak: bullying is omnipresent, on the roads, on social media, in the vulgar speech of elected officials, and in every aspect of life in Israel. Violence reached its peak against Palestinians, even when comparing, in this year alone, the number of Israeli deaths resulting from terrorist attacks to dozens of Palestinian deaths that are not related to terrorism. The violence and bullying towards Palestinians by Jewish settlers is an everyday occurrence and is another horrific indication of the decline in the value of human life and human dignity that we are experiencing.
As Prof. Leibovitz predicted, the occupation crosses the green line and spreads throughout Israeli society. The methods used ‘over there’ are moving here, oppressive acts applied ‘there’ are moving here, and soon the disdain for human life will move in – it already has in a way.
Meanwhile, most of protestors in Tel Aviv are wary of making this connection and are horrified by speakers who try to connect the palpable risk to democracy with the occupation of the territories or the waving of Palestinian flags in protest. However, the moment may well come when they too will recognize that there is no democracy alongside occupation.
The Times of Israel Feb 28, 2023 There is no democracy with occupation
This is a map for whales
Interesting, not a projection that I have seen before.
As long as she falsely claims Israel has the right to defend itself, everything else she says is noise.
English is confusing and before making this post I had to double check that I am using the correct word and not the other one that you mean here.
The dishes made with them are prepared in a similar manner. Rice in Mashreq replaced bulgur sometime over the past century or so.
Hamas’ actions are moral. Indigenous people have the right to resist settler colonialism and ethnic cleansing. Settlers have no right to use their people as human shields. If Russia was sending people to settle the territories it occupied from Ukraine you would have supported the Ukrainians fighting them back with any means necessary. Russians can’t claim that the settlers are innocent civilians.
Hamas has been serious about ceasefire negotiations from the beginning of the conflict. Israel wants to use this conflict to justify the 2nd Nakba they wanted to do for years.
It is not moot, it is very relevant. Per international law people living under a military occupation have the right to resist even violently. The vast majority of people Hamas killed were military, it was Israel’s Hannibal Directive that lead to most of the civilian deaths.
If Israel hasn’t illegally occupied Palestinian territories since 1967 Hamas wouldn’t have come to be. The root of all evil here is the colonialism and occupation of Palestine, not the resistance. Israel has used settlers as human shields since its founding. You are blaming the victim for resisting and blaming them for the genocidal response from the aggressors.
The Arab Peace Initiative was from 2002. In 2006 Ismail Haniyeh sent a message to George W Bush telling him of Hamas’ willingness to negotiate and accept a 2-state solution on 1967 borders. Both were rejected. The Likud Party has a policy since the 1970s of not allowing or recognizing any Palestinian state.
There is justifications for resisting settler colonialism, military occupation and ethnic cleansing, which Israelis are all participants in.
Anyways, Israelis forced themselves on Palestine through sheer brutality committing massacres, rape and ethnic cleansing since its founding. They will leave the way they came. I really don’t care if you accept it or not. International law is clear and Zionist settler colonialism is the root of all evil in this conflict. What Palestinians do as a response is moral, legal and justified.